In a somewhat popular article I wrote last year titled “12 Perfect Health Fundamentals: My Primary “Principles” For Optimizing Your Lifespan & Healthspan. and also in the article How to “Hack” Biohacking: 9 Essential Health Fundamentals That Any Biohacker Can Master., I described basic, affordable fundamentals and “low hanging fruit” that most anyone can access to optimize healthspan and lifespan.
Such optimization is not for the purpose of not just getting bragging rights about biological longevity markers like telomere length or methylation efficiency, but rather, for the purpose of being able to live a long and healthy life that allows one to maximize the impact they make on this planet during their life, however long that life might be – and to feel really, really good doing it.
After all, it doesn’t make much sense – to me at least – to simply extend your lifespan for the somewhat selfish transhumanistic-esque goal of cellular immortality or looking as good in a swimsuit at 60 as you did at 18 years old. Nor does it seem like a good use of precious time to engage in a host of life extension strategies if all those extra years you gain are spent lonely and huddled up inside cryotherapy boxes and hyperbaric chambers in an ultimately futile and frantic attempt to squeeze as many seconds out of your life as possible.
As I wrote in more detail here:
“…otherwise, we’re at the risk of spending an entire life experience in one long attempt to look good and to elongate life, and how silly it seems to prepare, prepare, and prepare to live a long time, then spend all that time we’ve created figuring out how to do other things to help us live a long time.
After all, we are going to die someday. We are going to die an old, ugly, fleshy, and wrinkled death. So we need to think about how we’ll be remembered because I can nearly guarantee that it won’t be for our chiseled abs, number of Crossfit sessions on the whiteboard, or fancy smart drug protocol. No: we’ll be remembered for how we loved and how we were loved.
For our adventures.
For our experiences.
For our relationships.
For how we made people feel.
Eventually, at some point, your life will be over and you may realize, “Oh my gosh! I haven’t gone on any adventures. I haven’t breathed fresh air at the top of a mountain, I haven’t eaten vegetable oil on a random beach in Thailand, I haven’t stayed out past my bedtime to go hunting or stargazing, and I’ve basically lived in a safe and protected, controlled bubble my whole life.”
Trust me: you don’t want to be on your deathbed and realize that you just spent a lifetime pushing this deathbed moment a little farther forward in time and missing life in the process. Instead, you want to be on your deathbed relishing the adventures, the experiences, the love, the people, the relationships, and the God and sacred spiritual souls you connected with and will hopefully rejoin at the pearly gates of heaven to live with forevermore.
How much healthy food you ate, how much you exercised, how many workouts you crushed, how impressive your supplements stack was, how many life-improvement books you consumed, how short your telomeres were, how many red light sessions, how cold of a cold bath – how much of this and how much of that can you do before it kind of becomes your whole life, in a controlled box.”
Now, that all being said, with a focus on healthy work-life-health optimization balance, I personally do go beyond the basics of things like sunlight, nature, physical movement, good relationships, and nutrition, and engage in some of the more fringe, so-called “life extension strategies” popular amongst the biohacking crowd. As a result, I find that I have more energy (often on less sleep), more strength, lower stress, better quality of my joints, skin, hair, and muscles, and a general resilient ability to be able to show up to achieve my life’s purpose with far less of the brain fog, gut issues, fragility, excess fat, cardiovascular or dementia disease markers and other issues that so many folks sadly struggle with. I attribute how good I consistently feel not only to the implementation of basic, traditional health strategies, but also to some of the more advanced, lesser-known modalities I implement on a regular.
So I figured I’d share with you in this article a few of the more nitty-gritty anti-aging, longevity, and age reversal biohacks I implement, and the demonstrable results I’ve found by weaving a few choice supplements, tools, and technologies into my life. Enjoy!
