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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.
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Studies are linked so you can read them and judge the interpretation yourself.
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Preliminary evidence is labelled preliminary. Animal data is labelled animal data.
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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.
- 01
Chronic inflammation
Inflammation that never resolves. Implicated in cardiovascular disease, diabetes, autoimmune conditions, several cancers, and cognitive decline.
- 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.
- 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.