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Strength Training for Longevity: Muscle as an Organ of Healthspan
New mortality data pinpoints how much weekly strength training lowers death risk, and shows more is not always better.
Apr 10, 2025
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15 stories for“longevity”
Health
Metformin as an Anti-Aging Drug: The Claims Versus the Trial Data
Biohackers take metformin to slow aging, but the trial designed to actually prove that, TAME, still has not finished enrolling.
May 6, 2024
Latest Trends
A Ten Trillion Dollar Industry Has Started Telling Its Customers to Stop Optimising
The 2026 wellness forecasts describe a pivot away from peak performance and towards something more ordinary. That is a strange message from a sector selling trackers, protocols and longevity clinics, and it is worth taking seriously anyway.
Aug 22, 2026
Health
Zone 2 Cardio Versus VO2 Max: Sorting the Training Trend From the Evidence
VO2 max strongly predicts longevity, but the evidence that slow, low-intensity Zone 2 training is the best way to raise it is weaker than the trend suggests.
Jan 15, 2025
Health
An AI-Designed Lung Drug Made Six Ageing Clocks Run Backwards in a Small Trial. That Is Not the Same as Reversing Ageing
Rentosertib was built to treat pulmonary fibrosis. In 42 patients, blood proteins read by six independent clocks came out three to four years younger after a month. Independent doctors say a younger score is not a younger person.
Sep 15, 2026
Health
Ten Thousand Steps Was a Marketing Number. The Evidence Says the Benefit Flattens Around Seven Thousand
Two large pooled analyses now agree: the drop in mortality with more walking is steep up to about seven thousand steps a day and shallow after that. What the studies found, what they could not show, and what to do with a phone that counts.
Sep 6, 2026
Lifestyle
Five More Minutes of Sleep and Two More Minutes of Exercise a Day Were Worth an Extra Year of Life
A study of 59,078 people found the minimum combined improvement associated with one more year of life was startlingly small. The same study found the maximum was nine years, which is the number nobody is quoting.
Aug 25, 2026
Latest Trends
Wellness trends that actually stick vs the ones already dying
Gut health is real, personalized nutrition is trending, but collagen shots are on their way out. Here's what the $6.3T wellness economy reveals.
Jul 5, 2024
Fashion
Sustainable fashion: progress report on a promise
After years of greenwashing, the secondhand market is growing 11x faster than retail. Real progress on sustainability exists, but the scale of waste remains sobering.
Sep 15, 2025
Health
An FDA Panel Just Backed Compounded BPC-157. That Is Not the Same as Approval
On 23 and 24 July, an FDA advisory committee looked at seven peptides and recommended that pharmacies be allowed to compound several of them. The vote is not binding, and the evidence gap has not moved.
Aug 11, 2026
Fashion
Cost Per Wear Is the Only Fashion Maths That Survives Contact With a Wardrobe
The price tag tells you almost nothing. Divide by the number of times you will actually wear it and the expensive coat is frequently the cheap one, but only if you are honest about the denominator.
Aug 8, 2026
Health
The Finnish Sauna Study Everyone Quotes Is Real, and It Is Weaker Than the Wellness Industry Wants It to Be
Men who used a sauna four to seven times a week had far fewer sudden cardiac deaths over twenty years than men who went once. That finding launched an industry. What the study can and cannot support, and who should be careful.
Sep 6, 2026
Health
Intermittent Fasting Works About as Well as Eating Less, Because in the Trials That Is What It Turned Out to Be
Three randomised trials put time-restricted eating against ordinary calorie control or against nothing. The eating window on its own did little. Combined with eating less, it did what eating less does. What that means for anyone considering it.
Sep 6, 2026
Health
Cold Showers and Ice Baths: A Dutch Trial Found Fewer Sick Days, a New Review Found Inflammation. Both Are Right
Three thousand Dutch adults who ended their showers cold took fewer sick days. A 2025 review of eleven trials found stress fell twelve hours after a plunge and inflammation rose. What is known, what is marketing, and why the first minute can kill.
Sep 6, 2026
Health
Something Has Been Crossing Into the Ageing Human Brain That Was Not Supposed to Get In
Stanford researchers borrowed the trick a consumer ancestry test uses and found immune cells migrating out of the blood and into the human brain from middle age onwards. Mice do not do it. Nor did the primates tested alongside them.
Aug 25, 2026
