You can't stuff these interventions into a pill and sell them.

But they can definitely cut your risk of dying. Perhaps by 50% over the next decade.

“A birthday cake with carrots as candles, sitting on a pile of spinach.” courtesy AI generation.

As my birthday looms ahead this weekend, and the distance I’ve circled around the sun keeps lengthening like a shadow, I thought I would summarize four of the more important studies that have been published on longevity. Unlike other things that have been touted for long life such as resveratrol, high dose antioxidants, human growth hormone, and plasma from young people’s blood, these lifestyle interventions are cheap, mostly proven to help, and can’t be stuffed into a crappy pill for Huberman or Oz to sell us.

I fully realize that even when we do (almost) everything right, medical illnesses and events can still occur at random. But these are solid, peer-reviewed studies that have shown how we might reduce our chance of cardiovascular death over the next decade by 50-60%.