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You're Probably Not Magnesium Deficient. You Might Still Be Short.

Jun 30, 2026

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6 min read

You're Probably Not Magnesium Deficient. You Might Still Be Short.

Around half of us eat too little magnesium — yet no ordinary blood test can tell you whether you're truly short. That gap, between intake and proof, is the whole business model.

Christian Thomsen
Christian Thomsen

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Who actually needs vitamin D? 🧬 Vitamin D keeps failing its big trials

Jun 24, 2026

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10 min read

Who actually needs vitamin D? 🧬 Vitamin D keeps failing its big trials

VITAL and DO-HEALTH enrolled the wrong people. Plus: the one blood number — and why most of us shouldn't test it.

Christian Thomsen
Christian Thomsen

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The Vitamin D Trials Didn't Fail. They Tested the Wrong People.

Jun 21, 2026

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5 min read

The Vitamin D Trials Didn't Fail. They Tested the Wrong People.

Three giant trials, three null results — and why that's the most reassuring news in the field, not the most damning.

Christian Thomsen
Christian Thomsen

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You probably need less salt, not more 🧬

Jun 17, 2026

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9 min read

You probably need less salt, not more 🧬

The £45 electrolyte habit, audited.The powder industry sells you sodium — the hard-outcome trials point the other way. Plus: is "structured" water anything?

Christian Thomsen
Christian Thomsen

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The Salt Argument Is Really an Argument About Who You Are

Jun 17, 2026

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5 min read

The Salt Argument Is Really an Argument About Who You Are

Two camps, both right about their own person and wrong to generalise. The methodology fight, the sweat-sodium maths, and a decision map you can actually find yourself on.

Christian Thomsen
Christian Thomsen

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Your ice bath is taxing your gains 🧬

Jun 10, 2026

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7 min read

Your ice bath is taxing your gains 🧬

The cold plunge fixes today, taxes tomorrow- Most plungers time the cold exactly wrong — and the £300 ring can't read inflammation.

Christian Thomsen
Christian Thomsen

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The Cold Plunge Works by Cancelling the Adaptation You Came For

Jun 9, 2026

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5 min read

The Cold Plunge Works by Cancelling the Adaptation You Came For

Less soreness doesn't buy more growth — the trials already tested the objection everyone raises. Here's the answer, and the decision map by training goal

Christian Thomsen
Christian Thomsen

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The Blueprint Audit: What 70 Pills a Day Actually Buys

Jun 3, 2026

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8 min read

The Blueprint Audit: What 70 Pills a Day Actually Buys

70 pills, three that earn their place - The famous ageing-clock number isn't the win — the boring biomarker underneath it is. We audited the stack. Read on

René Lauritsen
Christian Thomsen
René Lauritsen, +1

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Bryan Johnson's Best Result Is the One He Doesn't Lead With

Jun 3, 2026

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6 min read

Bryan Johnson's Best Result Is the One He Doesn't Lead With

The DunedinPACE number is the headline. The bloods are the proof. Telling them apart is the whole game.

Christian Thomsen
Christian Thomsen

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Wegovy cut heart attacks by 20% 🧬

May 27, 2026

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8 min read

Wegovy cut heart attacks by 20% 🧬

17,604 people, no diabetes, 20% fewer cardiac events — and the test that just told us these aren't ageing drugs after all.

Christian Thomsen
Christian Thomsen

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The Weight-Loss Drug That Cut Heart Attacks — and Failed at Alzheimer's

May 27, 2026

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5 min read

The Weight-Loss Drug That Cut Heart Attacks — and Failed at Alzheimer's

What "weight-independent benefit" actually means, and the honest line between treating ageing and treating the diseases it causes.

Christian Thomsen
Christian Thomsen

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The FDA just removed a 23-year warning 🧬

May 20, 2026

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8 min read

The FDA just removed a 23-year warning 🧬

The pellet clinics already misreading the data 🔍5,246 men. 27,347 women. Two hormone files quietly rewritten — and the £400/month pellet clinics who are about to ride the rebound.

Christian Thomsen
Christian Thomsen

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What the WHI Got Wrong

May 20, 2026

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6 min read

What the WHI Got Wrong

And what the November 2025 re-analysis still won't fix — including the "50% heart attack reduction" the headlines are now claiming.

