Longevity Guidebook – by Dr. Peter Diamandis

The main goal of this book is extending healthspan by maintaining various bodily functions, most notably cardiac, neuromuscular, cognitive, metabolic, and respiratory.

His tools for this task are mostly the usual lifestyle considerations, since they account for most of our longevity, not genetics—though he does also discuss CRISPR, gene therapy, and cellular medicine.

There is also a chapter on, as the subtitle promises, how to not die from something stupid. This, however, is about lifesaving breakthroughs in technology—not, for example, things like “don’t hold a maskless superspreader event during a pandemic lockdown” (such as he famously did, and yes, a lot of people got sick).

The style is chatty and personal; Dr. Diamandis likes to tell stories, and name-drops celebrities at a remarkable rate, often recommending difficult-to-come-by (and expensive) therapies that they have enjoyed. While this may be a wearying habit socially, it’s actually a good habit scientifically (in the cases where the celebrities in question are famous doctors and scientists), because it means crediting everyone for what they did and said, and allowing for full traceability of ideas/information. Still, most of that is little more than informative gossip, but on a more formal level, there are citations for claims throughout, and a generous bibliography at the back, which we love to see.

Bottom line: there’s a lot of practical advice in here, most of it well-sourced (however, his 75 different supplements that he takes are a bit hit-and-miss in that regard). Aside from that, much of the book is a “who’s who” of the the longevity industry, which may or may not interest all readers.

Click here to check out Longevity Guidebook, and get inspired!