Issue #77

Because it works...

November 16, 2023

November 16, 2023 | Issue #77

Hey there... Are you combing cold plunge with sauna?

In this week's newsletter:☯️ Hot and Cold FTW 💰 Forward Finds Funding🌐 Dogs Keep Helping    

Ice and Fire: Contrast Therapy for Longevity

Contrast therapy is popular in the biohacker space, particularly with athletes who claim the benefits of a quicker recovery time. However, despite recent popularity, combining sauna with ice baths goes back centuries...The tradition of sauna, which comes from Finland, involved people alternating between sitting in a heated room and either taking a dip in an icy lake or rolling in the snow.These practices continue to be a part of Nordic culture today, embraced for health and socializing purposes.In other cultures, the Russian banya is frequently combined with dips in frigid water during the winter, and in Japan, onsen (hot springs) are paired with cold plunge pools. But why is contrast therapy better than simply using heat or cold?Find out why alternating between extreme temperatures can provide significant health benefits...

Confirmed speakers for the Longevity Summit 2023 include:

  • George Church, PhD: Professor, Harvard University

  • Kristen Fortney, PhD: CEO & Co-founder, BioAge Labs

  • Steve Horvath, PhD: Principal Investigator, Altos Labs

  • Nikolina Lauc: CEO, GlycanAge

  • Eric Verdin, MD: CEO/President, Buck Institute

  • Daisy Robinton, PhD: CEO & Co-founder, Oviva Therapeutics

  • Spring Behrouz, PhD: Co-Founder & CEO, Vincere Bio

  • Omri Amirov-Drory, PhD: CEO & Co-founder, Renewal Bio

  • Many more... 

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  • The National Institute on Aging is hiring a Senior Program Manager APPLY HERE.

  • Browse thousands of jobs in the longevity industry, updated daily, in Spannr's new Jobs database HERE. 

  • Forward announced $100M in growth capital which will be used to manufacture and deploy Forward CarePods. In addition to blue chip venture funds like Khosla Ventures, Founders Fund, Samsung Next, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, and Softbank, Forward is backed by AI luminaries like Eric Schmidt (former CEO and Chairman of Google), John Giannandrea (SVP of Artificial Intelligence at Apple), Demis Hassabis (cofounder of DeepMind), and Mustafa Suleyman (cofounder of DeepMind and Inflection AI).

  • Explore Spannr's Longevity Investor database HERE.

  • Venture Capital Giants In The Billion-Dollar Quest For Longevity Breakthroughs (Forbes)

  • How Dogs Help Us Lead Longer, Healthier Lives (WSJ)

  • US Life Expectancy Gap Widens Among Those Who Do and Don't Have College Degrees (VoA)

  • The ‘Wild West’ of Aging Research (The Crimson)

  • Are You Ready for Immortality? It May be Closer Than You Think (Medium)

  • AI could predict heart attack risk up to 10 years in the future, finds Oxford study (The Guardian)

  • Rucking can help you burn fat, build muscle, and stay strong as you age — and you don't need a gym (BI)

  • American women are living nearly 6 years longer than men, new study finds. But why? (USA Today)

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