Our 150+ blood biomarker panel is a crucial part of your longevity assessment. The results equip you and us with the knowledge to make informed decisions about your well-being and longevity.

We will take your blood when you come for your clinic assessment and send it to our partner labs where they will measure over one hundred biomarkers, helping to create the most comprehensive possible picture of your current health and future health risks. Many results will come back within a day but some can take a few days.

The results of some special tests can take a few weeks. We will tell you your blood results when they become available during your program.

As part of your assessment, we’ll conduct special clinical tests and advanced MRI protocol scans to understand your brain health. By combining these results with your lifestyle details, clinical tests, imaging results, genomic data, and other indicators, we can estimate your risk of cognitive issues or dementia, including Alzheimer’s Disease.

We combine specific clinical tests and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to evaluate you for chronic traumatic encephalopthy (CTE) if you’ve been involved in activities or sports where you have suffered repeated head injuries. We assess your memory and combine advanced dementia MRI protocols with clinical and genetic tests to evaluate your dementia risks.

Magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) is a non-interventional and radiation-free way to examine your carotid arteries and the arteries that supply your brain. It can identify any narrowing in your carotid arteries that might predispose you to a stroke, which is a devastating problem from which someone in the United States suffers every 40 seconds. In the UK, 1.3 million people have had a stroke, of which 80% could have been prevented by screening, lifestyle optimisation and medication.

These advanced brain and neurological assessments help us develop a personalized plan to reduce potential risks and boost your cognitive health, enhancing your quality of life for many more years.

Cardiac MRI is the gold standard diagnostic technique for the evaluation of the anatomy and function of the heart. It shows the size and shape of the chambers of your heart, the thickness of the chamber walls, the effectiveness of your heart as a pump, the function of its valves, areas of scar tissue following a myocardial infarction, or areas of poor blood flow that could be at risk of a myocardial infarction. It can also assess you for any congenital heart disease, heart failure, cardiomyopathy, and the possibility of disease in your thoracic aorta. It takes less than an hour and is best performed in a modern 3T MRI scanner.

Cardiac MRI can more accurately diagnose heart failure than other methods such as echocardiography. Heart failure affects 6.5 million Americans over the age of 20, and more than 900,000 people in the UK. About 40% of people diagnosed with heart failure die within a year. Cardiac MRI is also a reliable and accurate method to identify hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), which is the most common cause of sudden cardiac death (SCD) in young athletes.

We do most of our cardiac MRI scans in a Philips Ingenia Eliton 3.0T MRI scanner, which is one of the best MRI scanners in the world. A cardiac MRI typically takes around 45 minutes.

The health screening whole body MRI is a radiation-free scan of your head, neck, chest, abdomen and pelvis. It studies your brain in detail to diagnose or exclude any serious problem. It also looks at structures in your face and neck, liver, kidneys, and pelvic organs, including your uterus and ovaries, or your prostate.

A whole body MRI can find cancer and other serious health problems long before you get symptoms, at a time when they’re most likely to be curable. Without screening, most cancers are diagnosed at stage 3 or 4, when they’ve already started to spread and it’s usually too late for a cure.

We can arrange a whole body MRI in a number of MRI scanners depending on factors such as where you live and whether you’re claustrophobic. If you are, we can arrange one in an open MRI, but these are usually 0.5T compared to the gold standard 3T scanners, and the image quality is often poor. A whole body screening MRI typically takes just over 60 minutes in one our modern 3T MRI scanners.

Magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) is a non-interventional and radiation-free way to examine your carotid arteries and the arteries that supply your brain. It can identify any narrowing in your carotid arteries that might predispose you to a stroke, which is a devastating problem from which someone in the United States suffers every 40 seconds. In the UK, 1.3 million people have had a stroke, of which 80% could have been prevented by screening, lifestyle optimisation and medication.

