RejuvenationOlympics.com Leaderboard standing, as of June 2024.
In June of 2024, after receiving his very expensive Follistatin gene therapy, Bryan was able to leapfrog my 0.66 score, increasing his from 0.68 to 0.64. This finally prompted an update to the Leaderboard after it had been noticeably stagnant for the 8 months prior.
Meanwhile, wishing to gain valuable insights from these tests, I had retested again after being sick through half of Dec '23, all of Jan '24 and half of Feb, and then retested again after my 30 days in Italy (Mar-Apr '24) just to see how badly being sick and my 30 days of lack of sleep plus high carb, high sugar, and high caffeine diet (plus being off of ALL of my supplements for that month) might have affected my pace of aging and epigenetics. I even intentionally retested again after 30 days of very high physical stress in August and again after coming down with Covid in October! I learned firsthand how each of those things actually DO increase our pace of aging and our epigenetic age!
However, in July 2024, coinciding with a Wall Street Journal article on the Rejuvenation Olympics (RO), new rules were introduced that suspiciously appeared to favor Bryan. Rather than continuing to use each individual's best annual score, the new system calculates the average of each person's three best scores over the previous 24 months. And once our oldest test scores (greater than 24 months) were dropped, Bryan's Average Pace score noticeably improved as well!
This change plunged my ranking on the Leaderboard, as the inclusion of my experimental test scores dragged my new average score down. Additionally, it highly benefits those who can afford to retake the test as many times as they like (Bryan admits to testing 22-25 times/year), and then selectively use their top scores over a two-year span. This puts individuals like Julie Gibson Clark — a single working mom with a better score than both Bryan and me — at a serious disadvantage, since she doesn’t have the disposable income to retake the test even once annually let alone multiple times. That's the only reason you no longer see Julie in the top ranks, and I suspect the same is true of many others.
As for me, if I want to fare well in the competition again, I'll need to stop experimenting with, and trying to learn from, my worst-of-times events.
In the first half of 2025, I was quite amused to note that even though I only tested at my absolute worst all throughout 2024, the average of all of my worst scores still had me ranked in the Top 25 "in the world" on the Leaderboard! 😃 Moving forward, I'll try to play like everyone else -- by only testing at my best -- which will require a very long slow climb back up in the rankings as my overall average improves. But now that I'm retired, I really can't afford to be taking the test multiple times either.
I'm also disappointed to see that the RO is no longer displaying entrant's chronological age. Because if at any point I'm being beaten again by a 15-year-old, I'd really like to know about it! Currently, there's no way for any of us to know!
However, I'm glad that they are no longer considering "age adjusted" scores. They are now treating 20-year-olds, 30-year-olds, a 47-year-old, and a 63-year-old as though they are exactly the same, even though they truly aren't. Frankly, I love this! I'm honored and proud that I'm NOT being given ANY special consideration for my age in this competition, and that I'm still holding my own with the best of them. 😉
Believe it or not, I'm actually pleased when I see myself fairly moving down the RO Leaderboard rankings due to new entrants that have some truly impressive paces of aging! Who knows? Maybe the next new Longevity Leader will be you??
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