what are your best practical longevity tips?

That rules out Earth, then.

INSTANT IMMORTALITY!

avoid living in an area where disasters are likely to happen
That rules out Earth, then.
incidently this is one of the strongest argument of the space colonization communties.

actually, i read this article about a 70-year old Chinese man who, for only god knows why, decided not to have sex or masturbate EVER, and he now looks like hes in his late 30s/ealy 40s.

I removed the numbers because I still need to rank them out.

Eventually I'll make a separate list for nutritional strategies to optimize longevity because there are so much of them interesting folk reciepes, antioxydants and vitamins etc

The French have got that down and they live longer anyway.

like,
one week there is that coalition of doctors who will say
7 or 8 hours is best then another gang will say
5, 6 or 7 is best. it's a bit confusing for an amateur like me :)

what you need is a good bleeding!

haha. avoid obsession with longetivity?

If you're hungry eat, when you're no longer hungry STOP.

If following my path for optimal longevity I hit what seems to be a "conflict of interest" then I have to spend some time to solve it on my own and using brainz networks on the net.

real quick like here are some solutions to what looked like sacrifices you suggested in yr'posts:
*there are many non damaging ways to alter one's consciousness.
*there's an alternative to calory restriction that is less efficacious (18% increase of lifespan instead of 40% on animals tested) but still it's better than nothing: eat all U want then exercice in consequence to burn it all and then some.
*you can experiment with weird sleep cycles ex: davinci who was managing to sleep 15 minutes every 4 hours.

when there's a will (to power)there's a way (to the superman!)

nanananananananananananaaaa...

what you need is a good bleeding!
good idea... hey I could recuperate the surplus blood afterwards to bathe in it ! talk about an infallible holistic approach that ownz old school stylee

phil-two :
I briefly googled for your story but without a match, could you post a link to this article in here? what's tricky with verifying the age of old folks in certain foreign countries is that sometimes they don't have public records, and people living far in the country often don't bother to register the new births.

i don't try to have a long life, i try to have a wonderful life.
aww di, why can't you have the two? what is it that is stopping you?

also, concern over this issue should be a source of motivation to participate in projects like standford's genome@home project.
There are no efforts involved and it could increase your freedom by pushing the boundaries set by arbitrary attributed genetic makeups.
(ex of arbitrary attributed makeup: unluckily we are still all mortals)

ah but i thought what i answered, while reckoning ilXors jovially sarcastic take on listmaking, covered this kindof: if making lists/charts means staying in touch with the longevity field and if people can actually change the order of the lists/charts to the best of their knowledge of the said longevity field and find that it also serves as somesort of a social glue that brings dynamic optimist people together then yes making such lists/charts can help living longer.
this answer is way less gnomic isn'it? ;-)
gnomism is my hobby: I like to fold as much knowledge and cover as much ground as possible by using the least words possible but i know i still have a lot of work to do before i master this style.

(btw such a practical longevity tips chart is already up on the web but its still in the embryonic stage. I'll post the link here when it will look better)

On water, what I've heard of clustered water seemed intereting to deserve a critical search.
In any case according to water.com's hydratation calculator
i need 76.5 oz (7 12-oz glasses) of the stuff every day.

i suggest to go there to discuss it but here's my update anyway:

i took the longevity tips thread here at the immortality institute to see what would go down and what not.

In there, on the sleeping issue I wrote:

"also, each tip should have a space for the users to write comments and possibly to challenge it.
for an example you wrote (8+ hrs) of sleep but I've read that more than 8h could actually reduce life expectancy.
Looking for this article i found another one, a critique of this study (to be found at skepticism.net) but I'm still not sure what's best for me."

sorry for the redundancy but it is the best way to prevent future readers to get ill informed isn'it?

the life extension foundation is also interesting but if one is interested in buying somehting from them i suggest to get objective information beforehand.