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Longevity

What aging well actually is, what the research says about it, and how much of it is still unknown.

Longevity is not about living as long as possible. It is about how many of those years you are still healthy for, and worldwide that gap runs to roughly a decade.

This page is the map. What there is to know, where to find it, and which pieces we have not written yet.

What longevity actually means

This is the step after the basics

Sleep, food, movement, recovery, your head and your surroundings. If one of those is still wobbling, start there and come back. There is not much to fine-tune on a foundation that is not level.

Go to the foundations

Everything we have written about it

Six subjects. The empty ones are here too, so you can see what is coming.

Measure it yourself

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What you can do today

The same research, written out as something you can carry out. Free, and staying that way.

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How one dominant side starts a chain that runs all the way up into your neck, how to work out which link comes first in you, and what to do about it.

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Sleep

From brain waves and the two systems behind your night to a plan you can start tonight, by stage of life, by job and by condition, with 120 sources you can click.

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Not falling asleep

What to do when you cannot fall asleep: the six things the research actually supports, ordered by what they return, with the strength of the evidence under each one.

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Rounded shoulders

Why your shoulders roll forward, why stretching your chest provably does nothing about it, and what the research says actually works.

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What we do not know yet

Most of it. This site carries 20 verdicts. 1 of them rest on strong evidence and 8 on limited evidence; the rest sit in between.

That is not modesty. It is the state of the field, and anybody telling you otherwise is selling you something.

See the evidence list