Longevity clinics in Beverly Hills, what they test and what they cost

What a longevity programme costs

Of the programmes near Beverly Hills that publish a price, the highest is about $36,890 paid in full, or about $3,690 a month, for the Diamond 12 Month Longevity Concierge at Mimansa Longevity, part of LA Integrative Gastroenterology and Nutrition in Century City [1]. It includes monthly visits, email and text access through the year, genomic testing and coordination of referrals, advanced laboratory tests and integrative therapies.

The same practice sells a 6 month Gold programme at about $18,890 and a 3 month Silver programme at about $7,890, each paid in full [1]. It states that the Silver programme is not sufficient for significant weight management, hormone balancing or complex cases.

What a single assessment includes

Next Health, which has clinics in West Hollywood and Century City, sells an Executive Physical that combines a blood panel of more than 500 biomarkers, an epigenetic test of biological age, a full body MRI and chest CT, a coronary calcium score and a physical examination, followed by quarterly tests and follow-up with a doctor [2] [3]. Its page does not publish a price.

Prenuvo lists Los Angeles among its locations and publishes its Whole Body scan at about $2,500 for about 50 minutes in the scanner. Its Enhanced scan, which adds a brain health assessment, body composition analysis and two blood panels, costs about $4,000 [4]. At the other end of the range, Function Health sells a blood testing membership for $365 a year, with more than 160 lab tests and testing twice a year [5].

Read what each scan leaves out. Prenuvo's Focused scan costs about $1,200 for about 25 minutes, runs from the head to the middle of the thigh and does not look for aneurysms or include the arms or spine. Its Heart Health Assessment measures how the heart muscle works, and Prenuvo states that it does not diagnose heart disease or find blocked arteries [4].

Tests that can change what a doctor advises

In 6,722 adults with no heart disease, a coronary calcium score above 300 carried almost ten times the risk of a coronary event of a score of zero [6]. The US Preventive Services Task Force still judges the evidence insufficient to say whether adding a calcium score to standard risk assessment prevents heart attacks and strokes in people without symptoms [7].

Genetic screening can find risks that a family history misses. Among 26,906 adults in Nevada, 1.33% carried a variant for an inherited cancer or cholesterol condition, and 90% of those carriers had not been identified before [8].

A treadmill test measures fitness, which no blood panel does. In 122,007 adults who had one, the least fit had about five times the risk of death of the fittest over a median of 8.4 years, a larger difference than smoking or diabetes made in the same study [9].

What the evidence does not yet show

Checking everyone for everything has been tested in trials. A Cochrane review of 17 trials, 15 of them with outcome data on 251,891 people, found that general health checks had little or no effect on deaths overall or from cancer [10].

Whole body MRI often finds something that needs a second look. Across 12 studies of 5,373 people without symptoms, 32.1% had a finding a radiologist called critical or uncertain, and in the studies that checked, 16.0% of findings were false positives [11]. The American College of Radiology does not recommend total body screening for people without symptoms, risk factors or a relevant family history, and says no documented evidence shows it prolongs life [12].

Biological age clocks are newer still. A review of 23 studies with 41,607 participants found that each 5 years of extra DNA methylation age was linked to an 8% to 15% higher risk of death, found the link with age related disease inconclusive, and said more research is needed before the clock is used as a clinical measure [13].

Questions to ask a longevity clinic

Put these to any clinic before you pay, including us.

• Which of these tests would change what you advise me to do?
• Who reads my scans, and who explains each finding to me?
• If a scan finds something uncertain, who arranges the next test, and what does it cost?
• Does the price cover a full year of care, or one day of tests?
• Will the same doctor follow my results from one year to the next?

What our longevity care costs

Our longevity plan in Beverly Hills costs from $40,500 a year. Your doctor will read your blood tests, imaging, fitness and family history, choose only the tests that would change your care, and review the plan with you as your results change.

Our full body MRI costs from $2,750, reported by a consultant radiologist, and your own doctor will go through every finding with you and arrange anything that needs following up.