What

The Live Long & Flourish (LL&F) Club is an invite-only gathering of curious folks discovering, researching, and scientifically validating the most effective health solutions for living happier, healthier and longer lives. We fondly call these Healthy Hacks +, Motivating Tricks* and Science Maps^, that can help everyone live better lives and flourish.

Just like in the Homebrew Computer Club and in the Leather Apron Club, members of the LL&F Club convene regularly, at Stanford University and online, to learn, discuss, geek out, and have fun. Together, we’re creating a database of Healthy Hacks+, Motivating Tricks* and Science Maps^ we choose to try, the ones that actually work, and for whom and when they work best.

Why

The discovery and innovation around healthful longevity is rapidly accelerating while the fog of mass production is finally lifting. Many start to realize that some of these great Healthy Hacks+ are simple to adopt, and once validated, can be deployed en masse and make a big impact everywhere. However, the ratio of noise to signal is still high and a good amount of healthy rigor, scrutiny, and trust are needed more than ever to build confidence, prevent harm, and distinguish between beneficial Healthy Hacks+ and useless quacks

How

Healthy Hacks⁺

Are the actions. The very things you can do to improve every aspect of you life, from nutrition to sleep to physical activity to mind & brain to breathing to awareness to positive disposition to prudent risk-management (and more!) Our members research, propose and validate Health Hacks⁺. Once a hack is approved by club members, it is communicated to the world — and we’ll do it in a positive way! We plan to only tell you what you should do, not what you shouldn’t. We’ll do that by explaining the benefits of using Health Hacks⁺ rather than scaring you with all the bad things that will happen if you don’t. It's about living better now not about preventing breakage in the future.

Motivating Tricks*

These touch on what we identify as one of the main downfalls of the current healthcare system and the wellbeing advice-giving industry: They only focus on what to do, while neglecting the why. Behavioral and cognitive changes aren’t easy, to say the least, and for many of us they can become a nightmare (figuratively and sometimes even literally!). So a Healthy Hack⁺ without a Motivating Trick is like having a car but no paved roads; you can take the dirt road, and you may get to where you’re heading, but it’s gonna be one hellova bumpy ride at best. And you’re likely to get a flat tire and get stuck or worse so, you might even break an axle and never get anywhere. This is why we attach to every Healthy Hack⁺ a habit-changing, behavior-shifting, motivation-enhancing Motivating Trick (or two) to help you start engaging with the hacks and continue engaging until you start ripping the fruit of health and happiness. We enjoy finding and sharing the best Motivating Tricks* used by folks who found a way to continuous engagement and sustainable habits.

Science Maps^

Exactly as it sounds, Science Maps^ are educated, well-proven blueprints of why and how these Hacks⁺ and Tricks work together, how they fit into our lives, and how to measure their impact on our health, our happiness, and our longevity. In the LL&F world, Science Maps^ help you and us understand, engage, measure, learn, and create a virtuous improvement cycles. They help integrate Healthy Hacks⁺ and Motivating Tricks into our lives in an impactful and sustainable way.

Who

A select group of technologists, medical experts, entrepreneurs, philosophers, designers, health & wellness enthusiasts, teachers, engineers, dreamers, researchers, investors, writers, and more. The LL&F Club was founded in 2019 by Ron Gutman

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When and Where

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Sample

A small sample of what we are currently either trying, or learning more about in preparation for the next event :

  • Sleep:
    • colder rooms and weighted blankets
    • Reduce blue-light exposure in the evening
    • Set up an alarm-reminder to go to sleep
  • Nutrition and supplements:
    • Fasting
    • CGM to turn opaque food feedback loops into kind learning
    • Retrotope: preserve and restore mitochondrial healthenvironments
  • Brain & Mind
    • The hidden powers of the placebo effect
    • Practice gratitude daily
  • Risk managment
    • Inside Tracker: an algorithmic engine that analyzes blood samples, DNA, and lifestyle habits to create an ultra-personalized healthy-living plan.