The accumulation of heat-trapping climate pollution in the Earth’s atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels is compelling humans to navigate a dangerous path. The brutal climate crisis is potentially undermining healthy ageing globally. Can longevity clinics help?
In the era of longevity science, doctors and health practitioners in different countries are on the look out for methods to extend the health span of populations. Several clinics are springing up across the globe, trying to tap into the emerging industry.
Longevity business becoming a lucrative affair
In Hong Kong and Japan, people have an average lifespan of about 86 years. Those in Singapore and South Korea are likely to reach 85. European nations generally lag behind, excluding exceptions, according to The National.
The longevity business has become so lucrative that a $111 million prize has been announced in the US challenging scientists to develop a single treatment capable of reversing ageing by 20%. The X Prize seeks a company that can delay the biological clock.
In terms of reversing ones ageing, the prominent prize announced by tech tycoon Peter Diamandis, 63, seeks a treatment capable of reducing the effects of ageing on immune function and cognitive and muscle performance.
But ageing is not a steady decline
The longevity business is booming in Dubai. Zoi-Me clinic in Jumeirah is offering a three-month course at about Dh15,000, and promises to reduce an individual’s biological age by 2 to 3 years. More expensive programmes claim to have an effect of up to 10 years.
Geneticists at Stanford University in California found that ageing is not a steady decline, as they discovered a couple of periods of rapid change seen in people in their mid-forties and again in their sixties. The study evaluated thousands of molecules from skin and blood samples.
