I often get asked what I think of Bryan Johnson’s daily regimen. The question boils down to: “Should I do it? Would it be good for me?” First, there is no biological free lunch. Every intervention has a price. As … Read More
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Why We Need to Move On from Biohacking
Biohacking is so 2012. Being the optimal you is all about understanding the six pillars of health. Three key takeaways Biohacking, wellness, and wellbeing are poorly defined terms marketers use to obscure selling products. Personalisation, iterative testing, and individual evidence … Read More
What’s at the End of Your Rainbow?
Money is the best life game ever created. It has rules but no referee. It is both an objective artefact and an ephemeral belief. Money reveals who you are; it amplifies you. But money’s chief trick is to mess up … Read More
What Do You Want to Want?
I was having a thoughtful beer with a friend over the weekend, and we were both lamenting life’s shifting goalposts and ever-accelerating time. We both acknowledged that we would have never dreamt of being where we are today, yet we … Read More
The Quiet Transformation in Healthcare
Health doesn’t shout, it whispers. Underneath this whisper, we are witnessing the transformation of health happening in real time. Healthcare used to be something you visited, then it was on you, soon it will be in you, and eventually everywhere, … Read More
Three Mental Models to Cut Through Wellness Noise
I’m often asked to weigh in on the latest health and longevity protocols. There are three critical mental models you should master to cut through the noise. The Bullshit Asymmetry Principle Brandolini’s Law: the amount of energy needed to refute … Read More
The Heart Outside the Body, the Brain in the Cloud
There’s a line I’ve always loved about parenting: having children is deciding to let your heart walk around outside your body. It is beautiful because it is terrifying. Parenting externalises the heart. AI externalises something else. For the first time, … Read More
The AI Mirage: Why Healthcare Can’t Run Before It Crawls
I recently reviewed a clinic’s plan to deploy AI decision support. It hit every word on the AI bingo card: LLM this, agent that, RAG the other… A critical piece was missing: they had no concept of data infrastructure. The … Read More
Slow Is Steady, Steady Is Fast
In a world that equates speed with success, what if slowing down is the key to going faster? Speed races you; pace raises you. Formula 1 teaches us that maintaining speed through the corners, not the straight lines, helps you … Read More
Performance Health: Your Minimum Effective Dose
If you are regularly catapulted into cynicism by preventive health content but know more about your bank account than your health account, this post is for you. We know less about our health than we should One of the biggest … Read More