Tom Rousell.
Longevity and Independence Coach.
I am 23. I know what you are thinking.
What does a 23-year-old know about ageing, decline, and the fear of losing independence?
Here is the answer. I was born with transposition of the great arteries - a congenital heart condition with a 10% survival rate. I died in a lift on the way to the hospital at three weeks old. They brought me back. I had open-heart surgery shortly after.
I have never taken cardiac medication. Not once. The reason is simple: fitness has been my medication since the day I was born. My doctors monitor me every two years. They tell me my markers are excellent. The only variable that explains that is how I have treated my body.
I did not come to longevity coaching because I read a book about it. I came to it because I have spent my entire life understanding, at a level most people never will, that the daily choices you make about your body determine the quality and length of your existence.
I built the Independence Score because I kept seeing the same situation: adults in their 50s and 60s told by their GP that everything was fine, who had no idea what their actual longevity markers looked like, quietly heading toward preventable decline. The research said it was preventable. Nobody was doing the measuring.
Now someone is.
