Zena Rabia, Oleologist

Zena Rabia, Oleologist 🇫🇷 Montpellier School of Pharmacy 👩🏻‍🔬 Olive Oil Research | Longevity Science | Recipes | Translated To Modern Life 🇫🇷University Montpellier.

Olive Oil & Polyphenol Science | Longevity Advocate | Bio-Balanced Recipes | Born 🇫🇷 Lived in 🇬🇧🇹🇳🇬🇷🇪🇸 Now🇺🇸

05/05/2026

That 3pm crash. Skin that won’t settle. Stiff joints…These aren’t random. They’re symptoms of the same root cause — chronic inflammation.

✅You deserve to feel good ! Comment FEELGOOD and I’ll send you my latest guide, 12 principles to reverse your metabolic age and lower your inflammation without following a single diet!

🔷Unlike acute inflammation, which heals and stops, chronic inflammation runs silently in the background for years. No pain. No alarm. Just slow, compounding damage.

🔷Doctors measure it with a blood marker called CRP. And one of the most studied ways
to move that marker? Diet. The NU-AGE study followed 612 people across five European
countries for one year. Those who shifted to a Mediterranean diet saw measurable changes
in their gut bacteria — the exact changes linked to lower inflammatory markers.

🔹Not a supplement. Not a protocol. The way you eat, every day.

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28/04/2026

Comment EVOO below and I’ll send you the 4+4 Formula to learn how to buy Real Extra Virgin Olive Oil. 🫒

I studied olive oil for years and this story still gets me every time 🤩 Can we talk about the fact that one of the most important anti-inflammatory discoveries in food science happened because a scientist couldn’t stop thinking about a throat sting? 🤯

In 1999, a scientist tasted fresh olive oil at a conference in Sicily. The sting at the back of his throat reminded him of ibuprofen. That one observation led to the discovery of oleocanthal, a compound found only in real extra virgin olive oil that works on the exact same inflammatory pathway as ibuprofen. At equivalent doses, it was actually found to be more potent.
But here’s what makes it completely different from popping a pill. Oleocanthal doesn’t switch off your immune system. What it works on is chronic, low-grade inflammation, the silent, slow-burn kind linked to:

🫀 Cardiovascular disease
🧠 Cognitive decline
⏳ Accelerated ageing
Not the acute inflammation your body needs to heal. A daily, gentle, food-based nudge. Meal after meal. Cumulative over time.

And here’s the part I want you to remember 👇

🫒 No sting means no oleocanthal
🫒 No oleocanthal means the mechanism simply isn’t there

So the next time you pour your olive oil and feel that peppery catch at the back of your throat, don’t fight it. That’s it working. 💪

I’m Zena, an oleologist from the University of Montpellier. Seek the sting.

Comment EVOO below and I’ll send you the 4+4 Formula to learn how to buy Real Extra Virgin Olive Oil. 🫒

🔁 Share this with someone who pours olive oil every day without knowing what they’re actually getting
💾 Save this for the next time you’re standing in the supermarket aisle not knowing which bottle to trust
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25/04/2026

People always assume I mean a fancy supplement when I talk about what keeps me healthy. I mean olive oil. The real kind. The kind most people have never actually tasted.
Comment EVOO below and I’ll send you The LongevistLab 4+4 Formula, your 30-second label scan to find a real extra virgin olive oil.
Santé, Zena xX

I developed the 4+4 Formula - Comment EVOO to receive it and learn How to buy Real Quality Extra Virgin Olive Oil. 🔷Most...
24/04/2026

I developed the 4+4 Formula - Comment EVOO to receive it and learn How to buy Real Quality Extra Virgin Olive Oil.

🔷Most olive oil labels are lying to you. 🫒 Up to 80% of oils labelled extra virgin fail independent quality testing. They are refined, blended, or old. And they are doing nothing for your health.

🔷As an olive oil scientist I developed a 30-second label scan that tells you immediately whether you are buying a real extra virgin olive oil.

✅4 things the label must say.

✅8 signals that separate a real quality EVOO from just a liquid fat. Find any 4 of the 8 and you have found a real oil.

🔹It is called the 4+4 Formula. And I want to give it to you.

🔷Comment EVOO and I’ll send it straight to you. 👇
Santé, Zena xX

23/04/2026

COMMENT LONGEVITY for my latest guide: Metabolic Age Reversal, the 12 basic principles.

I grew up in the 90s, where a summer without a bathing suit mark by September was considered ruined. 🙅‍♀️ We used olive oil to tan faster (don't try this at home!).

But as we entered our thirties, the sun became the enemy, and we competed over SPF numbers.

However, research now shows that we overcorrected. A study of 400,000 people found that extra hours outdoors were linked to lower depression rates, better mood, and sleep.

Morning sunlight sets your circadian clock, impacting focus, energy, and mood.

Sometimes, brain fog isn't about food or exercise; it's about missing sunlight.

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22/04/2026

🟦 THE BASICS COME FIRST
Most people are optimising the wrong layer.
They’re tracking macros before they’ve fixed their food quality. Taking supplements before they’ve fixed their sleep. Paying for a gym membership while sitting for 10 hours a day.
Metabolic age reversal doesn’t start with the stack. It starts with the foundation.

