Aug 6, 2026
The most optimized man in the room is the hardest to be married to
A recording from Simmo and Franziska - MAN MADE's live video...
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11 Lessons From 12 Months of Insomnia That Nearly Ended My Relationship
What every driven man gets wrong when something finally breaks, and the small, specific things that actually work instead....
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I'm 32. I've Already Beaten the Diseases Most Men Don't Meet Until Their 50s & 60s.
Cancer, atrial fibrillation, chronic gut dysfunction, panic disorder, insomnia. 12 years of it, and the slow, humbling discovery that nearly every tool I added was making me worse....
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He Hired Me for More Gym. What He Actually Needed Was Less of Everything.
A 47-year-old business owner had fifteen tips a day and no order to run them in. The fix was never more information. It was the one thing the whole industry forgets to sell....
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Health Isn't Something You Build. It's Something You Stop Interfering With.
Twelve years, four diagnoses, and the slow, humbling discovery that nearly every tool I added was making me worse. This is the whole of what I believe now, and how I learned it the hardest way there i...
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From Below 400 to 816: His Testosterone More Than Doubled, and We Never Chased the Number
Five years ago his testosterone was under 400. His new labs read 816, with no TRT. The reason it climbed is the opposite of what the "boost your testosterone" crowd will sell you....
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What AI gets wrong about your health
The optimization trap
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Food-first interventions
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