 and what I assume is not tap water but something more expensive, and discussing how far I could roll back my own biological (if not chronological) age. Could I rewind five years? 'Yes,' says Woolhouse, a former intellectual property lawyer who is now the chief executive of the clinic. 'And from a scientific point of view, that is linked to better health outcomes.' What about returning my body to its 20-year-old state? Could I go that far? They're less sure about that. But the point is we can change our ageing trajectory if we are willing to invest the effort – and, for Hooke members, the money. Launched in 2019 by Moscow-born Mikheev, a theoretical physicist turned hedge fund manager, the clinic has been open – to the very affluent – since December. It has more in common, aesthetically, with a high-end spa than your average NHS clinical setting. Which is intentional. 'Sometimes people don't want to [get checked] because they're scared of what they'll find and scared of doctors,' says Woolhouse. 'That's why we try to make this place look so nice – you get less of that white coat s){kind=link}
Longevity clinics designed to slow down ageing are springing up to service the uber-wealthy, but can their methods help the rest of us?
What if somebody told you that you could shave 10 years off your biological age? Not by taking a magic pill – although pills may be part of the picture – but by overhauling your lifestyle and rigorously tracking your health data.
This, according to Lev Mikheev and his daughter, Kate Woolhouse, is the future of healthcare. Rather than simply accepting that as we age we inevitably begin an inexorable descent into decrepitude and illness, they have an alternative option. It involves taking back control of our bodies.
I am sitting in a sun-lit upstairs room in Hooke, their exclusive health clinic in Mayfair, London, drinking a double espresso (a good choice of coffee, apparently) and what I assume is not tap water but something more expensive, and discussing how far I could roll back my own biological (if not chronological) age.
Could I rewind five years? “Yes,” says Woolhouse, a former intellectual property lawyer who is now the chief executive of the clinic. “And from a scientific point of view, that is linked to better health outcomes.”