{"id":5708,"date":"2024-05-07T17:57:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T17:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=5708"},"modified":"2024-05-07T18:28:07","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T18:28:07","slug":"could-a-40000-equinox-membership-really-help-you-live-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=5708","title":{"rendered":"Could a $40,000 Equinox Membership Really Help You Live Longer?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Blood tests and \u2018biodata\u2019 have entered the fitness space.<\/p>\n

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On Monday, the high-end gym chain Equinox introduced a longevity program with a $40,000 annual membership fee.<\/p>\n

According to a news release, Optimize by Equinox is \u201cdesigned to unlock the peaks of human potential\u201d through personalized nutrition, sleep and fitness coaching \u201cbased on members\u2019 unique biodata.\u201d The program is being run in partnership with the lab test startup Function Health, which was co-founded by Dr. Mark Hyman<\/a>, an influential functional medicine physician. Function sells direct-to-consumer blood tests that assess cardiovascular, metabolic, liver, kidney and thyroid health, among other things.<\/p>\n

According to Function\u2019s website<\/a>, its aim is to help people \u201clive 100 healthy years.\u201d Equinox doesn\u2019t put a number on its goal.<\/p>\n

\u201cHealth span is what we\u2019re trying to figure out,\u201d said Julia Klim, vice president of strategic partnerships at Equinox, referring to the number of years a person lives without serious illness. \u201cBut inherently, if your health span is good,\u201d your life span should also improve, she added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The program is the latest in a string of concierge<\/a> health and fitness<\/a> services that have capitalized on the current fascination with self-optimization and longevity<\/a>. It isn\u2019t even the most expensive \u2014 a $10,000-a-month fitness club<\/a> is opening in Manhattan this spring. But scientists who study aging say that whether these services can deliver results worth their cost of enrollment is an open \u2014 and largely unanswerable \u2014 question.<\/p>\n

So what do you get for $40,000? Optimize gives users access to Function\u2019s panel of blood tests ($499), an Equinox membership (ranging from $3,600 to $6,000 per year) and an Oura smart ring<\/a> (starting at $299). But most of the cost comes from 16 hours a month of one-on-one coaching. That consists of three weekly personal training sessions, two 30-minute meetings per month with both a sleep coach and a nutritionist, and a monthly massage. (Equinox private coaching averages $160 a session.)<\/p>\n

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Blood tests and \u2018biodata\u2019 have entered the fitness space.On Monday, the high-end gym chain Equinox introduced a longevity program with a $40,000 annual membership fee.According to a news release, Optimize by Equinox is \u201cdesigned to unlock the peaks of human potential\u201d through personalized nutrition, sleep and fitness coaching \u201cbased on members\u2019 unique biodata.\u201d The program is being run in partnership with the lab test startup Function Health, which was co-founded by Dr. Mark Hyman, an influential functional medicine physician. Function sells direct-to-consumer blood tests that assess cardiovascular, metabolic, liver, kidney and thyroid health, among other things.According to Function\u2019s website, its aim is to help people \u201clive 100 healthy years.\u201d Equinox doesn\u2019t put a number on its goal.\u201cHealth span is what we\u2019re trying to figure out,\u201d said Julia Klim, vice president of strategic partnerships at Equinox, referring to the number of years a person lives without serious illness. \u201cBut inherently, if your health span is good,\u201d your life span should also improve, she added.The program is the latest in a string of concierge health and fitness services that have capitalized on the current fascination with self-optimization and longevity. It isn\u2019t even the most expensive \u2014 a $10,000-a-month fitness club is opening in Manhattan this spring. But scientists who study aging say that whether these services can deliver results worth their cost of enrollment is an open \u2014 and largely unanswerable \u2014 question.So what do you get for $40,000? Optimize gives users access to Function\u2019s panel of blood tests ($499), an Equinox membership (ranging from $3,600 to $6,000 per year) and an Oura smart ring (starting at $299). But most of the cost comes from 16 hours a month of one-on-one coaching. That consists of three weekly personal training sessions, two 30-minute meetings per month with both a sleep coach and a nutritionist, and a monthly massage. (Equinox private coaching averages $160 a session.)We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5710,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5711,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5708\/revisions\/5711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}