By Amely Greeven
What would it feel like to meet with your doctor and be handed a mini “book of you” that captures the complexity of your health story—where your health has been, where it’s going, and how your lifestyle choices, right now, are affecting how you age? Your clinician, usually so time-pressed or laser-focused on her data-filled screen, looks at you expansively, as if seeing you fully for the first time—your efforts, your obstacles, and your frustrations and fears.
Tuned in to the biological patterns inside your body, she’s aware of subtle disharmonies that could become problems, and she’s noticed how something’s affecting your sleep, or your metabolic function, or hormones, or inflammation—what’s changed? Curious about how you’re doing—how you’re really doing—she’s ready to show you the latest evidence about precise changes she knows can help you feel better, and avoid risks that your genetic profile suggests could cause problems as you get older. She wants to help you chart a path of what actions to take—interventions and lifestyle changes, perhaps screenings and treatments—that feel aligned with your lifestyle and your values.
You notice that your clinician seems calmer than you’ve ever seen her, because she’s no longer poring over patient reports till the wee hours, synthesizing pages of data from different labs and research on her own. She’s practicing what she trained in: using her expertise to help people to be well. You exhale for the first time in years of medical appointments. You really feel seen.
Making this kind of personalized and effective longevity medicine the new norm is the goal of a technology platform for clinicians called Longevity AI. Created to help doctors improve patient outcomes by helping them easily identify unique risk factors and zero in on the lifestyle changes that will help prevent disease, it offers a state-of-the-art dashboard that synthesizes patient data—not just from medical testing and appointments over the years, but also the day-to-day data from their wearable technology, if desired—with global health research and population-wide patterns.
“Ninety percent of our unhealthy years as humans are preventable,” says founder and CEO Guy Leitersdorf, but the current “sick care” system, which largely waits for disease to present before bringing solutions, is missing the window. Longevity AI uses an intelligence layer dubbed “Florence” (for Florence Nightingale) to expand what is usually a snapshot of health—through, say, periodic blood or biomarker testing at a routine appointment—to a continuous, predictive view of a patient’s health as it evolves through time. It gives the physician clear data about where your health may be going, and what the evidence shows are some of the best root-cause ways to optimize it. She isn’t starting from scratch during a short appointment or missing important early signals.
The company explains that personal patient data is not used to train the AI model, as some might fear. The Florence models are schooled with de-identified data through long-term partnerships where participants have explicitly consented to that use, which is distinct from the clinical care experience. A patient’s data stays private and protected.
Though it centers on algorithms and data synthesis, Leitersdorf says the heart of Longevity AI is people. Already in use at over 100 clinics worldwide, and with its sights set on improving public health worldwide, the company wants to change the providers’ all-too-often harried and pressure-filled experience of modern medicine, in which the time required for administration and analyzing data to give patients the best longevity plans, can be overwhelming, sometimes to the point of burnout. And it wants to help physicians make earlier, informed decisions that are proactive, not reactive.
“Our goal is to deliver 10 billion healthy years to this planet,” says Leitersdorf. “This is something we can do, when your doctor gets the full scoop on you.” longevity-ai.com