Author: Kyle
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The Tilted Playing Field
American Producers Were Set Up To Lose Part of the “To Boldly Go” Austrian Economics Series The trade war debate produces a lot of heat and very little light — mostly because it focuses on the wrong variable. The standard analysis compares Chinese wages to American wages, finds a large gap, and concludes that the…
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Preface
The experts got a lot wrong. It is worth being specific about this, because the authority I am claiming in this book is not institutional — it is the authority of someone who read the same literature the experts read, applied the Show Me standard to what it actually said, and was not being paid…
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9. The Sleep Protocol
You’re Missing The Best Part Talk to anyone over sixty about sleep. The conversation is remarkably consistent: difficulty falling asleep, waking at 3 or 4AM unable to return to sleep, lying awake for hours while the mind races through the previous day’s unresolved concerns. The anecdote is confirmed at population scale — a meta-analysis of…
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Immunity
Inseparable from Aging The bus is visible. It follows rules. It travels on roads and arrives from predictable directions at predictable speeds. The Anticipatory Principle handles the bus — look both ways, understand the trajectory, implement the protocol before the impact. The mosquito arrives without announcement. It bypasses every anticipated defense through a route no…
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13. Lifestyles
Readers come to books like this one looking for a magic bullet — the supplement, the protocol, the morning routine that can be added to an otherwise unaltered life and fix what the unaltered life has been doing for decades. This book does not provide that. What it provides is considerably more demanding and considerably…
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11. The Annual Increment
Chapter 11 of How To Live Forever This chapter is the fourth phase of a quest that began in the early 1980s. The first phase was nutrition and antioxidants. We recognized that dietary quality determines aging trajectory The second phase was that dietary quantity , through caloric restriction, was even more important. The third was…
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5. Vegetarianism and Food Quality
Chapter 5 of How to Live Forever “What the hell is wrong with you? Are you crazy?“ This is a common response when people discover I don’t eat land animals. Not concern. Not curiosity. Genuine bafflement — the expression of someone encountering a violation of something they consider fundamental. The meat-eating culture experiences vegetarianism as…
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4. Caloric Restriction
Chapter 4 of How to Live Forever Roy Walford called his book The 120 Year Diet. The subtitle was How to Double Your Vital Years. The title acknowledged a specific destination — not immortality, not vague optimism, but a number. 120 years. Twice the average American lifespan at the time of writing. The implication was…
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3. The Foundation Years
Chapter 3 of How to Live Forever Before the science arrived, the desperation was already there. The desire to extend human life, to search for a Fountain of Youth, was born from the awareness of mortality. Chapter 1 documented what the ancient empirical traditions produced when that desire met careful observation across millennia. This chapter…
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7. The Workout Protocol
Chapter 7 of How to Live Forever My father kept a copy of the Canadian Air Force Exercise Program in the house. The 5BX — Five Basic Exercises — published in 1961, designed by Dr. Bill Orban for aircrew who needed to maintain fitness in confined spaces without equipment. Twelve minutes per day, progressive levels,…