Neko Health Scan is the new health check up that comes from the future. We tried it

I’m in London. Sitting in a pastel blue corridor, which makes a little luxury spa, a little dystopian movie hospital, waiting to be a body scan of Neko Health, conscious of the privilege of having skipped a row of about 100 thousand people.

Thus, replaced my zebra boots with slippers that are in shoes such as the Tesla Cybertruck is to the machines, I access a kind of spacecraft with science fiction machinery that will analyze my health.

But before telling you how it really is this futuristic scan, and if it is worthy of the expectations and the 5 -zero Waiting List, let’s take a step back.

Behind the body scan of the future, the founder of Spotify

In addition to being both Swedes and successful tech entrepreneurs (the first perhaps more than the second, being none other than one of the founders, and the CEO, of Spotify), Daniel Ek and Hjalmar Nilsonne have something else in common: the charm for preventive medicine, and the belief that this represents not only the key to living healthier and longer, but The real future of healthcare.

Thus, in 2018 Neko was born, with the aim of helping people to remain healthy through preventive medicine and early diagnosis.

In fact of preventive medicine – namely that branch of medicine that focuses on the prevention of diseases and health maintenance, rather than on the care of already developed pathologies -, we hear about more and more often. The same goes for the concept of longevity – or the ability to live a long and healthy life.

Preventive medicine and longevity are to the hearts of Italians

These themes are also very felt in our country. For example, 41% of Italians would be interested in taking vitamins, minerals or other supplements faced with Protect or improve cell health statusAnd 78% he said that in recent years, the prevention of chronic diseases has become personally more important. To say it is a survey at European level conducted by the research institute Mintel at the end of 2024.

Longevity 3.0: rejuvenation process

In short, the interest in prevention and longevity grows, and this has encouraged scientific research and technological progress in the medical field.

It is enough to say that to date the wealthiest, such as the billionaire Bryan Johnson, They are able not only to stop the aging process, but even to reversing it, rejuvenating. Or at least, this Johnson claims to achieve following Blueprinthis exasperated longevity project, which costs 2 million dollars a year, between sessions in hyperbaric rooms, injections of stem cells, obsessive diets and plasma transfusions. To find out more, look at the documentary Don’t Die on Netflix.

But how to be long -lived, if you are not a billionaires?

The first obstacle to prevention in the medical field and a healthy lifestyle is inaccessibility: healthy eating, buying supplements, constant physical activity and regular screening for early diagnosis, as well as accessing quality health care, It costs time, and above all a lot of money.

And perhaps this is precisely the key to the success of Neko Healthwhich offers a Complete health check through full body scan, at the price accessible (or almost), of 299 pounds, about 350 euros.

The Neko Scan collects 50 million data on our health, in 20 minutes

There are only two in the world of Neko clinics: one a Stockholm and the other a Londonwhere (spoiler) is imminent the inauguration of a second clinic, probably followed by other global openings, helped by financing of 250 million euros that Neko has just received.

The Neko Health Clinic in London

The check is not alone affordablebut also Incredibly fast and technological: in less than an hour, and in a few square meters, screening, blood sampling, measurement of blood and eye pressure, mapping of the in the in the, and so on.

The state of our health? It decides artificial intelligence

The reports come instantly, and the state of our health is discussed live with a doctor, who in front of the 3D representation of our body projected on a screen, comments the results Aided by artificial intelligence, which compares our data with those of other Neko patients.

The capsule where the results are discussed with the doctor

But let’s go back to the scan that I just did to the Neko Health Clinic in Marylebone, in London. A film experiment.

How is the Neko Scan: a futuristic experience

There outfit Neko Health @bettagardini

After completing the typical questionnaire ‘Drink?‘,’Smoke?‘, ‘Do you have particular concerns about your health? ‘, Two nurse dressed as the same pastel blue of the wall accompany me to a dressing room, where they invite me to undress me, weigh me, and to wear a yellow dressing gown (pastel, of course), and disappear through another door, where they await me for the controls.

