The Longevity Obsession (And Why I'm Ignoring Most of It)
#151 - Reflections on investing and life from building my holding company
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You say longevity, I read shitting your pants thinking about dying alone. That’s what this whole obsession is really about. Nobody wants to die young. We all have people we want to keep seeing, things we want to keep doing. I picture myself at 90, cheering at my granddaughters’ weddings. That image drives my fitness goals.
Fitness gurus all agree on fundamentals: eat well, move consistently, let your body recover. But go one level deeper—how to accomplish these things—and you’ll find as many variants as there are people on this planet. Carnivore, vegan, Zone 2, HIIT, cold plunges, red light therapy. The noise is deafening, and most of it is people selling certainty for their own interest where none exists.
The only fitness guru I love to listen to is my body. During the year it has whispered at my ears 3 founding principles:
(1) Accept your mortality—you are a fragile creature in an infinite universe. I learned this lesson losing both my parents. Making peace with that fact removes more stress than any yoga retreat ever will.
(2) Treat anger and envy as silent killers—they’ll take years off your life faster than cigarettes. They corrode you from the inside while the person you resent sleeps fine.
(3) Avoid iatrogenics - what the Greeks called the harm caused by healers trying to help. Creatine, ashwagandha, whatever’s trending? I stay away. Sometimes the smartest move is refusing to be clever.
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I want to be in my 20s again pls!
There is a generation that had to deal with:
Covid stealing important formative years at school
Social media stealing their attention
Now AI stealing their jobs
Nevertheless, I would pay all the money in the world to be 20 again :)
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Talking about AI, love seeing the tech CEOs at the Nvidia sholves and supplies stand.
Have a great weekend,
Simone
Spot on. Such a refreshing take, especially about tuning out all the guru noise and actually listening to your body. I really resonate with that. On the iatrogenics part, where do you draw the line with avoiding things? Is it just the trendy suplements, or even vitamins if a doctor reccomends them after blood work?