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What Can We Do to Slow Aging and Live Longer?

What Can We Do to Slow Aging and Live Longer?

  There has never been a better time to live longer and healthier than today. In the past two decades, we learned more about aging and health than in the two thousand years prior (read about the "main causes of aging" here). However, we are currently being...

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My Science-Based Anti-Aging Skin Care Routine

My Science-Based Anti-Aging Skin Care Routine

  What’s the best skin care routine to reduce wrinkles and look younger? For most people, it’s difficult to find a proper answer to that question. Lot's of skin care advice is of low quality. Some important reasons for this are the following: 1. Lot's of (online)...

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Why Do We Age? Cause of Aging Explained

Why Do We Age? Cause of Aging Explained

  What causes us to age, and to get all these aging-related diseases and symptoms, and to eventually die? There are some fundamental, primary causes of aging, which then lead to secondary causes of aging. Fundamental, primary causes of aging are: Epigenetic...

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Best Anti-Aging Supplements According To Science

Best Anti-Aging Supplements According To Science

What are some of the best supplements for longevity? Which are the anti-aging supplements I take as a medical doctor and longevity hacker? First, it’s important to differentiate between “longevity supplements” and “health supplements”: Longevity supplements Longevity...

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Longevity

Which Blood Tests When Taking Rapamycin?

Which Blood Tests When Taking Rapamycin?

  When taking rapamycin, and especially when starting with this drug, it’s important to keep track of some blood biomarkers that rapamycin could impact. First, tests that measure red and white blood cells levels to see if these are not declining. Rapamycin is an...

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Why Does Aging Exist? Why Do We Age?

Why Does Aging Exist? Why Do We Age?

  Note: for people interested in the causes of aging (like epigenetic changes and protein accumulation), I refer to this page. So why do we age? The main reason we age is that our ancestors in prehistoric times usually died long before they had a chance to grow...

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Common Myths About Why Aging Exists

Common Myths About Why Aging Exists

  In this article, I talk about evolutionary reasons why aging exists. If you want to learn more about the mechanisms that cause us to age (e.g. epigenetic and mitochondrial damage), I refer to this page. Myth 1: We age because inevitable wear and tear Many...

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Optimal Rapamycin Dose for Longevity and Anti-Aging

Optimal Rapamycin Dose for Longevity and Anti-Aging

  More and more people are taking rapamycin for longevity. However, there are still lots of misconceptions surrounding rapamycin. Some people think it’s a drug that can have significant side effects. First, there are reports that rapamycin can cause insulin...

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Shortcomings and Problems with Blood Lab Tests

Shortcomings and Problems with Blood Lab Tests

  Most people have a “normal” blood test, thinking they are healthy. Unfortunately, blood tests provide a crude and incomplete picture of our health. People can have “A ok” blood tests and still be deficient in many micronutrients, suffering from inflammation, a...

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The Food Hourglass Longevity Diet

The Food Hourglass Longevity Diet

Why a longevity diet is the best diet There are hundreds of different diets, thousands of diet books, and innumerable diet coaches and gurus all claiming they have the ultimate diet. Especially the internet is a jungle of different diets and contrary nutrition advice....

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Pros and Cons of Cancer Screening Tests like Galleri

Pros and Cons of Cancer Screening Tests like Galleri

  Cancer is the second cause of death, right after cardiovascular diseases (such as strokes and heart attacks) in most developed countries.  Cancer is a dreadful disease. In my new, upcoming book on longevity, I explain how cancer originates and how to better...

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Rapamycin for Anti-Aging and Longevity

Rapamycin for Anti-Aging and Longevity

  Rapamycin (also called sirolimus or rapamune) is one of the most well-known, researched, and promising drugs for anti-aging and longevity. According to various experts, including Professor Matt Kaeberlein, rapamycin is currently the best drug we have for...

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What Is The Best Biological Age Clock?

What Is The Best Biological Age Clock?

  Epigenetic clock tests are probably one of the best methods to assess your overall health, disease risk, mortality risk, and rate of aging.  Epigenetic tests seem to perform far better than genome tests (DNA) tests, which have been somewhat of a disappointment...

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Best Tests for Optimal Health and Longevity

Best Tests for Optimal Health and Longevity

  What are the best tests for health and longevity? What are the best tests to track your health, prevent diseases, and reach your optimal lifespan potential? The science of optimal health, preventive medicine and longevity is moving fast. This is one reason why...

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Why Testosterone Therapy Accelerates Aging

Why Testosterone Therapy Accelerates Aging

If you are male and an anti-aging doctor or guru recommends taking testosterone for longevity: run. There are two main reasons why to run away: or this person is not up to date with insights into aging of the last 30 years, or they just want you to sell to you...

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Biotechnology

What Will the Future of Medicine and Health Look Like?

What Will the Future of Medicine and Health Look Like?

  We are living in fascinating times. Scientists are developing completely novel tools to impact the molecular machinery of our cells far more precisely, faster and more cheaply than ever before.   What are some of these promising developments?  1. Gene editing...

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Off-the-Shelf Stem Cells Would Be Terribly Convenient

Off-the-Shelf Stem Cells Would Be Terribly Convenient

Producing stem cells from other persons would be a major step forward. Usually, stem cells are made from cells from your own body. Taking a cell from your body, like a skin cell, and converting it into a stem cell is a time-consuming and very expensive process....

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The Future of CRISPR Cas | Successors and Improved Versions

The Future of CRISPR Cas | Successors and Improved Versions

CRISPR-cas9 is one of the most promising new developments in medicine, and in science in general. For decades, editing genes was a laborious, difficult and expensive process. It could take many months to years to change just one gene, and it would cost hundreds of...

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Top 12 of the Most Important Future Technologies

Top 12 of the Most Important Future Technologies

This is the top 12 of the most important future developments that will transform our society (in no particular order): Self-driving cars Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Machine Learning Virtual Reality / Augmented Reality / Mixed Reality Robotics 3D printing Drones...

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