Who wants to live forever? Perhaps not forever, but a longer, healthier life at the very least? Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past year, you’ll probably be familiar with the rising popularity of longevity training — and its high-profile, high-net-worth acolytes. But what is it? Combining cutting-edge research and science, and harnessing powerful analytics that look at everything from your genetics to biomarkers, it is creating a new standard for health and wellbeing. It’s biohacking 2.0.
If that all sounds rather costly, you’re not wrong. There’s a reason that public figures such as Bryan Johnson are poster boys for this (with a personal estimated fortune of $400 million, or £313m). Access to labs with the best facilities for tests, at-home tech and an appropriate scientificunderstanding of how to interpret the data can be overwhelming. But that’s not to say the average person can’t dabble in it with a growing number of health clinics and wellbeing destinations around the world offering travellers the insight that they might be craving.
