O especialista em longevidade Gary Brecka disse que seu trabalho com Dana White levou a resultados surpreendentes de exames de sangue, revelando que o CEO do UFC pode ter tido apenas alguns anos de vida com base em seu estilo de vida anterior.

Brecka, que passou 20 anos como especialista em modelos de mortalidade no setor de seguros, disse em “Sair com Sean Hannity” que pessoas do círculo íntimo de White pediram “discretamente” que ele falasse com o presidente do UFC, relatando que ele estava adormecendo durante reuniões importantes.

O biohacker disse que “enganou” White ao dizer ao chefe do UFC que precisava de exames de sangue e de um teste genético para prever sua expectativa de vida devido às preocupações com os sintomas de White, enquanto na realidade os registros médicos e dados demográficos existentes poderiam ter sido suficientes.

Ele disse que White estava sofrendo de apneia do sono, baixos níveis de oxigênio no sangue, dores e sofrimentos, entre outras doenças. Mas o exame de sangue de White foi motivo de preocupação antes mesmo de os resultados serem divulgados.

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“Seu sangue coagulou à temperatura ambiente. Em termos percentuais, havia mais gordura no sangue do que sangue”, disse Brecka, devido aos níveis “letais” de triglicerídeos.

Depois de enviar o sangue ao laboratório para teste, ele recebeu uma ligação à 1h – um movimento geralmente reservado para emergências. Os resultados foram terríveis, disse ele.

Dado o alerta de risco de vida, Brecka disse que reservou imediatamente um voo para White e estava em Las Vegas às 9h.

O presidente Donald Trump participa do evento UFC 314 com o presidente do UFC Dana White no Kaseya Middle em Miami, Flórida, em 12 de abril de 2025. (Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC by way of Getty Pictures)

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White ficou chocado quando Brecka recitou uma lista de seus sintomas com base apenas nos resultados de seus testes. Acontece que o presidente do UFC tinha “hiper-homocistinemia”, disse Brecka, ou incapacidade de quebrar um aminoácido chamado homocisteína.

A homocisteína em níveis elevados pode irritar o revestimento interno das artérias, fazendo com que elas “fechem”, explicou Brecka.

“E se você diminuir o tubo em um sistema fixo, a pressão aumenta. [blood] a pressão não estava aumentando porque havia um mau funcionamento no coração. Ele estava sendo conduzido porque os canos eram muito pequenos.”

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Como o sistema vascular se contraiu, White começou a sofrer de hipertensão. “Eles começam a medicar o coração por um crime que ele não comete”, já que o problema na verdade está nas artérias, disse Brecka.

Ele colocou White em uma dieta cetônica rigorosa e um regime de monitoramento da pressão arterial.

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“Ele não chegaria aos 65”, disse Brecka, com base na sua avaliação preliminar dos resultados do laboratório de White.

No ultimate das contas, ele foi capaz de estender a expectativa de vida prevista para White de sua avaliação inicial de 10,4 anos.

I’m holding up an A4 sheet of card covered in streaks of Posca paint resembling absolutely nothing with a giant smile on my face. I’ve spent the last 15 minutes smearing lines across the page with the enthusiasm and colour palette of a toddler, while chattering away to an award-winning artist who is largely successful at hiding his disdain for my creation. My finished piece might not give Bridget Riley any sleepless nights, but that’s not the point: the activity is fun for fun’s sake – perfection isn’t part of the equation. In the past, I’ve been reluctant to embark upon artistic endeavours because of my perceived lack of skills, but this feels like a reversion to pure play, something we rarely do as adults. I feel gleeful, carefree and exhilarated – like I’m a kid again.

I’m at Airplane Mode – No Phone Zone, a monthly, free, digital detox social event held at Eat Your Greens, an organic restaurant and wine bar in Leeds, that’s decidedly more down-to-earth than it sounds. As well as serving up some top-notch plates of food, it has also established itself as a space for connection, creativity and cultural interchange, with regular DJs and events. And it’s just one of a number of spaces opening up across the globe in which attendees voluntarily choose to surrender their digital devices for a few hours with the aim of connecting and creating.

