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About

The company behind the method.

Executive Performance & Longevity Co. builds instrumentation for executive health — what it's built on, and who built it.

Why most health data changes nothing.

Most executives already have data — a wearable, an annual physical, a lab panel sitting in an inbox. It rarely changes anything, because a number without a decision rule is just a number. Knowing your ApoB is 86 doesn't tell you what to do. Knowing that 86 sits in the amber zone, and what amber obliges you to do next, does. The gap between measuring and acting is where most health data goes to die.

What we build instead.

Instrumentation, not motivation: a baseline that's actually yours, thresholds that turn a number into a decision, a review cadence short enough to survive a real calendar, and an escalation path for when something crosses a line. The book sets this up. TRACE runs it day to day.

The evidence base.

The Blueprint and TRACE are built on the research below — not on trends. It's the foundation, not a static list: we keep reading, and where something new changes the picture, you'll see it referenced on Instagram and LinkedIn before it ever reaches a future edition.

  1. Kodama S, et al. Cardiorespiratory fitness as a quantitative predictor of all-cause mortality and cardiovascular events in healthy men and women. JAMA, 2009.
  2. Ruiz JR, et al. Association between muscular strength and mortality in men. BMJ, 2008.
  3. Cappuccio FP, et al. Sleep duration and all-cause mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Sleep, 2010.
  4. Monnier L, et al. Glucose variability and oxidative stress in type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Care, 2006.
  5. Ference BA, et al. Low-density lipoproteins cause atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease: a consensus statement of the European Atherosclerosis Society. European Heart Journal, 2017.
  6. American Heart Association / American College of Cardiology. Guideline on the management of blood cholesterol. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2019.
  7. Ridker PM, et al. Rosuvastatin to prevent vascular events in men and women with elevated C-reactive protein. New England Journal of Medicine, 2008.
  8. Scheer FAJL, et al. Adverse metabolic and cardiovascular consequences of circadian misalignment. PNAS, 2009.
  9. Laursen PB, Jenkins DG. The scientific basis for high-intensity interval training. Sports Medicine, 2002.
  10. Shaffer F, Ginsberg JP. An overview of heart rate variability metrics and norms. Frontiers in Public Health, 2017.

Authored and designed in-house.

The Blueprint and TRACE were developed from the operator's perspective — by someone who understands the demands of executive life and designs for real schedules, constraints, and pressures. The work stays in front. The personality stays out of it.