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What 6 Habits Are Aging You Faster? (And What to Do Instead)
What 6 Habits Are Aging You Faster? What 6 habits are aging you faster? Smoking, sitting all day, sleeping under 6 hours, drinking heavily, living on ultra-processed food and chronic loneliness. Researchers can now estimate how fast your body is aging by reading chemical marks on your DNA, known as epigenetic clocks, and all six […]
What Increases Lifespan the Most? Ranked by the Evidence.
Ask ten longevity enthusiasts what increases lifespan the most and you will get ten different answers: metformin, rapamycin, cold plunges, NAD boosters, fasting. The published evidence gives a much less exciting, much more useful answer. The single biggest lever ever measured in humans is quitting smoking, worth about a decade of life. Stack five ordinary […]
Can Sleep Slow Biological Ageing? A Proteomic Protocol Read
Here is the short answer. In a 2026 Aging Cell study of 93,249 UK Biobank adults, longer total sleep duration, more deep sleep and more REM sleep were each associated with lower risk of most of nine hallmarks of ageing, while more time awake after falling asleep and more irregular sleep schedules were associated with […]
Can Habit Stacking Add Years to Your Life? What the 60,000-Person Study Found
Can habit stacking really add years to your life? Here is the short answer. A University of Sydney study of nearly 60,000 UK Biobank adults found that people who combined small improvements in sleep, movement and diet were associated with up to 9.35 additional years of life and 9.45 additional years of healthspan, compared with […]
Free Health Habits: 3 Zero-Cost Moves a Biohacker Swears By
The short version The three free health habits are: get morning sunlight and dim evening screens to lock your circadian rhythm, eat protein and vegetables before carbs, and take the stairs instead of the lift. Finnish biohacker Teemu Arina, co-author of The Biohacker’s Handbook, named exactly these three when Monaco Life asked him what anyone […]