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# 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](glucose-anxiety.md) when a wearable turns food into a continuous verdict. Move to [Biomarker Treadmill](biomarker-treadmill.md) when testing expands faster than decision rules, [Rapamycin Cargo-Culting](rapamycin-cargo-culting.md) for off-label pharmacology, [Aspirational Stack Theater](aspirational-stack-theater.md) when the published protocol drifts from the lived one, [Wellness-Influencer SEO Listicle](wellness-seo-listicle.md) when the dominant longevity-content genre flattens evidence tiers into a ranked roundup, and [Medical Tourism Quality Roulette](medical-tourism-roulette.md) when a clinic, international operator, or frontier intervention looks appealing because it is reachable abroad.

Read straight through, or land on a specific entry and follow its outgoing links into the rest of the book.

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