When you lose weight, where does the fat go? If you’re thinking, “I sweat it out,” you’re only 20% correct. The real answer might surprise you: you exhale it. Here’s how it works: when your body metabolises fat, triglycerides … Read More
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Why stress is not your enemy
At some point, an expert in a position of authority has probably told you to avoid “stress” as it’s “bad” for you. This is terrible advice. Leaving aside the fact that most of us can’t control our chaotic minds and … Read More
How to ruin your sleep in 10 easy steps: A masterclass in exhaustion
Witnessing Bryan Johnson‘s very entertaining sleep intervention on Balaji this weekend got me thinking: How am I complicit in creating the conditions I say I don’t want? My work in the longevity field has shown a few patterns worth illuminating. … Read More
Ageing, the realist’s guide
As I explore preventive health and longevity research, I encounter all sorts of wild claims about reversing or even stopping aging—Dracula style. And while that’s entertaining, let’s be real. We can’t banish aging, but we can age more like cathedrals … Read More
Preparing your medical practice for AI: a practical guide
First things first: Health is, and will remain a human-driven domain. Perhaps you’ve heard the phrase:“AI will not replace doctors, but it will replace doctors who don’t use AI.” We shall see. In the here and now, most health-related matters … Read More
The hidden cost of health measurement
I’ve noticed a recurring pattern among health optimisers in my social circles. It goes like this: “I was having a great time, but I left early to protect my sleep score streak.” Or, “I took the kids for an acai … Read More
How will you use your four thousand weeks?
No word is more important to our daily existence than “time”. Yet we dance with it without making contact, understand it poorly, use it unwisely and often suffer under false assumptions that prevent us from making the best of our short stint on this blue planet. This article deals with common misconceptions about time and offers several models for getting more life into our years … Read More
Is your ladder leaning against the right wall? Six mental models for success
Defining success – craft, don’t mimic A key component of finding meaning in life is our personal development, or what we call at Kalibra the “Grow” pillar of health. The path to finding our growth rhythm is riddled with pitfalls, … Read More
Beyond Biohacking: Unveiling the Six Pillars of Optimal Health
Biohacking, wellness, and wellbeing are poorly defined terms that marketers often use to obscure selling a product, more often than not a supplement, device or a generic protocol. … Read More
How to filter out the wellness clickbait and find your 80/20
We all have a sacred ritual that we won’t reveal much. I like to call it IDA – an International Day of Ambition. It’s usually a Monday, double-powered if it’s the first Monday of the month, and quadrupled if it’s the first day of something arbitrary – year, quarter, Lent, etc. … Read More
Improving healthspan: your survival guide
Our founder Ivan Vatchkov recently presented a framework for improving healthspan at the National University of Singapore Centre for healthy longevity. We introduced a framework for how to tie longevity to specific actions, and how to think about incorporating healthspan improvement in our daily life. … Read More
Where our thinking is different
There are a few things that we do differently here at Kalibra. First and foremost, we recognise that we have a lot in common in how our body works, and that is, in fact possible to make universal recommendations about health. However, we also recognise … Read More
The 6 health pillars for our total wellbeing
Health is wealth, and almost all of us would agree that we put our health first – always and without fail. However, even for those who follow through on this commitment, what underpins it is a relatively unstructured and mass trend-led process … Read More
Why we should start with blood testing
At Kalibra, we believe in objective data and hard science as the basis for intentional health. And without a doubt, the starting point for a conversation about that has to be with the current state and functioning of the main systems that have to effectively work together for peak … Read More
Is it possible to make universal recommendations about health?
Focus these days tends to be on individuality. Especially in this age of genetic testing. The fact is, however, that ahead of individual differences, we are all human. Not only that, but as far as we know today, with the latest studies of mitochondrial gene evolution and transmission … Read More