🟩 THE 5 FOUNDATIONS
🔹 Eat real food, mostly plants Fill half your plate with vegetables, legumes, and greens first. Less room for the rest. No counting required. A 2022 Cell study found high-fiber diets reduce systemic inflammation within weeks.
🔹 Cook it yourself The moment food is ultra-processed, it stops working for you and starts working against you. Your body treats synthetic ingredients as a threat. Inflammation is the response.
🔹 Eat slowly, with people Eating speed directly affects satiety hormones. Eating in company reduces cortisol. Both measurably affect metabolic health. This is not lifestyle advice. It’s biology.
🔹 Use olive oil on everything Real EVOO contains polyphenols that actively protect cells from oxidative damage, unlock fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E and K, and support the energy production of every cell. The one upgrade that compounds everything else.
🔹 Stop when you’re satisfied Not full. Satisfied. The distinction matters enormously for insulin response, metabolic flexibility, and long-term cellular health.

🟧 THEN LAYER IN THE TOOLS
The apps, the supplements, the gym membership aren’t the enemy. Used on top of a solid foundation, they absolutely compound your results.
But without the foundation, they’re expensive noise.

⬛ THE SCIENCE
Every principle above is grounded in research on the populations with the lowest recorded metabolic age globally, and the clinical science that explains exactly why their habits work.
This isn’t a diet. It’s a protocol for reversing how fast you age.

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Santé, Zena xX

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20/04/2026

COMMENT EVOO and get instant access to the 4+4 Formula for buying Authentic Extra Virgin Olive Oil 🔹If you knew what I know about olive oil, you'd shop smarter 🫒🔹I'm Zena, an oleologist and scientist with a legacy of olive oil expertise spanning four generations. Trained at the University of Montpellier, France, with years of experience across European kitchens and labs.🔹After moving to the US, I felt the impact of subpar olive oil on my health. As a scientist, I knew what was happening.🔹That's why I created LongevistLab - to bring clarity and honesty to the connection between food and wellness 🔬🔹This is just the beginning. 🔹COMMENT EVOO and I'll send you my free guide to buying real extra virgin olive oil 👇Santé, Zena xX

19/04/2026

Does everything in your cart need to be organic?
Not even close. But knowing where it matters can save you money and genuinely protect your health.

An organic label means the food was grown without synthetic pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides. These aren’t chemicals that pass through you, they accumulate. That’s the part worth understanding.

But organic sea salt? Mineral water? Baking soda? You’re wasting money. These aren’t farmed, so there’s nothing to spray in the first place.
Where it does matter, it really matters.

Always go organic on these:

Strawberries, spinach, apples, grapes, blueberries, these are the most heavily sprayed crops on the conventional market.

Peanuts and peanut butter, one of the most pesticide-dense foods you’ll find, and most people eat it regularly.

Coffee and tea, most is grown in countries with fewer chemical regulations than the US.

Chocolate, the cacao supply chain is one of the least scrutinised for pesticide use.
Extra virgin olive oil, organic certification here has a direct impact on polyphenol content. This one isn’t just about what’s absent, it’s about what’s present.

And cotton. Your skin is your largest organ, and you wear it all day.

The goal isn’t perfection. It’s knowing where your money actually moves the needle.

Save this so you have it next time you’re shopping.

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🎁COMMENT: EVOO and I’ll send you my free guide To buy real extra virgin olive oil. There are things you grow...
18/04/2026

🎁COMMENT: EVOO and I’ll send you my free guide To buy real extra virgin olive oil. There are things you grow up with that you don’t realise are extraordinary until much later.
For me it was olive oil. 🫒

The smell of the harvest. The taste of oil straight from the press. Four generations of my family producing it, my mother still does today.
I didn’t grow up thinking this was special. It was just life.

Then I became a scientist. I studied oleology at the School of Pharmacy, University of Montpellier, France. And suddenly everything I had felt intuitively my whole life had a molecular explanation behind it. 🔬
Then working with Chefs, laboratories, running tasting experiences, meeting producers across the Mediterranean and exploring different production techniques. Decades of knowledge quietly building.
Then I moved to the US. And I watched people I cared about spending money on oils that were doing nothing for them on the health benefit front.
I thought, I know exactly why. And I’m not sharing any of it. That had to change. 💚
So I built LongevistLab. Simple science. Real food.
This is just the beginning, and I’m so grateful. To the friends who believed before there was anything to show, and to this new community, thank you for being here from day one and across all eras of my journey. It means everything.

As my first gift to you 🎁COMMENT: EVOO 🎁and I’ll send you my free guide with the 4+4 formula I developed to help you decipher labels and buy real extra virgin olive oil that will benefit your health and your taste buds! 👇

Santé, Zena xX

STRAWBERRY BLISS 🍓 | Guys, strawberry season is about to booooooom! 💥Full of antioxidants such as Vitamin C. It also hel...
02/07/2019

STRAWBERRY BLISS 🍓 | Guys, strawberry season is about to booooooom! 💥
Full of antioxidants such as Vitamin C. It also helps support our hydration and (skin) hydration needs. So versatile, raw, pressed, or baked and no calories, go for it, the season is just about to start! 💥

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