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Who is Nick Urban

Nick Urban is a CHEK Holistic Lifestyle Coach Level 2, Biohacker, and Data Scientist. He's the founder of Outliyr, host of the High Performance Longevity podcast, and an Instructor at the School of Biohacking. With 12+ years of direct experience, Nick tests and reviews cutting-edge health tools and longevity protocols. Each year, he spends 1,000+ hours studying PubMed science and ancestral medicine systems like Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine. His expertise spans brain performance, peptide therapy, and energy optimization for high-achieving entrepreneurs.

Articles Published by Nick Urban

Traditional wood sauna benches with the headline Buy the Right Heat

7 Best Traditional Saunas of 2027: Heat, Comfort & the Real Installed Cost

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Compare traditional home saunas from Sun Home, Heavenly Heat, Plunge and established…

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Nick Urban’s legs and feet in an outdoor cold plunge, with the headline Choose Your Daily Plunge.

The Best Cold Plunges for Home Use (2026 Buyer’s Guide)

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Compare home ice baths by cooling, complete price, fit and upkeep, from…

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Many individual health response curves fanning out from one starting point around a flat average line, with one highlighted personal curve, behind the message You aren't an average patient

The Average Patient Doesn’t Exist: N-of-1 Experiments for Personalized Health

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The average patient is a statistical convenience. No clinic has ever seen…

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Modern outdoor sauna in a wooded backyard with the words The Backyard Sauna Trap: What Product Photos Never Show.

Best Outdoor Saunas for Traditional, Infrared, and Hybrid Heat

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Compare outdoor saunas by heat system, electrical requirements, footprint, installation needs, weather…

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Residential wellness room with traditional and infrared sauna cabins, a near-infrared enclosure, and an infrared sauna blanket, with the words The Sauna Brand Trap.

Best Home Saunas: Choose the Heat System Before the Brand

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Compare traditional, infrared, hybrid, and portable home saunas by space, power, installation,…

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Structured water devices compared on a light stone countertop

Best Structured Water Devices 2026: Tested & Compared

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Compare structured water devices by mechanism, use case, maintenance, first-hand experience, and…

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The mind-blowing science of melanin, light, metals, mitochondria and consciousness

The Mind-Blowing Science of Melanin: Light, Mitochondria, Metals & Consciousness

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Skin color is the least interesting thing melanin does. A tissue-by-tissue map…

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Make menopause easier: evidence-graded perimenopause supplement picks

5 Best Perimenopause Supplements 2026: Evidence-Graded & Label-Checked

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The perimenopause aisle is full of under-dosed blends. I graded the field…

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The Best Budget Red Light Therapy Devices (2026 Guide)

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Budget red light therapy devices tested with $3,000+ in lab equipment. Which…

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