{"id":54590,"date":"2025-01-02T14:49:25","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T14:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/01\/02\/how-canadas-aging-society-can-be-a-win-for-the-economy\/"},"modified":"2025-01-02T14:49:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T14:49:25","slug":"how-canadas-aging-society-can-be-a-win-for-the-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/01\/02\/how-canadas-aging-society-can-be-a-win-for-the-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"How Canada&#8217;s aging society can be a win for the economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<header aria-label=\"Beginning of Article\" class=\"article-header article-header--feature\">\n<nav aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\" class=\"breadcrumbs\" data-aqa=\"nav-breadcrumb\">\n<p>Breadcrumb Trail Links<\/p>\n<ol class=\"breadcrumbs__items list-unstyled\">\n<li class=\"breadcrumbs__item\">Economy<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/nav>\n<div class=\"article-header__detail\">\n<div class=\"article-header__detail__texts\">\n<p class=\"article-subtitle\">Just a few years ago the 40-something WE Charity co-founder was on the ropes thanks to a political scandal and old Rugby injury. Today the committed &#8216;biohacker&#8217; feels like he&#8217;s 25 again<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<p><span class=\"published-date__since\">Published Jan 02, 2025<\/span> \u00a0\u2022\u00a0 <span class=\"updated-date__since\">Last updated 1\u00a0hour ago<\/span> \u00a0\u2022\u00a0 <span class=\"published-date__word-count\">14 minute read<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-meta__bottom\">\n<div class=\"bookmark-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"popover\" data-aqa=\"popover\" data-click-to-appear=\"True\" data-container=\"\" data-container-offset=\"\" data-no-style=\"\" data-popover-component=\"\" data-position=\"top\" data-sticky=\"\" data-tail-offset=\"200\" data-tail-position=\"right\"><button class=\"popover__trigger bookmark-button\"><span class=\"save-article-button save-article-button--default\" title=\"Save article\" data-article-id=\"117dab31-0fa9-492a-8e82-8bae0cd02798\" data-evt-skip-click=\"true\"\/><\/button><\/p>\n<div aria-describedby=\"popover-desc-popover-bookmark\" class=\"popover__content\" hidden=\"\" role=\"dialog\">\n<div class=\"popover__content__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"popover__content__text\" id=\"popover-desc-popover-bookmark\">\n<div class=\"bookmark__popover__content\">\n<p>You can save this article by registering for free here. 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Kielburger belongs to a community of longevity chasers known as \u201cbiohackers,&#8221; individuals who are looking to beat Father Time, or at least stave off the inexorable decline, by any means necessary.<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">Photo by Peter J. Thompson<\/span> \/<span class=\"distributor\">Financial Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--feature\">\n<h2 class=\"visually-hidden\">Article content<\/h2>\n<p>Marc Kielburger describes his old injury in aching detail. The first thing that came to mind upon hearing the sickening \u201cpop,\u201d he said, was a desperate hope that it had not come from his body and that the twisted mess of an ankle at the bottom of a pile of high school rugby players, circa 1994, did not belong to him.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--feature\">\n<p>Article content<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--feature\">\n<p>Article content<\/p>\n<p>But, alas, it did, and any plans the teenaged Kielburger had of cutting a rug at school dances were replaced by crutches and seven months in a cast, followed by several months of physiotherapy and then, perhaps counterintuitively, by a return to the rugby pitch as an undergraduate at Harvard University and later as a law student at Oxford University in England.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"ad__section-border article-content__ad-group 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A pain that was bad in his 20s would grow exponentially worse, such that by the time he hit 40, he and his wife Roxanne Joyal shared a running joke that they would be skipping to the front of the lines at airports and museums in another 20 years because he would be rolling through them in a wheelchair.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Kielburger had other ideas, but so did the ankle, which would blow up into a swollen mess whenever he spent too much time on his feet. Workouts were sheer agony. Physiotherapy did not help, nor did the random medical therapies and supposed miracle elixirs he ordered off late-night television infomercials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI tried everything, everything, everything,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--feature\">\n<p>Article content<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embedded-image article-content--full_width\" data-aqa=\"embed-image\"><picture class=\"embedded-image__ratio\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" fifu-lazy=\"1\" fifu-data-sizes=\"auto\" fifu-data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/marc-craig-kileburger-gs1230-1.jpg?location=full_width&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=zIvgaAg_iDvsChgQl9mJ2g&ssl=1&w=75&resize=75&ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/marc-craig-kileburger-gs1230-1.jpg?location=full_width&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=zIvgaAg_iDvsChgQl9mJ2g&ssl=1&w=100&resize=100&ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/marc-craig-kileburger-gs1230-1.jpg?location=full_width&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=zIvgaAg_iDvsChgQl9mJ2g&ssl=1&w=150&resize=150&ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/marc-craig-kileburger-gs1230-1.jpg?location=full_width&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=zIvgaAg_iDvsChgQl9mJ2g&ssl=1&w=240&resize=240&ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/marc-craig-kileburger-gs1230-1.jpg?location=full_width&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=zIvgaAg_iDvsChgQl9mJ2g&ssl=1&w=320&resize=320&ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/marc-craig-kileburger-gs1230-1.jpg?location=full_width&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=zIvgaAg_iDvsChgQl9mJ2g&ssl=1&w=500&resize=500&ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/marc-craig-kileburger-gs1230-1.jpg?location=full_width&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=zIvgaAg_iDvsChgQl9mJ2g&ssl=1&w=640&resize=640&ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/marc-craig-kileburger-gs1230-1.jpg?location=full_width&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=zIvgaAg_iDvsChgQl9mJ2g&ssl=1&w=800&resize=800&ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/marc-craig-kileburger-gs1230-1.jpg?location=full_width&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=zIvgaAg_iDvsChgQl9mJ2g&ssl=1&w=1024&resize=1024&ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/marc-craig-kileburger-gs1230-1.jpg?location=full_width&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=zIvgaAg_iDvsChgQl9mJ2g&ssl=1&w=1280&resize=1280&ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/marc-craig-kileburger-gs1230-1.jpg?location=full_width&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=zIvgaAg_iDvsChgQl9mJ2g&ssl=1&w=1600&resize=1600&ssl=1 