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Bloodwork, blood pressure, VO2 max and grip strength: the measurements that predict something, and the supplements that claim to move them.
Our lens: Biomarkers you can act on.
The lining of your blood vessels is a single cell thick and predicts cardiovascular events years ahead. It is also where erectile difficulty and cold hands come from.
LongevityThe most predictive number in medicine, the cheapest to measure, and the one most people get wrong at home in the same four ways.
LongevityLight timing sets nearly every daily rhythm in your body, it costs nothing, and the same sunlight is also the main driver of how your skin ages. Both things are true at once.
LongevityLDL-C measures the cholesterol inside the particles. ApoB counts the particles. Where they disagree, the particle count wins.
LongevityBoth are strongly associated with all-cause mortality. Both respond to training. Neither requires a lab to start improving.
LongevityThe longevity industry sells hundred-marker panels. Most of what predicts how long you stay healthy is on a standard blood draw and a blood pressure cuff.