Tonight’s activities include a collaging session, Posca painting and lino printing. Keen to make the most of my evening, I arrive early where I’m shown to a large table stacked with magazines, cuttings, scissors, glue sticks and card. I’m joined by four other people, a group that grows over the next few hours to nine. We’re given some general guidance and start cutting. While some groups physically confiscate phones, attendees here place their devices out of sight; we’re all here for the same reason: to take a break from our phones.

And goodness knows we need it. I’ve long thought that mobile phones are the best and worst thing to happen to humanity, but lately, I’ve been increasingly erring towards the latter position due a recent spike in late-night scrolling. The increase in our phones’ intelligence – to track sleep, steps and heart rates, identify plants and flowers, share photographs with the world, translate languages, provide real-time traffic and navigation – starkly corresponds to our increased dependency upon these hunks of metal and plastic. Mobile phones have become omnipresent and accompany us everywhere: bed, the lavatory, hospital wards, the cinema, funerals, weddings and during exercise. While they’re an indisputable source of information and connection, they can often feel like they’re monopolising our precious time and attention.

A major study by Ofcom in December found that people in the UK now spend an average of four hours and 30 minutes online every day, 31 minutes more than they did during the pandemic. And a recent study by the University of Manchester found that “passive” use of social media, such as doomscrolling, is linked to higher loneliness. We know that mobile phones are designed to be addictive and we’re aware that many of us are spending too much time with them, but breaking the habit seems harder to achieve.

As the night progresses and the room starts to fill with fellow digital detoxers, diners and drinkers alike, conversation organically develops with my fellow crafters. Rather than the awkward exchanges that can sometimes occur with strangers, it feels effortless and low stakes, particularly as our focus is largely on our creations. We’re forced to slow down, which seems to soothe overstimulated nervous systems adapted to switching between screens every four seconds.

During a discussion about a film with a new acquaintance, I automatically reach for my phone to pull up Letterboxd before I pause and remember why I’m here. With this exception, I feel liberated without it. Fellow attendee, Anna Courtier, 25, feels the same way. “I’m very dependent on my phone in my daily life – it comes with me everywhere I go,” she tells me. The prospect of putting her phone away for a few hours was one that appealed. “I stare at a screen all day for work, so it’s nice to get fully immersed in something for once. And after five minutes, I didn’t think about it.” She thinks that society would benefit from more phone-free spaces. “I think it helps people connect more,” she says. And the creative element was also a draw: “It takes your mind off everything,” she adds.

Another participant isn’t as committed, however – I watched wide-eyed as she pulls out her mobile phone to take a picture of her work. “I did take a few sneaky pictures,” Louise Mortimer, 39, admits. “I was like, ‘I hope no one tells me off’.” She’s previously attended other events where phones have to be switched off, saying “any opportunity to put it away is good for me”. She adds: “I think we’re way more connected [through technology], but underneath we’re more disconnected than ever. The opportunity to make human connections, put your phone away, actually make eye contact, go a bit mute and just lose yourself in something is very important.”

It’s a sentiment that also inspired Dan Palmer, the brains behind Eat Your Greens, to establish Airplane Mode. “It felt like everyone was getting a bit fed-up of being glued to their phones – it’s so easy to get sucked into doomscrolling,” he tells me. “We also run a chess club here and built a really nice community around that. Community is so important and community spaces just don’t exist anymore. Giving people the opportunity to come down and do something a bit different, get creative, have a chat, meet new people and make friends was a no-brainer.” The first session involved simply putting out some art materials, books and puzzles out before developing into workshops. “We just saw people queuing up to do the workshops,” he smiles. “It’s funny… you hate school and then as soon as you leave, if there’s any sort of teaching or creative environment, people just jump back into it.”

