The Human Battery Project ™

The Human Battery Project™

The experiment

  1. MeasureDay 0 testing
  2. Change the inputs90 days of inputs
  3. Measure againDay 90 testing

Open enrollment. New starts on the 1st and 15th of every month.

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  1. Day 0

    • 33 things in your blood
    • Fitness tests
    • Your starting numbers
    • Your Battery Score
    • Where you begin
  2. 90 days

    • Morning light
    • Sleep
    • Dark at night
    • Water and minerals
    • When you eat
    • What you eat
    • Moving
    • Training
    • Rest
    • A daily check in
    • It gets harder as you go
  3. Day 90

    • The same tests
    • The same blood work
    • The same fitness tests
    • A new Battery Score
    • Day 0 and day 90 side by side
    • A plan for after

Don’t guess whether it worked. Measure it.

What is The Human Battery Project

Your body is made of trillions of tiny batteries.

Low energy. Poor sleep. Brain fog. Stubborn weight. Trouble focusing. Slow to recover. Some of these may be because your batteries are not charging properly, or are losing charge.

A 90-day program. We measure your batteries with a blood panel and fitness tests. You follow a simple daily plan built on light, water, movement, food and sleep. At day 90 we measure again and show you what changed.

We take your blood on day one. We take it again on day 90. Both times we check 33 things. In between you follow a plan for food, light, sleep and moving, and you check in each day on your phone. At the end we look at both sets of numbers side by side.

Here is why. Somebody checked your blood pressure. Somebody checked your cholesterol. Nobody checked the thing that runs everything else. And when a number sits at the edge of normal, you get told you are fine.

Start with the thing in your hand

You have held a battery all day. So you already know how this works. Your phone tells you when it is at 20 percent. You have never known what you are at. A bad cable charges a phone slow. Your body runs on food and sleep, and light is what tells it when. Apps you never opened keep running. They use up power all day, and you feel it by two in the afternoon. After a few years a phone can only hold 78 percent. It charges all the way and still dies by lunch. Cheap parts make a battery that fades. Yours is built from what you eat. Your phone shows you the number. We will show you yours, twice, ninety days apart.

This is real electricity

It is real electricity, and it is on right now.

Every cell in you holds a charge across a wall so thin it is hard to picture. The push across that wall is as strong as a bolt of lightning. It runs all day and all night.

You only hold about two ounces of that fuel at a time. By the time you go to bed, you have made and burned your whole body weight in it.

The Human Battery

Here is the part nobody told you. You are trillions of tiny batteries.

Inside every cell in your body there are tiny power plants. There are hundreds of them in a single cell. Trillions of them in you.

Each one does the same thing. It pushes tiny charged pieces to one side of a wall. That builds up a charge, exactly the way a battery does. Then it lets them rush back through, and it uses that rush to make fuel.

Cross-section of a mitochondrion building a voltage across its folded inner membrane Food and oxygen enter. The folded inner membrane pumps protons out into the space between the two membranes, so far more protons gather outside it than remain inside. Those protons flow back in through ATP synthase, which turns like a turbine. Water and carbon dioxide leave. Food inOxygen in Water andCO₂ out Protons pumped out ATP synthase
This is one power plant inside a cell. It pushes tiny bits to one side of a wall. Now one side is full and the other is empty. Then the bits rush back through a little turbine. That is your energy.

That is real electricity. In you. Right now. While you read this.

A man named Peter Mitchell figured this out. He won the Nobel Prize for it in 1978.

This is how your body actually works. Nobody argues about it.

Your battery gets charged and drained about a thousand times a day.

They all have to keep time together

Trillions of batteries is a lot of batteries. They cannot each do their own thing. A muscle cell and a brain cell need different amounts of charge, but they all have to work off the same clock.

We call that coherence. It means each cell holds the charge it is supposed to hold, and stays in step with the cells around it and with the day outside.

When coherence goes, you feel it before any test finds it. Tired at the wrong hours. Wired at night. Sore longer than you used to be.

Light and sleep are how we get the clock back. The daily check-in is how we watch it happen.

And in your whole life, nobody has ever checked it.

They checked your blood pressure. They checked your cholesterol. Somebody probably checked your ears. Nobody checked the thing that runs everything else.

That is what we do.

