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I would not put much trust into some poorly-understood biomarkers, especially ones that have grandiose naming like epigenetic age. The naming alone implies more than I suspect these markers can deliver.

The price is also kinda ridiculous, $70 a day for meals and supplements.




Especially when an example of a biomarker is ability to hear out of the left ear. Yes, fixing that (if you could) could improve your quality of life, but unless there's a train coming from the left side, it won't make you live longer.

Those tests also seem ripe for the nocebo effect.

All this testing and measuring seems a coping mechanism for trying to find and control some sort of objective measures in squishy, uncertain, biology.


As far as I understood the epigenetic age this refers to are a bunch of DNA methylation tests. All the other tests are in addition to this.


Ah, that makes more sense, though it still looks like someone with anxiety around the uncontrollable to me.


Holy crap that's over $2,100/month! Over $25,500/year. Even discounting the regular food you are not eating this is crazy.


Well, the guy sold his company for $800M. It's pocket change to him.




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