I feel grateful to have grown up in a pre-mobile phone era. I didn’t get a mobile phone until I was 20 years old – and it was another 13 years before smartphones became mainstream. I still love what my mobile phone enables me to do, but the more times I glance around on public transport, in a bar or restaurant and see the majority of people glued to their devices, their bodies folded like Anglepoise lamps, the more despondent I feel. I’ve spent years defending such people – they might be reading a book! Communicating with friends! Playing a game! – but I do wonder how many in-real-life interactions are lost while we’re all staring dead-eyed at our phones. But events like this make me feel hopeful and serve as a welcome reminder that, in a technologically dominated world, human connection still has the edge.

When English councils were allowed to start charging a council tax premium on second homes in April last year, around a quarter of them chose not to adopt it.

But a year on, most of them have changed their minds — and the charge has quietly become the norm across the country.

Around 170,000 second homeowners were charged extra council tax in the first year the powers came into effect, and that figure only looks set to rise.

Shorts – Quick stories

Chippies selling
catfish as ‘traditional fish supper’

Fish and chip shops are having
to sell catfish in order to cut
costs amid the US-Israeli war
with Iran, at a time when many have been forced to close or
raise prices.

Catfished?

An investigation by the BBC found fish and chip shops are selling catfish, which is significantly cheaper than cod or haddock. Catfish, which is safe to eat, costs £3.40 per kg, while cod or haddock typically go for around £15.

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Iran war coming for a national favourite

This comes amid fears rising costs could push further fish and chip shops will be forced to close.

Scott Walker, the chief executive of GB Potatoes, told Sky News this will be “inevitable” next year.

Rising costs for energy, cooking oil and fish have already forced many shops to close or raise prices.

Price rises ahead

Cost of living bites

The Government has already warned of months of price rises while the Bank of England predicted a worst-case scenario in which inflation could hit 6.2 per cent.

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WEATHER

UK could be 27°C and hotter than Hawaii

Parts of the UK could be hotter than Hawaii on Friday, but forecasters have warned of possible heavy rain and thunder, with more changeable weather to come over the bank holiday weekend.

Parts of the UK could hit new high

Temperatures could reach a balmy 27°C in London and East Anglia at the end of the working week, the Met Office said, 10°C higher than averages for the time of year.

That would make Friday the warmest day of the year so far and surpass the forecast of 26°C in Honolulu, the capital of Hawaii. Cardiff, meanwhile, could hit 19°C on Friday, which would make it warmer than Athens.

Plenty of sun

“We’ve got some very warm, humid air coming up from the south,” Met Office meteorologist Simon Partridge said.

“That means we will see some very warm weather, particularly in the east and the south-east, because there we’ll see the best of the sunshine.”

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Not the case for everyone

Variable weather

“Unfortunately, it doesn’t mean everybody’s going to get a warm, dry, beautiful day,” he added.

Central clouds

Clouds down the UK’s central spine from Scotland to the Pennines and the Midlands could produce heavy rain.

Thunder possible

There will be the “odd rumble of thunder” in the Midlands, the Met said, while large parts of the north will temperatures between 19-22°C.

Short of the record – and won’t last too long

• A 27°C peak still falls short of April’s all-time record high, though.
• That was recorded at 29.4°C in Camden Square, London, in 1949.
• And weather over the May Day weekend will be a different story.
• Temperatures will drop to April averages by Monday, with some weekend rain widely expected.

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CRIME

Suspect charged with attempted murder after Golders Green 
attack

The terror suspect in Wednesday’s stabbing attack in Golders Green has been named and charged by the Metropolitan Police with multiple counts of attempted murder.

Golders Green suspect

• The suspect is Essa Suleiman, a Somali-born British national.
• Now of Camberwell, it is believed he previously lived in Southwark.
• He is reportedly a Somali translator and former school security guard.

