I Went All-In on Healthspan. Here Are the Secret Truths I Learned
The healthspan industry is increasingly high tech—and high price.
Illustration by Khyati Trehan for Bloomberg Businessweek.
Hello there. I’m Mark Ellwood. I write regularly for Pursuits about everything from why white house paint is on the rise (TL;DR: the margins are better) to what millennials are making of their midlife crisis (fewer Ferraris, more f--- budgets).
My most recent feature was on the wide, weird world of healthspan, that strange Silicon Valley White Guy phenomenon where some people will do anything (no, really, anything—from injections to DNA analysis to tallying their dally calorie count down to a single digit) to extend not only the length of their life, but also its quality.