1600w\" alt=\"Craig and Marc Kielburger\" class=\"embedded-image__image lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/marc-craig-kileburger-gs1230-1.jpg?location=full_width&quality=90&strip=all&w=375&sig=zWSxdvr0-FcIarLOzPokNg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/marc-craig-kileburger-gs1230-1.jpg?location=full_width&quality=90&strip=all&w=375&sig=zWSxdvr0-FcIarLOzPokNg,\n                https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/marc-craig-kileburger-gs1230-1.jpg?location=full_width&quality=90&strip=all&w=750&sig=5Tu4VSu9b9icADTXPuYjFQ 2x\" fifu-data-src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/marc-craig-kileburger-gs1230-1.jpg?location=full_width&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=zIvgaAg_iDvsChgQl9mJ2g&ssl=1\" height=\"750\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"image-caption\"><span class=\"caption\">Craig Kielburger, left, and Marc Kielburger speak during \u201cWE Day\u201d in Toronto in 2014. The charity the brothers co-founded in 1995 unravelled in spectacular fashion during parliamentary committee questioning around how the organization had been awarded a $43-million untendered government contract to administer a $500-million-plus student service grant program.<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">Photo by Hannah Yoon<\/span> \/<span class=\"distributor\">The Canadian Press<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p data-async=\"\">Compounding the chronic physical discomfort was the psychological pummelling he absorbed in 2020 after WE Charity, the outfit he and his younger brother Craig co-founded in 1995, unravelled in spectacular fashion during parliamentary committee questioning around how the organization had been awarded a $43-million untendered government contract to administer a $500-million-plus student service grant program.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"ad__section-border article-content__ad-group ad_counter_3\">\n<section aria-describedby=\"advertisment4692814349489877428827789010665472\" class=\"ad\">\n<p>Advertisement 3<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad__container\">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\" id=\"ad__inner-3\">\n<div class=\"ad__inner__container\" data-ad=\"[[7,7],[1200,250],[1200,90],[970,90],[970,250],[728,90],[300,250]]\" data-ad-interscroller=\"7x7\" data-ad-loc=\"3\" data-ad-mobile=\"[[7,7],[300,250],[320,50],[300,50]]\" data-aqa=\"advertisement\" id=\"ad-3\" style=\"--desktopHeight:250px;--mobileHeight:250px\">\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"ad__placeholder\">\n<p>This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--feature\">\n<p>Article content<\/p>\n<p>The brothers were never found to have done anything wrong, but their self-defence during the hearings registered with a giant thud among the public. In other words, the so-called good guys, the same guys behind the WE Day events that packed arenas with screamingly enthusiastic, volunteer-minded teens, came out looking pretty bad, and the economics of operating a charity during the pandemic coupled with the optics of being involved in a government scandal led WE Charity to wind down its Canadian operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBetween the ankle and the politics, I was a complete wreck,\u201d Kielburger said. \u201cI was 50 pounds heavier. I wasn\u2019t sleeping. I couldn\u2019t move.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"article-content--column\">\n<p>Between the ankle and the politics, I was a complete wreck. I was 50 pounds heavier. I wasn&#8217;t sleeping. I couldn&#8217;t move<\/p>\n<p>Marc Kielburger<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The former college rugby player had arrived at a midlife crisis, an inflection point that can lead an afflicted individual down the path, say, to a new sports car, a second marriage, a bad hair dye job and the sudden uptake of cool new hobbies such as kiteboarding. In Kielburger\u2019s case, it led to a private medical clinic in San Jose, Costa Rica, where he has undergone multiple stem cell injections on his ruined ankle \u2014 a treatment that has not been approved in Canada or the United States \u2014 that cost him $8,000 to $14,000 a pop.<\/p>\n<p data-async=\"\">His pursuit of a fix is part of a much broader, complex and lucrative global health and wellness picture that plays on the fact we are all getting older and we are all going to die, but an increasing majority of Westerners aren\u2019t going to die until they are well into their 80s or beyond.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"ad__section-border article-content__ad-group ad_counter_4\">\n<section aria-describedby=\"advertisment7871124948943224111767762767970304\" class=\"ad\">\n<p>Advertisement 4<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad__container\">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\" id=\"ad__inner-4\">\n<div class=\"ad__inner__container\" data-ad=\"[[1200,250],[1200,90],[970,90],[970,250],[728,90],[300,250]]\" 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https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Andrew-scott-gs1230.jpg?location=half_width_left&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=FvVp2MS8edi9cITkmzNp9Q&ssl=1&w=800&resize=800&ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Andrew-scott-gs1230.jpg?location=half_width_left&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=FvVp2MS8edi9cITkmzNp9Q&ssl=1&w=1024&resize=1024&ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Andrew-scott-gs1230.jpg?location=half_width_left&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=FvVp2MS8edi9cITkmzNp9Q&ssl=1&w=1280&resize=1280&ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Andrew-scott-gs1230.jpg?location=half_width_left&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=FvVp2MS8edi9cITkmzNp9Q&ssl=1&w=1600&resize=1600&ssl=1 1600w\" alt=\"Andrew Scott, London Business 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width=\"1000\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"image-caption\"><span class=\"caption\">Andrew Scott, an economics professor at London Business School, has crunched the numbers and concluded that slowing down the aging process and compressing morbidity could save trillions. \u201cAging is malleable,\u201d Scott said.