Hey folks, I'm a health obsessed biohacker and founder deeply concerned about health in the US and West. I believe everyone deserves optimal health defaults from the moment of conception till death as an inalienable right.
The rampant health problems in the US are self-evident and our problem is clearly a systemic rather than individual problem. Starting literally from conception you are eating plastic and other pollutants. Americans especially are far sicker, dumber, and shorter lived than they need to be. Everything is downstream of health so IMO we should have a diamond/A+ standard for homes that everyone gets like a utility. Rather than the D and C grades the civil society of engineers gives our infra. As far as health goes I'd give us a D overall, sure bacteria won't kill you today but that's about all we can say about it.
I have little faith in a top down approach so I'm working on a "ruby on rails" guide to systematize open source health as "code", at the habitat level so that health/performance can be automatic rather than effort based.
Such that anyone can apply it to their home. Something that provides principles and rationale but also a checklist you can just blindly follow, buy this, install there, measure this way, etc.
I will only share what I have personally vetted or curated from the last 10 years of testing and experimentation. My wife and I are in the top 1% on the rejuvenation olympics here https://www.rejuvenationolympics.com/dunedin-pace
Btw, my name is Michael Mentele for looking me up. I'm not the healthiest but I'm pretty good for a founder / desk jockey and as busy professionals my wife and I are pretty relatable.
Sidebar, it looks like the founder stress tax may be 0.1 years / year based on my wife's results and mine (she's better even though I'm the owner of our health).
Anyway, I'm just getting a few pages up now, I just finished testing my water pre and post filtration and you wouldn't believe how much stuff is in your tap water, scroll to the bottom of https://www.openhabitat.build/habitat/systems/water/
I'm going to be working on textiles, then air, next.
If you are interested in curated materials and an open approach to automated health from an obsessive measurer with a background in genetics, biology, and engineering who puts stuff into practice, if that speaks to you check it out as it evolves. If you'd like to open an issue the repo is here https://github.com/MichaelrMentele/openhabitat
michaelrm•1h ago
The rampant health problems in the US are self-evident and our problem is clearly a systemic rather than individual problem. Starting literally from conception you are eating plastic and other pollutants. Americans especially are far sicker, dumber, and shorter lived than they need to be. Everything is downstream of health so IMO we should have a diamond/A+ standard for homes that everyone gets like a utility. Rather than the D and C grades the civil society of engineers gives our infra. As far as health goes I'd give us a D overall, sure bacteria won't kill you today but that's about all we can say about it.
I have little faith in a top down approach so I'm working on a "ruby on rails" guide to systematize open source health as "code", at the habitat level so that health/performance can be automatic rather than effort based.
Such that anyone can apply it to their home. Something that provides principles and rationale but also a checklist you can just blindly follow, buy this, install there, measure this way, etc.
I will only share what I have personally vetted or curated from the last 10 years of testing and experimentation. My wife and I are in the top 1% on the rejuvenation olympics here https://www.rejuvenationolympics.com/dunedin-pace
Btw, my name is Michael Mentele for looking me up. I'm not the healthiest but I'm pretty good for a founder / desk jockey and as busy professionals my wife and I are pretty relatable.
Sidebar, it looks like the founder stress tax may be 0.1 years / year based on my wife's results and mine (she's better even though I'm the owner of our health).
Anyway, I'm just getting a few pages up now, I just finished testing my water pre and post filtration and you wouldn't believe how much stuff is in your tap water, scroll to the bottom of https://www.openhabitat.build/habitat/systems/water/
I'm going to be working on textiles, then air, next.
If you are interested in curated materials and an open approach to automated health from an obsessive measurer with a background in genetics, biology, and engineering who puts stuff into practice, if that speaks to you check it out as it evolves. If you'd like to open an issue the repo is here https://github.com/MichaelrMentele/openhabitat
Stay healthy!