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Good morning everyone. If all went well, Friends of Time is making its debut in your inbox today. I like it here already.
You may know me from my days at Lagatta, a start-up I sold and have now moved on from. But this digital part of it lives on, under a new name and 5-ish more years of trial, error and sometimes success.
The idea for this newsletter is to do a monthly - opinionated - edit of all health, science and culture news through the lens of ageing.
I preface by saying this newsletter will not be your typical, dogmatic fitness magazine read. I was eating cookies for breakfast while planning out my workouts on a Wednesday morning from bed. I like balance, I like living, and I like keeping things real. Welcome to Friends of Time.
Today’s newsletter includes:
Will AI soon track and analyse our consumed calories and nutrients?
Foot and shoulder workouts.
What do Mark Zuckerberg and I have in common? (below paywall)
The most expensive longevity treatments and, what do centenarians think of them? (below paywall)
News
People are calling for the food industry to have stricter advertising regulations for ultra-processed foods. There’s plenty of research linking UPF to obesity, negative health consequences and early death, but it’s still unclear why processed foods cause havoc. Does it really matter though? There has never been more readily available information on nutrition, yet obesity numbers are steadily rising. Are we actually just overwhelmed by the sheer amount of nutritional and contradictory information?
I agree that AI could bring in some great innovation here. Maybe we do all need personalised diets and nutritional advice and AI could create that for us at a very efficient cost. Researchers are working on AI that tracks anything and everything you put in your mouth - foodwise that is. Would you try it?
I will be doing this 12-minute foot workout every week. I might do a deep dive into why foot strength is so important after 30.
Apparently ‘shoulder flossing’ is a thing and it looks satisfying. Will try.
Research just dropped on Monday proving that even a drop of alcohol increases our cancer risk. I’ll have a beer maybe once a week, and so far I’ve been substituting about a third of those with 0,0% variants. This article has made me consider quitting alcohol though. I think it’s just all about the weigh-off and it depends from occasion to occasion. I had a conversation with a friend the other day and he thinks that in 50 years from now, alcohol will be treated as cigarettes are today. I do wonder if drugs will become more socially acceptable and legalised, although that may be a far way off. In my social circles I have seen plenty exchange alcohol for drugs at parties and festivals, saying they feel much better for it.
My bet is that as people become more health conscious than ever, they will simply want the options to choose per occasion. Brands are doing well by adding more 0,0% variants to their portfolios.
