This is a health competition for biological age reversal, similar to Bryan Johnson’s Rejuvenation Olympics. There’s a crowd sourced prize pool paid in crypto and entrants are using a biological age calculator PhenoAge based on common blood tests.
A reduction in biological age is associated with a decrease in all-cause mortality (ACM). Many of these are probably causative like inflammation and aging, or for CVD in humans. The PhenoAge calculator is modified so lower ALP doesn’t increase biological age despite ACM associated to decrease with further decreases according to other studies. Similar modification for RDW.
Imagine if ARPA-H is successful in creating a health (biological age) calculator that would be used for clinical use. Finding ways of improving that score and running large competitions would be natural result of that. But if anyone thinks this is a wrong way to go it or have other criticism I think it would be interesting to hear.
I think this is important because it incentivizes more people to share their methods of having blood tests and other biomarkers in optimal ranges, which we all would benefit from. Discuss.
Games indeed have the power to bring resources to the field of Longevity like nothing else. Creator of LWC here.
I started this project, because I am a huge fan of the Rejuvenation Olympics (for deeper philosophical reasons) but unfortunately I wasn’t able to properly get involved with that project and since I’m a seasoned software developer, I couldn’t unsee how much better that website can be built. So I launched my own competition.
But it’s not about me. I’m not any kind of software developer, but the FOSS kind: I write Free and Open Source Software for life! Thus the Longevity World Cup is also fully open source: GitHub - nopara73/LongevityWorldCup
All this is to say I’d love to have code contributions to the project, or you can even fork it and launch your own competition, I’ll be fully supporting you! If you have questions or suggestions about the structure of LWC, I’ll be also here to assist!
When I fist saw your website a few months ago I took a look and decided not to participate.
The only way for something like this to have any validity is;
same testing company for every participant - results do vary by lab on the exact same test
standardized labs - what is tested needs to be the same for every participant
test results auto-submitted via API from the lab to the website - so nothing can be fudged by the participant
open management process for the website so everyone has confidence there are no shenanigans
Without standards, the “competition” would be useless. That’s how all competitions work, rules, referees, judges, because standards work.
That’s why I like RO and participate in it, as it meets 3 of those 4 requirements. That is not to say RO can’t be improved, especially in how and who manages the website.
I trust the lab (Trudiagnostic) and the people who run it but I don’t fully trust the people who run the website.
At the moment I’m ranked 239 on RO and my wife Joan is ranked 95 out of ~9,000 participants
Great to see this effort - thanks for doing all this work. I loved the Rejuvenation Olympics also but don’t like the proprietary link to the expensive aging clock they use. All the clocks have some sort of issue right now, but phenoAge is a “reasonable” start in my opinion and more and better clocks will come along soon I think.
A mentioned on the website:
Acquire a 2025 blood test from which we can compute your biological age, called PhenoAge. You need the following biomarkers:
Albumin (also known as Serum Albumin)
Creatinine (sometimes called Serum Creatinine)
Glucose (also referred to as Blood Sugar)
C-Reactive Protein (CRP, also known as hs-CRP for high-sensitivity C-Reactive Protein)
Lymphocyte Percentage (may be labeled as Lymphocyte % or Absolute Lymphocyte Count)
Mean Corpuscular Volume (MCV, also called Average Red Blood Cell Size)
Red Cell Distribution Width (RDW, sometimes called RDW-CV or Red Blood Cell Size Variation)
Alkaline Phosphatase (ALP, also referred to as Alk Phos)
White Blood Cell Count (WBC Count, also called Leukocyte Count)
You can visit any lab for these tests — just pay the lab fee, which might even be covered by your healthcare provider. There are no hidden costs to participate in the competition, on the contrary: excelling could see you earn prize money and future sponsorship opportunities!
