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Exercise
The lever with the strongest mortality evidence behind it. Learn what matters across strength conditioning, cardiovascular support, and high-intensity training.
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Guiding the way to better health and longevity
Inspired by exploration and grounded in science, Amerigo Health provides the knowledge, tools, and inspiration people need to live longer, healthier lives.
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01 · The Thesis
From myth to measurement
Amerigo Health is genuinely interested in putting every individual back in charge of their health journey.
In our fast-paced and dynamically changing world, where people are constantly struggling to make ends meet while simultaneously having to adapt to changing technology and economic demands, health often falls behind. But it doesn't have to be that way.
We take our name from the cartographer who insisted on measuring what others were content to imagine. Five centuries later the unexplored territory is internal, and the instruments finally exist to chart it. Advanced lab testing is your map of the terrain within. Biomarker tracking is your compass pointing toward progress. Evidence-based guidance on fitness and nutrition is your navigator.
The path towards better health and longevity is easier than most people think. Amerigo Health guides the way.
Where the map stops and the work begins.
02 · The Four Levers
Insights from Amerigo Health that improve longevity
Four domains account for most of the variance in how long, and how well, a person lives. Everything we publish is organized around them.
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Nutrition
The shortest distance between a decision and its effect. Learn how to cut sugar and ultra-processed food by eating for fiber and protein instead.
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Medicine
The category where the evidence moved fastest. Learn what the trials on GLP-1 agonists, hormone therapy, and peptides actually show, and where they stop.
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Inspiration
Real stories, real progress. See how people built health, strength, performance, and lasting longevity. Then borrow what works.
Nutrition
The lever with the shortest distance between decision and effect
The shortest distance between a decision and its effect. How to cut sugar and ultra-processed food by eating for fiber and protein instead.
How to build eating patterns around your own goals, what macronutrients actually do, and where meal timing earns its reputation. We also help you tell a genuine nutritional gap from a marketing one.
Medicine
The category where the evidence moved fastest
Medicine can help, and here the evidence moved fastest. What the trials on GLP-1 agonists, hormone therapy, and peptides actually show, and where they stop.
Access is medically guided and never the opening move. It follows the panel, and the decision belongs to an independent, licensed provider rather than to us. Where a medication genuinely closes a gap the baseline exposed, we say so; where a category is carrying more marketing than trial data, we say that too.
03 · Measurement
You cannot navigate what you have not charted
Measurement is what separates the things that actually moved the curve from the things that were merely claimed. Here is what it has identified so far, with the effect sizes attached.
- FITNESS Cardiorespiratory fitness carries no observed upper limit of benefit. Across 122,007 adults, elite fitness had the lowest mortality of any group tested. Mandsager et al., JAMA Netw Open 2018
- SMOKING Quitting between 25 and 34 returned about ten years of life expectancy. Quitting before 40 avoided roughly 90% of the excess risk. Jha et al., NEJM 2013
- PRESSURE Treating systolic pressure to under 120 rather than under 140 cut all-cause mortality by a quarter. Hazard ratio 0.75. SPRINT, NEJM 2015
- LDL All-cause mortality fell about 10% for every 1.0 mmol/L of LDL cholesterol removed, across 26 trials and 170,000 participants. Cholesterol Treatment Trialists, Lancet 2010
- GLP-1 20% fewer major cardiovascular events in 17,604 adults, hazard ratio 0.80. Genuinely new, and roughly three years of outcome data against four decades for the entries above. SELECT, NEJM 2023
US life expectancy at birth
CDC/NCHS · 1900–2023
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Escape velocity, as claimed
Gains decelerate after 1990 and are flat from 2010 to 2019. The fall is COVID-19. The dashed line is not our forecast: escape velocity is defined as gaining a year of life expectancy per year lived, so its slope is definitional, and it departs at 2036, Aubrey de Grey’s stated 50% date. The deceleration itself is the finding in Olshansky et al., Nature Aging 2024.
Our Name, Our Mission
“Charting the new world of health: turning the unknown into the knowable through science, measurement, and deliberate action.”Amerigo Health · Jacksonville Beach, FL
04 · The Instrument Set
Five instruments, and you are the one at the helm
Every one of these is something you can do. What we add is the direction: which instrument matters now, how to read what it is telling you, and where to turn when it says you need help.
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Evaluation
Blood work, imaging, and physical benchmarks that show you where you actually stand.
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Fitness
Resistance training and progressive cardiovascular work, built around your own baseline.
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Nutrition
Macronutrients, meal timing, and the eating patterns that hold up under scrutiny.
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Access
The right questions, an introduction to independent licensed providers, and high-quality, vetted supplements.
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Tracking
Wearables, biometric logs, and the trends that show whether any of it is working.
05 · In Practice
Three ways the work actually gets done
The instruments are the same in every case. What changes is who is holding them alongside you, and we can help you judge which arrangement fits your life.
01 · Personal Training
One to one
The most expensive option and the most adaptable. Worth it when form is the limiting factor, when an injury needs working around, or when nobody is going to do it alone. Ask what happens between sessions.
02 · Group Fitness
Trained together
Cheaper, and the accountability does work that training alone rarely does. Best when consistency is the problem rather than technique. Ask how the programming adapts when your baseline does.
03 · Coaching
Held to the heading
The connective work: interpretation, adjustment, and the honest conversation about adherence. The least visible of the three, and often the one that decides whether any of it lasts. Ask what they measure.
Get In Touch
Amerigo Health is here to help
Interested in learning more about our research or exploring potential opportunities? We’d love to hear from you. Whether you’re looking for more information, considering a partnership, or simply want to start a conversation, we encourage you to reach out.