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The a16z Show · Tuesday, September 15, 2026

The Role of Wearables and Longevity Clinics

The conversation touches upon the increasing prevalence of wearables and longevity clinics as part of the wellness and optimization culture. These tools and services are becoming more common, prompting questions about their actual impact versus their online perception.

The tape

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“Our peptides, protein maxing, wearables and longevity clinics actually taking over? Or does the internet just make it feel that way?”
“And then spending a lot of time in New York and there's a lot of these new sort of longevity clinics that have been popping up, and that's where I sort of started to see more and we have quite a few now, at least I would say in at least Manhattan.”
Heard on The a16z Show — “The Age of Body Futurism | Ruby Justice Thelot”, published Tuesday, September 15, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.
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