Who Wants to Live Longer If They Can’t Live Well?

Who wants to live longer if they can’t live well?

Most of what makes life possible is easy to ignore while it still works.

When your body fails in any area, your life immediately changes.

All the simple things you take for granted.

Walking your dog in the park.

Checking Machu Picchu off your bucket list.

Carrying your suitcase.

Remembering the great conversations you had at dinner with friends.

Taking the stairs up to your bedroom.

Longevity is not about the future. Longevity is about today, right now.

Forever Longevity is about how to live better longer.

The reason I write is to serve my former self and help whoever feels the way I used to feel.

I’m Nathan Frost.

I am a chef passionate about food and health.

I worked at the highest level in professional kitchens for 25 years.

I opened more than 30 restaurants across three casino resorts.

I cooked for five U.S. presidents, catered for Olympic athletes, and helped create Bellagio’s Fountain Club for Formula 1.

Developed private in-home food and beverage programs for ultra-high-net-worth clients.

What I realized is that knowing food professionally was not the same as knowing health.

My autoimmune diagnosis exposed this.

Doctors couldn’t relieve the symptoms or even fully explain them.

So I dove in to study and figure out how to get my health back.

I rebuilt how I eat, sleep, train, work and live. One fundamental at a time.

I have now been symptom-free for more than five years.

I am not a doctor. I have no medical credentials.

I am a chef.

I am curious.

I gave up the life I had pursued for 25 years to change my health.

I studied, read and continue to experiment.

This process completely changed my life.

I wanted to feel better.

I want you to feel better.

Life is when good feels normal.

That can only begin when you make yourself a priority.

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A few things Forever Longevity will be:

Evidence

Studies will be linked, and the strength of the evidence scrutinized. Whenever possible, articles will be cited and documented so you can trace claims back to the research.

Real Life

The essays will show you how to evaluate life through a different lens. This doesn’t take special equipment. You don’t have to wait for a perfect moment to get started. Health doesn’t need to become a second job.

Fundamentals

Food. Strength. Movement. Sleep. Recovery. Relationships. Purpose. Environment. The most important things in your health are often the most neglected. These basics will repeatedly outperform the exotic.

Curiosity

I am not set on any predetermined philosophy. Sometimes new evidence should change your mind. If something needs correction, truth will be the goal, not being right.

Living Well

Living well means strength, cognition and independence. Meaningful relationships and a childlike curiosity. The energy to enjoy as much life as possible. A purpose that gives your life meaning.

Where to Start

If you are new here, a few good places to start:

If you want to understand what chronic stress can do:
→ I Knew If I Stopped, I’d Get Sick

If you want to see how I approach food:
→ Fresh Is a Feeling, Not a Guarantee

If you want to see how I approach the evidence:
→ I Got the Eight Hours. I Still Woke Up Exhausted.

If you want something practical to use today:
→ A 12-Minute Plan for Becoming More Consistent

New essays arrive every Thursday.

Subscribe for free and they come to you.

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Longer life is not the goal by itself. How well you live is.

That is what I will study, test and share here.

Live well,

Nathan

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Stay curious, stay skeptical, follow the evidence, not the enthusiasm.