<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">Photo by Wikimedia Commons<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWhen people talk about artificial intelligence and climate change, it provokes a really heated emotional and intellectual debate, and lots of talk about radical adaptation and adjustment, and how we should respond to bring out the best and not the worst,\u201d Andrew Scott, an economics professor at the London Business School and author of The Longevity Imperative, said.<\/p>\n<p data-async=\"\">\u201cBut when it comes to an aging society, we, literally, barely get beyond talking about adult diapers and care, but there\u2019s a lot more radical adaptation and adjustment we can do to make the most of the longer lives that we\u2019ve got. Aging is malleable.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Older, wiser, better<\/h2>\n<p data-async=\"\">Aging commonly gets portrayed as a ticking financial time bomb in a narrative that goes something like this: people are having fewer children; boomers are getting old; older folks incur ruinous health-care costs; and pensions are top-heavy with seniors as it is and there are not enough young workers moving up the line to continue funding them. It all spells trouble ahead.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"ad__section-border article-content__ad-group ad_counter_5\">\n<section aria-describedby=\"advertisment7911823184275718055793725676716032\" class=\"ad\">\n<p>Advertisement 5<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad__container\">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\" id=\"ad__inner-5\">\n<div class=\"ad__inner__container\" data-ad=\"[[1200,250],[1200,90],[970,90],[970,250],[728,90],[300,250]]\" data-ad-loc=\"5\" data-ad-mobile=\"[[320,50],[300,50],[300,250]]\" data-aqa=\"advertisement\" id=\"ad-5\" style=\"--desktopHeight:250px;--mobileHeight:250px\">\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"ad__placeholder\">\n<p>This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--feature\">\n<p>Article content<\/p>\n<p data-async=\"\">But what if the aging population isn\u2019t a landmine, but a shiny new engine for economic growth? Scott crunched the numbers using data from the U.S. and discovered that slowing down the aging process and compressing morbidity \u2014 the amount of time an individual is ill at the end of their life \u2014 would be worth US$38 trillion a year to the American economy. The economic benefit of targeting aging and improving individual health could potentially have more impact than eradicating individual diseases.<\/p>\n<p>Kielburger appears to have internalized this message. He has also dabbled in \u201cplasma exchanges\u201d in Costa Rica, which are akin to an oil change, only for blood. Slightly less intense sounding is a daily routine at his home in Toronto that begins when the 47-year-old rolls out of bed at 4:15 a.m. and into a hyperbaric chamber for 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--feature\">\n<p>Article content<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embedded-image article-content--full_page\" data-aqa=\"embed-image\"><picture class=\"embedded-image__ratio\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" fifu-lazy=\"1\" fifu-data-sizes=\"auto\" fifu-data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Marc-Kielburger-hyperbaric-gs1230.jpg?location=full_page&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=Ji7mh_6k34zchxqhU7VH5A&ssl=1&w=75&resize=75&ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Marc-Kielburger-hyperbaric-gs1230.jpg?location=full_page&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=Ji7mh_6k34zchxqhU7VH5A&ssl=1&w=100&resize=100&ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Marc-Kielburger-hyperbaric-gs1230.jpg?location=full_page&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=Ji7mh_6k34zchxqhU7VH5A&ssl=1&w=150&resize=150&ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Marc-Kielburger-hyperbaric-gs1230.jpg?location=full_page&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=Ji7mh_6k34zchxqhU7VH5A&ssl=1&w=240&resize=240&ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Marc-Kielburger-hyperbaric-gs1230.jpg?location=full_page&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=Ji7mh_6k34zchxqhU7VH5A&ssl=1&w=320&resize=320&ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Marc-Kielburger-hyperbaric-gs1230.jpg?location=full_page&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=Ji7mh_6k34zchxqhU7VH5A&ssl=1&w=500&resize=500&ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Marc-Kielburger-hyperbaric-gs1230.jpg?location=full_page&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=Ji7mh_6k34zchxqhU7VH5A&ssl=1&w=640&resize=640&ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Marc-Kielburger-hyperbaric-gs1230.jpg?location=full_page&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=Ji7mh_6k34zchxqhU7VH5A&ssl=1&w=800&resize=800&ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Marc-Kielburger-hyperbaric-gs1230.jpg?location=full_page&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=Ji7mh_6k34zchxqhU7VH5A&ssl=1&w=1024&resize=1024&ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Marc-Kielburger-hyperbaric-gs1230.jpg?location=full_page&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=Ji7mh_6k34zchxqhU7VH5A&ssl=1&w=1280&resize=1280&ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Marc-Kielburger-hyperbaric-gs1230.jpg?location=full_page&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=Ji7mh_6k34zchxqhU7VH5A&ssl=1&w=1600&resize=1600&ssl=1 1600w\" alt=\"Marc Kielburger in a hyperbaric chamber\" class=\"embedded-image__image lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Marc-Kielburger-hyperbaric-gs1230.jpg?location=full_page&quality=90&strip=all&w=375&sig=oInuAzlYV6W6GUC2Q7FDGg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Marc-Kielburger-hyperbaric-gs1230.jpg?location=full_page&quality=90&strip=all&w=375&sig=oInuAzlYV6W6GUC2Q7FDGg,\n                https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Marc-Kielburger-hyperbaric-gs1230.jpg?location=full_page&quality=90&strip=all&w=750&sig=RQ9ey9fa3TXCqIN5yFOxeA 2x\" fifu-data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Marc-Kielburger-hyperbaric-gs1230.jpg?location=full_page&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=Ji7mh_6k34zchxqhU7VH5A&ssl=1\" height=\"1350\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2400\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"image-caption\"><span class=\"caption\">Marc Kielburger spends 30 minutes daily in a hyperbaric chamber. It forms part of a morning ritual that begins at 4:15 a.m. that he said has him feeling like he is in his 20s again.