Question 366 of 433
What kinds of longevity businesses are there?
The short answer
Seven. Knowing which one you are standing in tells you most of what you need to know.
Retail wellness clinics. Storefronts selling IV drips, vitamin shots, cold and heat, light, mild pressure chambers, hormones, peptides, weight-loss injections, and aesthetics, usually by monthly membership.
Lab-testing subscriptions. Websites that sell a hundred or more blood tests once or twice a year for a few hundred dollars.
Scan companies. Whole-body MRI or other body scans sold directly to healthy people.
Membership diagnostic clinics. High-priced annual programs built around a day or more of scans, genome sequencing, and blood work, with a physician and a care team.
Recovery and “biohacking” studios. Saunas, ice baths, compression, and exercise technology in a social setting.
Luxury medical resorts. A week of testing, treatments, and spa care.
Offshore and experimental centers. Places that offer what cannot legally be sold in most of the United States.
Hospitals have entered as well. Several major academic medical centers now run cash-pay longevity programs.
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AUTHOR’S CLASSIFICATION — Seven business categories, not a validated clinical taxonomy.Evidence grade (draft mapping)JClinical judgment / author synthesisPart 25, Q366 · Part sources
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