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Rich people are obsessed with longevity. Luxury hotels are cashing in by charging guests up to $40,000 for IV drips and MRIs bef

More and more luxury hotels are adding longevity treatments and preventive medicine clinics to their offerings.Getty Images"Medical wellness" is the hot new trend in luxury hospitality, an expert told Business Insider.Luxury hotels are offering guests longevity packages that can cost tens of thousands of dollars. Wealthy Americans are willing to spend to stay healthy.From offering guests IV drips for hangovers to personalized nutrition programs and full-body MRIs, luxury hotels are upping their wellness game — and wealthy Americans are ready for it.Longevity treatments and preventive medicine were once the preserve of extreme biohackers like Bryan Johnson (who has had blood transfusions from his teenage son in an attempt to reverse his "biological age").But "medical wellness" is now "the big trend" in luxury hospitality, from resorts to existing clinics, Beth McGroarty, research director at the Global Wellness Institute, an organization that gathers data on the wellness industry, told Business Insider."It's astounding the speed in which a new focus on longevity is rewriting the wellness market," she said.The global wellness market — which encompasses beauty, healthy eating, spas, wellness tourism, personalized medicine, and more — was valued at $5.6 trillion in 2022, up from $3.4 trillion in 2013, according to the Global Wellness Institute.

 

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