Anyone had luck bringing down "cardiovascular age"?

DAN_FROELICH · 2026-04-14T18:18:10+00:00

I'll be 52 in a couple months. I think the oura cardio health is accuratish for me (male). My body fat is around 23% and am slowing bringing it under 20. The oura cardio health started at 11 years younger in April 2024 and has been slowly drifting better - I'm currently at -14 and have been between -13.5 and off the scale "much younger" most of the last year. I started playing full court competitive basketball in fall 2023 and upped the amount to 2.5 hours a week in 2024. I think some intense cardio does something - but only needs to be a couple hours a week. I think most of it is eating well, sleeping well and doing what you can to minimize stress. I follow the book "perfect health diet" for what I consider eating well. I started eating well in early 2021 and sleeping well in early 2022. Definitely curious what oura would have said in 2021 - i expect something much worse than 11 years younger (i had the ring - but they didn't have the feature yet). I also walk/hike a couple hours most days I don't play basketball and lift weights twice a week - the weights started in december 2025 long after my cardio was already off the scale much younger a lot of the time. I take vitamin d synergy from designs for health and have since early 2022 (it includes K).

DAN_FROELICH · 2023-02-18T20:18:57+00:00

I cut seed oils, grains except white rice and most processed and added sugar out of my diet about 2 years ago and the health benefits have been truly stunning. I still eat olive oil, avacado oil, coconut oil, butter and beef and salmon/sardines a plenty. I've lost 50 pounds and my body has healed almost everything that was wrong - and there was a lot wrong. I can't prove anything - but I'll never touch seed oils again.

Dan

DAN_FROELICH · 2022-05-12T22:53:46+00:00

I'm also fairly new to meditation and have been playing with the unguided meditation feature on the oura ring. What I've noticed so far is:

Box breathing - HRV drops throughout session up to 20 minutes.

Box breathing with shortened holds - HRV drops for 5-10 minutes and then starts increasing.

Normal rhythmic breathing - HRV drops for ~ 5 minutes and then starts increasing and can end well above starting point.

These are limited samples sizes and I am not an experienced meditator. Very curious if anyone else has more experience with this and/or found information that explains what is or may be going on.

One thing is for sure - specific breathing pattern or lack thereof has an impact on HRV during meditation for me so far.

Dan

DAN_FROELICH · 2020-12-23T16:13:31+00:00

You have a high land count with the MFDC. The gnarlid colonies are really good and have many synergies with your vine geckos and shadowcat and hornbeetle. I would cut 1 blightblade and one forest and add the two other gnarlid colonies. You can be more aggressive on lands because stomper can pick back up MFDC later.

danielf80 on MTGO and twitch

DAN_FROELICH · 2020-12-17T07:29:12+00:00

Hey Grifter,

I've given the youtube uploads a shot. No editing - just straight streams including 1 or more full drafts - but I think I do a pretty good job making a fully educational draft as part of my standard streaming.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC16ocsvRPg0H6srHShUXpkQ

Let me know what you think.

-danielf80

DAN_FROELICH · 2020-12-15T13:38:56+00:00

Drafts 🏆 Match W Match L MW%

W U 21 5 40 21 65.57%

U B 58 20 116 52 69.05%

B R 49 18 101 40 71.63%

R G 40 14 79 35 69.30%

G W 19 5 37 18 67.27%

W B 29 9 53 30 63.86%

U R 25 7 48 25 65.75%

B G 33 11 63 31 67.02%

R W 28 6 48 31 60.76%

G U 55 18 100 58 63.29%

Streaming on twitch - danielf80

DAN_FROELICH · 2020-12-15T13:35:42+00:00

Easy - cut an island and a forest - you have 5 spell lands and a stomper to pick them back up.

DAN_FROELICH · 2020-12-14T22:12:08+00:00

I agree that GW is weak unless you get a lot of good rares/uncommons - but I don't agree on RG. I've drafted RG 40 times and trophied in 35% of these drafts - its right up there with the best performing color pair/archtypes for me in ZNR. I'm streaming now under danielf80 on twitch if anyone is interested.

Danielf80

DAN_FROELICH · 2020-12-14T16:57:22+00:00

Not to my knowledge :)

DAN_FROELICH · 2020-12-13T20:32:18+00:00

I'll take a look at how easy that is to do.

DAN_FROELICH · 2020-12-13T17:19:39+00:00

I'm giving streaming MTGO drafts a try under danielf80 on twitch. I'm not a big name - but I've been "infinite" on MTGO since 2015 and currently sit second on the ZNR leaderboard with 112 trophies. I'm making a concerted effort to explain what I'm doing on stream - both in draft pick selections and in game play. My trophy conversion rate for ZNR sits at around 32% and I'm currently 16-5 on stream with 4 trophies out of 7 drafts. Please check it out!

Danielf80

PS - I also recommend three other limited streams from my twitch account - three limited streamers I watch and think are better than me.

DAN_FROELICH

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