Marek Piotrowski — Longevity Advocate
I spent 20 years building brands. Then I took my son and went to find the people who know how to give us more life. 39 countries and states and more than 100 scientists later, it became a film and a book — and the beginning of something I’d like to co-create with you: a culture with longevity, health and joy built into it.
The Map is free, and it always will be.
Filmed at Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, Cambridge, NUS Singapore, the Buck Institute — and in the Blue Zones.
longevity/lɒnˈdʒɛvɪti/
the art & science of living longer, healthier & more fulfilling lives.
Marek Piotrowski · Longevity Advocate · founder of Live Beyond
165 interviews, filmed in labs, clinics, homes and on the road. These are their words, exactly as they were said.
“Well, I thought meeting in the cemetery was appropriate because you’re studying longevity and how we live, and it’s really helpful to be reminded of how beautiful it can be to be in a graveyard.”
Robert Waldinger
Director, the Harvard Study of Adult Development
Boston · November 2024
“I’m trying to get sitting classified as an occupational hazard, like radiation.”
Sir Muir Gray
Prevention pioneer, Oxford
Oxford · July 2024
“I think what people have a hard time imagining that you can help them imagine is they don’t know what to do with the extra time.”
Peter Diamandis
Founder of XPRIZE
Los Angeles · December 2025
“Your brain is like a muscle. It’s use it or lose it.”
Craig Venter
Sequenced the human genome
San Diego · May 2024
On 15 August 2023 my then-17-year-old son Aleksander and I set off on a one-year journey — longevity clinics, Blue Zones, high-tech labs and the great universities, learning from over 100 of the field’s leading minds.
Two generations. Two views on longevity. One shared quest.
The whole story →
When my son Aleksander and I set out around the world, I had two words printed on our shirts: Longevity Advocate. Not doctor. Not scientist. Advocate — someone who speaks up for something because they believe the world needs it.
For one year, across 39 countries and states and 5 continents, the greatest minds of this field welcomed us like family — in their labs, their universities, their homes. And everywhere we heard the same truth: longevity is not science fiction, and it is not a billionaire’s toy. It is the art and science of living longer, healthier and more fulfilling lives — and most of it is available to you today, as a choice.
Being a Longevity Advocate means three things to me. I live it — I make the choices every day, with joy, not fear. I share it — with my family, my friends, with anyone who will listen. And I grow it — because when millions of us stand behind this science and this culture, we will see real longevity in our lifetime, not our grandchildren’s.
That is why I lead Live Beyond: to co-create a new culture with longevity, health and joy built into it. It began as a father and a son on a quest. It becomes a movement the moment you join.
— Marek Piotrowski
Treat your mind, heart and body as a temple. Not as a trash bin.
Marek Piotrowski · Lake Tahoe, California
From TEDx to the global longevity summits. 9 stages, in English and Polish, and I bring the film with me.
Feature documentary. Premiere planned for Q1 2027. Narrated by Aleksander — if a teenager can explore longevity science, so can you.
The film →
Publishing Q1 2027. A guide disguised as a game, built from the quest and the knowledge of 100 experts.
The book →What would you wish us, me and my son, for the rest of our quest?
“You said, “I wanna do longevity, and then I wanna do space,” and that’s the right order because we’re not going anywhere before we know how to stop aging.”
Nir Barzilai
Longevity geneticist, Einstein
Singapore · February 2024
“Your mission of what you’re doing now is at least as important as anything going on in any lab anywhere in the world.”
Sir Muir Gray
Prevention pioneer, Oxford
Oxford · July 2024
“I wanna watch your movie, and then I’ll be so inspired and drop everything and go on a road trip, you know.”
Steve Horvath
Inventor of the epigenetic clocks
Dublin · August 2023
“I hope that you have great success in this first journey because this is first journey of many.”
Liz Parrish
CEO, BioViva
Dublin · August 2023
Everything on this site is one person’s work — what I learned, who I met, and what I think it means. Live Beyond is the other half: the place where it stops being my story and becomes something you can take part in. It is being built now, and it opens soon.
More than 100 scientists, doctors, healers and biohackers sat down with us, and almost all of them said more than any film can hold. On the Hub each of them gets their own page — the full conversation, the footage, what they are working on now, and how to reach their work. What you see on this site is the short version.
The full experience is coming on Live Beyond.
The Map on this page is the picture. On the Hub it becomes something you can walk into: every level opens, every branch carries the practices underneath it, and you can see where you already are and what the next honest step is. The same five levels, the same colours — but yours rather than a poster.
The interactive Map is coming on Live Beyond.
The thing that surprised me most on the road is how much of this is social. People do not hold on to new habits alone; they hold on to them with other people. So we are connecting longevity communities around the world — the biohacking clubs, the running groups, the cold-water swimmers, the reading circles — and partnering with them, so that you can choose a place on Earth and we put you in touch with the people already doing this there.
Communities are coming on Live Beyond.
A year built around joy and longevity rather than around deadlines: your own rhythm of daily, weekly and yearly practices, the things worth repeating, and the ones worth planning a season around.
The Calendar is coming on Live Beyond.
The Founding Circle is the first group of people to stand behind it. Put your name down here and I will tell you the moment it opens — you will be among the first through the door.
The Longevity Map will guide you to a longer, healthier and more fulfilling life. It gives you a helicopter view on all branches of the longevity field.
A year of asking the people who actually know. Some of them are the biggest names in the field; one of them is a healer in a Balinese courtyard. Both mattered.
Where we went, who we met and what it did to us — a year of it, in one place.
Live Beyond is a film, a book and a Hub — and it only becomes a culture if enough people decide to carry it. The Founding Circle is the first 100 million, and the founding members are the ones who get in before any of it is finished.
It is free, and it stays free for founders.