SHOW ME THE SCIENCE

The mechanism is chemiosmosis. The electron transport chain pumps protons across the inner mitochondrial membrane, establishing a proton-motive force with an electrical component of roughly 150 to 180 millivolts. Across a membrane approximately 5 nanometres thick, that is a field strength on the order of 30 million volts per meter, comparable to a lightning strike, sustained continuously in every mitochondrion in the body.

ATP synthase harnesses the return flow of protons to phosphorylate ADP. The body contains only about 60 grams of ATP at any moment, but turnover is rapid enough to process roughly body weight in ATP daily.

The chemiosmotic hypothesis won the 1978 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The argument that common metabolic and degenerative disease is, at root, a bioenergetic problem is set out in the sources listed under the science section, where you can read the papers yourself.

The biology here is ordinary. What is unusual is that nobody measures it.

What a low battery feels like

You are tired. You gained weight. You cannot think clearly. You went to the doctor. They said everything looks fine. You did not feel fine.

Here are the things people say. These are some of the ones we have heard most over 25 years of listening:

Wiped out by two in the afternoonCharge
The weight will not come off anymoreCharge
It all went to my bellyCharge
I have to eat every few hours or I crashCharge
I need coffee just to be normalCharge
Foggy. I lose words. I read the same line twiceDrain
My joints hurt and I never hurt themDrain
Bloated. Food bothers me now that never didDrain
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I feel anxious and I did not used toDrain
Wide awake at midnight. Dead at sixOutput
I wake up at three in the morning for no reasonOutput
I sleep eight hours and wake up tiredOutput
I do not want to do anything anymoreOutput
My sex drive just went awayOutput
My hands and feet are always coldOutput
I snap at people. That is not meOutput
I stay sore way longer than I used toReserve
I work out hard and nothing changesReserve
I catch everything and I keep it foreverReserve
My hair and skin and nails look badReserve

Most people try to fix these one at a time. That can take years. We think a lot of them come from the same place: your battery is low.

SHOW ME THE SCIENCE

These complaints are not a diagnostic list, and any one of them can have a specific medical cause that needs a physician. What they share is that each maps onto a measurable domain of physiological function rather than a discrete disease process.

Afternoon fatigue, central adiposity and reactive hunger cluster around glucose and insulin handling. Cognitive fog, arthralgia without injury, and new-onset anxiety cluster around inflammatory and oxidative load. Disrupted sleep architecture, cold intolerance, low libido and flattened drive cluster around thyroid and steroid hormone status. Poor recovery, frequent infection and integumentary changes cluster around substrate adequacy: iron, B12, vitamin D, magnesium, protein status and membrane fatty acid composition.

That clustering is the reason the panel is read as four subsystems rather than thirty-three individual results.

Some of these can be caused by a real medical problem. We do not diagnose anything. If a test comes back off, we tell you to go see a doctor.

These can all have many other causes. We do not look at any one of them on its own and say what it means. We look at the pattern across everything we measure.

Common complaints connected to the subsystem each one points to Eight complaints on the left, each joined by a thin line to one of four subsystems on the right. Tired by two and weight that will not move point to Charge. Brain fog and aches in joints point to Drain. Wired at midnight and drive gone point to Output. Slow to recover and hair, skin and nails point to Reserve. Tired by two Weight will not move Brain fog Aches in joints Wired at midnight Drive gone Slow to recover Hair, skin and nails Charge Drain Output Reserve
The things people say point somewhere. Each one comes from one of the four parts. Here are eight of them and where they point.

I sleep eight hours and I wake up at forty percent.

Your Battery Score

One number for how your body is doing. Four smaller numbers under it.

Battery Score

Your Battery Score is a proxy, assembled from what can be measured today. It is not a validated clinical measure.

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Day 0

  • Charge47
  • Drain61
  • Output52
  • Reserve58

Illustrative example, not a participant result.

Day 0

  • Charge 47
  • Drain 61
  • Output 52
  • Reserve 58

Day 90

  • Charge measured at day 90
  • Drain measured at day 90
  • Output measured at day 90
  • Reserve measured at day 90

We work it out from your blood tests and your fitness tests. Each thing we measure is scored against the range we are aiming for, not the range the laboratory calls normal. If a test is missing we leave it out rather than guess it.

It is our own way of keeping score. It is not a medical test and no doctor uses it.

