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Superpower is now available for $199. From day one, our mission has been simple: build a better model for health — and make it accessible to everyone.
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Bad sleep shows up in your blood.
We matched self-reported sleep quality against lab results.
Members who rate their sleep as "Very Poor" have 40% more biomarkers outside optimal than "Excellent" sleepers.
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The intelligence singularity has been achieved in Silicon Valley.
Meanwhile:
> Over 100 million Americans obese
> Healthcare costs rising 2-3x faster than inflation for decades
> Millions are in bankruptcy due to medical bills
Furthermore:
> We haven’t cured aging
> We don’t understand the brain
> 1/3 of our life is lost to sleep
SpaceX disrupted the aerospace industry.
Tesla disrupted the automotive industry.
Anduril disrupted the defense industry.
Pharma and healthcare remain untouched due to regulatory capture moats.
The end result: Americans lose.
If health can become deflationary like intelligence and computing, and true competitive pressures are unleashed, we all win.
Who is working on this? Let’s chat.
Brian Armstrong@brian_armstrong
Getting old shouldn't be viewed as inevitable, just because it happens to everyone. It's a disease that kills over 100,000 people a day, and hopefully it will be optional in the future.
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Lp(a) is now an essential heart test for every American adult.
Roughly 1 in 5 people have elevated levels, which approximately doubles the risk of heart attack and stroke. Most standard panels don't include it.
In our member data, women over 50 showed the sharpest spike — with prevalence nearly doubling compared to younger age groups.
Superpower@superpower
The biggest update to heart disease guidelines in a decade was just released. The American College of Cardiology now recommends testing ApoB and Lp(a). - ApoB predicts heart disease more accurately than standard cholesterol - Lp(a) is a genetic risk factor for cardiovascular disease that affects 1 in 5 people Standard blood panels don't test for either.
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The new ACC guidelines now recommend testing ApoB.
More than half of Superpower members with elevated ApoB improved their levels on re-test.
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The biggest update to heart disease guidelines in a decade was just released. The American College of Cardiology now recommends testing ApoB and Lp(a). - ApoB predicts heart disease more accurately than standard cholesterol - Lp(a) is a genetic risk factor for cardiovascular disease that affects 1 in 5 people Standard blood panels don't test for either.
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The biggest update to heart disease guidelines in a decade was just released.
The American College of Cardiology now recommends testing ApoB and Lp(a).
- ApoB predicts heart disease more accurately than standard cholesterol
- Lp(a) is a genetic risk factor for cardiovascular disease that affects 1 in 5 people
Standard blood panels don't test for either.
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Hiking in the forest boosts cancer-fighting immune cells by 50%.
Even a few hours of walking through greenery produced effects lasting at least seven days.
Over a 3-day trip, they persisted for more than a month.
The likely mechanism: Phytoncides and antimicrobial compounds trees release to protect themselves, which can inadvertently protect you.
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David's doctor told him every year that his blood work looked fine.
At 44, he couldn't finish a hike he'd done easily the year before and figured he was just getting older.
Superpower found chronic inflammation, high iron and elevated triglycerides. He's since lost 15 pounds and did that same hike with ease.
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1.5 billion adults (nearly 1 in 3) have metabolic syndrome.
Researchers just published the largest analysis of metabolic syndrome ever conducted.
It covered 45 million adults across 196 countries.
In 2000, it affected 23.7% of people. By 2023, those numbers doubled to 56.7%.
It rose in every single country studied and rose with age, urbanicity, and income level.
Metabolic syndrome increases all-cause mortality by ~40%.
The curve is still going up.
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Daniel spent 22 years thinking it was normal to take an hour to fall asleep.
Doctors told him he was healthy and blamed his habits. He tried melatonin, sun lamps and every protocol he could find online, but nothing ever worked.
Superpower found his SHBG and Bilirubin out of range, biomarkers no doctor had tested.
He started taking magnesium and glycine consistently and now falls asleep in minutes.
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Got the results on my biomarkers from @superpower - not bad but we have some work to do! Seeing if I can get my bio age to early 20s this year. Cool service for sure will keep it renewing and maybe try out some of the other tests for Gut/Metabolism later. It solves the problem for me of having a new doctor every couple years that knows nothing about me because I move so often. Already more useful to me than my primary care lol
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Muscle power is a stronger predictor of mortality than muscle strength.
In a study of 3,889 adults spanning two decades, people in the lowest muscle power category had roughly 6x higher mortality risk.
For comparison, those with the lowest strength had only a 1.6x increase.
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One of the most overlooked blood markers for Alzheimer's risk is homocysteine.
Oxford researchers found 7x faster brain atrophy in Alzheimer's-vulnerable regions when levels were elevated.
67.4% of Superpower members with elevated homocysteine lowered theirs on re-test
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Exercise variety may be just as important as exercise volume.
Two prospective cohort studies followed over 111,000 adults for 30+ years. People who engaged in a greater variety of physical activities had significantly lower all-cause mortality than those who engaged in fewer types.
The highest variety group had a 19% lower risk of death compared to the lowest, even after controlling for total exercise volume.
The variety of ways you move may matter above and beyond how much you move.
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I spent $1,000+ testing 5 blood biomarker services from @function @superpower @ouraring @UltrahumanHQ, and @WHOOP
Then I asked all 5 the same question: "My ApoB is elevated. What should I do about it?"
The results were revealing…
elo.health/blogs/articles…
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When you nap may matter more than how much you nap.
A study of up to 936 older adults found that more morning naps were associated with higher Alzheimer's risk, while early afternoon naps were linked to lower amyloid-beta levels in the brain.
Greater day-to-day variability in nap length was also associated with increased Alzheimer's pathology markers at autopsy.
Not all naps are equal. Timing and consistency may matter.
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Okay, the @superpower app is incredible. I got all my bloodwork done, and now I can chat with my bloodwork. Now, when I see a supplement, I just ask if it would work well with my body, and it gives a beautiful answer. Getting healthy has never been this cool.
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Five days a month on a restricted diet reduced biological age by ~2.5 years.
A fasting-mimicking diet isn't a full fast. It's roughly 750 to 1,100 calories per day of plant-based food, formulated to trigger fasting physiology while still eating.
Three monthly cycles, across two clinical trials, produced measurable results independent of weight loss:
- Reduced insulin resistance
- Lower liver fat on MRI
- A shift in immune cell ratios toward a younger profile
Biological age was measured using a validated clinical blood marker composite predictive of morbidity and mortality. No caloric restriction the rest of the time.
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Today, we share our AI doctor for the first time
The future is an AI that knows more about your body than any human ever could.
247 commits. 140,000 lines of code. Months of engineering. Here it is:
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