Would you want to live to be 100?
Its a question John Mackey likes to ask people.
He died five years later, though its difficult to say if his experiments were a contributing factor.
Illustration by Mark Pernice
But just because you saw someone raving about a treatment online doesnt mean it actually works.
COVID only accelerated the publics collective interest.
I am honestly taken aback by how mainstream integrative treatments have become, says Dr. Ahn.
Practices like red-light therapy, microbiome [treatments], and psychedelics were once dismissed as lacking scientific credibility.
Now theyre widely discussed even in research circles.
A few months ago, that customer base also included me.
It seems that my journey to Love.Life and into the world of longevity diagnostics came at the right time.
And if thats true, at 46, Im coming down from the first crest.
My skin has started a downward slump, ditto for my energy, focus, and libido.
Which is all to say that I was more than ready to offer myself up for a diagnostic reckoning.
The cost of a membership, however, is decidedly not.
A tall order, I think, but Dr. Miller is optimistic about my chances.
for 45 minutes so my resting metabolic rate can be measured.
If this is the path to longevity, Im all in.
Watching your setup-generated form and seeing the real-time data is meant to make your workouts more efficient.
By then, I was hungry.
(Love.Life also has red light beds if you want head-to-toe benefits.)
But Whole Foods faced public blowback for incentivizing employees to hit certain health goals.
The health-based discount was eliminated in 2023, but Whole Foods continues to offer immersion programs.
He believes that the dramatic health benefits people experienced outweigh the concerns raised about the approach.
And in 2022, Mackey started thinking about how he could scale that ideaand Love.Life was born.
But Love.Lifes white-glove, 24/7 all-access Unlimited membership?
That will run you $50,000 annually.
(My own one-day visit was gratis with the understanding Id be writing about the experience.
The total cost would have been $2,370.)
Comparatively, its a dealthough thats just for labs and virtual tracking.
They had a predilection toward breaking old paradigms and were rewarded for having a nothing is impossible attitude.
They were savvy with data and naturally gravitated to novel technologies.
And they came into substantial financial success early in life, leading to ample resources.
But you cant blame the patients who are buying into these treatments that come with lofty promises.
We dont have a proactive, preventative approach to health.
Its reactive, says Hyman.
All straightforward and also affordable.
Is all this worth the price of entry?
A few years ago I would have said hell no, but becoming a parent has shifted my perspective.
For some, like myself, that participation may just have to happen offsite.
On a writer’s salary, I cant swing a Love.Life membership.
However, at $12, that Ocean Bowl is in my budgetand Ill be back for it.
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