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28 June 2023

How to live forever

Oliver Zolman, doctor to millionaires, on the science of longevity.

By Sophie McBain

Oliver Zolman, longevity doctor to the super-rich, has a clinic above a vacant lot in Cambridge. On the day I arrived, he had just taken delivery of a radio frequency machine, used for skin rejuvenation. The device, the size of a small fridge, would cost $160,000 new, but Zolman knows a guy. He often buys his equipment from US clinics that have gone bust. Inside the treatment room were crammed an ultrasound machine, a laser, a muscle-stimulating machine that in half an hour gives the user a workout equivalent to doing 20,000 sit-ups, a massage table, an exercise bike, a guitar, video equipment and three large computer screens behind two ergonomic chairs, one equipped with bicycle pedals. The chair has helped Zolman overcome a back injury he incurred playing ultimate frisbee.

Zolman, 29, is tall and thin, having spent most of the past decade on an anti-ageing, low-calorie diet. He wore a loose, white, open-necked shirt and necklace, black trousers and big trainers. He had recently returned from a holiday partying in Mykonos, but the salmon sperm he has injected under his eyes has been showing great promise in reducing his dark circles. 

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