Press

Press and research

YEARS is a physician-led preventive medicine clinic in Berlin. This page holds our press contact, verifiable facts, our quotable physicians and an open offer for editorial research.

Press contact

Niko Hems

Executive Team, Head of Strategy & Growth

niko@years.co

We answer press enquiries within 24 hours on working days. For same-day requests, put your deadline in the subject line and we will prioritise it.

Facts at a glance

Every figure here is documented on this site and can be cited without checking back with us.

Founded: 2021
Clinic: Berlin-Charlottenburg, Joachimsthaler Straße 34
Programs: Core (€1,900), Evolve (€7,600), Ultimate (€16,900)
Diagnostics: 25 functional examinations, 89 to 230 laboratory biomarkers depending on program
Duration: One appointment, physician follow-up afterwards
Medical team: Six physicians, specialties from internal medicine to geriatrics
Rating: 4.9 out of 5 across 71+ Google reviews
Legal entity: YEARS GmbH, Munich District Court HRB 279239

Available for comment on

Our physicians are available for context and counterpoint, including on stories that are not about YEARS. We will also say when there is no solid evidence on a question.

Jürgen Mehrtens

Co-Founder & CEO

Building and running the Berlin clinic · Corporate strategy

The business model of private preventive medicine in Germany
Why longevity offerings are priced so differently

Niko Hems, M.Sc.

Executive Team, Head of Strategy & Growth

Executive MSc in Longevity (Geneva College of Longevity Sciences) · M.Sc. Business & Data Analytics (Nova SBE / UC Berkeley) · Host of the podcast "Return on Health"

The longevity market: which providers actually sell what
Hype and hope in longevity: what actually works?
Why prevention in Germany fails on funding

Doctor-medic Alexandru Ardelean

Physician for preventive medicine and functional diagnostics

Preventive medicine and longevity · Metabolic disorders · Spiroergometry

Metabolic disorders in people without symptoms
Metabolic flexibility: what spiroergometry and VO2max reveal about metabolism
Ketogenic diets, low carb and intermittent fasting: where the evidence holds

Dr. med. Raphael Finn

Physician for preventive medicine, longevity and health strategy

Cardiovascular performance diagnostics · Electrophysiology · Spiroergometry

VO2max as a marker: what the number says and what it does not
Cardiovascular risk in physically active people
Longevity interventions with and without evidence

Dr. med. Hani Al-Mohamed

Specialist in internal medicine, geriatrics, corporate health manager

Hypertensiologist (DHL) · Nutritional medicine specialist (DAEM) · Additional qualification in geriatrics

Hypertension: the most underestimated finding in prevention
What geriatric medicine teaches about prevention at 40
Corporate health beyond fruit baskets and yoga

Dr. med. Ann Netzer

Physician for preventive and check-up medicine

Functional medicine · Nutritional medicine · Echocardiography

Why women need to be examined differently in prevention
Functional medicine: where the evidence ends
Exhaustion without a finding: how far diagnostics reach

Dr. med. Sebastian Kuss

Physician for nutritional medicine and mental health

Nutritional medicine · Mental health

Nutrient deficiencies and psychological symptoms: what is documented
Supplements: the short list of what works

An offer to journalists

Anyone writing about this market should have seen it from the inside. We make a complete check-up available to newsrooms for research purposes, under three conditions we confirm in writing:

No pre-publication review, no approval, no sign-off on copy.
No expectation of a favourable verdict. If you consider the price unjustified, write that.
Access to the physicians for critical follow-ups, including what a finding does not mean.

Your results remain your health data. We publish nothing from them and do not use them for marketing.

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Previous coverage

Outlets that have reported on YEARS.

Imagery and documents

Clinic photography, portraits of the medical team, word and figurative logos and an anonymised sample report are available for editorial use. We send the package on request, so that we know where images will appear and can inform the people shown in them.

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What we will and will not claim

As a clinic we are bound by German medical advertising law (HWG) and professional conduct rules. That is not an excuse, it is the reason certain sentences will never come from us:

No promises of cure, and no claim that a check-up prevents disease. Prevention lowers risk and detects earlier, nothing beyond that.
No claims about life extension measured in years.
No individual patient stories issued by us. If you want to speak to patients, we ask whether someone will talk to you voluntarily, and then stay out of the conversation.
Findings only as shares of a group, never as a promise of outcome for an individual.