The Ultimate Guide to Biohacking & Longevity

The Ultimate Guide to Biohacking & Longevity

Anti-aging

You Track Your HRV Every Morning. This Takes Decades to Show Up

What 85 years of Harvard data say about happiness, health, and the relationships that shape how we age.

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Valerie Orsoni Biohacker
Sep 20, 2026
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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 has completed a Stanford Genetics Longevity Research certificate, a Stanford Medicine Nutrition Science certificate program and is currently enrolled in the Stanford Medicine GLP-1s & weight loss certification 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).

You measure your HRV every morning. You know your fasting glucose, your deep sleep minutes, maybe even your biological age. But the factor that 85 years of Harvard research ranks above cholesterol in predicting how well you’ll age doesn’t show up on any wearable. It builds silently, year after year, and only reveals itself decades later. The good news: you can start moving it in the right direction today.

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