Male contraceptive jab is really the elixir of eternal youth | Brief letters

Perhaps you expect us to know that “French painter Vigée le Brun” is Louise Élisabeth Vigée le Brun (Rare appearance for portrait of Emma Hamilton, 24 October). The artist’s gender is crucial to this painting’s many observational subtleties and thematic ironies, not least because here a celebrated woman artist (uncommon, to put it mildly, in 1790), in depicting a woman who famously made a career out of presenting herself in “attitudes” for the male gaze (here “Lady Hamilton as Ariadne”), shows us – wittily but not bitchily – how this sitter also confronts the gifted appraising eye of another woman.
John MacInerney
London

• One of my grandchildren went to the Globe with school, no doubt to enjoy “the conditions within which Shakespeare and his contemporaries worked” (Letters, 27 October). Her mother asked what she thought of the performance. “It rained,” said the child. “Well…?” from her parent. “No fucking roof,” was the reply.
Christine Hawkes
Cambridge

• Side effects: acne, depression and increased libido (Male contraceptive jab effective in trials, 28 October). Have they finally stumbled on the elixir of eternal youth?
Jean Glasberg
Cambridge

• Katy Guest (The Week in Books, Review, 29 October) reports that David Cameron has sold his memoirs for book publication, but is still in need of a title. Could I suggest Laugh Out Loud?
John Pawsey
Milton Keynes

• Could I suggest Making a Pig’s Ear out of a Silk Purse.
Dave Crook
Birmingham

• My GPs’ surgery now refuses to accept magazines on the grounds of “health and safety” (Letters, 28 October). I have managed to sneak a few in, though.
Rosalind Clayton
York

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Male contraceptive jab is really the elixir of eternal youth | Brief letters

Medical entrepreneur hopes to unlock secret of eternal overall health

Launched in August last year, 1 Hundred Years offers a selection of solutions, from standard overall health care to “lifestyle optimisation”, whereby clientele can enrol in bespoke health-care programmes to enhance fertility or prevent the onset of cancers.

Some of the providers provided to consumers consist of a smartphone app for individuals with cardiac concerns. The app measures ECG and sends genuine-time updates to a health-care skilled. The organization also delivers genetic testing, which can discover markers in the gene that recommend large probabilities of conditions happening. “We want to locate out no matter whether you could create a health-related circumstance long before it transpires so that we can avoid it,” mentioned Mr Bretz.

A single Hundred Years boasts a heavyweight board of healthcare pros, led by Dr Sundeep Dhillon, honorary health care adviser to the Royal Geographical Society and a founding member of the Centre for Aviation, Space and Intense Setting Medicine and Physiology. He was the youngest guy to scale the “seven summits” – the highest mountain on each continent – and runs One particular Hundred Years’ fitness programmes for the super sporty.

“We have unrivalled access to top well being-care resources,” explained Mr Bretz. “This is like private wealth management, only for overall health,” stated Mr Bretz. “We match our individuals with the very best health care talent across the planet.”

One Hundred Years’ providers begin at £2,500 a 12 months for a prevention and wellness bundle, but some programmes can value up to £100,000 a year.

Medical entrepreneur hopes to unlock secret of eternal overall health