Longevity
Longevity is the art and science of living longer, healthier and more fulfilling lives. Not a niche and not a billionaire’s toy — a field with five levels to it, and most of the first level is available to you today, as a choice.
Longevity
Everything I learned, in one place.
Built on the road and kept current. This section will eventually move to the Live Beyond Hub, where it can grow properly — until then it lives here.
- OpenThe Longevity MapThe whole field on one page, in five levels. The free thing everything else grows out of.
- OpenThe people we metMore than 100 scientists, doctors, healers and biohackers, and what they are actually working on.
- OpenDefinitions & processes24 processes that decide how you age, each with the science, a plain explanation and what to do about it.
- OpenBooks & documentariesWhat to read and what to watch, with notes on the ones that changed something for me.
The words
Eight words you will meet everywhere, in plain English.
The field talks to itself in its own vocabulary, and that is most of what keeps people out of it. Here is what each of these actually means.
Healthspan
Lifespan is how long you are alive. Healthspan is how long you are well. The gap between the two is currently about a decade for most people, and closing it is what almost everyone in this field is really working on.
Biohacking
Testing things on yourself and measuring what happens. At its best it is careful self-experiment with the numbers written down — sleep, glucose, training load, blood work. At its worst it is a shelf of supplements bought on a promise. The difference is whether you measured.
Radical life extension
The part of the field that is not trying to keep you well for longer but to remove the ceiling altogether: gene and cell therapy, partial epigenetic reprogramming, engineering resilience, cryonics. Further out, and further along than most people think.
Prevention
Screening, genomics, imaging and biomarkers — finding the thing while it is still small, still cheap and still yours to decide about. It runs like a golden thread through everything else here, and it is the level almost nobody starts with and everybody wishes they had.
Longevity advocacy
Speaking up for the field so that it can grow. You do not have to be a doctor or a researcher to be a longevity advocate — you have to care, and start. The science moves at the speed of the number of people standing behind it, which is the whole reason this site exists.
Biotech
The companies turning the science into something a person can actually be given: a drug, a therapy, a diagnostic. Many of the people we met on the quest run one, and a good part of what they said was about how long the road from a paper to a clinic really is.
Functional and modern medicine
The clinical end of all this. Functional medicine looks for the cause rather than the symptom and reads your blood work as a trend rather than a snapshot. Modern medicine is catching up with it fast, and the best doctors we met on the road work in both languages at once. Both are moving towards treating wellness as something you build rather than the absence of a diagnosis.
The Longevity Map
Get the Map. It is free, and it is the whole field on one page.
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.
In this section
Four ways in.
The Longevity Map
The whole field on one page — five levels, and the bridge of prevention running across all of them. Press a level and see what lives on it.
The people
30 of the scientists, doctors and healers of the quest — who they are, how we met and one thing each of them said.
Definitions & processes
The 24 processes that decide how you age, each with the science, the plain version and what actually helps.
Books, films & documentaries
What to read and watch, and why each one is worth the time.