The longevity network that started in a pub, not a lab

Mo Elzek does not think that, in the coming years, you will be able to pop a magic pill and decide what age you want to be. He does, however, think that a cocktail of targeted rejuvenation therapies could have a profound impact on your healthspan and lifespan. That distinction, borne out of deep understanding…

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Christopher Snowdon: healthy lifestyles are a burden on taxpayers

If you work in health, Christopher Snowdon is supposed to be the enemy. He defends smokers, opposes minimum pricing on alcohol and argues against sugar taxes. He thinks the wellness industry is "mostly a force for bad" and that nutritional epidemiology, the science underpinning nearly everything you have ever been told about food, is a…

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Top longevity influencers and researchers to follow

Seven of the 100 people ranked in the Unfiltered Longevity 100 for 2026 publish regularly for a general audience — a podcast, a newsletter or both. They are Peter Diamandis, Mark Hyman, Bryan Johnson, Matt Kaeberlein, Andrew Huberman, David Sinclair and Phil Newman. Three of them are working scientists and four are not. Four more…

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Who are the most credible voices in longevity?

The most credible voices in longevity are mostly not the most visible ones. Of the 100 people ranked in the Unfiltered Longevity 100 for 2026, 38 are working scientists whose standing rests on peer-reviewed output, institutional position and replication record rather than on audience. They are listed in full below. Credibility and reach are close…

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HEALTH Explainer

Who is Dr Dominik Nischwitz?

Dr Dominik Nischwitz is a German dentist based in Tübingen. He founded the Biodentistry Global Standard, a certification and training programme for what he calls biological dentistry 3.0, and he is among the most widely known international advocates of ceramic dental implants and of treating the mouth as an upstream factor in whole-body health. His…

ByJon LipseyAugust 2, 20260Comments

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Biological dentistry treatments compared

Biological dentistry covers treatments with varying levels of evidence behind them. Metal-free fillings are ordinary restorative dentistry. Ceramic implants have clinical guideline recognition. Cavitation surgery has no professional body endorsement, though the research on the underlying condition has moved recently. The table below sets each treatment against its conventional equivalent. Treatment comparison TreatmentConventional equivalentWhat the…

ByJon LipseyAugust 2, 20260Comments

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Cold and the female body: Why women and men don’t freeze the same way

Put a woman and a man in the same room at the same temperature, and the woman's hands, feet and ears will be colder. Not because she's imagining it. Because her body is measurably colder at the surface, and has organised itself that way on purpose. The short answer to the question the ice-bath industry…

ByJon LipseyJune 16, 20260Comments

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The Mayo Clinic pharmacist who nearly died of what she now teaches others to find

In 2021, Dr Adrijana Kekic, a Mayo Clinic pharmacogenomic specialist with three decades of training in pharmacology and personalised medicine, passed out on her kitchen floor of something preventable that her own physicians, and even her own framework, had missed. Standard testing had been done within a week of the event. Symptoms had been present.…

ByJon LipseyJune 12, 20260Comments

HEALTH Investigation

What it feels like to be an Enhanced Games athlete

"If I wanted a doctor's opinion on whether or not people's health is at risk, I would go to a doctor. Not Kieren Perkins." It takes a lot to push James Magnussen, the three-time Olympic medallist and two-time world champion in the 100m freestyle, out of his naturally relaxed and jovial demeanour. But that’s what…

ByJon LipseyMay 24, 20260Comments

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Relative energy deficiency in sport is a male problem too. The medical literature is only starting to notice

For most of the time the medical community has been paying attention to relative energy deficiency in sport, the condition has been understood as a women's problem. The original framework was the female athlete triad, identified in the 1990s — the cluster of disordered eating, menstrual dysfunction and low bone mineral density that emerged in…

ByJon LipseyMay 12, 20260Comments

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