How to lose 3 stone in 20 days, banish disease-causing inflammation, boost health with herbs and look years younger, revealed by longevity guru Dr Ash Kapoor, who says his 90-day programme adds decades to your life

Published: 01:21 BST, 20 September 2025 | Updated: 17:30 BST, 17 July 2026

Dr Ash Kapoor is nearly 60 but, by his reckoning, he has an awful lot more to look forward to.

Another 63 years, to be precise. None of which will be spent lolling about in a care home waiting for lunch and praying for a peaceful departure in his sleep.

No, the second half of Ash’s life promises to be even better than the first.

He is expecting to enjoy fantastically high energy levels and do an awful lot of barefoot walking in nature and immersing himself in ice baths.

He’ll be disappointed if he’s not doing chin-ups well into his 80s and swimming in Alpine lakes for another half century. And sporting his fantastic head of thick and lustrous hair, for a long time yet.

And if things go to plan, he’ll even, and I’m not sure if I should whisper this or shout it from the rooftops, be both sexually enthusiastic and extremely active, well into his 100s.

Because Dr Ash, a pioneer in regenerative medicine and founder of the Levitas Clinic, is not interested in just existing, ‘like those sad, grey people you see just sitting, on their screens, waiting to die’.

No, he’s talking about living with what he calls, ‘full independence, purpose and in pursuit of fulfilment’, really contributing to society, right up to the end.

The eclectic mix of treatments, costing £3,000, included a facial massage

‘Of course the idea of living to 123 is realistic. Totally realistic!’ he says, in his lovely soft voice with perfect cadence and diction. ‘And so that is our target.’

Well, wow and how fantastic, if quite a recalibration for those of us in our 50s to suddenly discover that there is far more life ahead, than behind.

Even better, it turns out that the secret of living to 123 is surprisingly simple and straightforward.

Because it involves no dictator-style organ transplants, as discussed excitedly by Russian president Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping when they met at a military parade in Beijing, both hoping to live to 150.

And no need to live like Bryan Johnson, the American longevity obsessive and tech millionaire, who spends $2million a year trying to reverse his biological age. He eats only green mush and is constantly hungry, never exposes his bluey green skin to sunlight, goes to bed at tea time and has forgotten how to have fun.

Even better, there is no need to spend the billions that Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and other Silicon Valley tech bros have been splurging into biochemical cell regenerative research in an attempt to extend their lives.

No. Living longer the Levitas way involves a simple 90-day programme of cleaning out, repairing, renewing and resetting our bodies to their natural state, as if we were living in the wilderness like Masai warriors, free from modern-day toxins that bombard us.

After which, Dr Ash says, we could all be disease-free. Now and in the future.

Jane was given a state-of-the-art tooth clean to protect against periodontal gum disease

‘Inflammation is the cause of every disease, all 126,000 of them,’ he says, adding if we remove inflammation from the body, we remove illness. ‘Genes are not your destiny,’ he says. ‘You can change the outcome.’

So what about a predisposition to dementia? ‘Don’t worry about it,’ says Dr Ash. Rheumatoid arthritis. Colitis. High blood pressure. Alzheimer’s. Autoimmune disease. Diabetes. Joint inflammation?

‘Not a problem,’ says Dr Ash. ‘It’s like pressing “Control, Alt, Delete” on the body. We can reset everything.’

As does the price. Because Dr Ash insists that it does not cost the millions lots of his patients would happily spend to extend their lives. But a few thousand pounds for the initial 90-day programme. (In extremis, I could apparently buy some herbs from Holland & Barratt and do a DIY version, though it would take longer.)

Dr Ash has had success. You might remember the articles in this paper, written by TV journalist Donal MacIntyre, who lost more than three stone, and kept it off, during a 23-day fast under Dr Ash’s supervision earlier this year.

Afterwards, 58-year-old Donal said he felt like a man reborn. His blood pressure normalised, he stopped being pre-diabetic and no longer needed knee surgery.

Of course, Donal was obese (17-and-a-half stone) and anyone who loses that much weight is likely to have a new spring in their step.

Jane in a body balance suit to improve circulation and blood flow

Some are high-net-worth individuals in their 60s experiencing burnout. Others have lost their vim and verve. Some just want to embrace a new way.

To see what all the fuss is about, I visit the Levitas clinic in Mayfair, London, to try the ‘specialist consultation’, which is the starting point for all Dr Ash’s new patients.

It is an eclectic mix of treatments (costing £3,000), which includes light therapy, shockwave therapy ‘like acupuncture on steroids’, facial massage, body balance, in a big blue compression suit, and a state-of-the-art tooth clean to protect against periodontal gum disease, which has been linked to Alzheimer’s.

There is also a strange hair rejuvenation session in which a serum made from trout sperm is injected into my follicles because, according to Dr Ash, ‘hair loss is just a sign that your body is defeated’. The serum helps nudge the follicles back into life.

But it all starts with a body composition test, ‘we turn you inside out’, which involves standing on a monitor and holding two spindly paddles as it measures fat composition, muscle structure, sugar levels, etc.

But most important is the body’s ketone count, which gauges our ability to metabolise ‘internal fat larders’ into energy. This process of the body feeding off itself is called ‘autophagy’. It reduces inflammation and the likelihood of disease, and is key to Dr Ash’s programme.

And here, my results make him very excitable indeed. Because, yes, I need to lose four kilos (9lb) of fat and my organs are pretty much coddled in lard, but my muscle mass, or internal scaffolding, is ‘excellent’.

Face therapist Pelin Saray gave Jane a number of different facial treatments

Most importantly, my body is already ketonic, busily raiding its own larders.

‘This is a great start! You are very, very lucky,’ he says. ‘You’d be a very quick fix.’

Which would involve seven weeks of taking a blend of premium Australian herbs (such as psyllium husk) to detox the ‘hideous debris’ in my small intestine. Then a detox of my liver to fix my natural energy. Then a three-day fast (water only). Followed by seven days with one small meal a day. After which he’d rebuild me with peptides (amino acids that do wonders for everything from skin care to hormone regulation) and get me going on breathwork and ice baths.

‘A little bit of work and you could change everything. You’d cruise though. Everything will feel better,’ he says. ‘You’ll sleep like a baby, immediately add 20 years to your lifespan. And you’ll be nicer to be around.’

It turns out that all Dr Ash’s patients are nicer after their reset. ‘It shifts them from the materialistic side of their brain to the community side,’ he says. ‘Releases them from their ego.’