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Vegan
No meat, no seafood. It’s well known (in the longevity community, not .org tho) that a low meat diet is ideal for longevity. That doesn’t mean no meat is ideal. Bryan should eat meat at least 3 days a week and should definitely eat seafood.
TRT
Ok, so he has a low calorie diet and that lowers t. Well, injecting t has no basis for the purpose of longevity, and is simply a short-term benefit. The lab rats weren’t given t injections when they were on caloric restriction, he is simply doing that because he is failing to focus on longevity and is distracted with short-term fitness and appearances. (There’s nothing wrong with that per se but he is presenting his routine as ideal for longevity)
Too much emphasis on exercise
Most people here are probably unaware because of widespread false/misleading information, but exercise isn’t anti-aging per se. My current current consensus (based on rodent studies) is that exercise improves healthspan without slowing aging and thus doesn’t affect maximum lifespan. Now there’s exceptions to this, like being completely sedentary is surely will decrease your lifespan, and post-prandial exercise seems like it could slow aging by reducing blood glucose. And it does prevent muscle loss, which is an aspect of aging. But imo, if you are already lift for an hour or two a week, lifting more will either be pointless to longevity or actually decrease it. Walking is the most natural exercise to be done in high amounts. Overall, his exercise routine is distracting him from the objective of longevity.
Unnatural Diet
Now I’m not saying an unnatural diet is bad for longevity per se (it will take unnatural things to live longer than our natural lifespans), but really I am saying that he should get his nutrients from Whole Foods over pills when possible. And consuming olive oil is unwise. It’s based on the Mediterranean diet (unreliable and weak evidence to consume olive oil), and maybe is healthier than other oils, but it’s still a processed food and not a whole food. He says he’s on “caloric restriction”, and so adding in a pure oil to take up more calories without other macronutrients is bizarre. Additionally, Bryan eats a repetitive diet with the same plant-based meals, but he should vary his diet instead and add animal foods imo.
Some final considerations
I’ve already criticized his t injections because it has no basis on longevity, only short term benefits. I can tell his overall approach is NOT longevity focused; I remember he said something about improving sexual function (but sexual function and better aging are often contradictory), also his focus on skincare (using unnatural products to hide aging in the short term without evidence for long term effects on aging (besides sunscreen)), of course his over-exertion, and I saw he was using HGH although I don’t know if he still is. (Like sexual function, growth and slow aging are often contradictory)
And finally, he is taking so many damn things, many not well researched or with known side-effects. I’m all for gambling for greater potential when odds are in your favor but I’m afraid I must point out something: there is much less mechanisms to slow aging than there is to cause harm (and thus eventually death). Hypothetically, if each of his 100 pills can in fact slow aging by independently, they each would probably not work through their own unique mechanism. Let’s say 20 of them work through being an mTOR inhibitor, then maybe you’d have the same benefit of taking only 2-3 mTOR inhibitors. So for each pill you are already taking, adding another will have less of a chance of aid but a quasi-constant chance of harm. Bryan could literally die by some complication of something he’s taking before he otherwise would have of age. At least he’s well-monitored to off-set this risk, and being well monitored is something I ought to congratulate him on.
No meat, no seafood. It’s well known (in the longevity community, not .org tho) that a low meat diet is ideal for longevity. That doesn’t mean no meat is ideal. Bryan should eat meat at least 3 days a week and should definitely eat seafood.
TRT
Ok, so he has a low calorie diet and that lowers t. Well, injecting t has no basis for the purpose of longevity, and is simply a short-term benefit. The lab rats weren’t given t injections when they were on caloric restriction, he is simply doing that because he is failing to focus on longevity and is distracted with short-term fitness and appearances. (There’s nothing wrong with that per se but he is presenting his routine as ideal for longevity)
Too much emphasis on exercise
Most people here are probably unaware because of widespread false/misleading information, but exercise isn’t anti-aging per se. My current current consensus (based on rodent studies) is that exercise improves healthspan without slowing aging and thus doesn’t affect maximum lifespan. Now there’s exceptions to this, like being completely sedentary is surely will decrease your lifespan, and post-prandial exercise seems like it could slow aging by reducing blood glucose. And it does prevent muscle loss, which is an aspect of aging. But imo, if you are already lift for an hour or two a week, lifting more will either be pointless to longevity or actually decrease it. Walking is the most natural exercise to be done in high amounts. Overall, his exercise routine is distracting him from the objective of longevity.
Unnatural Diet
Now I’m not saying an unnatural diet is bad for longevity per se (it will take unnatural things to live longer than our natural lifespans), but really I am saying that he should get his nutrients from Whole Foods over pills when possible. And consuming olive oil is unwise. It’s based on the Mediterranean diet (unreliable and weak evidence to consume olive oil), and maybe is healthier than other oils, but it’s still a processed food and not a whole food. He says he’s on “caloric restriction”, and so adding in a pure oil to take up more calories without other macronutrients is bizarre. Additionally, Bryan eats a repetitive diet with the same plant-based meals, but he should vary his diet instead and add animal foods imo.
Some final considerations
I’ve already criticized his t injections because it has no basis on longevity, only short term benefits. I can tell his overall approach is NOT longevity focused; I remember he said something about improving sexual function (but sexual function and better aging are often contradictory), also his focus on skincare (using unnatural products to hide aging in the short term without evidence for long term effects on aging (besides sunscreen)), of course his over-exertion, and I saw he was using HGH although I don’t know if he still is. (Like sexual function, growth and slow aging are often contradictory)
And finally, he is taking so many damn things, many not well researched or with known side-effects. I’m all for gambling for greater potential when odds are in your favor but I’m afraid I must point out something: there is much less mechanisms to slow aging than there is to cause harm (and thus eventually death). Hypothetically, if each of his 100 pills can in fact slow aging by independently, they each would probably not work through their own unique mechanism. Let’s say 20 of them work through being an mTOR inhibitor, then maybe you’d have the same benefit of taking only 2-3 mTOR inhibitors. So for each pill you are already taking, adding another will have less of a chance of aid but a quasi-constant chance of harm. Bryan could literally die by some complication of something he’s taking before he otherwise would have of age. At least he’s well-monitored to off-set this risk, and being well monitored is something I ought to congratulate him on.
