Want to live 20, 30, 50 years beyond the norm? Some with wealth and ambition are eagerly pursuing that dream to the extreme.
So we’re sitting in Tristan Sternson’s blood-red Ferrari Portofino, stopped at traffic lights in Armadale, in Melbourne’s affluent south-east, when he starts telling me about how he was in Los Angeles recently – discussing stem cell transfusions with his longevity doctor. Sternson goes to Los Angeles quite a bit, for longevity treatments that aren’t available in Australia, including stem cell therapy.
Sternson’s transformation began, inevitably, with a midlife crisis. It was 2019, and he was in LA for business. “My 40th birthday was coming up, which was a big deal for me,” he says. “I went from feeling invincible to feeling more vulnerable.” And so he decided to have his bloods tested. “I did 48 different markers – hormones, liver, cortisol, inflammation, kidneys. Everything.” Much to his shock, one of his tests showed he was pre-diabetic. “I had to do something,” he says.
In 2003, de Grey and the American philanthropist and entrepreneur David Gobel started the Methuselah Foundation, named after the Biblical figure whose lifespan was recorded in the Book of Genesis as 969 years. The foundation, which has the declared mission of “making 90 the new 50 by 2030”, sponsors prizes and funds longevity start-ups and research.
‘So, how old do you want to live?’ Eugene asks. ’100…120, 130?’. He smiles and says, ‘Tim Gurner wants to live to 500,’ which I think is a joke but can’t be sure. From there it’s into the dry treatment rooms. I’m taken to a private nook and placed on a PEMF bed, where I lie for 20 minutes as gentle birdsong is piped in through tiny speakers just above my head. This is followed by a spell of lymphatic leg compression, which is like having your legs rhythmically squeezed by those inflatable collars that your doctor puts on your arm to test your blood pressure.
“I started my first business, called My Well Being, in Earlwood, when I was 21,” he says. “It did yoga, massage, pilates and personal training. Six weeks after that, my dad died of cancer – multiple myeloma. It was absolutely horrible.” As a result, he became “terrified of dying”. Life ever since has become a quest “not to get sick and die. It became, ‘How do I live the best life possible with the least risk possible for as long as possible?’ ”Gurner now describes this quest as “an obsession”.
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