Antipatterns and Traps

Common failure modes that make longevity practice worse precisely because they look serious: glucose micromanagement, cargo-cult pharmacology, dashboard fixation, public stack performance, and medical-tourism quality roulette.

Start with Glucose Anxiety when a wearable turns food into a continuous verdict. Move to Biomarker Treadmill when testing expands faster than decision rules, Rapamycin Cargo-Culting for off-label pharmacology, Aspirational Stack Theater when the published protocol drifts from the lived one, Wellness-Influencer SEO Listicle when the dominant longevity-content genre flattens evidence tiers into a ranked roundup, and Medical Tourism Quality Roulette when a clinic, international operator, or frontier intervention looks appealing because it is reachable abroad.

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