5 Science-Backed Longevity ‘Hacks’ That Don’t Cost a Fortune

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$20,000 health clinics offering genome sequencing and full-body scans. Gyms with 
$40,000 annual fees . Blood plasma exchanges for $10,000 or more a pop. One-on-one sleep coaching and $300 wearables.

Pursuing “longevity” has become an expensive — not to mention time-consuming — hobby. But it doesn’t have to be: Experts say many of the practices that are most likely to extend your life are also the cheapest.

Simple lifestyle choices, like eating well and getting regular exercise, are by far “the most effective and well-supported” longevity tactics — and “nothing else comes close,” said John Tower, a professor of biological sciences at the University of Southern California Leonard Davis School of Gerontology.

The influencer-backed supplement stacks, oxygen treatments and stem cell therapies for longevity are “experimental at best,” added Joseph Coughlin, the director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology AgeLab. If you’re looking to live longer and healthier, you’re better off doing “what science and history have confirmed.”