Notes from the Quest.
Everything I write about longevity lives here — the essays, the arguments and the stories from the road. New pieces are published here first, then shared on LinkedIn.
You cannot copy a blue zone. You can connect it.
I walked through two blue zones with my son. The part that makes them work cannot be exported. What we should do instead of copying them.
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A longer life is not for you alone.
The first person to take gene therapy for ageing told my son and me what she fears most. It was not death. It was losing the people we share our lives with.
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More people want to live longer than will ever say it.
My son spent a year with the scientists working on ageing. At home, nobody wanted to hear it. The reason is older than you think, and it has a name.
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The most important thing I learned on the Quest, I didn’t learn from the scientists
For one year I travelled with my son Aleksander to meet the people who are changing how long and how well human beings live. Thirty-nine countries and states. More than a hundred scientists, doctors, healers and biohackers. Five hundred hours of footage.
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Longevity, the Ultimate Multiplayer Game
When my son and I packed our bags for a year-long quest we thought we were chasing science. We came back with something bigger: longevity is a game we all play, and we win it together or not at all.
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Squaring the Curve
Why the movement has to dare to push the limits of life itself — and why compressing the bad years is not the same as adding good ones.
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The Longevity Game Rulebook
The rules of the game, laid out plainly — and how anybody becomes a player.
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Raising a Longevity Generation
Why I take my teenage son to longevity clinics, and what a year on the road with him taught me that no interview could.
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A Father & Son Go Looking for the Secret to Longevity
The story of the quest in brief: how it started, where it went and what it cost.
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What happens when father & son go looking for the secret of longevity
A journey to rethink aging, health, wellness, biohacking and the pursuit of meaning.
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The Billionaire Paradox — let’s change it
Billionaires say they would trade all their wealth to be young again — yet most of them do not invest in aging science.
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Why I take my son to longevity clinics
They are not for the sick or the wealthy. They are a gift of awareness and prevention.
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It would be pretty stupid if I died from something preventable
Why prevention is the most rational and most overlooked longevity strategy there is.
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Longevity, the Ultimate Multiplayer Game
The idea at the heart of the Longevity Map, first published on LinkedIn.
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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.