Simone Gibertoni, CEO of Clinique La Prairie, spoke about longevity, sharing insights into the clinic’s nearly century-long journey from a historic Swiss pioneer to a global leader in health and longevity. The discussion explored how Clinique La Prairie combines cutting-edge science, personalised programmes, and lifestyle guidance to help individuals not just live longer, but live better, offering practical advice for maintaining wellbeing in today’s fast-paced world.
Taking place in Cyprus on 27–28 April, the St Moritz Longevity Forum will explore approaches to living longer, healthier, and with sustained vitality. The forum will showcase the latest advances in longevity, highlighting how personalised wellness strategies can enhance health and wellbeing.
1. Clinique La Prairie has moved from a historic Swiss pioneer to a global leader in longevity. How has the brand managed to stay at the absolute forefront of the wellness industry for nearly a century?
Clinique La Prairie has always combined scientific rigor with a deep understanding of human needs. From the early days of cellular therapy to today’s epigenetics and preventive medicine, we have continuously evolved while remaining anchored in one principle: delivering real, measurable impact on people’s lives.
What has allowed us to stay at the forefront is a disciplined approach: integrating innovation into a structured method — diagnostics, personalized interventions, and long-term follow-up — and executing it with uncompromising quality.
2. What personally drew you to the world of longevity, and how has your own definition of “living well” changed since leading the clinic?
What drew me to longevity was a simple but powerful question: how can we create real, lasting transformation in people’s lives?
Over time, my definition of “living well” has changed. It is no longer about intensity or success alone; it is about clarity, energy, and balance over time.
I often say that we must move from information to transformation. Today, everyone knows what they should do; sleep better, eat better, move more. But knowing is not enough. The real challenge is turning that knowledge into sustainable change.
That is what longevity is about: not knowing more, but living differently.
3. If you could summarize the Clinique La Prairie mission for the modern woman, how would you describe your role in shaping a person’s long-term lifestyle?
Our mission is to give women something extremely powerful: control over their future health. We want to be “life changers” for them!
Modern women manage extraordinary complexity such as careers, families, responsibilities and often at the expense of their own wellbeing. Our role is to help them step back, understand their body deeply, and rebuild a lifestyle that is sustainable, not reactive.
We don’t offer quick fixes. We design long-term trajectories by combining medical insight, nutrition, movement, and mental wellbeing and we stay with them over time.
It’s not about a week. It’s about the next 10–20 years of their life.
4. We often hear about “bio-hacking” or biomarkers. How do you use a person’s unique genetic blueprint to create a program that predicts health risks years before they appear?
We start with one principle: superficially we look similar, but biologically we are profoundly different.
Genetics gives us the blueprint — what we are born with, the predispositions, the potential risks.
Epigenetics tells us something far more dynamic: how that blueprint is being expressed today, and how it is evolving over time based on our lifestyle, environment, stress, nutrition, and habits.
In other words, genetics is static. Epigenetics is modifiable.
By combining genetic data, epigenetic markers, inflammation profiles, and metabolic indicators, we can identify early signals of risk long before symptoms appear.
From there, we design personalized interventions across our four pillars — Medical, Nutrition, Movement, and Wellbeing — and we continuously monitor progress.
This is where longevity becomes real:
predictive, personalized, and measurable.
5. Many people juggle high-pressure careers and family lives. How do your programs specifically restore mental clarity and emotional balance for those facing burnout or exhaustion?
Burnout today is not only psychological but also biological.
Chronic stress impacts sleep, inflammation, cognitive function, and energy. That’s why we don’t treat it as a symptom, but as a system.
Through our programs and especially Life Reset we combine diagnostics, structured recovery, movement, nutrition, and mental wellbeing practices to restore balance at multiple levels.
But the most important element is something else: time.
We create a space where people can disconnect from constant pressure and reconnect with themselves; what I call Deep Time. That is where clarity returns and where energy is rebuilt.
6. What is the biggest myth about longevity, and what is the most important realization guests usually have?
The biggest myth is that longevity is a quick fix — a treatment, a supplement, or a shortcut.
The reality is very different: longevity is a process, and it requires consistency.
The most important realization guests have is that they already know what to do but they have never applied it in a structured, disciplined way.
At the same time, there is another important evolution:
new technologies — both in diagnostics and interventions — are becoming essential for those who want to go deeper. They allow us to understand the body with precision and to act earlier, more intelligently.
Longevity is about finally doing what matters consistently, and with the right tools.
7. Beyond the clinical data, what does “living longer but better” actually look like in daily life after the clinic?
It looks simple but intentional.
Better sleep.
More stable energy.
Clearer thinking.
Less inflammation.
More presence.
It means building routines that support your body instead of exhausting it. It means making decisions aligned with your long-term wellbeing, not just short-term pressure.
Ultimately, it means having the capacity to live your life fully — not just function through it.
8. How do you measure the “real” success of a program?
We measure success in two dimensions.
First, objectively: biomarkers, inflammation levels, metabolic improvements, sleep quality.
Second, subjectively: clarity, energy, resilience, and the ability to sustain change.
But the real success is something even more powerful:
when people come back to us and we see (thanks to measurement and their feedback, that they are better than before.
Not just during the program but months later.
That is when we know transformation has truly happened.
9. It is easy to be healthy in the Swiss Alps, but harder in a busy city. How do you ensure continuity?
You are absolutely right — the real challenge starts when people go back home.
That is why we built an ecosystem: Longevity Hubs, follow-up programs, coaching, and daily routines supported by our supplements and digital tools.
We stay connected.
We measure again.
We adjust.
We want to make our guest part of a full ecosystem supporting them.
10. Looking toward the future, which scientific advances excite you the most?
We are entering an extraordinary moment in longevity science.
What excites me most is the convergence of three areas:
Advanced diagnostics — especially epigenetics and multi-omics — allowing us to understand biological aging with unprecedented precision.
Artificial intelligence — supporting doctors in interpreting complex data and moving from reactive to predictive medicine.
Regenerative and cellular therapies — opening the door to slowing, and in some cases reversing, biological decline.
All these advances are moving us in the same direction:
a future where medicine is no longer about treating disease, but about anticipating it and preventing it.
11. In the quest for a long life, is the key science or daily habits?
It is both but in a very precise way.
Science gives you direction.
It tells you what to do, when to do it, and why.
But habits create the outcome.
Without habits, nothing changes.
Longevity is the result of a very simple equation:
precision guided by science, executed through discipline.
12. For readers who want to start today, what is the single most important habit?
The most important thing is to create habits.
If possible, dedicate one hour per day — ideally in the morning — to your longevity: movement, meditation, reading, reflection. It doesn’t need to be complex. It needs to be consistent.
But there is one element I consider equally important: don’t do it alone.
Longevity is not just about discipline, it is about direction. Working with a professional — whether a preventive medicine doctor or a structured program like ours — allows you to understand your body, prioritize what truly matters, and avoid wasting time on generic advice.
Because today, everyone knows what they should do.
The real difference comes from doing it in a structured, guided way.
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