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The longevity market is changing

Once the preserve of high-end clinics, longevity is opening up through widely available blood testing, consumer DNA tests and smart devices you can use at home.

General informationNot medical adviceAbout 4 minutes to read

Healthy, with a horizon

Documentaries like Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones and Bryan Johnson's Don't Die have raised awareness that longevity is a mix of simple daily habits, traditional medicine and new technology.

At its core, longevity is just being healthy, with a deliberate eye on your healthspan as well as your lifespan.

Most of what gets marketed as "longevity" (the testing, the tracking, the daily habits) is really aimed at healthspan. Delaying or avoiding heart disease, type 2 diabetes, cognitive decline and frailty tends to matter more, day to day, than chasing an extra year or two at the very end.

Lifespan
How long you live.
Healthspan
How many of those years you spend actually well: free of the chronic disease, frailty and cognitive decline that wear down quality of life long before they end it.

Testing, then living well

In practice the field comes down to two connected things: testing, so you know where you stand, and living well, so you can act on it. Testing without action is just data in a portal. Action without a baseline is guesswork.

1 · Know where you standTestingA blood panel, a body scan or a DNA test each show something you can't feel from the inside.Compare 22 testing providers
2 · Act on it, every dayLiving wellFive pillars do most of the work. Our research page shows what the evidence says behind each one, not just the marketing.

Seen "biological age" on a test? Biological age tests explained covers what each clock measures and why results disagree.

A growing, and splitting, sector

The longevity industry is still young, and it's splitting into two models. Neither is better for everyone; they suit different people.

Path 1

Full service

Premium clinics where one provider handles testing, imaging and ongoing coaching under a single program or membership.

The real benefit
An expert team arranges the testing, can order more advanced tests if needed, and, most importantly, medically trained specialists help you interpret the results and put a plan together.
Supplement safety
A specialist looking at your actual blood results can flag when a common supplement isn't right for you. Some people already have healthy levels of a vitamin, and adding more can push it into a harmful range over time (vitamin B6 is a well-known example). That kind of results-based check is hard to do on your own.
Trade-off
Convenient and clinician-led, and priced accordingly.
The 5 Australian programs on our table, all in-clinic
  • Everlab$2,999In-clinic · Sydney & Melbourne + AU network
  • Eir Liv$9,000/yrIn-clinic · Bondi Junction, Sydney only
  • HealthScreen$3,500In-clinic · Sydney & Melbourne
  • Bespoke Longevity$4,999In-clinic · Southport, Gold Coast
  • Longevity Medicine Institute$8,500In-clinic · Double Bay, Sydney
Checked 5 Sep–8 Nov 2026
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Path 2

DIY

Putting your own plan together piece by piece, which gets easier as more standalone tests and tools are sold direct to consumers.

What that looks like
Blood tests you can book without a GP referral (7 of the 11 on our table say none is needed), DEXA scans and DNA tests let you build your own testing routine and talk it through with your GP.
Choosing your own doctor
Going DIY doesn't have to mean going without a doctor. You can pick a preventive-minded GP to review your results. Directories such as Health Hunter (free to use, but practitioners set their own fees) list integrative, lifestyle-medicine and functional GPs, mostly by telehealth. That's the piece a full-service clinic bundles in, without signing up to a whole program.
Smart tech
Smart rings, smart scales and continuous glucose monitors let you track many of the inputs that matter. See our 40 longevity products.
Trade-off
Cheaper and more flexible, but more legwork. You're the one stitching it together, judging what to trust, and making sense of the numbers unless you bring in your GP.
Standalone tests on our tableChecked 3 Nov 2026
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Why we built Build My Longevity

This sector is growing fast and splitting further every month: new clinics, new standalone tests, new wearables and new self-styled experts, all claiming to be the answer. That's good for choice, but it makes it hard to know where to start, or what's worth paying for.

Build My Longevity exists to help you find your way through it, independently. Every price is checked against the provider's own site and dated. Nothing is ranked for money, and there are no star ratings of our own. How we check.

What we list, and what we leave out

We don't list every test, supplement brand or gadget. A listing gets in only by meeting the published rules for its category: it's sold for longevity or healthspan, it can be bought in Australia with a price published on the provider's or brand's own site (or by its official Australian seller or a retailer it names), and the provider or brand says what's included. Where a device brand claims a health measurement or effect, we search the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods and say what we found, including when we found no entry, or label the claim as the brand's. For supplement stacks we give the ARTG number we found on the TGA's register, or say "Not listed".

Anything that's quote-only or taking deposits waits until a price is published (one program, Eir Liv, shows the price it gave us when we asked, and its listing says so), and a product under a TGA or ACCC recall covering the model on sale stays out until the brand's fix is published. Everything that meets the rules is compared side by side, grouped by type and ordered by price, never ranked for money. Meeting them isn't an endorsement: we don't test products ourselves. How we choose sets out the rules and lists what we've checked and left out.

Ready to see what's out there?

Compare all 22 Australian providers, or take the two-minute quiz for a shortlist that fits whether you want it managed or DIY.

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This isn't medical advice. This page, and the rest of Build My Longevity, is general information to help you understand the options. It doesn't interpret results, diagnose anything or recommend a course of action. Your GP is a good place to start; talk to a licensed health professional before acting on any test result.

Last updated 3 Nov 2026