Lanserhof Sylt: Why Modern Longevity Starts with Your Gut
We spoke to Dr. Jan Stritzke, Medical Director of Europe’s leading longevity clinic – Lanserhof Sylt, on why the gut is at the centre of everything.
Why Wellbeing is Becoming the New Logic of Luxury: An Editor’s View
Ten years ago, status was read through objects. Today, it is increasingly measured in quality of life and access to environments that restore you. The logic of luxury is changing.
Why Private Members’ Clubs are Replacing Social Life
There’s a global shift. Private members’ clubs have moved from legacy status symbols to a practical layer of city life: places to meet, work, and spend time well.
Longevity
Can We Really Make Our Pets Live Longer?
As humans invest more time and money in living longer, attention is also turning to the animals we love – and, perhaps surprisingly, pet longevity is becoming a fast-growing field of its own.
The UAE’s Longevity Economy: What Dubai and Abu Dhabi Are Building
Longevity is becoming big business in the UAE. Clinics, hospitals, investors and wellness brands are converging around the same opportunity – and this piece looks at what is actually taking shape.
The Longevity Industry Has Money. What It Lacks Is Evidence
Billionaires can buy scans, supplements and experimental protocols. What they cannot yet buy is proof that any of them will materially extend a healthy human life.
Peptides in Dubai: What Is Approved, What Is Experimental and What It Costs
From GLP-1 medicines to BPC-157 and Epitalon, Dubai’s peptide market combines established treatments with experimental longevity protocols. We created a guide to help you make sense of it all.
Wellbeing
A New Map of Relaxation: Riyadh’s Best Spa Locations
Daria Zolotova, Founder & Creative Director of ARTDOM, shares her personal edit of Riyadh’s best wellness destinations – and the spaces changing how the Saudi capital feels.
Why Gen Z Is Becoming a Major Consumer of Wellness and Longevity
Gen Z is changing what people are willing to spend on. Health and prevention are moving into the same space as fashion and luxury – turning wellness and longevity into powerful new markers of status.
Wearables Are Going Jewellery
Health trackers are moving beyond sportswear and beginning to borrow the materials, language and collaborations of fashion and jewellery.
Opinion: The Hidden Cost of Perfection
We have never had more information about how to live well. But when every choice becomes something to optimise, wellbeing itself can start to feel like another form of pressure.
People
Alejandro Bataller: Inside SHA Emirates, the World’s First Healthy-Living Island
We spoke with Alejandro Bataller, Managing Partner of SHA and AB Living Group, about the vision behind SHA Emirates as a new longevity ecosystem.
The Age of Intention: Inside the New Logic of Longevity Medicine
Dr. Jaffer Khan, Founder and CEO of AEON Clinic at Atlantis The Royal, on what longevity medicine really means – and why most people still don’t understand it.
Inside the Deep Cube: Ilya Blokhin on the Architecture of Sleep
The CEO and Founder of wellness startup the Deep Cube, Ilya Blokhin, on deep sleep, magnetic fields, lucid dreaming, and the technology that is teaching us to rest again.
BioTwin Founder Louis-Philippe Noël on Bringing Digital Twins to the UAE
We talked to BioTwin founder about what it actually means to have a human digital twin – and why the Emirates are moving faster than anyone else.
Living
Can Outdoor Spaces Make Us Feel Better? In Conversation with NextSpace CEO Martin Fryzelka
Some places invite us to linger almost immediately. The reason is rarely one object, but the way light, privacy, landscape and proportion work together.
Mohamed Badie: “Architecture Should Not Dominate Human Presence”
Mohamed Badie, one of the Middle East’s most distinctive visual architects, on fluidity, sculptural movement and a constant search for new forms.
ARTDOM Riyadh Returns as Saudi Arabia Builds a New Design Landscape
The international design platform will return to Riyadh on 20–21 October 2026, bringing architecture, interiors, hospitality and real estate together.
UAE Wellness Residences Boom: What’s Actually Inside Them?
From Dubai's forest communities to Abu Dhabi's dedicated wellness islands, the UAE is building one of the world's most ambitious map of longevity residences. We looked inside them.
Travel
China’s New Wellness and Longevity Landscape
China may be one of the world’s most underestimated wellness destinations. These nine destinations reveal a wellness geography that remains surprisingly unfamiliar to international travellers.
Anantara Golden Triangle: A House at the Height of the Fog
At the meeting point of Thailand, Laos and Myanmar, Anantara Golden Triangle Elephant Camp & Resort turns the landscape into the central experience.
The Sicilian Odyssey – Into Homer’s Wine-Dark Sea
As Christopher Nolan returns Homer’s wandering king to the screen this July, Rocco Forte Hotels invites travellers to trace Odysseus through the real Sicily.
20 Best Longevity and Wellness Destinations Around the World
A longevity trip begins with a simple choice: to go somewhere where the days are shaped around feeling better and returning with a greater energy.
Culture
Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Is Ready to Redraw the Map of Global Art
After two decades of anticipation, Frank Gehry’s monumental museum will open on Saadiyat Island on 11 December 2026 – completing one of the world’s most ambitious cultural districts.
Seven Museums Changing What Culture Can Do to the Body
Wellbeing is often discussed through hotels, clinics and longevity centres. But cultural spaces may be just as central to the future of human restoration.
Human in the Loop – a new sound-and-string exhibition opens in Abu Dhabi
At 421 Arts Campus, the Emirati robotics engineer Dr Ahmad AlAttar turns the gallery into a field of sound and strings you have to play – his first institutional solo show, on until 13 September.
Abu Dhabi Gives Saadiyat a New House of the Arts
The emirate has commissioned Dar Al Funoon Abu Dhabi, a Frank Gehry-designed performing arts centre beside the Saadiyat Cultural District, to open in 2030.