Most people from their late 20s onwards have visible degenerative changes in their spine on MRI. These changes include intervertebral disc dehydration and loss of disc height, enlargement and distortion of the facet joints, and narrowing of the spinal canal and channels at the side of the spine through which spinal nerves leave to connect with the arms and legs.

All of these can cause neck and back pain, which are the greatest cause of pain and disability worldwide. Pain in the shoulders, arms, buttocks or legs is often caused by compression or irritation of spinal nerves, and the appropriate treatment can only be determined after identifying the cause.

Stress fractures in the lumbar spine (pars interarticularis) are a common cause of persistent back pain in athletes and gymnasts, and can be treated with relatively simple surgery. If left unchecked, spinal stress fractures can progress to slippage of one vertebra on top of another – a condition called spondylolisthesis – which can require significantly more major surgery.

The most common cause of back pain and difficulty walking as people get into their 60s and older is narrowing of the spinal canal, a condition called spinal stenosis. If the spinal cord is compressed in the neck by degnerative narrowing in the cervical spine, it can become permanently damaged, affecting the ability to walk and use the arms – a condition called cervical myelopathy. Cervical myelopathy can’t be reversed, but its progression can be halted by an operation to decompress the spinal cord in the neck.

An MRI of the whole spine takes less than 45 minutes in a modern 3T MRI scanner.

All our advanced systeme diagnostics include options for the imaging of any joints in your body that might be causing you problems. Depending on the joints involved the recommended imaging may be a combination of X-ray, ultrasound and MRI, and we may on occasion need a CT scan.

Your body’s fat and muscle composition significantly influence your longevity. DEXA (Dual-Energy X-ray Absorptiometry) is an advanced tool we use to accurately measure your body composition, distinguishing between muscle and fat, even in different body parts. It’s especially important for athletes and those who want to trim down their body fat for a healthier life. We offer DEXA scans at our partner imaging centers, so you can track your progress and make informed decisions about your body composition and overall health. We monitor your body composition with repeated DEXA scans during our longer programs.

A high level of fat around your abdominal organs (visceral fat) could indicate that you have metabolic syndrome and it is an accurate predictor of early death. Unlike fat outside the abdominal cavity, visceral fat is hormonally and chemically active, secreting harmful hormones into your bloodstream and chemicals such as cytokines, which can increase your levels of cholesterol and triglycerides, and increase insulin resistance, potentially leading to type 2 diabetes.

The use of BMI to assess whether someone is obese has been discredited and shouldn’t be used. While a clinic based method such as bioimpedance can give useful information about trends in body composition, it is relatively innacurate. Dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) is the considered the most accurate widely available technique for the measurement of body composition.

While DEXA is best known for the assessment of bone health and the diagnosis of osteopenia and osteoporosis, it can also be adapted to measure the amount of bone, muscle and fat in the body, as well as where it is located. For example, it can measure the muscle mass in arms and legs, and is so accurate it can identify differences in muscle mass between someone’s dominant and non-dominant arms.

It is also the most accurate way to measure total body fat and visceral fat. If you’re trying to increase your muscle mass if you’re an athlete, or if you’re trying to reduce your body fat and visceral fat, it’s important you maintain your skeletel muscle mass. Only DEXA scanning has the necessary level of accuracy to measure where you’re gaining or losing muscle or fat.

If you choose a Longevity IQ program that’s 3 months or longer, you’ll have a DEXA scan every 3 months to assess your progress. We’ll look at changes in your total body fat, visceral fat, total muscle mass, and muscle mass in each limb, amongst other variables.

Early detection of lung cancer drastically improves survival rates. With our LDCT screenings, we can identify lung cancer before it causes symptoms.

Lung cancer is the biggest cancer killer in the developed world, killing more than 35,000 people a year in the UK alone, which is more than breast, bowel, bladder and cervical cancer combined. Almost 90% of lung cancers are preventable, but nearly 80% are already at stage 3 or 4 when they’re found, by which time they’re incurable.

