Eric Litman’s Healthspanners is taking social wellness to a whole new level, selecting cohorts of the most devoted health optimizers and offering a three-year protocol to match
Eric Litman revolutionized recovery with Aescape, a startup boasting wellness tech that’s straight out of a science-fiction novel, offering a spa-like massage using robotic arms.
The company has raised more than $130 million, is featured at fitness and hospitality leaders such as Equinox, Life Time, Four Seasons and Marriott, and counts NFL great Tom Brady as a partner.
Now it’s time to build something new, Litman shared in a LinkedIn post this week.
He’s launching Healthspanners, a clinically supervised community health optimization program with protocols that he co-founded with Dan Burns, a former Team USA athlete and Aescape sales lead.
The program is selective. Membership ($25,000/year) runs three years with 25 hand-picked members (split into five cohorts of five), who are matched by goals and life stages. The full program thus costs $75,000, although members only commit to one year at a time.
If selected, members can expect each quarter to begin with an analysis of more than 200 biomarkers and genetic data, a themed quarterly dinner with a researcher or clinician to answer questions and a dedicated Clinical Lead who designs protocols tailored to each member.
All five cohorts launch simultaneously this spring in New York City.
The first year of the Healthspanners experience is meant to address the body’s foundation, spanning metabolic, cardiovascular, sleep and hormonal health. Year two then builds on the foundation, focused on cellular energy, the gut-brain axis, cognitive performance and environmental burden. By year three, members can expect the most advanced protocols available, such as cellular senescence, immune reconstitution and autonomic resilience.
“The future of humanity will look radically different in a decade,” Litman wrote on LinkedIn, announcing the news. “I intend to help shape it.”
Healthspanners is self-funded to date, and the first wave of interested members has mostly been from founders and investors, Litman tells Athletech News.
“Not surprising given the high agency among those groups and the stress that comes along with the roles,” he said. “It’s that high-agency note that we’re looking for. This is a peer group model, like a YPO for your health. We want people who are curious, collaborative and interested in sharing a multiyear journey together. That kind of community inherently attracts good people.”
Though Healthspanners is launching in New York City, Litman said the plan is to bring it across the U.S. and internationally, in partnership with physicians in each city.
“The software platform we’re building will help us to understand the impact of what we’re doing longitudinally, hopefully leading to insights that lead to improved outcomes,” he said.
He’s interested in the community aspect — namely, whether community drives higher compliance to longevity and healthspan protocols, and whether higher compliance drives better outcomes.
“I strongly suspect the answer to both of those is yes,” Litman said.