Four things we check

Think about your phone battery. Four things matter: how fast it charges, how fast it drains, how much power it can give you, and what it is made of. Your body works the same way.

The four subsystems drawn as one system with fuel flowing through it Fuel enters on the left through Charge. Charge fills a central store. Output draws from that store on the right. Drain leaks away upward in copper. Reserve runs underneath as the foundation all three stand on. Charge Output Drain Reserve StoreFuel in
The four parts are really one thing. Fuel comes in. Some gets stored. Some gets used. Some leaks out the side. And it all sits on what your body is built from.

Charge

How much power you can actually make. Food goes in. Oxygen goes in. Water and carbon dioxide come out. That is where your energy comes from. We test how much of it you can do.

On your phone: how fast you fill up. The cable.

Drain

What is using up your energy in the background. Like an app running when you are not looking. This shows up as foggy thinking and aches.

On your phone: what runs in the background. The apps you did not open.

Output

How much power you can actually use. This is the part that decides if you feel like doing things. Low output feels like no drive and bad sleep.

On your phone: how much power you really get. The screen brightness. The speed.

Reserve

What your battery is built out of. If you are short on the raw stuff, nothing else works well no matter how hard you try.

On your phone: battery health. What it is made of, and how much it can still hold.

We take blood and check 33 things. Then we sort them into these four groups and give you one score for each. Then a single number for the whole battery.

SHOW ME THE SCIENCE

Charge: fasting glucose, fasting insulin, HbA1c, HOMA-IR, triglycerides, triglyceride:HDL ratio.

Drain: hs-CRP, GGT, ALT, AST, uric acid, homocysteine, white cell count, AA:EPA ratio, kynurenine:tryptophan ratio.

Output: TSH, free T3, free T4, total and free testosterone, DHEA-S, morning cortisol, IGF-1, SHBG.

Reserve: Omega-3 Index, 25-OH vitamin D, ferritin, iron saturation, B12, folate, RBC magnesium, albumin, HDL.

Each marker is scored 0 to 100 against a target band rather than against the laboratory's population reference range. A result at the edge of "normal" scores near 50. That is deliberate, and it is the difference between a screening panel and a capacity measurement. Markers absent from a panel are excluded rather than imputed. Sex-specific bands apply to testosterone, DHEA-S, ferritin and SHBG.

Subsystem scores are averaged within group, then combined with weights of 0.30 Charge, 0.25 Drain, 0.25 Output, 0.20 Reserve. The methodology is versioned so a score computed today remains interpretable years from now.

Charge 6 markers

Fuel in, and whether it reaches the machinery.

  • Glucose, fastingmg/dL
  • Insulin, fastinguIU/mL
  • Hemoglobin A1c%
  • HOMA-IR (calculated)index
  • Triglyceridesmg/dL
  • Triglyceride:HDL ratioratio
Drain 9 markers

What is quietly using you up in the background.

  • hs-CRPmg/L
  • Arachidonic acid : EPA ratioratio
  • GGTU/L
  • Kynurenine : tryptophan ratioumol/mmol
  • ALTU/L
  • ASTU/L
  • Uric acidmg/dL
  • White blood cell countK/uL
  • Homocysteineumol/L
Output 9 markers

What your body has to spend.

  • TSHuIU/mL
  • Free T3pg/mL
  • Free T4ng/dL
  • Testosterone, totalng/dL
  • Testosterone, freepg/mL
  • DHEA-Sug/dL
  • Cortisol, morningug/dL
  • IGF-1ng/mL
  • SHBGnmol/L
Reserve 9 markers

What your body is built out of.

  • Omega-3 Index (EPA+DHA, RBC)%
  • 25-OH Vitamin Dng/mL
  • Ferritinng/mL
  • Iron saturation%
  • Vitamin B12pg/mL
  • Folate, serumng/mL
  • Magnesium, RBCmg/dL
  • Albuming/dL
  • HDL cholesterolmg/dL

Same body. Same conditions. Two time points.

Day 90 uses the same laboratory where we can, the same fasting, the same time of morning, and the same kind of day before. The less that changes around the test, the more the change in the number means.

