Bargaining With Aging

Bargaining With Your Aging Body: A Practical Guide to Modern Anti-Aging Science What if the biggest threat to your longevity isn't willpower — it's bad math? Every year, people pour thousands of dollars into rapamycin, peptides, and stem cell tourism while skipping the intervention with the strongest evidence in all of medicine: showing up, consistently, for the boring stuff. In this practical, refreshingly honest guide, longevity expert Robert Peterson, MD introduces the Five-Bucket Framework — a priority-ranked system for figuring out exactly where your health dollars and hours actually pay off, and where they're just an expensive tax on your bathroom counter. Inside, you'll discover how to: Identify the Five Buckets of longevity spending, from foundational habits to frontier therapies — and why most people are overinvesting in the wrong one Capture up to 70% of exercise's mortality benefit in just 75 minutes a week Tell real Tier I evidence apart from expensive marketing dressed up as science Apply the 80/20 rule to build a routine that survives real life, not just the first month This isn't a book about deprivation or chasing the next fad. It's a field guide for people who want to live a long time — and still drink the wine, sleep in occasionally, and eat the cake at the wedding. Stop overpaying for what doesn't work. Start bargaining for what does.