Who cares for the caregivers? What does the data say about how long doctors live.
Who is being left behind ? Longevity medicine stands at a pivotal moment.
Rich in emerging science, yet largely shaped by billionaires, podcast influencers, self-experimenting enthusiasts, and pure researchers operating outside clinical medicine, many with significant commercial interests and few with the disciplinary rigour that patients deserve. The data is accumulating rapidly, and glimpses of genuine benefit are appearing from surprisingly accessible interventions, but the field lacks the structured, evidence-based clinical framework that has underpinned every previous great leap in medicine from hygiene to antibiotics.
The promise is huge. Interventions that extend not just lifespan but healthspan, with implications as profound for people living with chronic disease as for the healthy, a population almost entirely neglected by current longevity discourse.
Realising that promise requires translating the best available science into a rigorous, clinically grounded methodology, free from commercial distortion, accessible to ordinary people, and held to the same evidentiary standards we demand of any serious medicine.
LITFL published a clinical update in Critical Care on 23 Apr 2026.
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