<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">Photo by Peter J. Thompson<\/span> \/<span class=\"distributor\">Financial Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He then meditates and communes with Daisy, the family\u2019s 120-pound Bernese mountain dog, in order to ground himself emotionally. There is a smoothie full of stuff most humans have never heard of to be drunk; a stroll down to Lake Ontario to revel in dawn\u2019s earliest glow; a breakfast of two avocados, four eggs (sunny side up), walnuts and a pint of organic blueberries; and an intense workout followed by a cold plunge and a bit of family time with his wife and two daughters.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"ad__section-border article-content__ad-group ad_counter_6\">\n<section aria-describedby=\"advertisment2145158376518710902427464362885120\" class=\"ad\">\n<p>Advertisement 6<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad__container\">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\" id=\"ad__inner-6\">\n<div class=\"ad__inner__container\" data-ad=\"[[1200,250],[1200,90],[970,90],[970,250],[728,90],[300,250]]\" data-ad-loc=\"6\" data-ad-mobile=\"[[320,50],[300,50],[300,250]]\" data-aqa=\"advertisement\" id=\"ad-6\" style=\"--desktopHeight:250px;--mobileHeight:250px\">\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"ad__placeholder\">\n<p>This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--feature\">\n<p>Article content<\/p>\n<p>By 8:15 a.m., Kielburger is ready to work, and if what he has been up to lately sure sounds like a lot of work and a lot of money, rest assured he is not alone in his convictions. Instead, he belongs to a much broader community of longevity chasers known as \u201cbiohackers,\u201d individuals who are looking to beat Father Time, or at least stave off the inexorable decline, by any means necessary.<\/p>\n<p>That includes ingesting a tasting menu\u2019s worth of supplements, eating special diets and undertaking medical treatments \u2014 many of which are experimental, decidedly thin on scientific proof and lacking in North American regulatory approval \u2014 in the hopes of extending their health span, defined not by a finite, dead-and-buried age, but by the number of years they live without spiralling into a decline that is costly to the health-care system and themselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m treating myself to a certain degree like a guinea pig,\u201d Kielburger said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"article-content--column\">\n<p>I\u2019m treating myself to a certain degree like a guinea pig<\/p>\n<p>Marc Kielburger<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Pursuing a long life has not been an inexpensive undertaking, and it\u2019s up for debate whether the guy with the bad ankle emerges as a modern-day Frankenstein or is truly onto something. But at this moment, Kielburger can report that he feels as though he is 25 again and can now balance on one foot, supported pain-free by his historically troublesome joint, and repeatedly jump four feet in the air and land on a board during intense workouts without missing a step. The sound body lives in harmony with a clear mind. In short, the man feels like a million bucks.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"ad__section-border article-content__ad-group ad_counter_7\">\n<section aria-describedby=\"advertisment2883927422947126621144126744166400\" class=\"ad\">\n<p>Advertisement 7<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad__container\">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\" id=\"ad__inner-7\">\n<div class=\"ad__inner__container\" data-ad=\"[[1200,250],[1200,90],[970,90],[970,250],[728,90],[300,250]]\" data-ad-loc=\"7\" data-ad-mobile=\"[[320,50],[300,50],[300,250]]\" data-aqa=\"advertisement\" id=\"ad-7\" style=\"--desktopHeight:250px;--mobileHeight:250px\">\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"ad__placeholder\">\n<p>This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--feature\">\n<p>Article content<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, I\u2019m just trying to learn as much as I can and to be open to where the world takes me,\u201d he said on the eve of attending the world\u2019s largest anti-aging conference at the Venetian and Palazzo Resort in Las Vegas in mid-December.<\/p>\n<p>Joining Kielburger there was Dr. Tim Cook, formerly and, as he puts it, somewhat \u201ctediously\u201d known as \u201cCaptain Cook\u201d during his years in the Canadian Armed Forces.<\/p>\n<p>His patients included two governors general. The first, Romeo LeBlanc, was incredibly \u201cnice,\u201d but incredibly bad at following doctor\u2019s orders. The second, Adrienne Clarkson, proved better at following rules, although the professional path Cook ultimately pursued led him away from the army to a position and a good paycheque at a big hospital in downtown Toronto.