SUBJ: My book on sale Tuesday

SUBtitle: 53 steps I take to stay healthy

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SHORT NOTES:

1..How to Extend Your Healthspan – on amazon Tuesday

2.. here is a list of 53 steps I take to stay healthy.

3. Anabolic steroids grow big muscles with serious side effects

LONG NOTES:

Tuesday my book, How to Extend Your Healthspan, will be available for purchase on Amazon.  Cost is $25.  I will be sending an announcement about it next week.

Inspired by a GRG colleague who is 90, I decided to update the list of all of the steps I am currently taking to extend my healthspan.  So here is a list of 53 steps I take to stay healthy.

The Economist May 23, 2026 pg 74 – Anabolic steroids grow big muscles, but have serious side effects.  In a much-cited study done in 1996, for instance, young men given high-ish levels of testosterone and told to do no exercise saw a 19% improvement in their lower-body strength after ten weeks. That was about the same as participants given placebo drugs but who hit the weight room three times a week. Those who combined steroids with training saw a 38% increase. 

Cosmetic side-effects are another worry. In men genetically predisposed to baldness, steroids will accelerate hair loss. And as testosterone is the chemical from which the body synthesises oestrogen, some AAS can lead to unnaturally high levels of that hormone—causing some men to grow breasts.

In women, steroids can enlarge the clitoris; encourage the growth of body hair and beards; and deepen the voice. Some of the doped East German athletes (most of whom took steroids unwittingly) suffered lifelong health complications, and in 2006 won payouts from the company that made the drugs.