The growing field of longevity medicine is apparently pointing to something between these two ends of the well -being. By combining the established tools of clinical medicine (think of blood and scanning analysis) with some more experimental (tests that measure their biological age), these clinics promise to help their clients improve their health and longevity.
But a survey of longevity clinics worldwide, carried out by an organization that publishes updates and research on the industry, is revealing a more disorderly image. Actually, these clinics, most of which only serve the very rich, vary wildly in their offers.
Today, it is believed that the number of longevity clinics is somewhere in hundreds. The proponents of these clinics say they represent the future of medicine. “We can write new rules about how we treat patients,” said Eric Verdin, who runs the Buck Buck for Aging Research, at a professional meeting last year.
Phil Newman, who directs longevity. Technology, a company that tracks the longevity industry, says that it knows 320 longevity clinics that operate throughout the world. Some operate multiple centers at an international scale, while others involve a single “practitioner” that incorporates some “longevity” element in the treatments offered, he says. To have a better idea what these offers could be, Newman and his colleagues made An 82 clinics survey worldwideincluding the United States, Australia, Brazil and multiple countries in Europe and Asia.
Some of the results are not so surprising. Three quarters of the clinics said that most of their clients were gen xers, between 44 and 59 years. This makes sense, anecdotally, is around this age that many people begin to feel the effects of aging. And the investigation suggests that the molecular change waves associated with aging hit us in our 40 and again in our 60s. (Longevity influencers Bryan Johnson, Andrew Huberman and Peter Attia also fall into this age group).
