Retirement Singularity

09/29/2026

A new national survey this week: 64% of us think AI will steal our sense of purpose. The article (see below) made me think.
I think that the fear is not that the machines will be better at spreadsheets. It is that they will be better at the tasks that used to tell us who we were.

Perhaps purpose was never the task. It was the person on the other side of the task. Mentoring the kid who just got laid off. Cooking for the neighbor who just lost her husband. Showing up at the Tuesday table even when the conversation is slow.


https://www.elon.edu/u/news/2026/09/14/elon-survey-finds-most-americans-believe-human-purpose-is-in-peril-in-the-age-of-ai/

09/23/2026

Already asking AI questions about your health? Try this follow-up.

In this one-minute video, I share a prompt to help you spot missing information and decide what to check next. AI reviewing its own answer is a starting point, not independent verification.

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Michael Nuschke | Retirement Singularity

09/20/2026

AI has it's downsides!!

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09/15/2026

AI just wrote a proof for a Millennium Prize problem, XPeng is mass-producing humanoid robots, and a generic version of Ozempic is now approved in Canada. The technology is arriving faster than access and evidence.

A drug candidate created with AI reduced biological age markers across 6 proteomic clocks in a phase 2a trial, suggesting that it may help reverse predicted biological aging.

09/14/2026

My new video introducing a practical way to use AI for health conversations, created especially for adults 60+.
Learn how to ask clearer questions, check AI’s answers with the four-step Trust Protocol, and protect your privacy.
https://go.retirementsingularity.com/ai-health-advantage-free

09/10/2026

New weekly Retirement Singularity Briefing! It's free!
Each week, I select 4–5 stories and share:
• What happened, in plain English
• What it means for 60+
• My take on what deserves attention
• What we should keep in perspective
This week: AI-designed drugs, new ways to measure aging, and research into our immune systems and gut bacteria. Promising signals, with important unanswered questions.
If you’re curious about AI, longer lives and your next chapter, I’d love to have you join us.
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Live long, live well and prosper!
Michael

08/30/2026

MOST ANTI-AGING SUPPLEMENTS DON'T MOVE YOUR CLOCKS

A new Nature Medicine analysis ran 51 human intervention studies through 16 epigenetic aging clocks. 3,128 blood samples. One pipeline.

What moved biological age:

→ Prescription drugs: metformin, semaglutide, anti-TNF therapies — strongest decreases
→ Lifestyle: diet (Mediterranean, low-carb, low-fat) + exercise combined — consistent decreases
→ DunedinPACE, the rate-of-aging clock, decreased in 16 of the interventions and increased in only 1

What mostly didn't:

→ Over-the-counter supplements
→ Several medical procedures
→ 19 of 51 interventions moved a clock at all. 13 held up after statistical correction. 5 made aging WORSE.

Read that again. Most things people buy for longevity showed no measurable effect on the biomarkers being sold to track it.

This is the largest audit of its kind, from Yale. It doesn't prove supplements are useless — it proves most of them were untestable or failed the test.

Actionable takeaway: before you buy another supplement, check whether it survived a clock test like this. Diet, exercise, and evidence-based prescriptions are where the signal actually is.

Physical age vs biological age is the RS core problem. Now we know which levers actually bend the biomarker.

Full paper:

The responsiveness of 16 different epigenetic aging clocks to a broad array of pharmacological and lifestyle interventions in humans was assessed across 51 different longitudinal studies, providing insights into the potential of aging clocks to serve as reliable aging biomarkers.

08/12/2026

Could diluting your blood help you rejuvenate? A 42-person RCT (Radomized Controlled Trial) just published in Aging Cell: replacing old plasma with albumin moved 15 different epigenetic clocks younger vs. placebo in adults 50+.

Not "young blood" hype. The mechanism appears to be diluting pro-aging factors already in your own plasma.

Still early. Small trial, surrogate markers only, and Steve Horvath co-authored a competing Czech study showing no benefit without volume replacement.

But this is the cleanest human RCT data yet on the idea. Not too hard to imagine this kind of clinical treatment in the near future.

Therapeutic plasma exchange safely reduces biological age by up to 2.6 years. Multi-omics analysis reveals coordinated cellular and molecular responses associated with aging rejuvenation.

08/11/2026

A financial plan without a body plan is incomplete.

That line stopped me when I wrote it, because it's true in ways most planning still ignores. The real risk isn't just outliving your money ... it's building your future around a retirement model that no longer matches the world arriving around you.

AI that can act on its own. Robotics entering homes and care. Longevity science extending healthy years by more than a decade.

Each one changes the picture. All three together mean the old assumptions don't hold.

I wrote a free guide on what's actually happening. No hype. Just a clearer map.

Has your thinking about retirement shifted in the last couple of years? Curious what's changed for you.

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