2026
- Industry · Purpose4 min read
Two reports in two days: one counts the people, one counts the market
Yesterday the Milken Institute published The Future of Aging and Longevity: A Decade of Progress, A Decade to Act, a collection of essays and interviews from more than fifty contributors — foundations, universities, AARP, Meals on Wheels, the MIT AgeLab, the Stanford Center on…
- Follow the Money · Clinical5 min read
Nonprofit hospitals are selling longevity packages from $5,500. Here is what in them is free.
STAT published the first part today of a series on a trend we have watched arrive: cash-pay longevity clinics inside nonprofit academic hospitals, naming Northwestern, Weill Cornell and the Mayo Clinic.
- Real Food · Clinical4 min read
Texas wrote its own dietary guidelines today. Six lines, one sentence we'd keep, and a rule for medical schools.
The Texas Nutrition Advisory Committee, created by a 2025 state law, published the first Dietary Guidelines for Texans today. There are six: fill half your plate with vegetables and fruit; eat three or more servings of healthy proteins a day; include healthy fats; eat foods for…
- Real Food4 min read
'Eat real food' is now a federal slogan. The sentence is right. The test is what follows it.
Last night in Austin the Secretary of Health and Human Services headlined an "Eat Real Food" rally of more than 600 people, and this morning served broccoli to third-graders at an elementary school on a tour promoting the new Dietary Guidelines.
2024
- Evidence4 min read
12.4 years: the number the longevity industry should be measured against
Two Mayo Clinic researchers, Armin Garmany and Andre Terzic, published today in JAMA Network Open an analysis of World Health Organization data for 183 countries from 2000 to 2019, measuring the distance between how long people live and how long they live in good health.
- Access4 min read
Ten Americas, a twenty-year gap, and the longevity industry's quietest problem
The Lancet published "Ten Americas" today, an analysis by Laura Dwyer-Lindgren and colleagues at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation that sorts the entire US population into ten groups by race, geography, income and related factors, and tracks their life expectancy from 2000 to 2021.