I read a USA Today story this week about the rise of “biohacking,” and my first reaction was that it mostly got the vibe right. More wearables. More self-ordered labs. More biological-age tests. More longevity clinics. More guys showing up with a screen full of numbers and the feeling that they’re finally getting serious about […]
I have spent the last two weeks trying to get the subreddit r/proactivehealth of the ground. I took the initiative of creating it after I got again disappointed by one of the influencer-names forums going to hell because the influencer turned out to be of questionable character. starting the Reddit community was a lot of
I need to vent for a minute. I work hard in the gym and I am a data nerd. I like toys and numbers but Garmin just pisses me off. I get why VO₂max matters and would love to track it (ideally without killing myself in a lab). What I am frustrated with is how
I’ve got stage 1 hypertension. Nothing dramatic — no dizzy spells, no chest tightness — just that quiet number on the monitor that’s a little higher than it should be. My mom had it too, most of her life. She used to joke that we just “run hot,” but really, it’s no joke at all.
Over the last year, I have been reading and watching a lot of health and fitness-related content with a focus on longevity. Peter Attia’s “Medicine 3.0” particularly resonated with me since it focuses on proactive detection and optimization of health and fitness. This is a stark contrast to the largely reactive medical approach prevalent today,
Calibre Biometrics have promised a revolutionary at home sensor that reaches lab-level accuracy for VO2max and RMR test. It finally arrived. Here is the unboxing video. It’s much smaller than I thought. I will post VO2max and RMR test videos as soon as it’s charged!
High Blood Pressure (aka. Hypertension) is known as the Silent Killer as it often goes undetected until it is too late. Many people have high blood pressure but are totally unaware of it since they have no noticeable symptoms. The fact that over the years the guidelines what constitutes “high” did not help. Recently the
I really thought it was well known that Creatine does NOT cause kidney disease but merely messes with some of the more simplistic blood markers (creatinine) used to diagnose kidney disease (see Vega et al. 2019 or Longobardi et al. 2023) Certainly this is well known in longevity/biohacking/body building circles. However, even my PCP advised
Your testosterone doesn’t have to crash just because you hit the big 5-0. If you’ve noticed decreased energy, stubborn belly fat, or less motivation in the gym, declining testosterone might be the culprit. While testosterone naturally decreases about 1% per year after age 30, many men experience steeper drops due to lifestyle factors we can
I recently got a pretty comprehensive blood test done (via marekhealth/labcorb). Mostly no big surprises and in line with what I saw in my annual physical. However, I discovered that I had scary low iron saturation. I don’t really know why. Everyone asked whether I had recently donated blood — I had not. I think
