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About Human Longevity Institute.

Training Experts and Empowering Individuals In the Science And Solutions of Longevity So You Can Live Better Longer

Thank you for wanting to learn more about the Human Longevity Institute.

We are proud to support both health practitioners and longevity consumers with the leading training and solutions that can help you slow down, stop, and reverse biological aging so you can live your healthiest, longest, and most vital life.

Practitioners enjoy our leading educational training and certification programs that will better equip them with the rapid changes in the healthcare landscape. People want to live a long healthy life well. Precision Health and Longevity offer the path to up-leveling the expression of health and thriving in their clients for generations to come.

For our longevity seekers, we offer online longevity products and program solutions. Our signature 12-week group programs offer 24/7 access to give you the support you need to age backward and live forward with proven longevity practices for enhanced health and thriving.

This was all born from a very clear need and desire…

to help people express their highest state of health and thriving so they can live better, longer.  

The human lifespan is extending while our healthspan is shortening.  We are living longer, yet not better as we see more and more people diagnosed with conditions and placed on medications earlier and earlier effecting their very vitality and quality of life.  But what if there was another way?  A way where aging was optional and didn’t have to lead to breakdown, sickness and disease.   

What if, instead we could slow down, stop or even reverse the biological aging process so we can live a longer, healthier and more vibrant life.

We Can And We Do Here At Human Longevity Institute.

A breakthrough study published in cell shows while managing disease and sick care costs the country 3.8 trillion a year, simply by extending health, being free from disease by 1 year, this adds 38 Trillion of revenue INTO the economy.

Creating a path forward to living a healthier, happier and more fulfilling life longer.

To have a positive impact on generations to come is what we are driven by and teach our clients and clinicians here at HLI.

Understanding the world is aging with an incredible opportunity to do it differently than ever before, Dr. Melissa Petersen began sharing her human performance and health optimization knowledge and longevity passion with the masses in her 2017 online Longevity Summit Series. She wanted to share the science and solutions available to create a new path forward for longevity living for experts and enthusiasts alike.. She went on to write the best selling Codes of Longevity book. By 2019 it was clear that, there was a global audience of health providers and health seekers all wanting to learn and apply the science and solutions to living their longest, healthiest and most fulfilling life. And from there, HLI was born.

Today the Human Longevity Institute is the leader in delivering clinical training, lifestyle programs and longevity living solutions. We offer research backed age reversal outcomes by integrating cutting edge science and technology with ancient wisdom and practices for modern living results to living better longer.

Our Mission.

We are on a mission and invite you to join us as we set out to deliver longevity living solutions that will allow people around the globe to experience a longer, healthier, happier and more fulfilling life to 120 and beyond that will have a positive impact individually and collectively for generations to come.

Through our leading programs, products, and training certifications, we support health providers and health enthusiasts like you in expressing your longevity potential. By delivering integrative solutions that combine advanced science and technology with ancient wisdom and practices, we strive to achieve modern longevity living results that enable you to live a long vital life optimized.

We are committed to equipping our students with proven longevity living programs and business models designed for scalability, ensuring a lasting impact in the pursuit of our mission.

Our Vision.

We believe that longevity living can support billions of people globally to express enhanced states of health, vitality and wellbeing for generational thriving. Imagine intentionally living in ways that benefit us today and for generations to come. The longevity ripple effect allows us to truly flourish forward.

To realize this vision, we are establishing the Global Longevity Council. This council will serve as a platform for thought leaders from around the world to come together and collaborate within the 12 sectors of thriving. Through our collective efforts, we aspire to create a world where longevity and well-being are nurtured, and the well-being of individuals and the planet are intrinsically interconnected fostering generational thriving.

Discover what’s possible for you and those you support. Live Your Longevity Life Optimized, beginning today.

Meet Our Founder

Dr. Melissa Grill-Petersen

Dr. Melissa Petersen

Founder

Dr. Melissa Petersen is a THRIVE Catalyst who for over 25 years has been a sought out leader in the fields of precision health and human longevity. She is on a mission to up level human flourishing across the planet for generations to come through longevity living solutions that will allow people to live better, longer.

As the founder of the Human Longevity Institute, a TEDx Speaker, host of the Human Longevity Podcast, author of the best-selling book, the Codes of Longevity, developer of the 12-week REWIND age reversal program, a clinical product formulator, an adjunct professor of continuing education at Life University, a clinical educator and advisory board member for Medfit and a scientific advisory board member and program developer for Awakend, she is a true visionary helping to lead the way in longevity living.

She is a serial entrepreneur, who has owned, operated and partnered across multiple health, wellness and technology product and business platforms over her career. Her success in optimizing human health and longevity potential has made her a sought out consultant for thousands of health and wellness practitioners and businesses. Today, she brings her 25 + years of integrative health, business, marketing, and technology consulting experience together to deliver the turn key science-backed longevity living solutions and training offered at HLI.

Her clinical training and background include a Licensed Doctor of Chiropractic & Epigenetic Human Performance Coach, with a Board Certification in Holistic Health and a Masters's in Wellness Leadership and Human Performance. Dr. Melissa holds over 1000 hours in post-graduate studies and certifications including Neuroscience, Positive Psychology, Cellular Biology, Epigenetics, Human Performance, Longevity, Consciousness, Plant Medicines, NLP/HNLP Master Coach, Wellness Coach, Clinical Nutrition, Functional Medicine, Business Leadership, Marketing Mastery, NASM Certified Personal Trainer and Agility Coach, Fitness, Nutritionist, Yoga and Meditation Instructor.

