Longevity Strategy
Starting out on your longevity journey can be quite overwhelming. Where are you supposed to start? Everyday, there are more technologies available.
And seemingly everywhere you look, different opinions on what you need to change to live your longest, healthiest life.
What is Longevity Strategy
There are four key steps in creating your unique longevity strategy
Your first step is to assess your personal longevity risks. There are a few ways to approach this exercise, which we break down based on your available budget. Generally, it is based on personal and family health history, genetic analysis and your age. It is also important to assess the impact of your lifestyle factors to date (nutrition, sleep, fitness, mental health, environment).
An example of this would be identifying an inherited genetic risk for a heart attack at a relatively young age (e.g. Lp(a)), or knowing you have a copy of the APOE4 gene (elevated Alzheimer’s risk). We’ll share resources and helpful examples to guide you along the way!
Establish your longevity risk profile
The second step builds on the first. Once you’ve identified your longevity risks, you need to research these risks and work with your doctor to learn how to manage your risk.
When we say “managing your risk”, we mean that you are taking action to reduce either/both the consequences or likelihood of a known longevity risk.
Each of us carries multiple longevity risks, and these may change over time. To get started, you won’t try to manage every risk, instead you’ll prioritize the top 2-3 based on which are most likely to occur and have the most significant consequence.
An example would be noting elevated fasting glucose levels at the risk assessment stage (increasing the risk of type II diabetes), and making a dietary change (eating fewer refined carbohydrates and/or increasing fitness) to reduce that risk. Once again, we’ll walk you through examples and show you how this could be done.
Prioritize & manage your top risks
COMING SOON
By far, the biggest impact you can make on your overall risk profile and on the top 2-3x risks that you’ve identified is to optimize your lifestyle factors. We’ll walk you through some of the most common age related diseases and how improving your nutrition, fitness, sleep, mental health and/or environment can have big impacts on your risk.
We’ll then direct you to our lifestyle factors resources, where you can learn how you might improve your risk profile. As there are many improvements you *could* make, it is best to prioritize which changes you undertake based on what will have the most benefit to you personally.
Optimize your lifestyle
Leverage longevity technologies
We are very excited about the promise of longevity technologies in enabling a longer, healthier life. As you learn more about them, we believe you will too.
However, that excitement most often quickly turns to overwhelm, as there are simply so many options available and such strong marketing messages associated with each. How do you make sense of these and choose which will work best for you?
We cover a wide array of longevity technologies at A Longer Life, but you should only choose to engage with this content once you have a solid understanding of your priorities and once you have made the right changes to your lifestyle factors to support them.
Once you have clarity and a strong foundation, it is time to welcome the promise of a future of wellness into your life, and you can be excited again, without the overwhelm!
