There’s a moment in every Hyrox training session where my body tells me very clearly that it is not twenty-eight years old. It’s usually around the sled push. Something in the hips or the lower back registers a protest that wouldn’t have been there a decade ago. I note it, adjust, and carry on. But I do note it. This is what training in your 50s looks like if you’re […]

I had a consultation last week with a patient who had been doing everything right — SPF daily, good skincare regime, clean diet, regular sleep. She looked well for 49. But she wanted to understand why, despite all of this, her body seemed to be shifting in a way she couldn’t reverse with her current approach. More fat around the middle. Less definition in her arms. A tiredness that sleep […]

Every year, around my birthday, I have blood drawn. Not the standard screen my GP might order. Something more comprehensive — a panel I’ve built up over years of thinking about what actually predicts how well a body is ageing, as opposed to simply how old it chronologically is. I started doing this partly out of professional curiosity. I work in longevity medicine, I advise patients on ageing, I write […]