Brain & cognition in Los Angeles
Set a baseline now so change is detectable later.
Usually cognitive baseline testing and brain MRI, so a change years from now has something to be compared against.
3 of the 5 clinics in our Los Angeles guide, each with the published services behind the claim.
LifeSpan Medicine
A Santa Monica practice on Wilshire Boulevard that has been doing preventive and functional medicine since 1992, long before anyone called it longevity. Dr. Chris Renna founded it and still leads the flagship program. The range is unusually wide for a concierge practice: full-body MRI, microbiome work, hormone and peptide protocols, plasmapheresis, and a regenerative sports-medicine arm doing Regenokine, BMAC, A2M and PRP injections for joints and spine. The Platinum program is the top of it, an annual longevity program capped at 75 clients that includes a functional brain MRI and cognitive-risk labs, and which you can only join if an existing client refers you. Nothing is priced anywhere on the site. The practice publishes a team on its own pages and the LifeSpanMD network publishes a different, larger one, and neither says who works in Santa Monica as opposed to Dallas or Miami.
Diagnostics include: Full-body MRI
Prenuvo, Los Angeles
A whole-body MRI screening clinic on Wilshire at Bundy, selling three annual memberships that each bundle one scan, one or two blood panels and one or two reviews with a Prenuvo provider. You book online, pay up front, lie in the scanner for somewhere between 45 and 75 minutes depending on the tier, and get a report plus a call. What the clinic will not do is act on what it finds: it states plainly that it does not order follow-up labs, provide referrals or consultations, or treat. The top tier is the one to ask about, because Prenuvo publishes two different Los Angeles prices for it on the same page.
Diagnostics include: Comprehensive biomarker panel
Regenera Medical
A concierge functional medicine office on Wilshire in West Los Angeles, run by Dr. Elroy Vojdani, a USC Keck School of Medicine graduate and certified functional medicine practitioner. You come here when something chronic has not been explained: autoimmune disease, chronic inflammation and infections, gut symptoms, brain fog, fatigue after meals. Your first visit is a full hour of history with Dr. Vojdani or the nurse practitioner, then lab testing, then a plan built around supplements, nutrition and lifestyle, with medication if it is needed. There is a separate longevity track for people who feel fine and want a deeper look, listing early cancer detection, full body imaging, advanced lipid testing, cardiac imaging, biological age assessment and micronutrient testing, though the clinic does not say which scans or which tests those are. Nothing is billed to insurance and no fee is published anywhere on the site.