Death comes for all of us. Even the tech bros like Mark Zuckerberg and Peter Thiel. The difference? Some are spending millions of dollars trying to ward off death as long as possible. And plenty of other people purchase product after product peddled to them on social media as they embark on wellness and longevity journeys of their own.
The wellness economy in the United States has ballooned to $2.1 trillion, according to the Global Wellness Institute. But are all these people's efforts in vain? What does the average person need to know to live as long and healthy a life as possible?
It's a central question of veteran tech journalist Kara Swisher's new CNN series "Kara Swisher Wants to Live Forever" (premiering April 11 at 9 p.m. ET/PT, airing weekly) in which she tries out different wellness fads and products herself (ketamine, a hyperbaric chamber and red light therapy, to name a few), and chats with subjects like tech bros Sam Altman and Bryan Johnson, scientists like Jennifer Doudna, author and journalist Amy Larocca and her "Pivot" podcast co-host and wellness enthusiast Scott Galloway. Swisher's father died of a brain aneurysm in his 30s, fueling her interest in the subject; she also had a stroke 15 years ago.