Christian Thomsen
Christian Thomsen

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TRAVERSE didn’t say what your clinic claims 🧬

May 13, 2026

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8 min read

TRAVERSE didn’t say what your clinic claims 🧬

Three hormone routes graded across men and women. The £600-per-visit pellet model audited. Plus the FDA label change the WHI generation deserved twenty years ago.

René Lauritsen
Christian Thomsen
René Lauritsen, +1

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When More Testosterone Made Bones Weaker

May 11, 2026

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5 min read

When More Testosterone Made Bones Weaker

It is worth being precise about what the fracture finding does and doesn’t do.

René Lauritsen
Christian Thomsen
René Lauritsen, +1

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Three sauna formats. One Grade A. 🧬Finland's 63% sauna mortality drop

May 6, 2026

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8 min read

Three sauna formats. One Grade A. 🧬Finland's 63% sauna mortality drop

One 20-year cohort. 2,315 men. The strongest mortality signal in the heat literature — plus the £549 blanket the data won't back.

Christian Thomsen
Christian Thomsen

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Sauna Buys You Vascular Health — Not Fitness

May 3, 2026

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5 min read

Sauna Buys You Vascular Health — Not Fitness

Five trials in people who don't move at all, what they actually showed, and the only condition under which the wooden box does anything that resembles training.

Christian Thomsen
Christian Thomsen

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£600 peptides: which ones actually work 🧬 And The one peptide your clinic won't mention

Apr 29, 2026

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7 min read

£600 peptides: which ones actually work 🧬 And The one peptide your clinic won't mention

Plus: the at-home peptide kit problem nobody posts about. Grades inside article, plus the FDA-approved peptide nobody markets.

Christian Thomsen
Christian Thomsen

Longevity

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The Grey Peptide Economy

Apr 28, 2026

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6 min read

The Grey Peptide Economy

How a $80 vial of BPC-157 leaves a Hebei industrial park and arrives in a Crouch End bathroom cabinet — and why the FDA crackdown didn't slow it down.

Christian Thomsen
Christian Thomsen

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One best-selling gummy carried 347% of what the label claimed. What actually works is in the same aisle — at a sixth of the dose, for a fifth of the price.

Apr 21, 2026

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6 min read

One best-selling gummy carried 347% of what the label claimed. What actually works is in the same aisle — at a sixth of the dose, for a fifth of the price.

The $4bn sleep aisle is a con - 0.3mg beats 10mg and nobody’s told you

René Lauritsen
Christian Thomsen
René Lauritsen, +1

Longevity

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The Sleep Stage Ageing Takes First— and the Pill That Makes It Worse

Apr 16, 2026

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5 min read

The Sleep Stage Ageing Takes First— and the Pill That Makes It Worse

Why the most restorative sleep stage quietly disappears, why the most-prescribed sleep drug accelerates the loss, and what the evidence says actually protects it.

Christian Thomsen
Christian Thomsen

Longevity

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Three brain supplements. One works

Apr 15, 2026

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9 min read

Three brain supplements. One works

We graded Lion’s Mane, creatine, and phosphatidylserine. One is worth buying. The other two have better marketing than evidence. Plus: a £95/month nootropic subscription dismantled

Christian Thomsen
Christian Thomsen
Your gut is ageing faster than you think 🧬

Apr 8, 2026

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9 min read

Your gut is ageing faster than you think 🧬

Probiotics graded A–F. Berberine’s stunning 6-year data. A £300 test that can’t agree with itself. 🧬

Christian Thomsen
Christian Thomsen
What Centenarians’ Guts Look Like

Apr 6, 2026

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9 min read

What Centenarians’ Guts Look Like

And Why Yours Doesn’t Have to Be Different

Christian Thomsen
Christian Thomsen
Resveratrol: the $720M mistake 🧬

Apr 1, 2026

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12 min read

Resveratrol: the $720M mistake 🧬

Curcumin, resveratrol, and sulforaphane graded. Fisetin as a senolytic. That viral “age reversal” study — busted. 🧬

René Lauritsen
Christian Thomsen
René Lauritsen, +1
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