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When I look into my biohacker bubble, the answer might be: enough sleep, regular workout routine with HIIT, healthy whole foods, no alcohol, socializing
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and yet none of that makes even a dent
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For you personally, maybe not, but statistically yes it does.

There are populations that consistently outlive and the only other thing I would add is stress removal in the form of relatively simple life styles.

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If the populations that you're talking about are the famed "blue zones," then the most likely reason for it is poor record keeping: https://jheor.org/post/2682-ig-nobel-prize-winning-research-...
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I think the population they were referring to were active individuals who work out a little, eat well, and don’t drink alcohol. I didn’t see any mention of geographic area.
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and how do the effects of these interventions compare with normal variability of the lifespan in normal people?
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At some point you have to wonder about the costs. Denying yourself everything that's nice and pleasant, and exercising constant, total active control over yourself sure might prolong your life, but what's the point?
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The thing is, drinking to excess, smoking, eating ‘badly’ just aren’t pleasures at all if you don’t do them all the time. It’s hard to take the perspective, but there is more to life!
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Right, but that's the other extreme. Then there's everything in the middle, and most of that, unfortunately, do not form a kind of "healthy lifestyle" that has a chance to confer longevity benefits. So when people say, "just have a good diet and exercise regularly and sleep long enough and such" - it's a bit of a lie, because to do enough of these things to matter, you might be required to sacrifice the very things you value in life the most.

And I mean here both sacrifice the things you hold dear directly, or indirectly - which for us here is predominantly our careers and places of living.

Exaggerating a little bit to underscore the point: I could likely add years to my QALY lifespan if I moved to countryside, picked up more manual labor that required me to move my whole body, and went hiking in between going to the gym -- but, the things I value are found in cities, the work I like is white-collar, I hate hiking, and I also have people I love to support and lifespan-friendly labor generally doesn't pay enough.

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Ultimately as much as we love individual responsibility, the truth is only the lucky few have the ability to freely choose their lifestyle. For the rest of us we have to conform to the unhealthy lifestyle that society demands of us.

To live a life that's even remotely healthy we have to dedicate a significant amount of the precious spare time we have just to undo some of that damage.

I do not believe we are predisposed to adopt sedentary lifestyles. As kids most of us are very active, but we are taught to be sedentary. Both academically and professionally we are most rewarded for sedentary activities: doing extra coursework, building your resume. Is it any surprise we develop a sedentary lifestyle when such a lifestyle is most rewarded?

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I think rural life is too romanticized though. It will avoid the diseases endemic to sedentary life, but there will be different health issues instead. Preindustrial agriculture and generally jobs with lots of physical labor are not easy on the body. Coronary heart disease and maybe diabetes and dementia will be replaced by work-related injuries and arthritis. There is a reason many countries allow such people to retire earlier.
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Nice slip! Rock'n'Roll, baby!
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I don't get the contradiction? A healthy body will make it possible to enjoy all these things in moderation, be the company of your loved ones, and generally enjoy life for far longer. Making life just about the things that damage the body the most will have quite predictable consequences, no surprise there.
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If you want to live forever don't do any of the things that would make it worthwhile.
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Amazing times we live in where addiction is woke and abstinence must be fascism?
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What are you talking about? Doing these things is the only way to increase your quality of life and healthy lifespan, no amount money nor medicine will make up for abusing your body for decades.

These things are quite literally the leading causes of death and impairments in the west...

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It does. Look up Brian Johnson
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Bryan Johnson. Brian Johnson is the “Liver King”
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Both dudes are equally cringe.
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You should actually watch Bryan's videos, he's pretty funny and down to earth techie.

Are his therapies are over the top and lacking a bit of experimental rigor? Probably. Does he look healthy af? Definitely.

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I actually have. Dude did a "family blood transfusion" with his dad and son. Ew gtfo.

And to me he doesn't look healthy af. His skin is good, sure.

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He looks older than he actually is.
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At what age?
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These should be lifelong behaviors
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> The real question here: how do we stop these shifts from happening?

Or what happens when we stop them? Perpetual adolescence seems mainstream now. But it would be nice to know if some of these changes should be brought up as well as pushed back.

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Isn't perpetual adolescence a lifestyle description, not a biological one?
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>The real question here: how do we stop these shifts from happening?

We don't - people inevitably age and die. All you can hope to do is postpone these shifts, and I suspect a large component in the timing is genetic, so there isn't a magical solution that will work for everybody just because it works for the guy posting about the one guaranteed solution for preventing ageing, because it's worked so far for him.

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Possibly with a hyperbaric oxygen chamber.
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and blood of the young.
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Only virgins
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There's a subreddit for that
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strength training
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