The Founder of Healthspan Productions on redefining wellness events and bridging science with lifestyle.
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In this Mission Matters episode, Adam Torres interviews Elias Arjan, Founder & CEO of Healthspan Productions, live at HealthSpan Summit 2025 in Los Angeles. Elias shares how the summit’s science-driven, immersive format is redefining wellness events and inspiring a global movement toward extending human healthspan. Through his work with Healthspan Productions and PROVEN, Elias aims to unite researchers, brands, and individuals in the mission to help people live longer, healthier, and more vibrant lives.
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Hey, I’d like to welcome you to another episode of Mission Matters. My name is Adam Torres, and if you’d to apply to be a guest on the show, just head on over to missionmatters.com and click on Be Our Guest to Apply. All right, so today I’m in Los Angeles, California, and I’m at the HealthSpan Summit 2025. Let me tell you, this was a two-day event, a lot of action, lots of things going on, and I got the man of the hour, finally got him on the show. I’ve been trying to get him all day. Elias, Elias, welcome. Thank you, Adam. Great to have you here.
All right, so how are you feeling now? We’re towards the end of day two, just for some context for everyone. How are you feeling, man? This thing was amazing. Yeah, it was really actually an incredible three days, because we had a VIP preview on Friday. Oh, that’s right, the VIP. Yeah, so we had three days. We had hundreds of attendees. We had 40 speakers, 30 brands, all best in class. So it was just incredible. So.
Give a, for those that didn’t attend this year, and by the way, next year, gotta be here, this is my second year, and next year I know it’s gonna be even insane again, give a little bit of an overview of what it was like to be here over this last couple of days. Well, one of the things that we’re trying to do differently at the HealthSpan Summit is you have a lot of these events where they’re not healthy, the environment itself. You’re talking about health on the stage, but then when you go, you’re in a hotel or convention center under artificial lights.
breathing recirculated air, you don’t see the sun for three days, know, like you’re just in this, you know, space. And I just was like, why don’t we do health events that make people healthier while they’re physically there? And that’s what we did here with our different system of setting up zones, activations, cold plunge, massage, like everything was happening.
What does it take to together the square footage that you had in this event? What does it take to put something like this together? Yeah, this was 40,000 square feet. We had multiple zones. So we had the quantum vitality zone. That was the outdoor rooftop where I said there’s the cold plunges, sauna, live DJ, fitness classes, vibration recovery. So that was that area. Then we had the innovation hall and stage where all of the brands were and you could hear some of the talks in the expo.
And then we had the main stage, the Illuma stage, which is the thought leadership and the keynotes and the panels. And then you’re actually here in what we’re calling the Oasis because this is like our F and B registration. And then there’s also a screening room and there was an immersive nervous system reset. And then finally we had a VIP lounge. Yeah. So was a lot.
Yeah, was a lot. saw it. I mean, the attendees, like, luckily I got to interview and we created a whole series around this. So got to hear from the sponsors and all the different products that were here. But what did you look, when you talk about like best in class or even the people that were invited, what were you looking for as you curated this experience? Yeah, I mean, I’m really happy to elaborate on that because it’s very important to this. And I don’t consider myself a producer. I consider myself a curator.
Because what I’m doing is I’m curating, as we said, best in class in specific categories. So when people come here, a lot of times when you go to conferences, it’s a straight pay for play. You pay for a booth, you get a booth. What we try to do is we find best in class in each category so that when our attendees come here, you know that if you’re looking for a ketone product, this is a good ketone product. If you’re looking for a genetic test, this is a good genetic test, and we trust them.
And so you can get into those diagnostics and we can go into all the science and the technology and the research, but ultimately I run a research company. So my team is able to vet these brands, bring them in. And what has really been amazing that is even more amazing than the brands to be clear, as much as I love all my brands, is that we had some of the best speakers in the world fly in for like three hours and then fly out just to do their talks here. Yeah. Why do you think that is?
Like, why, what you think attracts, like, individuals to do that? I I almost tear up. And when I think about that, I just ask them. And they believe in what we’re doing here so much that they’re coming here to be part of that because they understand that the future of human health is healthspent. And they understand that we’re not just building a, we’re not just doing an event, we’re building an ecosystem, we’re building a community.
And everybody who’s in our community is dedicated to this mission of extending human healthspan, living 100 healthy years or more, and doing that for as many people on the planet as we can and making it accessible because longevity often feels like it’s an elite endeavor. Talk to me about shifting topic here slightly. Talk to me a little bit more about healthspan and about your company overall and the brand.
