Longevity by Design

Beyond Sick Care: Evelyne Bischof on the Rise of Longevity Medicine

Jun 4, 2025
Dr. Evelyne Bischof, a physician-scientist and President of the Healthy Longevity Medicine Society, shares her journey into longevity medicine, emphasizing a shift from traditional healthcare to a focus on healthspan. She explains how advanced diagnostics, including AI, can personalize health trajectories and drive faster clinical innovations. Evelyne also discusses global advancements in longevity practices and the importance of data collection for empowering individual health decisions, aiming to establish longevity medicine as a recognized discipline.
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ANECDOTE

From Medicine to Longevity

  • Evelyne Bischof was inspired to become a physician by the challenge of puzzling together patient symptoms.
  • She transitioned from acute internal medicine and oncology to longevity medicine to focus on health trajectories and prevention.
INSIGHT

Scope of Longevity Medicine

  • Longevity medicine aims to optimize healthspan by targeting age-related processes.
  • It benefits individuals with chronic diseases and cancer survivors, not only healthy people.
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Defining Healthspan

  • Healthspan means the years lived without chronic or age-related diseases causing impairment.
  • Functional decline occurs naturally but healthspan ends when comorbidities cause problems.
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