What if getting older could mean staying stronger, sharper and more energised for longer? Derbyshire doctors Lucy and Peter Scriven are offering a proactive approach to health – focusing not just on how long we live, but on how well we live
You know your chronological age … but how old in biological terms, is your body?
You know your chronological age … but how old in biological terms, is your body?
You invest in your work or business, your home and your family, but what about the thing it all depends on … your own health?
You want to stay healthy for longer … but how do you navigate the dizzying amount of information, the claims and counter-claims that you see online?
Chesterfield-based doctors Lucy and Peter Scriven – who both have more than 25 years of medical experience – are helping people to safeguard their health across the decades, providing science-based, personalised care through their clinic LONGEVITY.
Delivering a range of structured, medically-led programmes, LONGEVITY uses advanced diagnostics and real-time physiological data to re-shape how we age. Proactive screening can highlight health risks and early signals of disease, allowing lifestyle changes or early intervention to prevent disease taking hold.
The clinic currently sees patients online but Lucy and Peter plan to establish a physical base in Derbyshire.
“Ageing does not have to mean inevitable decline,” explains Lucy. “It’s a biological process that can be measured, managed and reversed.”
Peter adds: “Biological age can be measured in different ways – there isn’t one single magic number! Several of our clients are more than 10 or even 20 years younger than their chronological age on multiple ageing clocks.”
Science shows that ageing doesn’t happen in a smooth, linear fashion. Instead, it accelerates at three key points in adult life – in our mid-30s, mid-40s and mid-60s. Targeted interventions around these ‘inflection points’ can reshape the trajectory of ageing and give people potentially another 25 years of good health.
But intervention can help at any age – it is never too late to make changes that can have a big impact.
“We want people to live their best life for as long as possible, maintaining optimum levels of energy, focus, strength and brain function well into their later decades,” says Peter. “An extended healthspan is the enabler for a long life well lived.”
Lucy and Peter met as medical students at the University of Sheffield and have been married for 25 years.
A medical doctor with NHS experience in general practice, women’s health and dermatology, Lucy has also lived with Type 1 diabetes for over 40 years, which has informed her insight into the value of precise self-care.
“Living with a lifelong condition teaches you the value of continuity, good information and a team that notices change over time,” she says.
Peter has a background in surgery for cancer, research into the processes which keep our cells healthy and more than a decade as a GP. He knows how simple health screening can miss early disease. “My dad had a massive heart attack weeks after running a half marathon and having a normal NHS health check,” he reveals. “That experience drives me to make sure we detect things at a point we can do something about it.”
The care LONGEVITY delivers is carefully considered and tailored to each individual patient. Lucy and Peter cut through the misinformation that can be found online, bringing clarity and trust to what can be a confusing place to navigate.
They are joined at LONGEVITY by a team of experts covering nutrition, strength training, psychology, sleep and gut health.
“Healthy ageing is shaped by many interacting aspects of our biology and lifestyle,” says Lucy. “Our role is to bring the right experts together around each individual, with medical oversight, to help people remain fully alive, for longer.”