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--feature\">\n<p>Article content<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embedded-image article-content--full_width\" data-aqa=\"embed-image\"><picture class=\"embedded-image__ratio\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" fifu-lazy=\"1\" fifu-data-sizes=\"auto\" fifu-data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Dr_Tim_Cook-gs1230.png?location=full_width&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=CMXm9bDF_zUHgimdNRAvEA&ssl=1&w=75&resize=75&ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Dr_Tim_Cook-gs1230.png?location=full_width&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=CMXm9bDF_zUHgimdNRAvEA&ssl=1&w=100&resize=100&ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Dr_Tim_Cook-gs1230.png?location=full_width&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=CMXm9bDF_zUHgimdNRAvEA&ssl=1&w=150&resize=150&ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Dr_Tim_Cook-gs1230.png?location=full_width&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=CMXm9bDF_zUHgimdNRAvEA&ssl=1&w=240&resize=240&ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Dr_Tim_Cook-gs1230.png?location=full_width&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=CMXm9bDF_zUHgimdNRAvEA&ssl=1&w=320&resize=320&ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Dr_Tim_Cook-gs1230.png?location=full_width&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=CMXm9bDF_zUHgimdNRAvEA&ssl=1&w=500&resize=500&ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Dr_Tim_Cook-gs1230.png?location=full_width&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=CMXm9bDF_zUHgimdNRAvEA&ssl=1&w=640&resize=640&ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Dr_Tim_Cook-gs1230.png?location=full_width&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=CMXm9bDF_zUHgimdNRAvEA&ssl=1&w=800&resize=800&ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Dr_Tim_Cook-gs1230.png?location=full_width&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=CMXm9bDF_zUHgimdNRAvEA&ssl=1&w=1024&resize=1024&ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Dr_Tim_Cook-gs1230.png?location=full_width&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=CMXm9bDF_zUHgimdNRAvEA&ssl=1&w=1280&resize=1280&ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Dr_Tim_Cook-gs1230.png?location=full_width&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=CMXm9bDF_zUHgimdNRAvEA&ssl=1&w=1600&resize=1600&ssl=1 1600w\" alt=\"Dr. Tim Cook\" class=\"embedded-image__image lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Dr_Tim_Cook-gs1230.png?location=full_width&quality=90&strip=all&w=375&sig=5eZ0GPuTA3ugYzY0euPcfQ\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Dr_Tim_Cook-gs1230.png?location=full_width&quality=90&strip=all&w=375&sig=5eZ0GPuTA3ugYzY0euPcfQ,\n                https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Dr_Tim_Cook-gs1230.png?location=full_width&quality=90&strip=all&w=750&sig=3bKR2QBs1JWjO4PxOOP5Ug 2x\" fifu-data-src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Dr_Tim_Cook-gs1230.png?location=full_width&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=CMXm9bDF_zUHgimdNRAvEA&ssl=1\" height=\"750\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"image-caption\"><span class=\"caption\">Dr. Tim Cook is a former Canadian army physician turned longevity medicine specialist. His advice? \u201cStay alive,\u201d since, at some point in the not too distant future, he believes a brilliant researcher could crack the genetic code that would enable the middle-aged and older individuals to rewind their biological clocks to their 20s.<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">Photo by Vito Amati<\/span> \/<span class=\"distributor\">Garcia Creative<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It was there that he experienced a midlife crisis of his own. He had the job, money, cars, house, wife and kids and all the material trappings of success, but he also had the soul-crushing realization that he hated caring for the sickest of the sick, since they generally wound up in the hospital because they had spent the bulk of their lives eating all the wrong foods and doing all the wrong things.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was looking after people who wouldn\u2019t have been in the hospital if they had done something differently 30 years before,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"ad__section-border article-content__ad-group ad_counter_8\">\n<section aria-describedby=\"advertisment8147935266061613092139601605165056\" class=\"ad\">\n<p>Advertisement 8<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad__container\">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\" id=\"ad__inner-8\">\n<div class=\"ad__inner__container\" data-ad=\"[[1200,250],[1200,90],[970,90],[970,250],[728,90],[300,250]]\" data-ad-loc=\"8\" data-ad-mobile=\"[[320,50],[300,50],[300,250]]\" data-aqa=\"advertisement\" id=\"ad-8\" style=\"--desktopHeight:250px;--mobileHeight:250px\">\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"ad__placeholder\">\n<p>This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--feature\">\n<p>Article content<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Cook quit and opened a private practice about 10 years ago within walking distance of one of Toronto\u2019s wealthiest enclaves. His patients there refer to him as Dr. Tim, and about half of them arrive at his door suffering from chronic Lyme disease or some other toxic infection-related ailment, a nod to his training as a tropical disease specialist, while the other half come with a more existential purpose in mind: longevity, a nod to his professional and personal interest in biohacking.<\/p>\n<p data-async=\"\">The bulk of this second group are bankers, equity investors and otherwise high-net-worth types who, depending on what \u201clongevity package\u201d they purchase, pay anywhere from $5,000 for an introductory six-month course to $23,000 per year for the \u201cOlympian\u201d treatment.<\/p>\n<h2>Dollar spent, another year earned<\/h2>\n<p>These so-called Olympians work one-on-one with Cook, as well as with a nutritionist and a naturopath. They undergo a battery of tests, including the DunedinPACE, that quantify the biological speed at which one is aging. The lower your score, the rosier your future outlook.<\/p>\n<p>Diets are personalized, as are vitamin doses and supplement needs. Every six months, Cook repeats the aging test, so patients can track their scores and get a sense of just how far over the horizon the Grim Reaper might be.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"ad__section-border article-content__ad-group ad_counter_9\">\n<section aria-describedby=\"advertisment9682732477731217779513472539688960\" class=\"ad\">\n<p>Advertisement 9<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad__container\">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\" id=\"ad__inner-9\">\n<div class=\"ad__inner__container\" data-ad=\"[[1200,250],[1200,90],[970,90],[970,250],[728,90],[300,250]]\" data-ad-loc=\"9\" data-ad-mobile=\"[[320,50],[300,50],[300,250]]\" data-aqa=\"advertisement\" id=\"ad-9\" style=\"--desktopHeight:250px;--mobileHeight:250px\">\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"ad__placeholder\">\n<p>This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--feature\">\n<p>Article content<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese people are all about performance management because they mostly come from the business world and they understand the value of numbers,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd if they see that their numbers are getting better, that their pace of aging is going down, then they\u2019ll say to themselves, \u2018I\u2019m going to keep doing this.