Japanese Wellness Immersion: Medical-Grade Detox & Longevity Programme

Day one is mostly diagnostics. You meet your lead practitioner for a 60-minute consultation covering medical history, current complaints and goals, then sit for a battery of tests — blood work, body composition, and depending on the programme, microbiome or hormone panels. Your results are back within a day or two and the schedule is built from them. After that, your mornings typically start with a gentle movement or breathing session, breakfast, and your first private therapy of the day. Afternoons are for spa treatments, consultations, or rest, and there's usually a second or third session before dinner. The specific therapies are drawn from Japanese practice: shiatsu, acupuncture, moxibustion, amma massage, and in the Mindfulness & Stress Management stream, aquatic bodywork in the resort's indoor pool. The Detox & Cleansing stream adds colonic hydrotherapy, lymphatic drainage and a short juice fast; the Recovery & Recuperation stream focuses on musculoskeletal work and sleep; the Beauty & Slow-Ageing stream leans on facial acupuncture, lymphatic massage and skin treatments.

What separates this from a spa week is the medical layer. Every session is prescribed from your own test results, and the schedule is adjusted as you go. If your cortisol is high you'll see more stress-management work; if your gut panel flags something, the kitchen gets a note. The food follows the same logic: full board with a nutritionally optimised breakfast, lunch and dinner, adapted to whatever your plan calls for. On fasting days that means juices, broths, herbal teas and supplements, not an empty plate.

The property is an established Japanese wellness resort, which means the facilities are not an afterthought: an indoor heated pool used for aquatic therapy, a gym, sauna and steam rooms, treatment rooms, and gardens you can walk through between appointments. Rooms are Japanese-style or Western-style and all have private bathrooms. The pace is quiet, screens are discouraged in public areas, and phones are usually left in the room.

The programme finishes with a 30-minute departure consultation. Your practitioner walks through what changed, what didn't, and gives you a written plan for the next three months — supplements, food, sleep, training, and follow-up tests where relevant. Guests who want ongoing accountability can arrange remote check-ins after they get home.

What's included

- 7 nights accommodation - Full board (nutritionally optimised breakfast, lunch and dinner) - 60-minute wellness consultation on arrival - Baseline testing (blood work, body composition, blood pressure; optional microbiome or hormone panels where relevant) - Daily 60/90-minute personalised spa treatment - 2–3 private specialist therapy sessions per day - 30-minute departure consultation - Nutrition and lifestyle advice - Written take-home plan - Access to indoor pool, sauna, steam room and gym

What's not included

- International and domestic flights - Airport transfers (arrangeable at extra cost) - Travel insurance - Visa fees - Additional spa treatments beyond the daily included session - Additional medical tests not part of the baseline panel - Personal expenses and gratuities