The 5-year survival rate of people with lung cancer that has spread to other parts of the body is only 5%, but if a lung cancer can be identified on screening before it causes symptoms they can have a 20-year survival rate of 80%, and with some tumours over 90%.

The gold standard method to screen for lung cancers is LDCT. People at high risk of developing lung cancer (especially active smokers and ex-heavy smokers) should have a LDCT of their lungs every year. This frequency can be reduced in lower risk people. We perform most of our LDCTs using a GE Revolution 512-slice CT scanner, which is one of the best CT scanners currently available, with the fastest screening time, highest resolution and lowest radiation dose. A LDCT of your lungs just takes a few minutes.

Detecting heart conditions early on is essential for a long and healthy life. Our CT Heart and CTCA scans identify any narrowing of your heart’s arteries, predicting the risk of heart attacks years ahead. With these insights, you can make lifestyle changes and receive suitable treatments to improve your heart health and longevity.

Atherosclerosis usually starts in the teens or 20s and signs can be detected in most people by their 30s. Acute blockages of coronary arteries are one the leading causes of death in the developed world, with more than one million deaths a year in the United States. Around 1.4 million people in the UK have had a myocardial infarction (death of part of the heart muscle following blockage of a coronary artery), almost all of which could have been prevented with early screening, lifestyle changes and appropriate treatments.

A CTCA is an ultra fast non-invasive scan of your heart and coronary arteries, which has largely replaced conventional coronary angiography to investigate for narrowing in coronary arteries. The scan is completed in just a few minutes after the injection of some contrast into your arm. After you’ve had your scan, we use CaRi-Heart ® AI technology to accurately predict your risk of a myocardial infarction years in advance.

Colon cancer is the 4th most common cancer in the UK. Up to 1 in 15 people will be develop it during their life, and more than half of all the cases diagnosed could have been prevented with simple lifestyle modifications that anyone can make.

Almost 120 people a day are diagnosed with colon cancer in the UK, and it is the cause of death for around 46 people a day. If it’s identified early, it can be cured, and if potentially malignant polyps can be removed before they become cancerous, it can be prevented altogether. It is one of the most easily preventable cancers.

If colon cancer is identified early enough, when the tumour is still localized, the 5-year survival rate is 91%, but if it has spread to surrounding tissues or organs, or to regional lymph nodes, the 5-year survival rate falls to 72%.

We screen for the signs of potential bowel malignancy by examining your stool with tests such as guaiac fecal occult blood test (gFOBT) or a fecal immunohistochemical test (FIT), which look for small traces of blood in your stool, or a FIT-DNA test, which also looks for altered DNA in your stool.

If you have a positive result from any of these, you should have a colonoscopy or a CT colonograhy (CTC). You should also have a CTC or colonoscopy every 5-10 years from your late 30s if you are at average risk, meaning you don’t have any specific risk factors that put you at higher risk. If you have familial polyposis coli, if you eat a diet that is low in fiber or high in processed foods, if you smoke, or if you are overweight, you are at higher risk of developing colon cancer and you should undergo screening more often – up to once a year.

You should choose CTC over colonoscopy in the first instance if you have had a failed or incomplete colonoscopy or if colonoscopy is relatively contraindicated because of other medical conditions. It is less invasive or uncomfortable than a colonoscopy, and if it’s negative, you won’t need to undergo a colonoscopy. But if a CTC shows you have a problem, you may still need to have a colonoscopy.

We offer CTC in our usual facilities and we offer colonoscopy through our partner gastroenterologists. Most of our screening CTCs are performed in an ultra-fast, low radiation dose GE Revolution 512-slice CT scanner, which is one of the best CT scanners currently available.

Many people suffer from hiatus hernia, swallowing problems, reflus of abdominal dyscomfort. It is important to investigatge any upper GI symptoms you might have to rule out easily treatable causes and to identify more serious causes such as cancer as soon as possible as upper GI malignancies are associated with poor survival rates unless found as early as possible, ideally before they cause any symptoms.