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If being an Olympian sounds too expensive for your tastes, fear not. Cook said you don\u2019t need to spend a mint to enhance your longevity prospects.<\/p>\n<p>For the more budget-conscious, he recommends investing in a sleep mask and a blackout curtain, having a purpose in life, walking outside in the fresh air and sunshine, taking vitamin D, particularly if you live in northern climes, meditating daily, drastically cutting back on carbohydrates, engaging in meaningful relationships and avoiding isolation at all costs since being lonely is the \u201cnew smoking.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"article-content--column\">\n<p>These people are all about performance management \u2026 and they understand the value of numbers<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Tim Cook, longevity medicine specialist<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On a macroeconomic level, Cook believes policymakers should be taxing cigarettes, fast food, sugar-soaked snacks and processed victuals beyond the average consumer\u2019s reach, and perhaps subsidizing, say, broccoli so that when convenience food becomes inconveniently expensive, the nutrient-packed options will emerge as the grab-and-go choice.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"ad__section-border article-content__ad-group ad_counter_10\">\n<section aria-describedby=\"advertisment8125284399307154446988871980810240\" class=\"ad\">\n<p>Advertisement 10<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad__container\">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\" id=\"ad__inner-10\">\n<div class=\"ad__inner__container\" data-ad=\"[[1200,250],[1200,90],[970,90],[970,250],[728,90],[300,250]]\" data-ad-loc=\"10\" data-ad-mobile=\"[[320,50],[300,50],[300,250]]\" data-aqa=\"advertisement\" id=\"ad-10\" style=\"--desktopHeight:250px;--mobileHeight:250px\">\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"ad__placeholder\">\n<p>This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--feature\">\n<p>Article content<\/p>\n<p>His other key piece of advice is to \u201cstay alive\u201d because the research around gene editing and stem cells suggests a day may come when some brilliant scientist figures out how to shut off the human aging genes and reset our biological clocks to the fountain of one\u2019s youth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not science fiction,\u201d Cook said.<\/p>\n<p>The biohackers and boutique longevity clinic crowd represent a small subset of a more astonishing truth. For thousands of years, human beings were remarkably adept at dying young. Longevity wasn\u2019t a huge conversation piece when being pursued by a sabre-toothed cat or facing an enemy with a very long, very pointy spear.<\/p>\n<p>In the much less distant past, the average Swede who was 20 years old in 1851 stood a 20 per cent chance of making it to 80. One hundred years later, that same Swede at 20 had a 30 per cent chance of reaching 80. The odds today of becoming an octogenarian are 80 per cent.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embedded-image article-content--column\" data-aqa=\"embed-image\"><picture class=\"embedded-image__ratio\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" fifu-lazy=\"1\" fifu-data-sizes=\"auto\" fifu-data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Canada-aging-population.png?location=column&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=4doYo47n-030Go2UrZdheA&ssl=1&w=75&resize=75&ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Canada-aging-population.png?location=column&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=4doYo47n-030Go2UrZdheA&ssl=1&w=100&resize=100&ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Canada-aging-population.png?location=column&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=4doYo47n-030Go2UrZdheA&ssl=1&w=150&resize=150&ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Canada-aging-population.png?location=column&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=4doYo47n-030Go2UrZdheA&ssl=1&w=240&resize=240&ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Canada-aging-population.png?location=column&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=4doYo47n-030Go2UrZdheA&ssl=1&w=320&resize=320&ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Canada-aging-population.png?location=column&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=4doYo47n-030Go2UrZdheA&ssl=1&w=500&resize=500&ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Canada-aging-population.png?location=column&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=4doYo47n-030Go2UrZdheA&ssl=1&w=640&resize=640&ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Canada-aging-population.png?location=column&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=4doYo47n-030Go2UrZdheA&ssl=1&w=800&resize=800&ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Canada-aging-population.png?location=column&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=4doYo47n-030Go2UrZdheA&ssl=1&w=1024&resize=1024&ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Canada-aging-population.png?location=column&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=4doYo47n-030Go2UrZdheA&ssl=1&w=1280&resize=1280&ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Canada-aging-population.png?location=column&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=4doYo47n-030Go2UrZdheA&ssl=1&w=1600&resize=1600&ssl=1 1600w\" alt=\"Canada aging population\" class=\"embedded-image__image lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Canada-aging-population.png?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=375&sig=M_YHQSOywCS3z4M4ZKYvTA\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Canada-aging-population.png?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=375&sig=M_YHQSOywCS3z4M4ZKYvTA,\n                https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Canada-aging-population.png?location=column&quality=90&strip=all&w=750&sig=6YQXmwJnp4-EY2OnXSU_SQ 2x\" fifu-data-src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Canada-aging-population.png?location=column&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=4doYo47n-030Go2UrZdheA&ssl=1\" height=\"833\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s changed is that now the majority of people can expect to become old, where for most of human history, only a few people got old,\u201d Scott said.