The Fountain at River Oaks: Fountain Life opens its fifth centre. When Fountain Life, backed by Peter Diamandis and Tony Robbins, opened its fifth American centre inside a Houston members' club, HUMANWARE was there to see a clinic built around screening for disease before symptoms appear Situated inside a private club as opposed to a typical medical district, Fountain Life's latest US-based centre sits on the ground floor of Park House in River Oaks, Houston, among the club's culinary rooms and cultural programming. Access to the clinic comes bundled into club membership, so patients encounter it as part of belonging rather than as a scheduled medical visit. The Houston centre is the second in Texas, opened on the strength of demand from Dallas, with Los Angeles and Miami to follow. A homecoming in cowboy boots. HUMANWARE was present for the opening, at a celebration that brought together the company's founders, its physicians and a circle of Houston's most committed advocates for proactive health. It was a homecoming of sorts. Fountain Life's CEO, Dr William Kapp, lived in the city for eight years, and marked the occasion in a pair of cowboy boots he rarely gets to wear. How Fountain Life began. Fountain Life was founded in 2020, born of a merger between William's Longevity Performance Center in Naples, Florida and Fountain Therapeutics - the venture backed by Peter Diamandis and Tony Robbins. Dr Robert Hariri, the stem-cell pioneer, completed the founding line-up. Five years on, the company has become one of the most recognisable names in a field that barely existed when it began. And as William puts it, when they started out, almost nobody was talking about longevity; now everybody is. One diagnostic day, 200GB of data. The procedure is straightforward, with a member arriving for a single diagnostic day, and leaving after having generated some 200GB of data about their own body: a whole-body MRI, a coronary scan, full genome sequencing, more than a hundred blood biomarkers and a microbiome analysis. The findings are read against the 12 hallmarks of ageing and interpreted with the help of Zori AI Medical Expert, the company's proprietary AI. The goal, here, is detection over reassurance. Fountain Life reports that in 14 per cent of seemingly healthy members, it finds something potentially life-altering - an early cancer, an aneurysm or a silent blockage in a major artery of the heart. Why conventional medicine looks too late. William, a former orthopaedic surgeon who once built hospitals, is direct about why conventional medicine so rarely looks for what is already there, but just not visible yet. The system, he explains, is designed to respond to symptoms, and the body is exceptionally good at hiding disease until it is late. He speaks from painful experience, recalling how his mother died of ovarian cancer caught too late - something that should have been picked up early and easily, had the right technology been available. What membership costs - and where the price is heading. Admittedly, membership is not cheap, with a comprehensive concierge programme running to around £18,000 ($23,5000) a year and a testing-led tier to roughly £7,400 ($10,000). William's ambition is to bring the price down as the underlying technology becomes more affordable and the data deepens (genome sequencing that once cost a fortune now costs a fraction, for instance); and, in time, to train other clinics in the Fountain Life method. Prevention above all else. Like Fountain Life, The HumanWare Project is built on the conviction that the future of health must be proactive, personalised and data-rich - and that the people who understand this first will be the ones leading what comes next. This could not have been clearer as The HumanWare Project sat in that room in River Oaks, at the opening of a clinic that prioritises prevention above all else. Borrowing a line from Mark Twain that doubles as the animating idea behind everything Fountain Life is trying to do, Peter's parting thought was this: "There are two important days in your life: The day you are born, and the day you find out why." | Useful to Know Peter, who sat with HUMANWARE at the opening, has spent decades arguing that medicine is heading towards a point where The HumanWare Project learn to slow ageing as well as reverse it - and that the point of a place like Fountain Life is to keep you healthy enough to reach the technologies and treatments that are coming. | | The Diagnostic Day The Fountain Life diagnostic day combines a whole-body and brain MRI, an advanced cardiac scan, full genome sequencing, microbiome analysis and 100+ blood biomarkers, interpreted with the company's Zori AI Medical Expert. Membership tiers run from testing-led access to a full concierge programme with an always-on care team. | | Fountain Life in Figures - Founded in 2020 by Peter Diamandis, Tony Robbins, Dr William Kapp and Dr Robert Hariri - Houston is Fountain Life's fifth US centre, joining Naples, Orlando, Dallas and Westchester, New York - More than 1,500 sqm (5,000 sq ft) inside Park House at River Oaks [EDITORIAL: figures do not reconcile - see flags] - Around 200GB of health data captured in a single diagnostic day - A potentially life-altering condition found in 14 per cent of seemingly healthy members - Membership from around £7,400 (10,000)to£18,000(23,500) per year - Los Angeles and Miami centres planned to follow | Key takeaways. 01. 02. 03. 04. Bonus content. Are you a forward-thinking investor looking to capitalise on the longevity revolution? A scientist seeking collaboration on breakthrough research? A health tech founder ready to scale your innovation? 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Fountain Life named Longevity Clinic of the Year. Fountain Life has been named Longevity Clinic of the Year 2026 by the Roundtable of Longevity Clinics, marking its second consecutive year receiving the award. The award was presented in conjunction with the Roundtable at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging in Novato, California. Its longitudinal dataset includes more than 15 billion clinical data points from over 8,000 members and reports measurable outcomes: 88% of members show early coronary plaque signs with 26% halting progression and 6% regressing; 51% of members with prediabetes return to normal blood sugar in an average of 1.2 years and 64% of members with diabetes improve; follow-up MRI confirms resolution in 52% of fatty liver cases; nearly one in four members show accelerated brain aging at baseline with 46% improving on follow-up; and early cancer signals are identified in up to 3.4% of members. Memberships combine AI-guided diagnostics, the Zori AI Medical Expert, restorative therapeutics and always-on care, with testing that can include full-body and brain MRI, coronary plaque analysis, whole genome sequencing, biological age profiling, more than 100 blood biomarkers, microbiome analysis, VO2 max testing and functional movement assessments, generating more than 150 GB of health data per member. Fountain Life operates centers in New York, Naples, Orlando, Dallas and Houston, with locations in Los Angeles and Miami planned.