My own doctor told me to quit creatine because a number on my bloodwork went up. That number was never measuring what he thought it was. I take creatine every day, and at my last physical my doctor told me to stop. His reason: my creatinine had crept up on the panel, and creatinine is […]
I get up at 5:45 most mornings, and by 8:15 I have trained, sat in the sauna, eaten the same breakfast I eat every day, and seen the kids off. This post is the whole routine, step by step, exactly as I do it. A note on the photos: they are mine, from September 2025,
Your best physique might still be ahead of you. I had sort of given up on my physique in my fifties until I got a wakeup call in my annual physical. I thought I was too old to build serious muscle. While gym culture obsesses over 20-something influencers, some of the most impressive transformations happen
I tested under 300 ng/dL twice in my fifties. Here are the seven natural levers ranked by what the studies say they’re actually worth, and what I did when they weren’t enough.
There has been a flood of workout apps many of which provide some level of AI support. They tend to have a slick user interface, fancy graphs and sometimes even let you chat with you personal AI. Using AI is shockingly easy to use and can be surprisingly effective at creating plausible workout programs. I
Petter Attia has introduced the concept of the “marginal decade”, the last ten years of your life, when your health is typically at its worst. All his longevity work is focused on improving the experience during that time. A similar idea applies to work life. Being in my fifties I have been thinking a lot
According to this Bloomberg article Xi, Putin and Kim had a chat about immortality, repeated organ transplants and people living to 150. Chinese President Xi Jinping commented on the possibility of people living to 150 during a hot-mic moment with his Russian and North Korean counterparts, a rare glimpse of an unscripted chat between three
In an effort to keep muscles during a GLP-1 diet, I tried many post workout meal/shakes/supplements. For a while my goto choices were Cutler Nutrition’s Repair and Fairlife Core Power. However, my favorite is a shake I make at home: A scoop each of Vanilla Ice Cream Whey powder, Cocoa powder, one Oikos Triple Zero
I aimed at 200 grams a day, averaged 164, and the DEXA still came back with 9.6 pounds more lean mass than I started with. I published the first version of this post in August 2025 with three different protein targets in it. The body text said 1 gram per pound of target weight, which
There is a lot of buzz about peptides like BPC-157, TB-500, MOTS-C and obviously GLP-1 agonists in the health and fitness world. Every influencer seems to have their favorite “stack” of them that promise energy, endurance, fat burning and general injury healing. As Matt Kaberlein explains thinking of “peptides” as one thing is silly the
