The Journal

Notes from a working platform.

Long form entries across the eight pillars of The Human Upgrade. Dated, instrumented, and published when ready. Two flavours: Reviews (product deep dives with mechanism, evidence, and verdict) and Essays (frameworks, protocols, the thinking behind the practice).

Claude Pro, after a year

The workflows that stuck, the workflows that didn’t, and the question of what a primary thinking partner is for.

Hatch Restore 2, after a year

The most underrated longevity device. A sunrise lamp that pulls the morning forward by 90 minutes.

NMN at 500mg, after two years

A working log on sublingual NMN — sleep markers, HRV, perceived recovery, and the limits of n=1.

Whoop vs Oura, after three years of both

Two wearables, two philosophies, one kept on the wrist.

Profhilo at six months

A bio stimulator, not a filler. What skin actually does over six months, and what the literature supports.

HOCATT, fourteen months of bi weekly sessions

Ozone, CO2, hyperthermia, and the question of whether a $50,000 chamber outperforms a sauna.

Longevity, at the tempo of a decade

Notes on a private practice — and on the discipline of writing about it without overclaiming.

Apollo Neuro, three months in

A wearable that delivers gentle vibration patterns claimed to regulate the nervous system. Does it actually do anything?

A Claude workflow that runs my morning

Inbox triage, calendar audit, daily briefing — composed once, used every day. The architecture, the failures, the refusals.

BPC 157 at 250mcg, after eight weeks

A peptide protocol for tendon recovery. n=1, supervised, Singapore HSA compliant compounding.

Training for the next thirty years, not the next thirty days

The discipline shifts when the time horizon does.

Aesthetic maintenance, in editorial register

How to write about looking optimized without becoming aesthetics content.

Why your postcode matters more than your supplement stack

The architectural side of longevity. Light, air, sound, walkability — and the third place.

Red light, ice baths, and the discipline of resisting maximalism

Biohacking content tends toward gear acquisition. The harder discipline is restraint.

Breathwork as nervous system regulation, not spirituality

Why the most effective version of this practice is the version stripped of mysticism.

The morning stack: a functional health frame

Six compounds, the order they go in, and the questions the order is meant to answer.