The paved palette and the exasperatedly minimal furniture at times reassure me, at times they give me the chills.

Pulse oximeters, laser, thermo cameras, green spectra

Measured height and weight, I have to enter a cylinder where I will be teleported as in Star Trek, indeed no, where the scan of every single millimeter of my skin and my body will take place through thermo cameras.

The Derma-1 Device

The cylinder rotates, and a recorded voice that makes a lot of Black Mirror tells me to close my eyes, because the light is very strong. I hear two hot flashes: they are the 9 thermo cameras they are recording Two thousand 2D and 3D images of my bodynoting every single sign on my skin, gives the in the freckles to the stains, as well as the distribution of heat in my body. Shortly thereafter, I will find out I have 534 in the!

The blood taken is sent to the laboratory by a slot in the wall

Then, the two nurses make me a blood sampling (the only invasive examination of the Neko Body Scan) e) Through a cavity in the wall, they send the vials immediately up to the laboratory.

There, doctors – or perhaps robots? -, will analyze the levels of cholesterol and glucose, hemoglobin, lymphocytes, various inflammation biomarkers, and so on.

The results come immediately, Just the time to finish the scan, which continues: I am measured the eye pressure, and the strength of socket making me a dynamometer.

Then, lying on the bed, electrodes are applied everywhere, pulse oximeters on the fingers and feet, and pressure measures on both arms and legs, to make all the due cardiovascular measurements: the ankle-branch index for arterial efficiency, up to the level of oxygenation in the blood. In the meantime, Lasers hidden in the ceiling measure my heartbeat.

Most of the technology owns Neko

Finally, a very futuristic machine Projet Cryptonite color bar codes on my wrist And forearm and make this piece of flesh of thirty -three, indeed not, observes how blood circulates in the smallest capillaries.

It is a super technological control for the emission of beams of light that are absorbed by the skin, and radiated in the capillaries, thus showing how the blood is circulating in them.

In 20 minutes, the complete check is over

All this lasts approximately 20 minutes. I leave the spacecraft, and I already hear the two nurses who spray sanitizing spray, to prepare to welcome the next guest.

The experience is in fact like this fast and roboticwhich is a little aseptic. However, always better than losing hours by scrolling from one clinic to another to make the mapping of the in the in the blood, the eye examination, etc. etc.

To those who want to prevent, Neko saves time and money

I drew myself in the dressing room connected to a kind of capsule where a general practitioner awaits me in front of a screen in which my body image is projected to the blue pixellato avatar, and the beating of my heart feels at full volume.

The doctor shows me the results of the newly made exams, that Through artificial intelligence they are compared with the results of other Neko patientswhich become a meter of comparison.

“Overall you are in Great Health”. Breath of relief.

All the analyzes go great, the age of my heart is in line with the registry. Only my grip, which is connected to muscle strength, is less than 80 percent of what the girls of my age are (What a disappointment!). According to the doctor, to improve I just need to exercise resistance, such as weights.

I also deserve Congratulations on my dietsuper greeting to judge from the cholesterol levels.

Mapping of the in HD

Very effective is the mapping of the And the spots, captured in the photo one by one, to be able to monitor them over time. The recommendation is in fact to repeat the Scan once a year, and if you immediately book the appointment for 2026, there is also a discount.

Hearteed by the fact that everything is fine, and that it will be enough for me to register in the gym to increase my longevity, I leave the clinic with a greater one Peace of mindcarefree.

Anomalies found in 14% of the people who made the scan

Not everyone, however, went like this. According to the data published by Neko, in the first year of activity in Stockholm, 2,707 people aged between 22 and 75 years were scanned, and 14% of individuals required further medical attention or monitoring for conditions of which the vast majority (90%) were not aware of.

In 1% of casespatients received potentially life -saving interventions for conditions such as aortic aneurysms And malignant melanomas.

And even if the Neko Scan is not able to identify any latent malaise (it does not provide CT or magnetic resonance imaging), It can save many lives.