<\/p>\n<p>The professor is not a biohacker, but he doesn\u2019t harbour any ill feeling towards those that partake in \u201cunproven\u201d treatments. In his view, it is each to their own. But what concerns him from a social perspective is that the bid to achieve \u201cradical life extension\u201d misses out on the more fundamental challenge of \u201ccompressing morbidity\u201d on a mass scale.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"ad__section-border article-content__ad-group ad_counter_11\">\n<section aria-describedby=\"advertisment8359354032625041680623437271269376\" class=\"ad\">\n<p>Advertisement 11<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad__container\">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\" id=\"ad__inner-11\">\n<div class=\"ad__inner__container\" data-ad=\"[[1200,250],[1200,90],[970,90],[970,250],[728,90],[300,250]]\" data-ad-loc=\"11\" data-ad-mobile=\"[[320,50],[300,50],[300,250]]\" data-aqa=\"advertisement\" id=\"ad-11\" style=\"--desktopHeight:250px;--mobileHeight:250px\">\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"ad__placeholder\">\n<p>This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--feature\">\n<p>Article content<\/p>\n<p>If a bunch of us are destined to hit 80, 90 and beyond, without saddling Western economies, Canada included, with untenable health-care costs, then the goal should be to reduce the amount of time we spend being sick at the end of our lives. Healthy aging isn\u2019t simply a luxury; there is big money at stake, but the buyer need beware.<\/p>\n<p>June Cotte isn\u2019t shy about sharing her age, nor is the 56-year-old marketing professor at Ivey Business School in London, Ont., averse to offering her take on human nature.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think health and wellness is one of those areas where we\u2019re motivated to want to believe promises that might be a bit hyperbolic because what we\u2019re talking about is dying,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<h2>65 is the new 40<\/h2>\n<p>As for the living, Cotte said it is critical when thinking about the \u201clongevity economy\u201d to dispense with the Freedom 55 retirement dream and start with the premise that people who are living longer are going to want to work longer \u201cbecause who wants to retire and sit around for 30 years?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Older workers can still be productive. They still consume and they tend to have more money on hand to spend than cash-strapped 30-somethings carrying a mortgage.<\/p>\n<p>This bodes well for the aforementioned wellness economy, which encompasses everything from Cook\u2019s personalized medicine to spa treatments to public health prevention initiatives, and contributed about US$6.3 trillion to the global economy in 2023, according to the Global Wellness Institute. That number could hit US$9 trillion by 2028.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"ad__section-border article-content__ad-group ad_counter_12\">\n<section aria-describedby=\"advertisment6872535038866870131817585567596544\" class=\"ad\">\n<p>Advertisement 12<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad__container\">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\" id=\"ad__inner-12\">\n<div class=\"ad__inner__container\" data-ad=\"[[1200,250],[1200,90],[970,90],[970,250],[728,90],[300,250]]\" data-ad-loc=\"12\" data-ad-mobile=\"[[320,50],[300,50],[300,250]]\" data-aqa=\"advertisement\" id=\"ad-12\" style=\"--desktopHeight:250px;--mobileHeight:250px\">\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"ad__placeholder\">\n<p>This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--feature\">\n<p>Article content<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"article-content--column\">\n<p>We\u2019re living longer, we\u2019re going to want to be healthier, and that\u2019s where a lot of opportunity is<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Scott, London Business School, author of The Longevity Imperative<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re living longer, we\u2019re going to want to be healthier, and that\u2019s where a lot of opportunity is, and I think the broader health sector is going to explode,\u201d Scott said from England.<\/p>\n<p>Another outcome Cotte foresees is a boom in higher education, not among the retirees who want to learn Spanish, but from an aging workforce wanting to maintain its edge. 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https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/june-cotte.jpg?location=half_width_right&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=pYbUhWHhy_dTZQKcY4TabQ&ssl=1&w=1600&resize=1600&ssl=1 1600w\" alt=\"June Cotte\" class=\"embedded-image__image lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/june-cotte.jpg?location=half_width_right&quality=90&strip=all&w=375&sig=mMGxPv_iJzVGt2sRS_Jnzg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/june-cotte.jpg?location=half_width_right&quality=90&strip=all&w=375&sig=mMGxPv_iJzVGt2sRS_Jnzg,\n                https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/june-cotte.jpg?location=half_width_right&quality=90&strip=all&w=750&sig=kAHKsnwz3JcvM4NUlaXvRw 2x\" fifu-data-src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/june-cotte.jpg?location=half_width_right&quality=5&strip=all&w=100&sig=pYbUhWHhy_dTZQKcY4TabQ&ssl=1\" height=\"750\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"image-caption\"><span class=\"caption\">June Cotte, of the Ivey School of Business, said it is critical when thinking about the \u201clongevity economy\u201d to dispense with the Freedom 55 retirement dream and start with the premise that people who are living longer are going to want to work longer.<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">Photo by Gabe Ramos<\/span> \/<span class=\"distributor\">Ivey School of Business<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>These older workers will want products \u2014 not adult diapers, but phones, gadgets, cars, sneakers, you name it \u2014 that embrace (and profit) from the recognition that a 70-year-old may not possess the same tastes as a 25-year-old, but they will still want items that are both functional, designed for an older cohort, and look cool.