By Valérie Orsoni — Biohacker & Longevity Expert
Valérie Orsoni is a biohacker, author of 56 books, and founder of biohacker.fr. She has been tracking her biology through N=1 self-experimentation protocols since 1998. She is recently completed her Stanford Genetics Longevity Research certification program and is currently enrolled in the Stanford Medicine nutrition science program. She was named in the Top 50 Longevity Leaders by Life Spanning magazine and is currently the #1 on the Longevity Cup Leaderboard (chronological age -23 years).
Warning: It took me 2 weeks to finalize this article. It’s a bit technical….so I had to get all the pieces in place :) Hope you enjoy the analysis!
Every few months, a genuinely good longevity paper gets swallowed by a bad headline. This time it’s a molecule called IU1, and the claim making the rounds is that it “could extend the human lifespan to 250 years.”
As a biohacker and longevity expert I could not not investigate. And what I learned is mind blowing.