Example of one marker moving from outside the program target band to inside it An example only. HbA1c at day 0 reads 6.1, sitting to the right of both the laboratory reference range and the narrower program target band. At day 90 it reads 5.2, inside the target band. The laboratory range is the wider, lighter band; the program target is the narrower one. Day 0Day 90 6.15.2 HbA1c EXAMPLE ONLY Laboratory reference rangeProgram target band
This is an example. It shows one number moving. At the start it sat outside the good zone. At the end it sat inside it. The wide band is what a lab calls normal. The narrow band is what we aim for. This is not a promise.
Example Battery Score readout at day 0 beside day 90 An example only. Two panels side by side. Day 0 shows a composite Battery Score of 48 with subsystem scores of Charge 44, Drain 52, Output 51 and Reserve 45. Day 90 shows a composite of 71 with Charge 74, Drain 68, Output 70 and Reserve 72. EXAMPLE ONLY Day 0 Day 90 48 71 Battery Score Battery Score Charge 44 Drain 52 Output 51 Reserve 45 Charge 74 Drain 68 Output 70 Reserve 72
An example of what you get. One big number. Then the four parts under it. You see it at the start and again at the end. This is not a promise.

I eat well and I am still dead by three.

What you change

Nine things you control. All nine feed the same system, and the blood test reads what came out the other end.

  • Morning sunlight Tells your body what time it is. It is the signal that sets the clock.
  • Darkness at night The other half of the same signal.
  • Sleep When the repairs happen.
  • Water and minerals The medium the work happens in. Mineralized and adequate.
  • Food quality What your cells get built out of.
  • Food timing When the fuel turns up, against your own clock.
  • Movement Low effort, all day long.
  • Training Real work, on days you can keep.
  • Recovery Where the change actually sticks.

The color on each one is the subsystem it shows up in most directly. Charge blue, Drain copper, Output teal, Reserve green.

Only one of the nine is marked Drain. Drain is mostly about what you take away, and those removals live inside food quality and recovery rather than being their own input.

How it works

A ninety day timeline in three phases with a blood draw at each end Day 0 opens with a blood draw. Three phases follow, each thirty days: stop the drain, recharge, then build capacity. A weekly call marks every week along the top. Day 90 closes with a second blood draw. Stop the drainRechargeBuild capacity Blood drawBlood draw Weekly callDay 0Day 90
Ninety days. Three parts. You give blood at the start and again at the end. We talk once a week the whole time.
Days 1 to 30 Stop the drain

First we take away the things that are costing you. Sugar and alcohol go. Sleep gets a set time. You go outside in the morning. You start writing down what you do. Most people notice sleep first.

Days 31 to 60 Recharge

Now we add. More protein. Real training on days you can keep. Cold and heat. Eating inside a window that fits your own clock. We talk every week and change what is not working.

Days 61 to 90 Build capacity

The work gets harder on purpose. At day 90 you give blood again and we sit down with both sets of numbers to work out what you keep doing.

You get your blood drawn

Before you start. This is your day one number. You go to a lab near you and pay them directly.

You follow the plan for 90 days

What to eat. When to eat. When to get sunlight. When to sleep. How to move. We give you all of it, one piece at a time. Light is the button that turns the whole thing on.

You check in every day

On your phone. Takes less than a minute. It is the warning light, and you get to watch your number move. Tap what you ate, what you did, how you slept. If you had a bad day, you say so. Nobody yells at you.

We talk every week

One hour, everyone together, every week.

You get your blood drawn again

At day 90. Then we sit down and look at both sets of numbers side by side and see what actually changed.

SHOW ME THE SCIENCE

Red blood cells live about 120 days. HbA1c reflects roughly three months of blood sugar, and the Omega-3 Index, measured in red cell membranes, reflects roughly four months of intake. Ninety days is long enough to capture most of the change diet can produce in either, without waiting for a full turnover.

Draw conditions are standardized at both timepoints: twelve-hour fast, no alcohol for 48 hours, no training for 24 hours, and the same hour of the morning. Cortisol and testosterone both vary substantially across the morning; a 7am draw compared against an 11am draw produces an apparent change that is an artefact of timing.

The daily log is structured rather than free text. Foods and exercises are recorded against controlled reference lists with stable identifiers, sleep and light as timestamps rather than durations. Free text exists as one optional note field. This is what makes the data analysable later instead of a corpus of sentences.

