If you set nine published regimens next to each other, you might expect a common core. Instead you find a spread. Different people, each public about what they do, make quite different choices about supplements, diet and fasting. This post walks through where they diverge, using only what the Protocols page records.
Supplements: minimal versus a long stack
Valter Longo's Longevity Diet lists minimal supplement use. Several of the other entries run long multi-compound stacks spread across the day. Matt Kaeberlein's entry sits in a different place again: it is described as evidence-first and cautious about unproven supplements.
So within one page you can read a minimalist approach, a maximalist one, and a cautious one. They are all published, and they cannot all be the obvious default.
Diet: three different answers
The diets do not agree either:
- One is vegan.
- One is ketogenic.
- One is a paleo and vegan hybrid.
A plant-only plate, a ketogenic plate and a blend of paleo and vegan are all presented as part of a longevity approach. For a closer look at food choices, see the Nutrition page.
Fasting: three formats
Fasting shows up in more than one form. The page records intermittent fasting, time-restricted eating and a fasting-mimicking cycle. These are related ideas with different structures, and different entries use different ones.
Why put them on one page
That spread is the reason to compare them. A published regimen is one person's choices at one moment. It is not a prescription, and it was not written for you.
Seen that way, the disagreement is useful. It shows how open the questions still are, and it is a reminder to treat any single protocol, including a well-known one, as one person's choices rather than an answer. If you want to see how individual ingredients are tracked, the Compounds page is the place to start.
A question to take with you
When two well-known protocols disagree, what do you look at first? The evidence behind each choice, who the regimen was built for, or how recently it was published? There is no single right answer, but asking the question beats assuming the most-followed regimen is the best one.
To compare the nine entries yourself, read them in full: