The Longevity Desk

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Longevity research, without the sales pitch

Most longevity writing exists to move you toward a product. This doesn’t. It reads the research closely, cites what it finds, and tells you plainly when the honest answer is that nobody knows yet.

Read the research, not the marketing

A longevity newsletter that cites its sources and says so when the evidence is thin. Free, and no more than one email a week.

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  • One email a week, at most

    Often less. Nothing is sent just to stay in your inbox.

  • Sources you can check

    Studies are linked so you can read them and judge the interpretation yourself.

  • Honest uncertainty

    Preliminary evidence is labelled preliminary. Animal data is labelled animal data.

  • Nothing for sale

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What it covers

Three interlocking mechanisms sit underneath most age-related disease, and most pieces trace back to at least one of them.

  1. 01

    Chronic inflammation

    Inflammation that never resolves. Implicated in cardiovascular disease, diabetes, autoimmune conditions, several cancers, and cognitive decline.

  2. 02

    Insulin resistance

    Cells stop responding to insulin, and the body compensates by making more of it. It can hide behind normal blood sugar for a decade or more.

  3. 03

    Mitochondrial dysfunction

    The cell's power plants produce less energy than they used to. The tissues that need the most energy feel it first.