The Price of Aging: Frailty, Healthspan, and the Economy of Longevity

The real cost of aging is not living longer. It is living longer without function. Widely considered the founder of functional medicine, Dr. Jeffrey Bland, Founder of the Institute for Functional Medicine and Big Bold Health, reframes how we think about aging entirely, moving from lifespan to healthspan and from reactive care to the active production of health. 

At the 2026 S2G Summit, drawing on the latest science in immune resilience, geoscience, and the agriculture to food to biology chain, Dr. Bland examined the biological drivers of frailty, why they are modifiable, and what it means for society to choose vitality over dependency. Urgent, human, and grounded in decades of pioneering research, it is a challenge to rethink what aging well actually requires.

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