Let's live beyond the limitations
Beyond the limits of disease and ageing — and beyond the limits the world programs into us. A father & son, Marek & Alek, crossed the world to learn how. Come build it with us.
Everything here is real, and some of it is still being written. If you find a gap or something wrong, tell us — that is rather the point of doing it in the open.
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Nine places to begin. The story first, then the people, then what to do about it.
The story
01The Live Beyond MovieIt begins as a quest for longevity. It becomes about everything — narrated by Alek, and coming soon.Open → 02The BookA guide disguised as a game: the most advanced longevity science, turned into something you can play today.Open → 03The Quest MapEvery stop of Marek and Alek’s journey — 39 countries and states, with the stories and the photographs.Open →What it gives you
04Get your Longevity CalendarA longer, healthier, more joyful life, one day at a time. 12 questions, then a rhythm built round you.Open → 05Meet the 100+The scientists, doctors and healers who welcomed us all over the world — and the conversations we are sharing.Open → 06Choose your communityThe movement, city by city, on the map — find the people nearest you.Open →Longevity itself
07The Longevity MapA helicopter view of the whole field on one page. Five levels, and you choose where you play.Open → 08Clinics & institutionsWhere we were tested, measured and guided — what it found, and what it cost.Open → 09The 12 hallmarks of ageingWhat actually goes wrong in a body, without the vocabulary — and what you can do about each one.Open →And remember — if you join the Founding Circle, you co-create all of this with us, and get access to great stuff.
Why I’m doing this
I’m Marek. I spent a year crossing 39 countries and states with my son, Aleksander, meeting more than 100 of the world’s leading scientists, doctors and healers — asking one question: how do we live longer, healthier and more fulfilling lives? We came home certain of two things. The science is real and closer than people think. And the years are only worth having if they’re full of the people we love.
The field needs all of us to grow faster, so that we can have it in our own lifetimes. And I don’t believe that happens through science alone — it happens through stories. Real ones, about real people, told well enough that you fall in love with longevity rather than simply learn about it. Everyone deserves that story — not only the wealthy, not only those already looking. The more of us who fall in love with it, the faster it grows — for all of us. That’s why we’ve started Live Beyond, and why we’d love you to be a part of that.
The Longevity Calendar
Most longevity plans are built around performance. This one is built around what you love. 12 questions about what you enjoy and dream of — and out comes your calendar: five rhythms, from daily to yearly, made of things worth getting up for.
The years are only worth having if you want to be in them. Most of the field leaves that out.
A dance break to a track you love
A gratitude walk, and six phone-free hours
Dinner with friends — and reconnect with someone
Something extraordinary, for joy. Somewhere new.
A letter to your future self
Start the journey with us
39 countries and states. 100+ experts. Deserts, glaciers, labs and temples. Every photo below is a real moment from the road — and this world is waiting for you too.
What "Live Beyond" means
To live beyond the limitations —
and to live fully, every single day.
Beyond the limits. Not only the limits of disease and ageing that biology sets — but the limits the modern world and society program into us. Let's explore, build and grow past them, together.
Fully alive, now. Living beyond isn't only about adding years for some distant future. It's about being here — present, joyful, connected — in this moment, today. That's the whole point.
The most thorough approach to longevity
Longevity isn't only the science of longevity. It's the art and science of living longer, healthier and more fulfilling lives — so we went to everyone. That's what makes this the most thorough view of longevity anywhere, and you live it through our journey.
The most enchanting part? Everywhere we went, they treated us as family — hosting us in their homes, labs and their universities. Now we’d love you to discover them, and support them, too.
longevity /lɒnˈdʒɛvɪti/
the art & science of living longer, healthier & more fulfilling lives.
Marek Piotrowski, Live Beyond
Blessings from the road
We ended almost every interview with the same question: what would you wish us, me and my son, for the rest of our quest? Here are four of the answers, in their own words — the rest are on their own page.
George ChurchProfessorHarvard Medical School & MIT“The main thing I wish for is, obviously, that you’ll be very successful, and you’ll communicate and get the conversation going.
Even if you don’t reach every kind of person, you will stimulate other documentaries, maybe, to reach a few more people.”
Aubrey de GreyPresident & Chief Science OfficerLEV Foundation“I think you’re doing a pretty cool thing, spending a whole year travelling around the world, looking at and meeting people who have some relevance to the longevity quest.
And I think the main thing I would say in terms of what you’re doing is I very much wish you well. I very much hope that towards the end of your year, when you’re in California, we can meet up again.”
“The elixir of life is knowledge, and it’s consumed by learning. So I think your mission, what you’re doing now, is at least as important as anything going on in any lab anywhere in the world.”Sir Muir GrayEvidence-based medicineOxford Longevity Project
Robert WaldingerDirectorHarvard Study of Adult Development“Well, my hope is that you’ve already found things that surprise you and that turn your assumptions on their heads — and that I hope you continue to do that.”
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