For personal longevity strategies, I recommend talks by Dr Rhonda Patrick, Dave Asprey and Dr Peter Attia.
Dave Asprey is a person who claimed to increase their IQ by 40 points without engaging in any effort to measuring his IQ by taking the best results found in p-hacked trials for interventions and adding them up. I think that was even before he went into business as a supplement salesman.
More recently he argued that he believes in reincarnation because it helps him to lower his stress levels.
He references a lot of research, but I don’t see a good reason to trust him. Why do you believe he’s trustworthy? Why do you believe the other two are trustworthy?
Dave Asprey’s book, Superhuman is pretty good—it explains the hallmarks of aging in simple terms and provides generally good advice for limiting the damage associated with the hallmarks. He draws upon a lot of scientific literature, and has over 400 academic references.
Asprey does a good job synthesising the research into practical steps a person can take to lower their rate of biological aging—something that most of the researchers in the field don’t have the time to do. A few things are a bit wacky, but in general I’d say 95% of the advice he says is pretty good, and the other 5% won’t do any harm.
Dave Asprey is a pioneer of the longevity biohacking community, and runs a supplement company called bulletproof.
But, if you don’t like his advice, then you can look towards Rhonda and Attia.
Dr Rhonda Patrick has a PhD in cell biology and is extremely knowledgeable about aging and longevity—just watch her interviews with David Sinclair, Valter Longo or Steve Horvath—all big names in the field. She talks to them on the same level since she knows the literature very well.
Dr Peter Attia is an MD who is also very clued up on the aging field too, and on his podcast has also interviewed many big names such as David Sinclair and Nir Barzilai. I recommend this talk of his as an introduction to some important concepts in aging.
David Sinclair’s book Lifespanis also the gold standard for personal anti-aging strategies, which are summarised here.
Dave Asprey is a person who claimed to increase their IQ by 40 points without engaging in any effort to measuring his IQ by taking the best results found in p-hacked trials for interventions and adding them up. I think that was even before he went into business as a supplement salesman.
More recently he argued that he believes in reincarnation because it helps him to lower his stress levels.
He references a lot of research, but I don’t see a good reason to trust him. Why do you believe he’s trustworthy? Why do you believe the other two are trustworthy?
Dave Asprey’s book, Superhuman is pretty good—it explains the hallmarks of aging in simple terms and provides generally good advice for limiting the damage associated with the hallmarks. He draws upon a lot of scientific literature, and has over 400 academic references.
Asprey does a good job synthesising the research into practical steps a person can take to lower their rate of biological aging—something that most of the researchers in the field don’t have the time to do. A few things are a bit wacky, but in general I’d say 95% of the advice he says is pretty good, and the other 5% won’t do any harm.
Dave Asprey is a pioneer of the longevity biohacking community, and runs a supplement company called bulletproof.
But, if you don’t like his advice, then you can look towards Rhonda and Attia.
Dr Rhonda Patrick has a PhD in cell biology and is extremely knowledgeable about aging and longevity—just watch her interviews with David Sinclair, Valter Longo or Steve Horvath—all big names in the field. She talks to them on the same level since she knows the literature very well.
Dr Peter Attia is an MD who is also very clued up on the aging field too, and on his podcast has also interviewed many big names such as David Sinclair and Nir Barzilai. I recommend this talk of his as an introduction to some important concepts in aging.
David Sinclair’s book Lifespanis also the gold standard for personal anti-aging strategies, which are summarised here.