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P H OTO C O U R T E S Y O F E U P H O R I A R E T R E AT against cancer; a second property on the Riviera Maya opened last year, and there will soon be a third site: a standalone private island in the UAE. Others see the potential in optimizing your potential, too: take the 95-room ZEM Wellness Clinic Altea, which recently opened in Alicante, Spain, and offers seven different regimens, including Immune Revitalization; Buff Medical Resort on the shores of Germany's Lake Constance is another newcomer, with rooms pressurized to simulate the thinner air of higher altitudes, believed to improve longevity. Self-help guru Tony Robbins has partnered with SBE founder Sam Nazarian on The Estate, a series of resorts and longevity centers; the first of them, an urban hub at Century City in Los Angeles where annual membership fees will be $35,000, is slated to open by the end of this year. City center hotel Portrait Milano even turned over its spa operations to biohacking specialist The Longevity Suite, combining conventional offerings like a swimming pool and sauna with detox protocols and cryotherapy. Euphoria Retreat in Greece is another entrant. It was her own battle with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at just 29 that set Marina Efraimoglou on a new path away from her corporate career. "I knew that banking was not my purpose in life, so I decided what I really wanted to create was a healing place to share what I've learned for myself and for others," she says. The result is her property in the Peloponnese peninsula, where she now offers holistic residencies of up to 21 days, and where treatments are devised on the basis of a set of pre-visit biomarker tests, including saliva and urine. "We have a super-personalized program, which includes exercise, biohacking, red light, and cryotherapy," she says. "We go down to the cellular level to understand why a person isn't feeling well, without really knowing what was wrong." This summer, she held the first of a planned series of wellbeing festivals, "Macrozoe, The Greek Path to Longevity," with guest experts, who included yoga teacher Janet Stone and Oligoscan Creative Director Jeff Lioon. Yet longevity doctors caution that these healthspan-bolstering jaunts can't be effective in isolation. Dr. Sabine Donnai runs Viavi in London, one of the world's top specialist clinics, where annual membership costs up to $69,000. "There's nothing you can achieve in a week or two weeks, from a FROM LEFT Euphoria Retreat in the Peloponnese offers holistic healing residencies of up to 21 days; wade into the spa's Sphere pool to experience an enveloping, womblike sensation. health point of view—it's way too short to reset your physiology," she notes, though she adds that a detox-focused getaway can be a welcome break from daily stresses and diets. "The vast majority of our clients go once a year to what we call a medi-spa," she continues. "You could walk away knowing where your weaknesses are and what to do about them," she says, "but I think where they're missing is that there's no follow-up." One exception that intrigues Dr. Donnai: the recently opened Tulåh Clinical Wellness, an ayurvedic-anchored longevity center in Kerala, India, which will be supported by a series of satellite clinics in major cities worldwide, like Dubai and London. At these satellite locations, clients will continue the treatments they began at Tulåh and have their biomarkers regularly checked. That's one very welcome way to bring your vacation, quite literally, home with you. Then again, you could simply look to such treatments to help you feel better while you're on vacation, per Neorgana's Omar Novelo. That same treatment he gave to Nizuc's Pando can work wonders when you land after a long flight, he promises. "If you want to get rid of jet lag, just have some exosomes." And, perhaps, a really stiff margarita. BALHAR B O U RSH O P S .CO M

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