Build the week around four things: strength, stability, VO2 max, and the one you keep skipping.
AMPK is your metabolic master switch, and most people have it switched off. Sleep, movement, and less sugar switch it back on.
Healthspan, not lifespan. The point is the last decade, not the last year.
Fitness is the most crucial aspect of living a long life, and it's about finding the habits that work for you individually. A smart health plan targets four pillars equally: strength and stability, nutrition, emotional and mental health, and quality sleep.
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AMPK, your metabolic master switch.
The enzyme that tells your body it's running low on energy — and triggers it to start using its own. Most people have it switched off, and the reasons are dull and fixable.
Misconceptions about longevity.
It isn't supplements and it isn't cold plunges. Four pieces of wellness advice that don't work, and the four intentional choices that actually build a healthspan.
Glucose, explained.
Your main fuel — and what happens when too much of it arrives at once. The habits that flatten the curve without a monitor, a rule, or removing a single food.
The four types of exercise.
Strength, stability, aerobic base and VO2 max. Build the week around all four — and start with the one you've been avoiding, because it's almost always the one you need.
Where people go wrong
The part nobody postsSkipping the type of exercise you avoid
It's almost always the one you need. Usually stability, occasionally VO2 max.
Buying the supplement before fixing the sleep
AMPK responds to sleep, movement and less sugar. Those are free.