Considered Longevity, in five principles.

The word biohacking implies a system to be broken into, a lock to be forced. That is the wrong metaphor. The body is not a lock. It is an environment — a living, adaptive one — and the people who treat it well over decades are not the ones who optimized it aggressively in their thirties. They are the ones who attended to it patiently, and changed course when the evidence changed.

Temple Protocol is built on that distinction. Every practice we explore, every compound we examine, every protocol we discuss is held up against one question: is this considered, or is it just fast? Speed is not the standard. Evidence is.

We will not tell you what to take. We will tell you what the current literature says, where the gaps are, and what a reasonable adult in possession of the evidence might weigh. The decisions remain yours.

The longevity space is saturated with influence masquerading as expertise. Podcast hours log studies without reading them. Supplement brands cite research that supports their products and ignore research that doesn't. Clinics charge $500 for blood panels that cost $40, surrounded by language designed to make you feel like you're falling behind.

We do not operate that way. Every claim on this site traces to a source — a peer-reviewed study, a regulatory document, a published clinical trial. The tier of evidence is labeled honestly. Where the evidence is weak, we say it is weak. Where the research is animal-only, we say so. Where a thing is simply not yet known, we do not pretend otherwise.

Our source policy is published at the Evidence page, open for inspection. We hold ourselves to it on the record.

Decades of sun, stress, food, sleep, and decisions do not disappear at any milestone. A body in the second half of practice is an archive. Every protocol, every compound, every intervention must be evaluated in that context — not against the baseline of a 28-year-old subject in a study design that excluded older cohorts entirely.

This site is built for people who are actually in the years being discussed. When we cite a study, we note whether the study population resembles you. When the data is overwhelmingly from younger cohorts, we say so, and we discuss what that limitation means for extrapolation.

Age is not a variable to be corrected for. It is the central fact.

There is a version of longevity practice that is simply the wellness industry rebranded — the same anxiety-driven purchasing cycle, now with peptides instead of juice cleanses. We are not that.

Considered Longevity means doing fewer things better. It means not adding a compound until the existing foundations are secure: sleep architecture, protein adequacy, cardiovascular baseline, social connection. It means understanding that most interventions have diminishing returns — and that the first returns always go to the basics.

We will consistently and deliberately steer toward less, not more. The interesting question is rarely 'what else can I add.' It is 'what is actually doing the work, and what can I remove.'

Temple Protocol does not diagnose, prescribe, or treat. We are a research-grade editorial practice. We read the literature, synthesize it, and present it with honest confidence labels. A physician who knows your history is required for any clinical decision. We do not replace that relationship — we are, at best, the preparation that makes that conversation better.

The content here is educational. It is conditional. It will change when the evidence changes. We are not building a doctrine. We are maintaining a living record of what is currently understood — with the full expectation that some of what is currently understood will turn out to be wrong.

That is not a weakness. It is what intellectual honesty looks like in practice.