With almost 90 years pioneering the science of longevity – exploring our bodies’ receptivity to renewal therapies, optimised nutrition, exercise, mental health and sleep – Clinique La Prairie medi-spa has had its transformative powers around health and lifestyle well documented. As is its setting along the calm, restorative shores of Lake Geneva, close to the Swiss town of Montreux.
The health retreat’s unique blend of medical expertise (including cutting-edge rejuvenation techniques and cleansing programmes), holistic wellness (body, mind and spirit), fresh alpine air and hotel-style pampering has seen the great and the good check-in for a health MOT. In the 1930s its founder Paul Niehans conducted groundbreaking research to discover that cellular therapy could help ease the ageing process in humans, which remains central to its mystery and international allure today. And though Clinique La Prairie has evolved rapidly since Dr. Niehans’ time, longevity continues to direct its preventative medicine and genetics wellness programmes – each tailored as closely to a person’s needs as is scientifically possible. Clinique La Prairie also attributes its own longevity to these progressive treatments and long-term changes in guests’ health (Pope Pius XII famously claimed the clinic’s legendary Revitalisation programme’s cell therapy saved his life).
As the topic of immunity looms large amid the global pandemic, it’s an opportune moment to tap into the expertise of Clinique La Prairie’s 50 leading medical specialists. We’ll be making a beeline for the Swiss retreat as soon as it’s safe to fly again, but for now, here’s Clinique la Prairie’s advice on how to stay healthy at home.