The drug you build instead of buy
My friend spends $340 a month on supplements and doesn't lift. My neighbor Ray is 66, takes nothing, and could carry him up the stairs. Which one is medicine?
Issue #7 · Jun 20, 2026 · 4 min
Training and the body
Strength, VO2, and the tissues that carry you around are not vanity metrics - they are the difference between an independent seventh decade and a dependent one. What actually shows up on the other side of a workout, and what dose of training is worth defending on the days you do not feel like it.
The number that predicts your death.
Before surgery I ask what sounds like small talk: can you climb two flights of stairs without stopping? The answer predicts more than almost anything else.
Issue #6 · Jun 13, 2026 · 4 min
Train for your last decade.
Two 84-year-olds, same surgery, same morning. One walked in and cut his own grass. The other took three of us to move. The gap wasn't luck; it was thirty years.
Issue #5 · Jun 6, 2026 · 4 min