Adherence is tracked as a percentage rather than a streak, because a broken streak causes people to disengage entirely while a percentage invites improvement.

The path from morning light to the hormones that run metabolism and sleep Morning light reaches the eye. The eye sets the body clock. The body clock sets the hormone cascade, and those hormones run metabolism and sleep. This is why the protocol puts morning light before the first meal. Morning lightEyeBody clock Hormones Metabolism and sleep
Light hits your eye. Your eye sets your body clock. Your clock sets your hormones. Those hormones run your energy and your sleep. That is why we ask for light before food.
The daily log as it appears on a phone A phone screen headed Today. Two rows of tap chips for food and movement, then five domain scales each rated on a five point row, and a counter reading four of five. There is no save button; the log writes as you go. Today SleepLightFoodMoveMood 4 of 5 Tap, never typeIt saves as you goUnder a minute
This is the daily log on your phone. You tap. You do not type. There are five things to rate. There is no save button. It saves by itself. It takes about a minute.

What the science says

This part is real, and other people found it. We did not.

Your cells run on a tiny electrical charge. Food gets taken apart, and the parts get pushed to one side of a wall inside the cell. Letting them back through is what makes your energy. A man named Peter Mitchell worked this out in 1961 and won a Nobel Prize for it.1

A phone battery is a way of talking about it. The charge inside your cells is the real thing. A phone has one battery and one number. You have trillions of tiny ones, and nothing can read them all as a single number. We say battery because it helps. We measure real things.

There are cells in your eye whose only job is to tell your body what time it is. They just carry the light to the clock in your head.3 Light says when. That is the big job.

Light does one more thing, and it is small. Sun on your skin makes vitamin D.2 So the sun does put a little energy into you. Not much. Almost all of it turns into heat, because your body has no way to turn light into fuel.

In Sweden they followed thousands of women for twenty years. The ones who stayed out of the sun died sooner.5 That does not prove the sun did it. People who go outside are different in other ways too. We say so.

How much oxygen you can move is one of the best guesses anyone has for how long you will live.4 That is why we test it, and not just your blood.

Sources
  1. 1 Theory established

    Mitchell P. Coupling of Phosphorylation to Electron and Hydrogen Transfer by a Chemi-Osmotic type of Mechanism. Nature, 1961.

    The paper that proposed ATP is made by pumping protons across a membrane and letting them back through. It is the mechanism the whole battery framing rests on.

    10.1038/191144a0

  2. 2 Cell study established

    Holick MF, MacLaughlin JA, Clark MB et al. Photosynthesis of previtamin D3 in human skin and the physiologic consequences. Science, 1980.

    The primary source for vitamin D synthesis in skin. Ultraviolet light converts a precursor in the skin into previtamin D3. This is the established half of light's second job, the small amount of real chemistry, and it is why the program no longer says light is only timing.

    10.1126/science.6251551

  3. 3 Animal study established

    Berson DM, Dunn FA, Takao M. Phototransduction by Retinal Ganglion Cells That Set the Circadian Clock. Science, 2002.

    Shows a distinct class of retinal cell carries light to the circadian clock without rods or cones. This is light's larger job, timing, and it is what the protocol is built around.

    10.1126/science.1067262

  4. 4 Review or meta-analysis established

    Kodama S, Saito K, Tanaka S et al. Cardiorespiratory Fitness as a Quantitative Predictor of All-Cause Mortality and Cardiovascular Events in Healthy Men and Women: A Meta-analysis. JAMA, 2009.

    Meta-analysis tying cardiorespiratory fitness to all-cause mortality. The reason VO2max is measured at both ends rather than treated as a gym number.

    10.1001/jama.2009.681

  5. 5 Observational, in people contested

    Lindqvist PG, Epstein E, Nielsen K et al. Avoidance of sun exposure as a risk factor for major causes of death: a competing risk analysis of the Melanoma in Southern Sweden cohort. Journal of Internal Medicine, 2016.

    A cohort followed for two decades in which women who avoided the sun had higher all-cause mortality. Observational, so it cannot separate sun exposure from everything that travels with it.

    10.1111/joim.12496

  6. 6 Randomised trial in people contested

    Blades R, Mendes WB, Don BP et al. A randomized controlled clinical trial of a Wim Hof Method intervention in women with high depressive symptoms. Comprehensive Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2024.

