Hi friend,

Somewhere in a lab in California, part of me is frozen.

Not like a freezer at home. We are talking negative 310 degrees Fahrenheit. So cold it is almost the temperature of the surface of Pluto.

A few weeks ago, 50 hairs follicles were pulled from the back of my head, placed in a tube, and shipped to a lab. Those hairs are now sitting in a vial, perfectly preserved, not aging at all.

While the rest of me gets older every day, those cells are stuck in time.

I did not fully understand what I had signed up for until I sat down with Dr. Drew Taylor.

Drew is a scientist and the CEO of Acorn Biolabs. He has spent his entire career in regenerative medicine, the field of using your own biology to heal, regenerate, and potentially slow down aging itself.

His mission is simple. Save your best cells now, while they are young and healthy, so you can use them to heal yourself later.

Most of us think about healthcare as something that happens to us.

We get sick. We see a doctor. We take something to fix it.

Dr. Drew thinks about it completely differently.

He believes we are sitting on the most powerful healing resource available, and most of us have no idea.

Here is the simple version of how it works.

Inside your hair follicles sit a type of cell called a mesenchymal stem cell. These are what Dr. Drew calls warrior cells. They travel around your body delivering instructions and building blocks to your other cells, telling them to grow, repair, and stay healthy.

When you are young, you have plenty of them. As you age, you still have good quality ones. You just have fewer of them.

That is the problem Acorn Biolabs is trying to solve.

By banking those cells now, while they are healthy and abundant, you are essentially creating a version of yourself that does not age.

A biological savings account you can draw from later.

And later might be sooner than you think.

His lab is now figuring out how to grow NK cells on demand from hair follicles.

Think about what that means.

The same hair follicle you pluck from the back of your head could one day be used to protect you from cancer.

We are not there yet. Dr. Drew is clear about that. The data is still growing and regenerative medicine is in its early stages, but the direction is undeniable.

As he put it, right now we are crossing the Atlantic. What is coming in the next 20 years will feel like landing on the moon.

You are going to want to watch this episode!

In this episode you will learn:

“There is no longevity operating system at the moment.”

Phil Newman has been mapping the longevity space since 2018. The science is ready, but the guardrails aren’t.

This trailer gives a glimpse of where the industry really stands and connects directly to what Drew Taylor talks about in our episode on preserving your own cells.

Watch the trailer and see what’s coming next.

Take Stock of What You Are Losing

This week, pay attention to your hair. Not obsessively, just honestly. Check your hairline in the mirror. Look at what comes out in the shower. Notice if it has changed over the last year.

Drew made it clear that hair loss is not just a cosmetic issue. It is often the first visible sign that your cells need more resources than they are getting.

Why: You cannot address something you have not noticed.
Awareness is always the first step.

Your biology is not a fixed thing.

It is a resource. And like any resource, the earlier you start paying attention to it the better position you are in later.

You are living at the most interesting time in the history of medicine.
Do not sleepwalk through it.

Stay curious.

Julian x

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