If you’ve noticed your arms looking a bit smaller or your strength declining despite hitting the gym, you’re not imagining things. Losing muscle mass in your 50s is a real phenomenon—but it’s not inevitable. The Science Behind Muscle Loss After 50 Get the next one in your inbox I write about longevity, training, and preventive
Science is telling us that fitness will make me live longer, in particular VO2max is touted as one of the best predictors of longevity (reduced all-cause mortality). Peter Attia as usual has a very good summary and here is a short snippet from that discussion: There is also a pretty compelling study (aptly titled “Survival
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
It is widely documented that achieving consistent sleep quality is one of the most important things we can do to improve health. It affects hormones and strength. Alas, every year with the switch to Daylight Savings time and back, everyone in the US gets their sleep disrupted for days. This is especially bad with young
The New York Times published a good article about “Why Obesity kills American Men”. I certainly fall into that category. I got use to my doctor telling me “you should lose some weight” every year. Then I started avoided annual physicals because I didn’t want to hear it. However, when I finally got a
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.
I tried building myself a workout program with AI. It took about five minutes in Claude, and what came back was a genuinely reasonable three-day strength program scaled to a 50-year-old beginner. That’s not really in question anymore. A 2026 study in the Journal of Sports Science and Medicine had nine certified personal trainers and