    84 women randomised to cold exposure with breathwork, or to slow breathing with warm showers. Both groups improved about the same amount, roughly 24% on depressive symptoms. A single unreplicated trial, which is why cold and breathwork are carried in the protocol as contested rather than established.

    10.1016/j.cpnec.2024.100272

What we are not going to tell you

We do not know what your numbers will do. Nobody does. That is the whole reason we test twice.

Everyone does the same plan. You start when you start. So if you feel better, we cannot prove it was the plan and not just having someone pay attention to you for three months. We are not going to pretend otherwise.

What we can do is show you exactly what changed in your blood between day one and day 90. Almost nobody has that. Most people never get told a single number about themselves twice.

Anyone in this business who says they are certain is selling you something. We would rather just measure.

SHOW ME THE SCIENCE

This is a single-arm pre/post design with no control group. It is exploratory and hypothesis-generating by design. Observed changes cannot be attributed to the intervention alone: coaching attention, seasonal variation, individual circumstance and regression to the mean all contribute, and none of them can be separated without a comparison arm.

Here is one to be careful with. This is a single trial and nobody has repeated it yet, so it is a hint and not a finding. In 2024, 84 women with low mood were split into two groups. One did cold showers and hard breathing. The other did warm showers and slow breathing. Both groups got about a quarter better. Both worked. So neither one was shown to work for the reason people say it does.6

Results will be reported descriptively, with effect sizes and confidence intervals rather than significance testing on a panel of this size. Any claim beyond "this is what changed in these people" would not survive review, and will not be made.

What you get

Everything below is part of the $249.99. Nothing here is an extra you get asked for later.

  • Day 0 testing

    33 markers in your blood, plus your fitness tests.

  • Battery Score

    Your starting number, and the four underneath it.

  • The 90-day protocol

    The whole plan, in three parts, one part at a time.

  • Your portal

    Where your numbers live.

  • Daily tracking

    Two minutes a day on your phone.

  • Weekly support

    One call a week, for everyone in the program.

  • Day 90 testing

    The same tests again.

  • Your comparison

    Both sets of numbers, side by side.

  • Maintenance plan

    What to keep doing after day 90.

What it costs

The Human Battery Project

$249.99

90 days, plus sales tax in your state

What the $249.99 covers

Everything in the list above. The plan, your portal, the daily log, the weekly call, your Battery Score at both ends, and the session where we go through what changed.

How you can pay

Two options, both of them the same $249.99 before tax. Day 1 is your start date, and the second payment falls on that day count from it.

  • Pay in full. $249.99 on Day 1.
  • Two payments. $125.00 on Day 1, $124.99 on Day 45.

The first payment is a cent larger because $249.99 does not divide in two. Sales tax is added at checkout from the address you enter, because the rate depends on where you live and we do not set it. You see the whole schedule with real dates before you agree to it, and again in your portal. If a payment does not go through we will offer you the balance as weekly payments rather than ending your program, and nothing you have recorded is ever deleted.

What you pay someone else for

  • The blood panel, twice. You go to a laboratory near you and they bill you directly. We do not have a price to quote you here. It depends on the laboratory near you, and they bill you, not us.
  • The Omega-3 kit, twice. The Omega-3 Index Complete Test from omegaquant.com is $109.95, or $93.46 each if you buy two at once. You need one at day 0 and one at day 90.
  • VO2max, twice. A lab test with a mask runs $150 to $300 at most sports performance centers and university labs.
  • Your own food. You buy your own groceries. We do not sell food.

Supplements

Some people end up buying a supplement or two. We do not sell them and we do not take a cut from anyone who does. If you do not want to buy any, the program still works.

No hidden costs. If a number here changes, it changes here first.

This is for you if

  • You are getting by, but on less than you used to have
  • Your blood work came back fine and you still felt bad
  • You will check in every day for 90 days
  • You are willing to change what you eat and when you sleep

This is not for you if

  • You need treatment for a real medical problem. We are not doctors and this is not medical care
  • You want a plan you can follow when you feel like it
  • You are pregnant, or a doctor is already managing your food and exercise
  • You just want the blood test without the 90 days

Questions

What exactly is the Human Battery Project?

A 90 day program. We measure what your body runs on, you change the inputs, and we measure the same things again at day 90.

