#78: Anabology
"The only way you’re going to find the truth for your own health is by doing meticulous self-experimentation."
Anabology (@anabology) is a biotech founder and metabolic researcher best known for the honey diet — a protocol that turns the mainstream anti-sugar narrative on its head (more on that below). The first two products from his bioenergetic skincare line, Skin.Food, are out now.
#78: Anabology
Gemini/Taurus/Leo
Saint Louis, MO
What does health, or being healthy, mean to you?
Being healthy to me means having the energy to be the person you want to be, every day.
How would you describe your current lifestyle?
I work a lot and play a lot. I’m running a longevity biotech startup as my day job — we’re trying to solve aging, and that takes a lot of time. Outside of that, I’ll go on walks with my wife, go out with her or friends and banter all night, or play tennis.
Having healthy “play” is one of the most important things for health I believe, though I cater my day around health with other actions: I have circadian-appropriate lighting in my house (red at night, very bright white in the day), I use an infrared sauna (~$1k from Amazon), we walk to an organic grocer and shop for seed oil-free, regeneratively farmed foods, and we’ve built up a home gym over time.
I often do self-experimentation where I’ll eat extreme diets to see if the mainstream narratives are correct. For example, I ate a pound of honey a day (without other food until dinner) for a couple months at a point and lost weight while eating more calories, turning anti-sugar narratives on their head.
When not experimenting, I eat a conservative diet: milk, cheese, fruits, beef.
How do you start and end your days?
I used to fight my “chronotype,” as in, I used to try to force myself to wake up at 5am and go to bed at 9pm, but my body loves to stay up til midnight and wake up closer to 8, so I’ve now accepted that.
I start with a big iced decaf latte at home to get some calories in and start working pretty immediately at home before going to the lab with easy tasks —looking at emails, checking messages, getting a to-do list together. I think that mornings are a great time for flow state work, so shortly after, I walk to work and do the hardest tasks of my day for a few hours, then walk home and grab a big lunch.
My ideal night is working out or playing tennis, using the sauna, then reading on an e-ink device (e.g. Kindle, Boox, etc). I’ve found that the sauna is an excellent detoxing method — clears up my skin, stops dandruff, helps me feel much better the next day consistently. Ideally, I have no blue light for at least a couple hours before bed, but this isn’t always realistic.
