NEW YORK — The West Village is getting a new longevity clinic.
Extension Health, located at 160 Seventh Avenue South, is set to formally open on July 24, though the clinic has existed in a different format in the past and was previously known as Hudson Life. The larger company, founded by Dr. Jonathann Kuo, a double board-certified pain management specialist and anesthesiologist, has two other sectors: a primary care practice Hudson Medical located in TriBeCa and psychiatry services under Hudson Mind, housed in the same West Village location. However, with the relaunch and update to the sector, Extension Health is now the primary focus.
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“Extension represents this idea that we’re expanding our health span, extending our limits [and] really reaching the upper potential of human performance,” said Elaine Cheng, the company’s creative director who previously sold her e-commerce start-up and is now a self-proclaimed biohacker. “As we’ve been growing, we’ve realized [Extension Health is] actually eclipsing all the other major forms of our business. [It] is primarily what we’re known for.”
Extension’s core customers are aged 30 to 50 and are “high net worth individuals, athletes, CEOs [and] celebrities,” according to Cheng, though the company could not share specific names. According to Cheng, the company’s younger female patients are especially interested in the weight management offerings.
Extension will offer a slew of innovative diagnostic services and therapies, all focused on enhancing performance and boosting longevity. Currently, the menu includes services like DEXA scans, $250 to $300, which measure body fat, bone density and overall body composition; Prenuvo scans, $2,500, a full-body MRI said to detect hundreds of conditions; vitamin IVS, $99; postural alignment scans, $150, and, perhaps the most popular, weight management drugs including semaglutide and tirzepatide, $500 to $1,250, the pharmaceutical ingredients in branded medications Ozempic and Mounjaro, respectively. While many of these technologies are expensive, Cheng predicts that the price will come down over time as they become more accepted and accessible.
As weight loss drugs become the norm, Kuo and Cheng predict other peptide therapies will become more commonplace in the future for muscle mass, libido, brain health and more.
“If you had to say one thing that’s really making a significant difference, [it’s] peptides,” Kuo said. “GLP-1s [are] just a glimpse into how effective some of these medications can be.”
The team also highlighted the Neuro Reset, $1,500, a treatment unique to Extension Health developed by Kuo that aims to target anxiety via growth factor injections into fluids surrounding the vagus nerve.
“It helps create vagal tone, which means that your nerve can breathe,” Cheng said. “Almost everyone in our clinic has gotten a Neuro Reset. We love it because it makes us all very calm.”
Although Extension Health offers a slew of treatments that clients can mix-and-match, the overall offering is a response to the traditional health care system.
“Traditional health care has become so fragmented into their own little niches,” Kuo said. “We’re really good at producing all these specialists that look at one very specific thing, but they fail to look at the big picture….The kind of medicine that we practice here is making your basic physiology healthier and making your cellular health a better environment.”
Cheng added: “Health care 2.0 is reactive. Health care 3.0 is preventative.”