Is this medical treatment?

No. We are a coaching and research program. We do not diagnose or treat anything, and nothing here replaces your doctor.

What gets measured?

Thirty-three things in your blood, plus how much oxygen you can move and how hard you can grip. The same list both times.

Why 90 days?

Red blood cells live about 120 days. Ninety days is long enough for the things we measure in them to move.

What is the Battery Score?

One number for how your body is doing, and four smaller numbers under it. We made it for this program. It is not a medical test.

What happens on Day 0?

You give blood at a laboratory near you, do the fitness tests, and get your first Battery Score.

What happens on Day 90?

The same tests again, under the same conditions, then we sit down with both sets of numbers.

When can I start?

On the 1st or the 15th of any month. You pick.

Is enrollment always open?

Yes. There is no waiting list and no limit on how many people can be in the program.

What does the $249.99 include?

The plan, your portal, the daily log, the weekly call, your Battery Score at both ends, and the session where we go through what changed.

Are laboratory costs included?

No. The laboratory bills you directly for both blood draws. The Omega-3 kit is $109.95, or $93.46 each if you buy two. A VO2max test runs $150 to $300.

Do I need supplements?

No. Some people buy one or two. We do not sell them and we do not take a cut from anyone who does.

What if I already exercise and eat well?

Then you start on the harder version. The seven questions on the form work out which one you get.

What happens if my laboratory testing shows something abnormal?

We tell you and send you to a doctor. We do not tell you what it means.

What happens to my data?

It is yours. Research use is a separate yes that you can say no to and still do the whole program.

Can I delete my data?

Yes, any time. Email us and we delete it.

Where we stop

  • This is not medical care. We are a coaching and research program. We do not diagnose anything, we do not treat anything, and nothing here replaces your doctor.
  • The Battery Score is not a diagnosis. It is a number we made for this program to track change. No clinician uses it and it is not validated for medical use.
  • If a test comes back abnormal, we tell you and send you to a doctor. We do not tell you what it means. That is a conversation for a physician, and we say so every time.
  • Some of what we think is still a guess. We mark it when it is. Some of the science here is settled, some is argued about, and some is our own working idea. We tell you which is which.
  • Your data is yours. You can see it, export it or have it deleted, any time. Research use is a separate yes that you can take back.

What this is built on

We did not come up with the science. We put other people’s work together and turned it into something you can actually do.

These are the areas of research the program draws on. We do not name the researchers here. None of them work with us, none of them have endorsed this, and putting a living scientist’s name on a page that sells something implies they did. Where a specific finding is doing work on this site, the paper is cited and you can read it yourself.

How the battery works

The chemistry of how cells make energy, worked out in the 1960s and settled since. Then decades of work on what happens to the body when that machinery runs badly.

Fats and cell walls

Research on the fats your brain and eyes are built from, and the blood test that measures how much of them you have.

Sunlight and sleep

Work on how light sets your body clock, and long population studies on what happens to people who get very little sun.

Electricity in the body

Research on the electric currents living tissue makes while it heals, and what those currents do.

Cold, heat and ageing

Trials on cold exposure, heat exposure and the things sold as anti-ageing. Including the trials that did not find what people hoped.

What really predicts how long you live

Being connected to other people. Being fit. Being strong. This is the plainest part of the whole model.

And the people who say the others are wrong

We read the critics too. When they are right, we say they are right. That is the part most people leave out.

The work is other people’s. Putting it together this way is on us, and so is anything we get wrong.

Start when you’re ready

You can start any month. New people start on the 1st and the 15th.

  1. Join the waitlist
  2. Get set up
  3. Day 0 tests
  4. Start on the 1st or 15th
  5. The 90 days
  6. Day 90 tests
  7. See what changed

Join the waitlist

Applying is closed for now. Answer the questions below and we will put you on the list.

The next groups start November 1 and November 15. We will email you when the program opens for a new group, with everything you need to join.

Joining the list does not charge you.

What happens next

  1. Send the form.
  2. We send you the plan, the tests and the dates.
  3. You get your day 0 blood drawn.
  4. You pick the 1st or the 15th.
  5. You start.
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We ask your name, email, state, and the seven questions above. The seven are about your habits. We do not ask about symptoms, illnesses or medicines here, and we will not until you have signed up and said it is okay.

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