<\/p>\n<p>If people are living longer, their finances should also be positioned to survive along with them, which heralds a new age of innovation in financial products and more work for the wealth management industry.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, not all jobs involve sitting at a desk. There aren\u2019t many 75-year-old construction workers. But a 55-year-old worker, if we accept they have a shot at living to 95, could have their skills and experience repurposed to a less physically taxing job that preserves their bodies and keeps them plugging away for another 10 to 15 years.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"ad__section-border article-content__ad-group ad_counter_13\">\n<section aria-describedby=\"advertisment2764010688896745200300738759098368\" class=\"ad\">\n<p>Advertisement 13<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad__container\">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\" id=\"ad__inner-13\">\n<div class=\"ad__inner__container\" data-ad=\"[[1200,250],[1200,90],[970,90],[970,250],[728,90],[300,250]]\" data-ad-loc=\"13\" data-ad-mobile=\"[[320,50],[300,50],[300,250]]\" data-aqa=\"advertisement\" id=\"ad-13\" style=\"--desktopHeight:250px;--mobileHeight:250px\">\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"ad__placeholder\">\n<p>This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--feature\">\n<p>Article content<\/p>\n<p>Scott refers to this scenario of constant reinvention and relevance as the \u201cevergreen economy.\u201d A key aspect of achieving it plays into what some biohackers are up to, which is a radical repositioning of health-care systems from managing disease and decay to prevention.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a whole bunch of changes we have to make because for the first time ever, we can expect to live into our 80s and 90s, and so we have to create new ways of living,\u201d he said. \u201cIf we don\u2019t, then we\u2019ll end up being 80 or 90 and in bad health and without enough money, without a sense of purpose and being excluded, and all the other negative things that we worry about associated with getting old.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"article-content__content-group 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Thompson<\/span> \/<span class=\"distributor\">Financial Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kielburger, for one, does not intend on getting old without a fight. His personality is such that when he gets into something, he gets <em>all<\/em> the way into it. In high school, it was public speaking; around the house, it has been gardening.<\/p>\n<p>His personal health choices are more extreme and experimental than most, but he believes he can either pay for it now or pay for it later. Three years ago, his body was a wreck. The Canadian arm of his charity had imploded. His reputation had taken a hit; he was stressed and convinced he was destined for a wheelchair and an expensive remodelling of his home to allow him to remain in it.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"ad__section-border article-content__ad-group ad_counter_14\">\n<section aria-describedby=\"advertisment5503879988800510686665975797907456\" class=\"ad\">\n<p>Advertisement 14<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad__container\">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\" id=\"ad__inner-14\">\n<div class=\"ad__inner__container\" data-ad=\"[[1200,250],[1200,90],[970,90],[970,250],[728,90],[300,250]]\" data-ad-loc=\"14\" data-ad-mobile=\"[[320,50],[300,50],[300,250]]\" data-aqa=\"advertisement\" id=\"ad-14\" style=\"--desktopHeight:250px;--mobileHeight:250px\">\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"ad__placeholder\">\n<p>This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--feature\">\n<p>Article content<\/p>\n<p>In a way, he saw in himself what he was seeing happen with his parents, Fred, now 84, and Theresa, 81, who weren\u2019t model stewards of their health, so their health-care costs are skyrocketing. Their eldest son lives a block and a half away, and he has overhauled his father\u2019s diet, and has him working out with a personal trainer and using a hyperbaric chamber because \u201ccancer hates oxygen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kielburger, meanwhile, has come up for air after going through a rough patch and co-written a new book with his brother Craig and Martin Luther King III and his wife Andrea Waters King.<\/p>\n<p>What Is My Legacy? is about living lives \u201clarger than ourselves\u201d in search of that most elusive thing: fulfillment, according to a synopsis of the book. It sounds a bit hokey and is geared to the self-help audience, but Kielburger is irrepressibly earnest in conversation and is not above offering dietary tips about the value of having oatmeal for breakfast and other things.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever is on the menu, it is bound to be a lot less expensive than jetting off to Costa Rica for stem cell treatments. On that front, he has no regrets, at least not yet, and he has even returned to the sport that put him on the road to physical ruin and rebirth as a biohacker in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been playing rugby and I\u2019ve got my daughter playing a little bit, too,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m trying to keep it pretty tame and avoid the scrums; I\u2019m like, \u2018OK, you look like you\u2019re going to hit me really hard, so why don\u2019t you just take the ball?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-async=\"\"><em>\u2022 Email: joconnor@postmedia.com <\/em><\/p>\n<p data-async=\"\"><em><strong>Bookmark our website and support our journalism:<\/strong> Don\u2019t miss the business news you need to know \u2014 add financialpost.com to your bookmarks and sign up for our newsletters here.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--feature\">\n<p>Article content<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"article-content__share-group article-delimiter\" data-evt-val=\"{\" control_fields=\"\" data-evt-typ=\"page_scroll\">\n<p>Share this article in your social network<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n\n<br \/>How Canada&#8217;s aging society can be a win for the economy<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-01-02 14:49:25<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breadcrumb Trail Links Economy Just a few years ago the 40-something WE Charity co-founder was on the ropes thanks to a political scandal and old Rugby injury. 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