Tommy Wood
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 12 Apr
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They had them improve their diet, improve physical activity.
They did cognitive training.
They did cardiovascular risk monitoring.
They saw significant improvements in cognitive function over a control group.
It's kind of starting with that kind of idea, but then layering on some of these other things like social connection, maybe some more targeted supplementation if needed.
But the real critical component, though, is having some kind of really long-term view.
So I mentioned earlier that exercise study.
Bringing people back five years later is really unusual.
And this is why we don't understand, don't know that much about the long-term trajectory of some of these interventions.
Because we measure at the end of it, we're like, oh yeah, it improved.
And then people go out into the world and we never see them again.
So this is big and complex, but I think this is kind of what we need to do, particularly if we're going to try and get physicians and insurance and stuff to kind of get behind some of this.
Because I think that's going to have to happen as well if we want to see change at a societal level.
Yes, the main thing that really landed for me and has, I think has had a big impact was in the run up to writing the book,
having spent so much time working with elite athletes, biohackers, optimizers, like, you know, the sort of people at the right of the leading edge of some of this stuff, which has pros and cons, right?
Because sometimes you end up spending a lot of time and money on something that just doesn't matter because we don't have enough data on it yet.
I'd gotten to this point where I felt like
the goal of optimization was becoming problematic because people get so focused on the optimal number from their wearable, the optimal number on a blood test, that they forget why they're doing it in the first place.
You're hopefully doing it to live a long and enriching life, right?
And so you have people who are missing out on parties and birthdays and spending time with family because they're worried they won't get to bed at the right time, right?
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