Method

Method

How to measure, score and interpret without fooling yourself.

How to measure without fooling yourself. What a health score contains and what it ignores, what a biological age really computes, how to rank advice by the strength of what supports it rather than by its popularity.

These articles also serve as the blog's operating manual: they show the difference between a marker that moves and an event avoided, between a cohort and a trial, between a limit that applies and an objection recited by reflex.

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How to sleep better: light, meals and regularity

Sleep regularity predicts mortality better than sleep duration. Which moves the most repeated piece of advice of them all.

24 August 202610 min

Biological age: what the calculation actually measures

Two methods go by the name biological age. The expensive one is not the more predictive, and the founding study says so.

30 July 20265 min

The best validated health score does not use your watch

A validated holistic health score already exists. It contains no HRV, no recovery score, no sleep stages. And it cuts stroke risk by two thirds.

28 January 20265 min

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