"Just age gracefully!!" - they say

But what if there's no such thing as aging?

Everyday I check the comments on our various ads.

And there’s a particular ad that talks about anti-aging, which seems to gather at least one comment a day to the effect of “what is wrong with aging gracefully?”

And it happens so consistently that I’ve come to conclude that it is a sign of a trend. Kind of a backlash against trying to cheat the aging process.

Which when you see how crazy the anti-aging industry has gotten… I can kind of understand.

But I view aging a bit differently because of these biomechanics.

I don’t view it as being mandatory.

To me aging is kind of like saying that you need to just accept that your Macbook will get slower and slower till you get rid of it.

When that is factually not true. You could in fact wipe the hard drive completely clean and it should operate about as fast as the day you purchased it.

To me the body is kinda the same.

And today I want to explore this topic a bit.

There are tons of “anti-aging” products out there

The anti-aging industry is absolutely massive. The global anti-aging market was estimated at nearly $80 billion in 2025 and is projected to reach $137 billion by 2035. Towards Healthcare In the US alone, the market is expected to grow from $21.6 billion in 2025 to nearly $40 billion by 2034. (source: Towards Healthcare)

That is a staggering amount of money being thrown at the problem of getting old.

What’s it being spent on?

• Anti-wrinkle creams hold the largest single share of consumer spending, while injectables like Botox and fillers are the fastest-growing segment.

• Hair colorants, UV filters, collagen supplements, and nutricosmetic capsules.

• Retinol serums. NMN capsules. NAD+ infusions. Red light therapy panels. Peptide creams. Cryotherapy.

• The longevity influencers pushing Bryan Johnson’s $2 million-a-year protocol.

All of it aimed at the same basic goal: slow the clock.

Social media is turbocharging the whole thing.

74% of consumers aged 25 and under say skincare content on social media affects their behavior, and 83% of Gen Z women report purchasing beauty products after seeing creator content. (source: Grand View Research)

This isn’t just a middle-aged vanity market anymore. Twenty-year-olds are buying anti-aging serums because an influencer told them to start early.

The industry has correctly identified that people don’t want to get old. It has completely failed to identify why they’re getting old or what to actually do about it.

Society is having a bit of a backlash

At the same time, there’s a counter-movement.

“Age gracefully.”

“Embrace your wrinkles.”

“Getting older is a privilege.”

You see it all over social media — the message that aging is natural and beautiful and we should stop fighting it.

I understand the sentiment. The pushback against $500 face creams and dangerous procedures makes sense. And I’m not here to tell people they need to look young to have value.

But here’s what I’ve noticed about the people who preach aging gracefully most loudly: they’re almost always the ones who aren’t aging that badly to begin with. They have good structure. Wide faces, decent spines, natural teeth. They look at themselves at 55 and think “I’m aging fine, what’s everyone else’s problem?”

That’s not wisdom. That’s luck they’re mistaking for philosophy.

Because on the other end of the spectrum, you have people who are doing everything right — clean diet, regular exercise, good sleep, the whole stack — and they’re still aging rapidly. Their faces are hollowing. Their bodies are declining. Their energy is dropping. And nobody has a good explanation for why. They just get told to try harder or accept it.

I have a different explanation. And it has nothing to do with diet or sleep or cortisol or any of the things the wellness industry fixates on.

But what if aging is not mandatory?

I don’t think aging is inevitable. I think it’s a function of biomechanical collapse — and I think it can be halted and, in many cases, fully reversed.

Here’s the core argument. As we lose dental height — through grinding, orthodontics, extractions, veneers, or just the natural wear that accelerates when the bite geometry is wrong — the skull begins to deflate.

Think of it like a balloon. The soft tissue surrounding the skull loses pressure, caves inward, and starts compressing everything inside. The face narrows. The spine compensates. The brain gets slowly squeezed.

That process is what we call aging. The wrinkles, the hollowed cheeks, the stooped posture, the cognitive fog, the declining energy — it’s all downstream of the same mechanical event. It’s not time doing it to you. It’s physics.

And if it’s physics, it runs in both directions. You can reinflate the balloon. You can restore the vertical height. You can reverse the collapse. I’ve watched it happen in myself and in hundreds of people in my community. The face fills back out. The posture straightens. The brain wakes up.

No cream has ever done that. No supplement will ever come close.

I plan to look younger in 20 years than I look today

I want to make a bet with you.

Come back in 20 years and look at me. I think I will not only look younger than I look today — I will function better. More energy, sharper cognitively, better posture, stronger body. Not “good for my age.” Actually better than I am right now.

Most of you probably think i’ve completely lost it. That I am delusional having listened to myself for too long hahaha.

I see it different. I see it as a logical extension of what I have already seen playout for 4-5 years now since late 2021 when I fully figured out this biomechanical puzzle.

You see it’s not that I’m correcting my health & function while still aging in other respects. I literally think that everything that is associated to aging is going in reverse.

My complexion is getting better. I got rid of my wrinkles. My hair has gotten thicker and I got rid of a bald spot. It has also gotten less grey.

On the function side i’m able to maintain a pace of working 12-14 hour days non-stop without burning out at age almost 49. I’m more efficient and think clearer now than i did at 25 years old.

And so far in the past ~5 years… I have not seen any evidence or even a trace that there is some programmed aging cycle that I cannot avoid.

Rather to me… it has felt the way I describe it. That there are physics to the skeleton and aging is the decline of those physics while leveraging these biomechanics is the improvement of them.

And so I look at it statistically… what is the probability of something radically changing from what has been extremely consistent for almost five years?

From a math perspective… I put those odds as being small.

Thus you might consider me crazy… but I consider that the math predicts I have a very high chance of being right!

Closing thoughts

The aging gracefully crowd is making peace with a process I think is optional.

But I understand their reasons why they are doing it.

Because the anti-aging industry is selling expensive Band-Aids on top of a structural problem they’ve never identified.

Neither of them is asking the right question.

The right question isn’t how do I slow aging — it’s why am I aging at all?

And if the answer to that is “simple physics” then the next question should be — ok then why not just reverse the physics?