By Currie Engel- Women’s Health –
Longevity” has us in a death grip. It’s all around—in the stories we read as children, the movies we watch, the ads we see—our entire lives. In Harry Potter, it’s the sorcerer’s stone, which produces an elixir that extends the drinker’s lifespan. In The Substance, Demi Moore plays an aging woman who buys black market drugs to generate a younger version of herself. News headlines are peppered with tales of vampiric blood injections, cryogenic chambers, and optimized sleep cycles. Booming basses on podcasts promise listeners that if they, too, follow this 99-step plan, they can live to be 112. In 2023, the global market for antiaging products was valued at around $47 billion, a number projected to reach nearly $80 billion by 2030.
We’re taught that the most valuable thing in this life is simply more of it. And that concept is hammered in, making some think that tens of thousands of dollars spent on biohacking regimens and IVs will suddenly make them feel 18 again.
But the truth is that “longevity” looks very different for women. And right now, “80 percent of the longevity conversation is men talking to men,” says Roma van der Walt, a former member of the German national team in modern pentathlon, a sports scientist, and the CEO and founder of Vitelle.
