The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
The analogy we use here is if you left your house and you were attempting to get to the grocery store and you just started driving and if you drove every possible route, you would eventually get to a grocery store. So, yes, that can work. A better approach is saying, here's where I am. There's where I want to go. What is the optimal route there? And that's really what you're doing with goal.
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I needed to find another goal because of what you said in the intro which is you it's very difficult to train without a purpose and um I I talk about this in the book but I really had an epiphany in the summer of 2018 so I I kind of had an aimless three years where I was exercising and I was reasonably fit but I there was no purpose it wasn't anchored to anything and it this all came sort of I don't know in a in a in a in a flash of inspiration as I was sitting at the funeral um of of the parent of a close friend of mine realizing that in the last decade of this person's life who had died uh they were you know largely debilitated physically um and that was tragic to me because I had seen them be healthy in their 60s and 70s so that's what gave me this idea of we need a goal and we need to treat life just as we would treat an athletic event and this idea of a centenarian DE cathlon came to my mind in part because decathletes are generally regarded as the best overall athletes despite not being the best in any one of the 10 things that they do now of course centenarian de cathlon is not an actual event maybe some people will do de cathlon when they're centenarians um but even becoming a centenarian is not necessarily the objective right we don't have that much control over how we stretch our genes that said what I imagine is in the last decade of my life what do I want to be able to do and how do I begin to train for that now and when you take that look at the future and you say look these are the things I want to be able to do you can apply metrics to those activities you can say hey if I want to be able to hike on uneven surfaces to the tune of you know two mile round trip in an hour um that requires this much cardiorespiratory Fitness this much strength this much balance and