Northwestern Medicine Human Longevity Clinic
Verified listingAbout Northwestern Medicine Human Longevity Clinic
## What is the Northwestern Medicine Human Longevity Clinic? The Human Longevity Clinic is a longevity-assessment clinic run by Northwestern Medicine inside Northwestern Memorial Hospital's Arkes Pavilion in downtown Chicago. Rather than prescribing weight-loss or hormone medication, it runs a battery of physical, cognitive, and biological-age testing — VO2 max cardiopulmonary testing, DXA body-composition scans, epigenetic clocks, AI retinal age analysis, and standard bloodwork like ApoB, Lp(a), and HbA1c. The clinic doesn't publish a price anywhere; it only confirms that the assessment isn't covered by insurance.
## What does it treat? This is a "half-day visit" built around assessment rather than treatment: cardiopulmonary exercise testing, pulse wave velocity, an electrocardiogram and heart-rate-variability reading, spirometry, and pulse oximetry cover cardiovascular and lung function. A separate battery covers cognition, smell, and hearing, plus grip strength, lower-extremity strength, balance, gait speed, and functional mobility — a physical-function workup on top of the bloodwork. No medications are listed as part of this clinic's offering; its output is data and a biological-age readout rather than a prescription.
## What does it cost? Northwestern doesn't publish a fee for the visit anywhere across its main site or its dedicated longevity microsite. The only thing stated plainly is that "a biological age assessment is a wellness consultation that is not covered by insurance" — so it's an out-of-pocket cost, but the actual number isn't published, and neither is a separate consultation fee.
## Who is it for? The clinic is staffed by a roster of Northwestern Medicine physicians, though the published roster reads as a shared provider pool across several specialties rather than longevity-specific staff — it lists primary specialties like "Immediate Care" and "Concierge Medicine" alongside the longevity work, so it's not clear which physicians actually run the longevity assessments day to day. It's open Monday through Friday, 8 a.m.–5 p.m., no weekend hours. The site doesn't state a defined service area or say whether telehealth is offered, so this reads as an in-person, Chicago-based offering for now.
**Sources:** https://www.nm.org/locations/human-longevity-clinic · https://www.nm.org/conditions-and-care-areas/human-longevity-clinic · https://longevity.nm.org/ · https://longevity.nm.org/what-to-expect · https://longevity.nm.org/en/about · https://www.nm.org/locations/human-longevity-clinic/meet-the-human-longevity-clinic-team