Longevity Without the Supplement Bill

The two measurements with the strongest mortality data behind them are both trainable. Almost everything sold is mouse data.

6 steps · ~35min · tick as you go

6 steps

  1. Fitness, Strength and How Long You Live

    See the cohort evidence for cardiorespiratory fitness and grip strength, and that no ceiling to the benefit was found.

  2. VO2max Calculator

    Get a baseline you can retest in three months.

  3. Biological Age: What the Clocks Measure

    Understand why biological-age tests are validated for populations and not for you personally.

  4. Phenotypic Age Calculator

    Use the transparent, blood-marker version whose equation you can inspect.

  5. Longevity Supplements and Drugs, Rated

    Sort NAD precursors, taurine, rapamycin and metformin by whether the evidence is human.

  6. Grade the Claim

    Grade longevity claims and check whether you can now separate the human data from the mouse data.

How this works

Nothing here is gated and nothing is new: every step is a page or a calculator already on the site, and you can jump straight to any of them. The order is the contribution, along with the last step — a round of Grade the Claim, because reading something and being able to judge it later are different skills, and only the second one survives the week.

Ticks are saved on this device. Claims you meet in the check come back on a spacing schedule, and what you know keeps the tally.

Written and reviewed by Mathew Beale, MSc Biotechnology, University of Reading.

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