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Your WHOOP said 34% recovery this morning. Your Oura ring gave you a 62 sleep score. Cool. But why? Your wearable has absolutely no idea. It saw the effect. It missed the cause. And that gap is costing you everything.
Ely Henderson · · 5 min read
Scientists gave 800 people the exact same meals and got completely different results. Sushi wrecked one person. Ice cream was fine. So why are we all following the same health rules? The future of health is n=1 — and technology is finally catching up.
Ely Henderson · · 5 min read
Everyone thinks Bryan Johnson is crazy. But here's the hot take nobody's saying: what he's doing is actually the bare minimum (in a way). And the fact that it looks insane says everything about how broken our relationship with health really is.
Ely Henderson · · 6 min read
Your resting heart rate, your step count, your sleep score. None of them are the strongest predictor of how long you'll live. Decades of research points to something far simpler that your Fitbit has never once measured: how good you actually feel. This is bioindividuality in its most human form.
Ely Henderson · · 6 min read
There's a gene called CYP1A2 in your liver that decides whether coffee is medicine or a slow cardiac stressor. About half the population are slow caffeine metabolizers. Most of them have no idea. And every health headline calling coffee "heart-healthy" was written for someone else.
Ely Henderson · · 6 min read
Kale. Salmon. Oat milk. Greek yogurt. All on every "healthy eating" list. All capable of quietly wrecking the body of the wrong person. Here's the science that changes how you think about your health forever.
Ely Henderson · · 5 min read
