Post by Alicja Dudek, MD PhD

There is one question I keep returning to in longevity medicine: what can we, as doctors, honestly promise patients today? Today I get to share a step that brings me closer to answering it. For 8 years I have worked in longevity and seen both sides: the real potential, from preventive medicine and biomarkers to AI, and the part we rarely admit, where marketing and easy certainty replace the caution medicine still owes patients. My thinking was shaped by people who insisted on more: the Longevity Center founded by Joanna Bensz, work with Anna Erat (MD, PhD, IDP INSEAD) and Dr. Stefan Zieger, the Buck Institute for Research on Aging under Eric Verdin, and Professor Andrea B. Maier vision of longevity as a true medical discipline. The conclusion was always the same: enthusiasm is not enough. Longevity needs evidence, methodology, and the courage to say what we know, and what we do not yet. So I am proud, and genuinely humbled, to share that I have been accepted to the University of Oxford to study Evidence-Based Health Care, with full funding through the Clarendon Scholarship. For me this is not a title, but a commitment to longevity medicine that is responsible, clinically grounded and truly valuable for patients. I am also deeply grateful to Professor Piotr Major and Professor Piotr Garstecki for their recommendations, our years of collaboration, and the opportunities they gave me in science and in building technology. The future of longevity will not be built on hype, but on evidence, responsibility and trust. If that is the medicine you also want to see, let's build it together.