"Health became a competition"

...Health became a competition, encouraged by the advent of watches that track your vital signs and biomarkerbased "clocks" that measure your aging. Podcasters converted sad-sack men into biohackers, who juiced themselves with everything from Ayurvedic herbs to electromagnetic-frequency beds. (Most biohackers are men, for the same reason that most gambling addicts are men.) In 2013, there were fewer than a hundred longevity clinics around the globe; a decade later, there were more than three thousand.

So, at the Buck Institute, Diamandis declared that he'd finally been able to establish a prize in longevity. The goal was to devise a treatment by 2030 that made patients' muscles, brains, and immune systems twenty years younger; the winning team would get as much as eighty-one million dollars... Live long and prosper, New Yorker August '25