Bowel cancer is the third most common cancer inside the body. One in fifteen people get it, nearly 50 people a day die from it, but over half of all colon cancers are preventable with simple dietary and lifestyle changes. The gold standard technique to examine the bowel is to have a flexible colonoscopy, but some people can’t tolerate these and the views are sometimes poor. In these cases, a CT colonography may be preferable. It is a shorter and less uncomfortable procedure, but both need bowel preparation. If you have a clear CT colonography, which doesn’t show a problem, you don’t need a colonoscopy.

If colon cancer is identified early enough, when the tumour is still localized, the 5-year survival rate is 91%, but if it has spread to surrounding tissues or organs, or to regional lymph nodes, the 5-year survival rate falls to 72%.

We screen for the signs of potential bowel malignancy by examining your stool with tests such as guaiac fecal occult blood test (gFOBT) or a fecal immunohistochemical test (FIT), which look for small traces of blood in your stool, or a FIT-DNA test, which also looks for altered DNA in your stool.

If you have a positive result from any of these, you should have a colonoscopy or a CT colonograhy (CTC). You should also have a CTC or colonoscopy every 5-10 years from your late 30s if you are at average risk, meaning you don’t have any specific risk factors that put you at higher risk. If you have familial polyposis coli, if you eat a diet that is low in fiber or high in processed foods, if you smoke, or if you are overweight, you are at higher risk of developing colon cancer and you should undergo screening more often – up to once a year.

You should choose CTC over colonoscopy in the first instance if you have had a failed or incomplete colonoscopy or if colonoscopy is relatively contraindicated because of other medical conditions. It is less invasive or uncomfortable than a colonoscopy, and if it’s negative, you won’t need to undergo a colonoscopy. But if a CTC shows you have a problem, you may still need to have a colonoscopy.

We can arrange for you to have upper and lower GI endoscopies at partner clinics.

Ultrasound examination of the heart (echocardiography) is a quick and entirely non-invasive bedside technique to examine the morphology and function of the heart and valves. In most cases, cardiac MRI is more useful and accurate, but echocardiography remains a useful screening test backed up by decades of worldwide experience and can identify people who should progress to a cardiac MRI.

Two ultrasound modes (duplex) are commonly used to evaluate blood flow and dimensions of arteries and veins. Duplex is the standard bedside screening test to examine the carotid arteries to look for narrowing that might cause a stroke, as well as narrowing in the arteries of the legs, which can cause pain in the legs and ulcers, and which is common in smokers and diabetics. It is also use to examine the deep veins of the legs to look for a deep vein thrombosis. A duplex scan can identify people who might need an MRA.

If you choose a Longevity IQ program that’s 3 months or longer, you’ll have a cardiac echo exam every 3 months to assess your progress with your training. We’ll look for increases in your cardiac output, left ventricular wall thickness, stroke volume and ejection fraction, amongst other variables.

We provide rapid, radiation-free ultrasound examinations of your abdomen and pelvis. These bedside real-time tests help to identify any potential issues with your liver, kidneys, major arteries and pelvic organs, ensuring timely intervention to prolong your life and maintain your health.

We give you the best health assessments and advanced systems diagnostics depending on your age and life goals. If you’re concerned about fertility we can arrange fertility tests for you and for you to see a specialist fertility gynaecologist. We can help organise egg storage for you if you are interested.

Your advanced systems diagnostics includes breast ultrasound, mammogram or MRI as appropriate for your personal circumstances. You can also have a transvaginal ultrasound exam, which gives more information than a transabdominal ultrasound, and you can have an MRI of your pelvis, which will examine your ovaries, uterus and cervix in detail, as well as the structures around them to investigate for any pelvic symptoms you may have.

If you are peri-menopausal we can take you through the risks and benefits of HRT and get you on the right treatment for your personal circumstances. We also work closely with the best gynaecologists around all of our clinics and we can get you seen withinn days.

