I Did A $12K Longevity Test To Find Out When I Might Die

My father died of pancreatic cancer at 72. A year later, I enrolled in a $12,000 executive health program at Human Longevity, a Silicon Valley clinic, to answer a question I'd been avoiding: how much of my future is already written into my biology?

Over four hours, I went through a whole-body MRI, an echocardiogram, 16 vials of blood work, a GRAIL Galleri liquid biopsy screening for 50+ cancers, and full genome sequencing across more than 2,000 conditions. Some results were the relief I was hoping for — a 99% chance of being cancer-free, zero coronary artery calcium, and a longevity gene variant linked to living past 90. Others I never saw coming: an APOE4 allele that raises my lifetime Alzheimer's risk, a 99th-percentile genetic score for Parkinson's, and elevated Lp(a) — a heart risk factor no diet or workout can touch.

This is what luxury longevity medicine can actually tell you, what it can't, and what it feels like to read your own genetic hand.

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00:00 - Intro
00:10 - Longevity Clinic
04:31 - Test Results
09:12 - Final Thoughts
10:26 - Credits

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