Chi Longevity opens luxury clinic at Four Seasons Hotel

The clinic is designed to bring a ‘Nordic airline lounge’ feel.
 

Chi Longevity Clinic is expanding its premium care services with the opening of its second branch at the Four Seasons Hotel Singapore along Orchard Boulevard.

The launch is in line with the clinic’s mission to help Singaporeans slow biological ageing using evidence-based medicine.

“Singapore is responding to major societal factors,” Lindsay Cooper, co-founder of Chi Longevity, told Singapore Business Review. “We have an aging population with an average lifespan of 85 years — a testament to excellent healthcare and acute care.”

However, the average good health span is 75 years, meaning many Singaporeans spend a decade in poor health, often with many chronic diseases, he pointed out.

“That’s difficult not just for individuals but for society as well, as it comes with significant costs, even in a wealthy place like Singapore,” Cooper said in a Zoom interview.

Singapore’s reputation as a high-end medical and education hub influenced Chi Longevity's decision to set up shop. “It just felt like the right place to establish our first clinic.”

The new clinic features consultation areas and physical and biological testing spaces — all designed to create a welcoming and natural atmosphere — that Cooper describes as a “first-class Nordic airline lounge” experience.

“The first thing to note is that when you walk into one of our clinics, it doesn’t feel like a typical medical facility. It’s not intimidating, overly sanitized, or clinical in its vibe,” he said.

Cooper said understanding one’s own health should be an empowering experience.

“That’s why our consultation spaces are beautifully furnished,” he said. “It should feel like a positive journey — one where clients can react to their health insights constructively and make steady, incremental improvements.”

“The overall theme is one of high quality, but without feeling heavy or overly formal. It’s not the kind of place that gives off a high-pressure private banking vibe, nor is it a sterile, clinical, wipe-down-the-plastic kind of space. It also avoids any sense of frenetic energy.”

The clinic was designed in such a way that clients don’t have to see each other. “This isn’t a high-volume clinic where someone is rushed through every 10 minutes. You’re not sitting in a reception area, pulling a card, and waiting with a crowd of people.”

Chi Longevity limits appointments to two or three clients at a time to ensure a personalized experience. Unlike its typical model of assigning two doctors per clinic, the facility offers a full suite of medical practitioners.

“It’s a little bit like Noah’s Ark — you need doctors, dietitians, psychologists, nurses, and health coaches,” he said. Clients have ample time to relax, fully engage with the team, and understand their health, he added.

At 1,205 sq ft, Chi Longevity at the Four Seasons Hotel is smaller than the pioneer clinic at Camden Medical Center along One Orchard Boulevard, but it offers the same functionality. “We’ve found ways to work efficiently within smaller spaces while maintaining the full experience,” Cooper said.

‘Healthy longevity’

The clinic also offers physical assessments using state-of-the-art facilities, including ECGs (electrocardiograms), VO₂ max testing that measures aerobic fitness levels, and artery thickness and pulse wave velocity measurements.

“Beyond these, we perform various other assessments from smell and balance tests to strength evaluations and cognition testing,” Cooper said.

The clinic also examines reasoning, reaction times, and dual-tasking — combining physical and mental challenges to assess brain plasticity or the ability to change and adapt in response to new experiences and stimuli. It also conducts psychosocial assessments of patients’ overall well-being.

Chi Longevity also expands the medical experience into a virtual portal that connects doctors and clients outside the clinic.

On the back end, one team analyzes thousands of data points, and on the front end, clients get 24/7 access to their health information, no matter where they are in the world, Cooper said.

“They can review their health status across individual body systems, which we’ve prioritized using a traffic light system — red, orange, and green — with red being of particular importance,” he added.

Cooper said people may find it hard to understand what has been proven effective and safe. “When you look at the landscape of parties offering longevity treatments or using longevity in their name, it’s important to distinguish between the experiential and the medical,” he said.

“When you start looking at this through a truly medical lens, you see that there are only a limited number of clinical businesses worldwide genuinely promoting and practicing healthy longevity medicine within the proper safeguards,” he said.

“We are the first such clinic to be established in Asia, and we’re now looking to leverage that not just across Asia but into other regions as well,” he added.