The Longevity Audit: The Hidden Things in Your Daily Life That Are Quietly Shortening Your Healthspan...

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Frances Kelly

The Longevity Audit

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The Hidden Things in Your Daily Life That Are Quietly Shortening Your Healthspan

Frances Kelly

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English

Black Bell Books
18 April 2026

Public health & preventive medicine; Popular medicine & health; Coping with old age

Most people are looking for dramatic health answers in the wrong places.

They search for the supplement that will change everything, the diet that will fix everything, the morning routine that will optimise everything. Meanwhile, the real damage to their long-term health is happening somewhere far less glamorous: in the bedroom that is slightly too warm for deep sleep, in the desk chair they have occupied for ten hours straight, in the food environment that has quietly reorganised their eating without a single conscious decision being made.

The Longevity Audit is a clear-eyed, evidence-grounded examination of the ordinary daily conditions that shape how well the body ages. Not the dramatic vices. Not the obvious bad habits. The patterns so familiar they have stopped registering as patterns at all.

Drawing on research in sleep science, stress physiology, environmental health, metabolic medicine, behavioural psychology, and the science of social connection, Frances Kelly builds a systematic account of the hidden forces eroding healthspan in the lives of people who consider themselves broadly healthy. Chronic sleep restriction. Sedentary working days. Ultra-processed food environments. Unresolved stress physiology. Indoor air quality. The loneliness that medicine rarely treats as a risk factor. The alcohol habit cultural normalisation has made invisible. The early warning signals the body has been sending for years that nobody stopped to read.

Each domain is examined with the same unflinching clarity: what is actually happening, why it has been allowed to continue, and what can realistically be done about it.

The final section of the book delivers a practical, domain-by-domain audit framework that readers can apply to their own homes, habits, routines, and environments, not as a dramatic overhaul, but as the kind of honest structural reckoning that produces genuine and lasting change.

The Longevity Audit is for people who are tired of being told to optimise, hustle, and biohack their way to better health. It is for people who want to understand what is actually happening in their ordinary daily life and do something real about it before the cost becomes unavoidable.

Intelligent, urgent, and deeply practical. A book that changes what you see when you look at your own life.

By: Frances Kelly
Imprint: Black Bell Books
Edition: Large type / large print edition
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 318g
ISBN: 9798235495883
Pages: 234
Publication Date: 18 April 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Frances Kelly is a health writer and researcher with over fifteen years of experience making complex biomedical and behavioural science readable and useful for general audiences. She writes at the intersection of preventive medicine, lifestyle health, and the psychology of behaviour change, with a particular focus on the gap between what the research actually shows and what most people are ever told about it. Her work is grounded in the conviction that ordinary people make better health decisions when they are given accurate, clearly explained information rather than fear, oversimplification, or commercially motivated advice. The Longevity Audit reflects that conviction in full. Frances lives and works in the United Kingdom.