Mike Lustgarten
Aging researcher at Tufts, host of Conquer Aging Or Die Trying
Mike Lustgarten, PhD, is a research scientist at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University in Boston, where he studies the gut microbiome and muscle in older adults. He hosts the Conquer Aging Or Die Trying YouTube channel and podcast, has tracked his own blood biomarkers since 2015, and won the first Longevity World Cup, scored on PhenoAge.
Updated November 1, 2026 · 2 experiments
What Mike Lustgarten has tried
2 experiments we can source: 2 kept. Trying something is not recommending it; each entry says which.
Kept
Blood biomarker trackingProcedures
Started 2015 · Recommends it to others
Has run more than 70 blood tests since 2015 and logs diet, exercise, sleep and HRV for a week before each one to see what moves his PhenoAge; he tells beginners to start with a cheap standard panel rather than supplements.
“What I recommend people do and what I do is before every blood test, tracking diet, exercise, duration, sleep, HRV”
Business Insider, top Longevity World Cup finishers on their routines (August 2026) · Status checked November 1, 2026 · Suggest a correction
Epigenetic age testsProcedures
Dates not stated · Recommends it to others
Has run 16 epigenetic tests and in September 2024 reported his youngest Horvath age yet, 6 years below his own; his videos list TruDiagnostic discount codes as ways to test yourself.
Conquer Aging Or Die Trying (YouTube), 6y Younger Horvath Epigenetic Age: My Best Data Yet (16-Test Analysis) (September 2024) · Status checked September 8, 2024 · Suggest a correction