Londoners love a membership, and if it’s got a waitlist, all the better. But forget about Soho House or Maison Estelle, the new must-have memberships are the ones for affordable longevity clinics in the capital. Something of a contradiction in terms. Typical clinics, like Ezra on Harley Street, cost £1,299 for an MRI scan. So when Unbound, a preventative health clinic in Shoreditch with an annual cost of £365 a year, released 100 annual memberships last month, of course they sold out in record time. Its waitlist is now open for their second round of memberships.
But can you get the same thorough testing as you would in, say, Harley Street? I signed up to find out. When I turned up at the clinic, I was greeted with a café-style reception, instead of a clinical setting, before we went through a series of tests, including blood biomarkers, cardiovascular fitness, musculoskeletal performance and even mental health. Same tests, just a different, less pricey postcode.