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Two separate attacks

Two Jewish victims, aged 76 and 34, were hurt in the knife attack in north-west London. The former, Moshe Ben Baila, is in a stable condition in hospital and the latter, Shloime Rand, has reportedly been discharged.

Suleiman, 45, was Tasered and arrested at the scene in Golders Green. Police have also charged the suspect in relation to a separate attack that left a man injured on Great Dover Street in Southwark earlier the same day.

What else has been reported?

The suspect was known to Prevent, the government’s anti-extremism programme

• Suleiman came to the UK legally as a child in the 1990s.
• He was reported to Prevent, the government’s anti-extremism programme, in 2020.
• The case against him was closed the same year.
• A group understood to be supportive of the Iranian regime has claimed responsibility for the attack.

Suspect to appear in court

In relation to the Golders Green attack, Suleiman faces two counts of attempted murder and one count of possession of a bladed article in a public place.

The suspect was also charged with attempted murder in relation to the incident in Southwark. He is due to appear at Westminster magistrates’ court on Friday.

UK terror threat level raised

• Counter Terrorism Policing are investigating the stabbing.
• It is the latest in a string of antisemitic attacks in the area.
• The UK’s terror threat level has been raised to “severe”.
• It is the first time this has happened since November 2021.

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UK POLITICS

Everything to know about the May local elections

Your guide to the local elections next week, including where they are happening, timings and what could happen at the ballots.

What you need to know

• Elections are being held across Scotland, Wales and many parts of England on 7 May.
• Voters in Scotland will elect MSPs to the 129-seat parliament at Holyrood.
• In Wales, voters will choose members of the Senedd (Welsh parliament), which has been expanded from 60 seats to 96 for the first time.
• Meanwhile, in England 136 local authorities will hold elections on the same date. This includes all 32 London boroughs, 48 district councils and 18 unitary authorities.
• There are also local mayoral elections happening in: Croydon, Hackney, Lewisham, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Watford.

How will the results unfold?

• Polling stations open at 7am on Thursday 7 May. Voters in England will need to show a photo ID to be able to cast a vote.
• Thousands of people will take to the polls before they close at 10pm.
• In England, 46 of the local authorities will count and declare overnight, with results expected between 1am and 6am on 8 May.
• Ballot papers in Scotland and Wales will be counted during the day on 8 May, with the first results expected in the afternoon and the final declarations in the evening.
• The majority of the remaining English authorities will not begin counting until 9am on 8 May and are likely to start declaring results late in the morning and continue through to the evening.

Labour on course for disaster

One poll by Lord Robert Hayward predicted Labour will suffer devastating losses of more than 75 per cent of the council seats the party is defending across England.

Reform UK is expected to be the main beneficiary, projected to gain roughly 1,550 seats from both Labour and the Conservatives.

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The hotspots where it’s most difficult to sell your home

The average length of time to sell a home is just a day longer than a year ago despite
higher mortgages,
although in London homes are taking nearly a week longer
to be snapped up typically, according to a property website.

A closer look at the figures

33 days

Across the UK, the average time to sell a home is 33 days, just one day longer than last year.

6 days

The London area stands out as being particularly affected by recent events, with the average home there taking six days longer to sell than a year ago, the report found.

The locations on the list of hotspots

Here is how long on average it takes to sell a home, according to Zoopla analysis of the seven weeks to 17 April, 2025 and the seven weeks to 17 April, 2026:

• Scotland – 15, 15
• North East – 28, 28
• Yorkshire and the Humber – 31, 31
• North West – 28, 31
• Wales – 34, 34
• West Midlands – 33, 34
• South West – 36, 35
• East Midlands – 37, 37
• East of England – 35, 38
• South East – 37, 39
• London – 35, 41

What do experts say?

Mortgage rates are drifting lower and there is greater choice of homes for sale

The best-value homes are moving quickly, particularly in northern cities and Scotland, whereas the room for negotiation is greater across southern regions,” Richard Donnell, executive director of Zoopla said.