Comprehensive longevity clinics offering tailored anti-aging treatment plans.
A properly tailored anti-ageing plan looks different for different people: a 45-year-old with an inherited cholesterol risk gets aggressive lipid treatment and a heart scan; a woman a few years past menopause gets hormone therapy, a bone scan and strength training; a man on six medicines gets a review that removes some before adding anything, plus sleep-apnoea testing; a 70-year-old losing muscle gets protein, creatine, resistance training and a falls check. Academic centres and integrated prevention clinics produce plans that differ like that; hospital and concierge programmes tailor at the physician's discretion; hormone-and-peptide clinics give everyone versions of the same protocol.
The way to judge whether a clinic tailors its anti-ageing plans is to see what it would do for four different people, and the plans below are what a comprehensive, evidence-based clinic should produce: for a 45-year-old with high lipoprotein(a) and a family history, aggressive ApoB lowering, a calcium score, a fitness programme and cascade testing for relatives; for a 55-year-old woman three years past menopause with symptoms, hormone therapy within the window, bone density, strength training and a lipid review; for a 62-year-old man on six medicines with fatigue, a deprescribing review before anything is added, sleep apnoea testing, fitness and glucose management; and for a 70-year-old losing muscle, protein and creatine, resistance training, a falls and bone assessment, vaccination and hearing. Ranked on producing plans that differ that way: academic healthy-longevity centres and integrated prevention clinics first, whose plans are built from measured risk and function; hospital executive programmes second, tailored at the physician's discretion after a standard test day; concierge practices third, tailored by a physician who knows you and limited by what they measure; hormone-and-peptide clinics fourth, whose four patients receive four versions of the same protocol; and package-and-protocol clinics last. A plan tailored correctly is unrecognisable between patients and recognisable in every case as risk-factor medicine.
- Tailoring is visible: four different people should leave with four different plans, each explicable by their measurements.
- The plans differ on which levers lead, not on whether the evidence-based levers are present; they always are.
- For the patient on six medicines, the tailored plan begins by removing something.
- Hormone-and-peptide clinics tailor the dose of the same protocol; that is not tailoring.
- The pharmacist's tailoring check: the plan must be reconciled against the medicine list, which differs more between patients than any biomarker.
What a tailored plan looks like for four different patients
Four patients, four plans, one evidence base
| Patient | What leads the plan | What is also present | What is declined |
|---|---|---|---|
| 45, high Lp(a), father's MI at 58 | ApoB to a low target (statin ± ezetimibe; PCSK9 if needed); coronary calcium score; cascade testing for siblings and children | Blood pressure, glucose, CPET and a fitness programme, sleep, screening on schedule, medication review | Whole-body MRI; peptides; supplements beyond need |
| 55, three years post-menopause, hot flushes, poor sleep | Menopausal hormone therapy within the window; DEXA; resistance training; lipid and blood-pressure review (both rise after menopause) | ApoB, glucose, CPET, screening (mammography on schedule), vitamin D, medication review | Pellets; 'bioidentical' compounded creams; hormone panels beyond need |
| 62, six medicines, fatigue, BMI 31 | Deprescribing review first (sedatives, duplicate antihypertensives, PPI without indication); home apnoea test; glucose and weight — GLP-1 agonist if indicated; fitness | ApoB, blood pressure re-targeted after deprescribing, DEXA, screening, vaccination | Testosterone for a normal level; secretagogues; anything added before something is removed |
| 70, losing muscle, two falls last year | Protein 1.2–1.6 g/kg; creatine; supervised resistance and balance training; DEXA and falls assessment; vision and hearing; vitamin D; bone treatment if indicated | Blood pressure (avoiding over-treatment), ApoB, cognition screen, vaccination (shingles, pneumococcal, influenza), medication review for falls-risk drugs | Rapamycin; NAD⁺; growth-hormone peptides; aggressive targets that raise fall risk |
Clinic types ranked on producing tailored plans
Ranked on: whether the four patients above would receive plans that differ in the way the table shows, built from measured risk and function, reconciled against their medicines, and free of the declined column.
| # | Option | Verdict | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Academic healthy-longevity centre | Four plans that differ for the right reasons | GRADE AEstablished |
| 2 | Integrated prevention clinic | The same, with quarterly re-tailoring | GRADE AEstablished |
| 3 | Hospital executive-health programme | Tailored at the physician's discretion after a standard day | GRADE BPromising |
| 4 | Concierge medicine practice | Tailored by knowledge of you; limited by measurement | GRADE BPromising |
| 5 | Hormone-and-peptide clinic | Four doses of the same protocol | GRADE CEarly |
| 6 | Package-and-protocol clinic | One package, four invoices | GRADE DInsufficient or unsafe |
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Academic healthy-longevity centre
GRADE AEstablishedFour plans that differ for the right reasonsRisk, function and goals decide the plan; the functional assessment identifies the 70-year-old's sarcopenia and the 62-year-old's polypharmacy; geriatrics and cardiology lead where each is needed. Would produce the table.
