Morning everyone. “Know all the theories, master all the techniques, but as you touch a human soul, be just another human soul.” Was reminded of this quote by Jung yesterday. Good one for current times.
News
The first D2C male fertility supplements have launched. They’re called Swim Club.
Researchers profiled the oldest woman alive at 117 years of age. They found a biological profile showing the importance of balance between nature and nurture. Yes, she has gene variants that gave her an advantage. But they also discovered two habits and environmental factors that contributed to her profile:
she ingested high amounts of yogurt (probably daily for decades)
low-intensity exercise such as walking
She showed ageing features but no disease features.
The main point of the paper is to showcase that disease and ageing are not inextricably linked. This woman in particular showed all the signs of ageing, but none of disease. Staying disease-free is the goal.
Athletes - also amateur ones - are ready to explore open doping. The controversial Enhanced Games are gaining Olympic athletes left, right and centre. I believe people are craving superhuman experiences as a form of escape from their own limits, whether mental of physical. I’m curious to see how this impacts the rest of the sporting events world. In my opinion, we will see two lanes emerging: clean and enhanced. The clean lane will focus on product innovation, the enhanced lane will focus on teamwork between athlete and a chemical-cocktail-creation team.
Harder better faster stronger. Nomio is a brand that showed up on my IG as an ad. Targeted at amateur athletes, it seems that running for fun no longer suffices. We need to be outperforming for fun.
