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His approach would be expected to optimize for common situations, which may not be the same as optimizing for rare situations. I've been working on a theory that health is not a single thing.
For all I know, he had some intrinsic cardio-vascular problems, and his self-experimentation led to him living longer than he otherwise would have.
That an interesting way of phrasing the sentence.
The issue is that Seth himself based his behavior on the idea that health is a bit like intelligence and it's possible to generalize from a few factors most of the useful information.