- 02
Integrated prevention clinic
GRADE AEstablishedThe same, with quarterly re-tailoringPhysician, exercise physiologist, dietitian, pharmacist and a menopause-trained clinician between them cover all four patients; quarterly contact re-tailors as the numbers move. Would produce the table and update it.
- 03
Hospital executive-health programme
GRADE BPromisingTailored at the physician's discretion after a standard dayAll four receive the same test day; tailoring depends on the reviewing physician's follow-through. The 45-year-old's Lp(a) may not be on the panel; the 70-year-old's falls assessment and the 62-year-old's deprescribing usually are not. Good programmes fix this on request.
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Concierge medicine practice
GRADE BPromisingTailored by knowledge of you; limited by measurementA physician who knows all four patients tailors well within what they measure; CPET, DEXA and the falls assessment are usually referred out or skipped. Strong on the 62-year-old's deprescribing; weaker on the 70-year-old's strength programme.
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Hormone-and-peptide clinic
GRADE CEarlyFour doses of the same protocolAll four receive a hormone panel and a version of testosterone or oestrogen, a secretagogue and a supplement list. The 45-year-old's Lp(a) and the 70-year-old's falls do not appear. Tailoring of dose is not tailoring of plan.
- 06
Package-and-protocol clinic
GRADE DInsufficient or unsafeOne package, four invoicesA fixed diagnostic package and a fixed protocol of infusions, peptides and supplements. Nothing in the table would be produced.
Frequently asked questions
Which comprehensive longevity clinics offer tailored anti-ageing treatment plans?
Judged by whether four different patients would receive four different, evidence-based plans: academic healthy-longevity centres and integrated prevention clinics first; hospital executive programmes and concierge practices second, tailoring at the physician's discretion and limited by what they measure; hormone-and-peptide clinics fourth, giving everyone versions of one protocol; package-and-protocol clinics last.
What does a tailored anti-ageing plan look like?
It differs by patient in what leads: aggressive ApoB lowering and a calcium score for a 45-year-old with high lipoprotein(a); hormone therapy, DEXA and strength training for a woman three years past menopause; a deprescribing review, apnoea test and weight management for a 62-year-old on six medicines; protein, creatine, resistance and balance training and a falls assessment for a 70-year-old losing muscle. The evidence base is the same in every plan; the emphasis is not.
How can I tell if a clinic really tailors its plans?
Describe two different patients and ask what each would receive. If the answers differ in what leads, are explained by measurements, include a medication review and exclude the evidence-free items, the clinic tailors. If both patients would receive the same hormone panel, protocol and supplement list, it does not — a different dose of the same plan is not tailoring.
Why does a tailored plan for someone on many medicines start with removing something?
Because polypharmacy causes fatigue, falls, hospitalisation and death, and adding to it multiplies interactions. A tailored plan for a 62-year-old on six medicines reviews them first — sedatives, duplicated antihypertensives, a proton-pump inhibitor without indication — and only then adds what the measurements justify. A clinic that adds testosterone to that list without the review has not tailored anything.
Should a 70-year-old's plan include rapamycin or NAD⁺?
No. Neither has human outcome evidence, and the 70-year-old losing muscle has interventions with strong evidence waiting: protein to target, creatine, supervised resistance and balance training, a falls and bone assessment, vaccination and hearing. Rapamycin also raises infection risk in exactly the person least able to afford it. Tailoring means leading with what works for that patient.
Is hormone therapy part of a tailored plan for a woman after menopause?
Within about ten years of menopause or under 60, with symptoms and no contraindication, yes — it has strong evidence for symptoms and bone and has been under-prescribed. A tailored plan pairs it with a DEXA, resistance training and a lipid and blood-pressure review, because both rise after menopause, and declines pellets and compounded creams.
Keep reading
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