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00:02 REPORT BY PATRICK FOK
00:12 TIAT LIM, DE-AGEING GURU
00:36 TIAT LIM, DE-AGEING GURU
01:03 DR. FOONG TSIN UIN, FOUNDER, OSLER HEALTH
01:34 DR. FOONG TSIN UIN, FOUNDER, OSLER HEALTH

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At age 53 Singaporean Tiat Lin has a physique many men half his age would envy. 

A traumatic experience 10 years ago triggered a transformation.

0´12 TIAT LIM, DE-AGEING GURU
“Well, I guess it was the wake up call, when my father died of a heart attack, in his late 60s.”
“He didn't make it into 70.”

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That led Tiat down a road towards heavy lifting and high reps… daily.

His purpose: to stay healthy for as long as he can, or in medical circles, maximizing what’s referred to as your “health span”.

0´36 TIAT LIM, DE-AGEING GURU
“So on average, most Singaporeans experience at least ten years of disease span, usually it's the tail end, the last ten years, the marginal decade of their lives. Let's say from 70 to 80, for instance. So first and foremost, I do not want to have any disease span whatsoever. Nil is the result I'm going for. if by doing so, my lifespan also increases. Great.”

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Dr. Foong Tsin Uin is the founder of Osler Health, one of a growing number of longevity clinics in Singapore.

1´03 Oton DR. FOONG TSIN UIN, FOUNDER, OSLER HEALTH

“There are a lot of people now saying that if you're born in 2025 or, you know, 2020 onwards, living to 100 is actually going to be just common, right? So that's the figure that people are putting out there." 

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At the heart of its practice is a shift from health care into so-called preventative care.

In other words, to prevent diseases associated with ageing rather than treating them.

Like Tiat Lin, Osler Health puts an emphasis on measuring biomarkers.

They’re used to tailor programmes specific to each patient.

1´34 Oton DR. FOONG TSIN UIN, FOUNDER, OSLER HEALTH

“So you can get quite granular. For example, let's start with the lifestyle pillars. You can actually measure the impact of the amount of alcohol you drink, how you exercise, how you eat, environmental pollutants and actually measure that impact on you as an individual based on your genes.”

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Besides lifestyle interventions to manage things like diet, sleep and exercise, longevity healthcare can also include different therapies as well as stem cell treatment.

Still, critics of the industry say there’s no clear evidence that all of these can improve long-term outcomes for otherwise healthy people.

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But data suggest life expectancy is something that can be proactively managed.

Since 1960, lifetime expectancy in Singapore has risen by about 20 years.

Today the average person here can expect to live till around 86.

2´31 End