We also evaluate and can offer the latest scientifically proven treatments for low libido, or hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD).

Your advanced male health assessment includes a 3T MRI of your prostate, which is the gold standard method for prostate cancer screening and is replacing PSA as a screeing method in specialist clinics.

If you have flow problems, we do urine flow tests combined with ultrasound to measure your flow rate and the amount of urine you retain in your bladder.

If you are concerned about erectile dysfunction, your intelligent clinical health assessment and advanced system diagnostics will find potentially treatable factors such as diabetes and poorly controlled hypertension.

We also evaluate and can offer the latest scientifically proven treatments for low libido, or hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD).

Our program harnesses wearable technology to collect comprehensive data about your health and lifestyle. From glucose monitoring, through heart rate and blood pressure monitoring, to activity tracking, these devices provide valuable insights into how your lifestyle choices impact your health. By integrating this data into our overall assessment, we can provide personalized guidance to help you transform your health risks and live longer, and we monitor your progress with advanced analytics of your wearables data throughout our longer programs.

If you choose a Longevity IQ program that’s 3 months or longer, we’ll monitor your wearables data every day, and we’ll analyse it so you can see quantifiable changes in data such as your blood pressure, blood glucose stability, weight and body composition, active calories, distance cycled or run, and much more depending on the activities you like to do.

Your VO2 max is the measurement of how efficient your heart, lungs, muscles, circulation and mitochondria are at extracting oxygen from the air you breathe. The more you perform aerobic exercise, the fitter you become, the higher your cellular mitochondrial density and the higher your VO2 max. You should have a VO2 maxt test if you’re a competitive athlete or if you want to monitor your training and fitness regimen.

A VO2 max test takes around 60 minutes and is performed in one of our partner labs. We can also arrange for your to have your lactate threshold and anaerobic power measured.

If you choose a Longevity IQ program that’s 3 months or longer, you’ll have a VO2 Max test every 3 months so you can track the changes in your oxygen consumption and cardiovascular aerobic effiency with the training you get on the program.

The Longevity IQ®️ programs are anchored in a holistic approach to well-being, focusing on sustainable, and compelling personalized nutrition, tailored exercise regimens, and quality sleep.

Individualized eating plans balance nutrients, vitamins, and minerals to support optimal healthspan and lifespan, manage weight, and mitigate the risk of chronic diseases, thereby empowering individuals to make informed food choices that enhance vitality.

Exercise is another cornerstone, with customized regimens designed to boost both physical and mental well-being by promoting strength, endurance, flexibility, and balance, while also reducing stress and improving mood.

Recognizing the critical role of sleep, the program emphasizes restorative rest, assessing individual sleep patterns and addressing any disruptions or disorders to ensure cognitive function, emotional well-being, and overall health are optimized for a more energized and focused life.

Everyone has different longevity goals. Some clients want to live as long as they can whatever the cost. Others want to live a full and active life, being able to do all the things they’ve always enjoyed right up until the moment they die, and they’re happy for that to be in their 80s or early 90s.

Whatever your goals are, we’ll design a longevity program to help you realise them.

Mental health is a fundamental aspect of Longevity IQ®️ programs. A healthy mind is integral to a healthy body and longevity.

Our mental health professionals assess your emotional well-being, identify any areas of concern, and provide support and interventions as needed.

Whether through counselling, stress management techniques, or mindfulness practices, we are dedicated to fostering your mental resilience and overall happiness.

Your lifestyle is a major determinant of your current health and healthspan. We will have explored your lifestyle in depth during the early part of your program, and if it’s a risk to you realising your longevity goals we’ll help you devise a plan for making the appropriate changes.

Where you live and your immediate surroundings at home and at work are important longevity risk factors. If your daily commute is too long, you spend a long time on international flights, are surrounded by noise or live in a poor food environment, these are all factors we will explore with you. We’ll help you realise the appropriate goal directed changes wherever possible.