“There are nine established hallmarks of aging,” says Dr Mohammed Enayat, founding father of Hum2n, a walk-in longevity clinic in London’s Chelsea. He runs by a few of them: cells grown senescent; the physique’s manufacturing of stem cells; one thing referred to as mitochondrial dysfunction. “By addressing some of these processes, you can see objective markers improving, and your biological age drops.” Dr Enayat talks of his Hum2n clinic as “the GP practice of the future”, the place points are found and handled earlier than they arrive.
These can all be examined for—as I uncover on a startling first day at Sha Mexico when a nurse ushers me into a dazzling laboratory containing randomly spaced machines. My outcomes seem on an app, resulting in prescriptions for procedures, dietary supplements and train.
Dr Andrea Marquez is accountable for Sha Mexico’s most cutting-edge gives. With a calm, otherworldly method, she’s extra starship doctor than harassed GP. She talks to me about stem cells and exosomes harvested from the umbilical cords of firstborn youngsters. “A young boy produces approximately two billion stem cells per kilogram,” she says. “By the time he’s in his 80s, that drops to maybe 2,000.” She calls stem cells the physique’s managers, transferring to areas the place harm has occurred, the place they “signal for regeneration.” Harvesting stem cells from umbilical cords, she says, “is only allowed in Mexico, South Korea, Japan and India.” That means you can’t obtain them in famed European medi spas resembling Clinique La Prairie, Lanserhof, Mount Med or Sha’s mothership in Alicante, though a few of them tradition cells from the affected person’s personal physique.
At Sha Mexico, they’re taken from ladies with out tattoos or a historical past of sickness. They can be harvested from the dental pulp of child tooth. Wow, I say, the tooth fairy have to be driving a Mercedes. “No,” Dr Marquez replies. “They are all donated.” Clearly, this freaks some purchasers out. A visitor tells me she selected exosomes as a result of no DNA is concerned. Dr Marquez explains the distinction: they each instruct cells to start repairs, however “the stem cells are managers, the exosomes the messengers.” I ask how a lot a course can be. “For a man of your weight, $8,000.” Of course, stem cells and exosomes, accessible now for 10 years, are previous cheese in comparison with the smorgasbord of medicines in improvement.