So people have heard maybe starting to, people are talking about longevity now, biohacking when I was in biohacking was something that now is popular. But what I realized is that the problem we have is when you talk about longevity, biohacking, health optimization, they’re undefined terms. Healthspan is a definable term. It’s the time that you’re still fully vital and functional. We can measure this, the healthspan.
You have what’s called a health span-lifespan gap. So you’re still alive, but you’re getting knee replacement, you’re on multiple pharmaceutical drugs, you’re getting kidney dialysis, you’re having all of these things. So you’re actually in a state of gradual morbidity and death, but you’re still alive. But we can measure kind of to some degree when that begins, and it’s called a gap.
We want to shrink that gap and we can measure this. So to me, it’s a term that everybody can get behind because we all have a grandparent or a family member who we see their physical and cognitive decline. We know when that moment kind of flips like they’re okay, they’re okay. And then all of sudden it’s like, they’re not okay anymore.
It’s interesting when that happens too, because then you start thinking about yourself a little bit too. it’s a wake up. Wow, well, that’s the word. It’s a wake up call. Yeah, it’s a wake up call. And so what we want to do is wake people up because that moment that you hit that decline and your health span is over, that’s preventable. And what we want to do is what’s called the compression of morbidity, because what you want to do is be like alive, vibrant, healthy, living your life. And then if you’re going to go, you go.
Yeah, right. And we probably also have a relative or a family member that we’ve seen do that. Like they were just living life, know, living large. And then all of sudden you’re like, they went to sleep and they didn’t wake up. That’s actually the dream. is the dream. don’t want to be in that because in America right now, it just grew. The health span lifespan gap was about a little bit around 10 years. Now it’s over 12. So it grew two years. So that means if I tell told you that I could give you an extra 10 years of life on whatever you’re going to live.
But you’re going to be quality life too. That’s what we’re talking about. if the quality of life was to decline, right? Most people don’t want that. They want the quality. The quality is more important than the quantity. I think for most people. That’s why I said this is an idea, but the public is not yet aware of it. And that’s why I think all these speakers and brands and everybody came out.
because they understand that this is what we need to tell the public today. You mentioned the research company side of things and working with brands. What does that look like? Talk about that a little bit. Well, mean, ultimately, there’s sort of three things we have to do right now. We need the wellness industry to up its game and get good quality science and evidence to prove that their products work. So that’s when we have a company proven where we’re doing that research or…
You know helping them to understand how do you actually get clinical data for a wellness company at a cost? That’s affordable Yeah, because you know to bring a drug to market it can take ten years and a billion dollars Yeah, so I mean that’s not that’s not feasible So how does a wellness company do it so we do that at proven and then what I realized though is the science-based companies We’re not always successful
So it’s like how do we get them successful? We need to do events. We need to give them media We need to get them on podcasts And so that’s why it’s been so important to have you here to interview our thought leaders because everybody here is doing the best And you interviewed dr. Stephanie van Watson. Oh, yeah, she’s amazing. She’s amazing and just as an example Here’s a metric. don’t know. She probably didn’t say it, but I’ll tell you this It’s a business guy who goes to all these business conferences. They grew in three years
3,031 % as a company. Amazing. Have you ever heard that number ever before? no. I mean, if a company says they grew 100 % in three years, you’re blowing your mind. 3,000%. So that means that if you lead with science, you communicate it to the public, you publish a book, in her case, but you have a system to communicate these ideas to the general public in an effective way, we can transform the world and transform human health.
Elias, this has been, know they’re still calling you out there, you got some other things to do, but thank you for making some time for us. Last thing I want you to do, look into the camera. If people want to get involved for, I know you have more conferences coming up, or if they want to learn more about the research side of your business, how do people connect? So we’d love to have you be part of our community. So we have HealthSpan Productions. This particular event, the HealthSpan Summit, is hsSummit.com. And then of course, at Proven,
Our research company is PRUVN.io. if you really want to be part of the future of health, wellness, and longevity and health span, please be part of our ecosystem. Amazing. And for everybody at home, just so you know, we’ll definitely put some links in the show notes so you can just click on the links and head right on over. And speaking of the audience, if this is your first time with Mission Matters and you haven’t done it yet,
Hit that subscribe or follow button. This is a daily show. Each and every day we’re bringing you new content, new ideas, and hopefully new inspiration to help you along the way on your journey as well. So again, hit that subscribe or follow button. Elias, man, congrats on another freaking phenomenal event. Thank you, Adam.
