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Temple Protocol

About

A note from the founder.

I built this because I am the person it is for.

I am in my early fifties. I have been practicing what the longevity world now calls a “protocol” for years — long before that word attached itself to supplement stacks and biohacking podcasts. I track my blood markers. I have worked with physicians. I have read studies, sometimes carefully, sometimes not carefully enough.

And I have made mistakes that better information would have prevented. Not catastrophic ones — but the quiet kind: adding a compound before the evidence was adequate, continuing a practice because it felt productive rather than because anything I could measure suggested it was. The mistakes that come from optimism outrunning rigor.

The longevity market is saturated with enthusiasm and thin on quality evidence handling. There are excellent researchers — a small number of genuinely rigorous clinicians and scientists working in this space — and there is an enormous, fast-moving commercial ecosystem that moves far faster than the evidence and relies on the consumer's difficulty in distinguishing between the two.

Temple Protocol is my attempt to be useful at that gap. Not a supplement brand. Not a clinic. Not a platform designed to make you feel like you are falling behind if you are not adding something. An editorial practice that takes the question seriously and holds itself to a published evidence standard.

The audience is adults between fifty and seventy-five who are already engaged — people who have spent real money and real attention on their health, who are skeptical of the influencer economy, and who want better information without the noise. People who, like me, have learned enough to know what they don't know.

The product side — the Bio Stack Audit — exists because the specific problem of interaction analysis across a complex stack has no good solution at a reasonable cost. A functional medicine physician will do it for $500 an hour. The rest of the market offers supplement brand marketing dressed as research. There is space for something honest.

What this will never become: a content operation built around affiliate revenue. A supplement brand with an editorial veneer. A platform that monetizes anxiety. If the editorial and the commercial interest ever come into conflict, the editorial wins, or we stop.

— Aaron De Young

Portrait pending

Aaron De Young

Founder, Echelon Seven LLC

Nashville, Tennessee

Our standards

We cite what we cite.

Every health claim traces to a primary source. The source tiers and confidence labels are published at /evidence. We do not adjust the label to suit the narrative.

We do not sell what we discuss.

Temple Protocol does not sell supplements, peptides, or compounds — now or in the foreseeable future. The independence of the editorial is structural, not a matter of good intentions.

We say what we don't know.

The longevity space has a consistent tendency to present speculation as established fact. We resist this by labeling honestly. Speculative findings are labeled speculative. Missing data is named as missing.

We update when we are wrong.

The literature evolves. Positions that were defensible in 2020 may not survive the trials published in 2025. When new evidence revises a position, we update and note the revision — visibly, without burial.

We are editorial, not clinical.

Temple Protocol does not establish a clinical relationship, does not prescribe, and does not diagnose. We are a research-grade editorial practice. A physician who knows your history is required for clinical decisions. We help you walk into that room better prepared.