Sublime

But, there’s good news: if there’s anything the past few years have shown us, it’s that genes are not destiny—they merely predict what the Standard American Diet will do to you.

Altos Labs, which has raised $3 billion, more start-up funding than for any previous biotech venture, is one company seeking to find effective anti-aging technologies. Its chief scientist, Richard Klausner, argues, “We think we can turn back the clock” on human mortality. Focusing on techniques of “rejuvenation programming,” the company aims to res

Cancer as a Metabolic Disease,

first invention, OsteoStrong medical devices, allows elderly deconditioned women to grow bone density just as fast as men who are athletic and in their twenties.

switch,” AMPK acts like a tuning fork to your mitochondria, increasing fat burning and glucose uptake, and turning on waste disposal machinery to clear up cellular junk (this includes recycling old and damaged mitochondria).

In a watershed 1980 paper in the New England Journal of Medicine, Fries described the reserve of function in the body’s organs that, in youth, is well above what is needed for average everyday living. It’s like a savings account of extra biological capability that we can draw on when we need to—say, when we confront trauma, injury, or illness. At a

Revolutionizing Your Health, by Alejandro Junger, MD

The body is a protein-producing factory.