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China’s Biotech Rise: What It Means for Roche, Novartis and Swiss Pensions

China spent decades being associated with generic medicines, active pharmaceutical ingredients and low-cost manufacturing. That description is now badly out of date. The more important development for investors is not that China can manufacture drugs cheaply. It is that Chinese companies are increasingly discovering drug candidates, taking them rapidly through early clinical trials and licensing them […]

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Markets

3rd Quarter 2026: Understanding the China Alternative

For more than a decade, one of the easiest investment decisions was also one of the most profitable: own the United States, particularly its largest technology companies, and allow American exceptionalism to do the rest. The combination of deep capital markets, extraordinary companies, a strong entrepreneurial ecosystem and ultimately the artificial-intelligence boom made the US […]

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Longevity

VO₂max & High-Intensity Exercise: Preserve the Cardiovascular Ceiling

This article completes the Guidefinances longevity exercise series. Begin with Exercise May Be the Best Longevity Investment, or revisit Stability, Balance & Mobility, Strength & Power and Aerobic Endurance. The aerobic-endurance guide asked: How long can we keep going? High-intensity cardiorespiratory training asks a different question: How much work can the cardiovascular system produce when […]

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Longevity

Aerobic Endurance: Build the Base Without Worshipping Zone 2

This article is part of the Guidefinances longevity exercise series. Begin with Exercise May Be the Best Longevity Investment, or read Stability, Balance & Mobility, Strength & Power and High-Intensity Cardiorespiratory Capacity. Walking, running, cycling, hiking, swimming, rowing and an elliptical trainer can all develop the same broad physical asset: the ability to sustain useful […]

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Longevity

Strength & Power: Build Physical Reserve Before You Need It

This article is part of the Guidefinances longevity exercise series. Read the introductory exercise guide, or explore Stability, Balance & Mobility, Aerobic Endurance and High-Intensity Cardiorespiratory Capacity. Muscle is often discussed in the longevity world as though muscle mass itself were the objective. A more useful hierarchy is: Muscle → strength → power → physical […]

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Longevity

Stability, Balance & Mobility: Keep the Body You Have Usable

This article is part of the Guidefinances longevity exercise series. Start with Exercise May Be the Best Longevity Investment, or continue with Strength & Power, Aerobic Endurance and High-Intensity Cardiorespiratory Capacity. Strength and cardiovascular fitness matter only if we can safely use them. That makes stability, balance and mobility the control layer of a longevity […]

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Non classé

Exercise May Be the Best Longevity Investment

Exercise occupies an unusual position in the longevity world as it rests on decades of epidemiology, physiology, clinical trials and public-health research. Walking, lifting weights, sprinting, swimming, stretching, yoga and tennis are all exercise, but they do not produce the same adaptations. A marathon runner can have extraordinary endurance and relatively little strength. A dedicated […]

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Non classé

Complete Health Check-Up: What Is Worth

A modern preventive health check-up can range from a few hundred euros for a focused cardiovascular and metabolic assessment to more than €15,000 for whole-body MRI, genomics, liquid biopsy, brain imaging and biological-age measurements. The difficult question is not how much can be measured. It is which measurements are likely to change a useful decision. […]

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Longevity

Longevity Reference Profiles: Kurzweil, Ferriss, Attia, Huberman, Sinclair and Bryan Johnson

Contents Ray Kurzweil — Engineer the Biology Tim Ferriss — The N=1 Experimenter Peter Attia — Prevent Disease Before It Arrives Andrew Huberman — Control the Inputs David Sinclair — Activate the Longevity Pathways Bryan Johnson — Measure Everything Where They Agree Where They Disagree Cost Comparison 1. Ray Kurzweil — Engineer the Biology Profile: […]

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Longevity

DIY Fasting Mimicking Diet:

Fasting occupies an unusual position in longevity medicine. The biological rationale is interesting, the metabolic effects are measurable, but prolonged water-only fasting is difficult to tolerate and can become medically problematic surprisingly quickly in the wrong person. The Fasting Mimicking Diet (FMD), or Dieta Mima Digiuno™, was designed to find a middle ground: eat a […]