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Michael Lustgarten
Personal blog · michaellustgarten.comhealthscience
Michael Lustgarten's personal blog at michaellustgarten.com covers health and science. Since 2019, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-05-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Michael Lustgarten's public self-experiments on diet, biomarkers and healthspan, and his habit of publishing his interventions and data. Commenters also cite his posts on alternatives to coffee.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-10
What Hacker News says?
Some examples of directly measurable KPIs: 1. Mood diary 2. Time spent on social media, negative 3. Hours of sleep 4. Steps walked, number of repetitions in exercise, calories burnt 5. Psychometric tests (help measure mental clarity) https://openpsychometrics.org/ 6. N-back: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.0220... 7. Active vocabulary test to measure available crystallized intelligence 8. Bio…
Comment linking /2019/09/09/quantifying-biological-age/
on “Ask HN: Why can't I learn anymore?”Submitted 12-16 Years Younger Than My Chronological Age: What’s My Diet? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYou might be interested in Michael Lustgarden, a scientist whose hobby(?) is extending his healthspan by optimising biomarkers. In practice he mostly tests and tweaks his diet extensively: https://michaellustgarten.com His meals are essentially a massive variety of vegetables + some sardines. It's fascinating work even if I wouldn't replicate it myself.
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on “Engineer eats efficiently for $2.50 a day (2016)”Submitted Which Blood Test Analyte Is Most Important for Predicting Biologic Age? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI wish blueprint was more public and open about the methodology and data. Johnson is doing so many interventions and it would be interesting to have public data for them beyond a periodic aggregate snapshot on the blueprint websites which basically amounts to a marketing page. In comparison someone like Michael Lustgarten (1) publishes nearly everything, documents what intervention they are about to do, do it, and t…
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on “Blueprint health protocol”Submitted Tracking Deep Sleep-Can It Be Improved? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionReally looking forward to some of the startups in this area, specifically companies that A) help you measure how healthy you are, and then B) help direct you on how to optimize your own health. One would think this is a job for our current medical system, but preventative care and true health and longevity optimization get very little attention compared to treating problems as they come up and settling for mediocrit…
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on “DNA Methylation Clocks' Predictive Capacity for Aging Phenotypes and Healthspan”Try more healthy alternatives: 1. Green Tea 2. Raw cacao powder in water I can especially recommend cacao as alternative to coffee (see also https://michaellustgarten.com/2014/07/22/kuna-cocoa-the-opti... ) .
Comment linking /2014/07/22/kuna-cocoa-the-optimal-way-to-decrease-blood-pressure-and-to-reduce-risk-of-heart-disease-and-cancer/
on “Ask HN: How do I stop caffeine intake without losing productivity?”
