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223 sats \ 3 replies \ @Fabs 26 Jan \ parent \ on: Do you supplement? What supplements do you take? health

But... Why? Does it really make you feel that much better?

It's hard to say which of the things are the most important for that, but yes, I've tried a lot of different breakfast routines and with this one, I pack a big punch at brunch and I'm not hungry until dinner, so I get 2 meals a day but plenty of protein and nutrients. Some of these are not for the feel, like Lion's Mane: https://www.healthline.com/health-news/latest-study-suggests-lions-mane-mushrooms-may-boost-brain-heath

I have a lower score on my brain age compared to the rest of my biological age test results so I'm working on that.

Ultimately, doing a routine like this could be a waste of time if you aren't also taking regular bio tests (age, blood, etc) and verifying that all your stats are in order. Unfortunately, we don't live long enough to really put these all through a long-term individual variable test, so a lot of these are combined in a sort of best-guess crapshoot and I add/remove something about every 6-12 months based on latest research and test results.

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @Fabs 26 Jan

Expand on those bio-tests; where can you do those and what are they called specifically, and how are they taken?

1307 sats \ 0 replies \ @antic 27 Jan freebie

There are DNA methylation age tests like Elysium Index, and TallyHealth. But caveats:

These are too expensive to be taken at the regularity that you'd need to see if anything is really working ($200-$500/test)
These tests are heavily influenced by your recent stress levels and general health so if you take the test after a week of bad sleep, work stress, and drinking, it's going to give you a bad result but if you take it after you just spent a week at a meditation retreat, your DNA age will be lower (TBD if this is really a reliable system in the long run)
These tests ask you lifestyle questions and basic facts as part of the processing (gender, smoking habits, and AGE), which is a big data science red flag--using your age as part of the data to pivot the results is super sus.

There's also GlycanAge, which measures Glycans instead of Methylation. And there's TruAge that measures other things...

NOTE: I've only tried Elysium Index and TallyHealth so far. The results from Elysium are more detailed--they break down and analyze a bunch of different things (brain, liver, heart, blood, etc) to create a composite age result, but they also give you granular age for each component. TallyHealth just gives you an overall age. I'm going to try the other ones eventually

Probably more reliable metrics are blood tests that you can order through a doctor or online lab to get things like Apo B, general hormone levels, all the chemicals, etc. Again though, we aren't at the time of humanity where these are rapidly available enough to do weekly/monthly to get actionable/timely feedback. Hopefully we'll get there over the next few years (it's a lot better than it was).

As a first step, you can go to your general physician and just say that you haven't had a blood workup in a while and you want to make sure your hormones and other levels are ok. Mention Apo B or they might leave that out of the basic test. Or you can search online for biomarker tests and see what you find.