Pair this with her past fitness and television career in the world of professional wrestling and you get a powerhouse that is on a mission to uplift, inspire and ignite people around the globe to get in the ring and go for the win as they express greater states of health, wellbeing and human flourishing for generations to come.

Dr. Melissa Petersen is a THRIVE Catalyst who for over 25 years has been a sought out leader in the fields of precision health and human longevity.  She is on a mission to uplevel human flourishing across the planet for generations to come through longevity living solutions that will allow people to live better, longer.  

As  the founder of the Human Longevity Institute, a TEDx Speaker, host of the Human Longevity Podcast, author of the best-selling book, the Codes of Longevity, developer of the 12-week REWIND age reversal program, a clinical product formulator, an adjunct professor of continuing education at Life University, a clinical educator and advisory board member for Medfit and a scientific advisory board member and program developer for Awakend, she is a true visionary helping to lead the way in longevity living. (read more, via image, left)

Meet the HLI Support Team

Adjunct Faculty, Guest Lecturers, & Scientific Board

Jim LaValle, R.Ph.,C.C.N.M.T.,ND

Adjunct Faculty / Guest Lecturer

The developer of the metabolic code, is an internationally recognized clinical pharmacist, author, board-certified clinical nutritionist, and expert and educator in integrative and precision health. A thought leader in drug/nutrient depletion issues he has published 4 books and 3 databases in this area alone and has been a co-chair for A4M for the past 20 + years educating doctors from around the globe in anti-aging and metabolic health optimization.

Dr. Stephanie Rimka, BA, DC, BCN

Adjunct Faculty / Guest Lecturer

Dr. Rimka is a holistic brain optimization specialist focusing on integrated neuro therapies to identify and address the root cause of mental illness, learning disorders, and chronic illness. She has dedicated over 30 years to learning the best practices in functional medicine from masters in their fields. Dr. Rimka offers a unique style of intuition and caring blended with a clinically based multi-therapeutic approach to solving hard-to-treat health problems. Her out-of-the-box, innovative approach to addressing complex problems with simple solutions, based on complex quantum biology, comes from a strong commitment to vitalism. The belief that the body is built upon wisdom and is always working in its best interest activates her relentless pursuit of learning, growing, and upgrading her skillset to help her patients heal. Dr. Rimka is truly a warrior fighting by your side on your journey to reclaiming vibrant health, and her results have been offering hope to the hopeless for decades.

Dr. Kent Holtorf, MD

Adjunct Faculty / Guest Lecturer

He is the medical director of the Holtorf Medical Group and a founder and director of the non-profit National Academy of Hypothyroidism (NAH). A sought-out leader and educator in the peptide sciences space who has lectured for prestigious medical societies across the United States and worldwide. He is a fellowship lecturer for the American Board of Anti-Aging Medicine and was the Endocrinology Expert for AOL Health.

Dr. Pam Wilson

Adjunct Faculty / Guest Lecturer

Dr. Pam Wilson is a functional movement physician in practice for over 30 years. She has helped thousands of patients and clients to Move Better, Feel Better and Live Better …… Longer!
Dr. Pam, a graduate of Logan University was inducted into the original Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges. As part of her ongoing continuing education, she studied functional stabilization, rehabilitation and manual medicine with two of Europe's top neurologists at The Charles University Hospital in Prague. She was selected as one of 15 physicians from the U.S. to study manual medicine in Italy with Dr. Karel Lewit, a renowned European neurologist. Dr. Pam was one of eight chiropractors, and the only woman, to be selected to study and learn the techniques of Charles Poliquin, an internationally renowned personal strength and conditioning coach. She is Level III Board Certified in Rehabilitation and was one of the first 100 physicians certified in the U.S. by DNALife to practice lifestyle medicine based upon a patient’s genetic code. Dr. Pam is a specialist in Metabolic Balance and Weight Release and certified in Precision Longevity by Dr. Melissa Peterson, founder of the Human Longevity Institute.
Dr. Pam has taught nationally and internationally as a postgraduate instructor to chiropractors, physical therapists and podiatrists. She is professionally published in Functional Training Handbook published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, co-author of Triathlon Bike Fit – A Detailed Primer published in Triathlete Magazine, wrote an 8-article series on Functional Stability in Chiropractic Wellness and Fitness magazine and was featured in an article in her local paper, The Two River Times, “Encouraging Kids to Choose Fitness and Health”.
She has treated professional athletes, World Champions and Gold, Silver and Bronze Olympic Medalist.
Dr. Pam lives in Rumson, NJ with her husband Daniel.

Dr. Leonard Pastrana Pharm. D

Adjunct Faculty / Guest Lecturer

He specializes in cellular optimization medicine. Dr. Pastrana is dedicated to being a lifetime learner. He is certified by the Academy of Anti-aging in peptide therapy and is also a fellow of the Seeds Scientific Research and Performance Institute. Leonard’s mission is to help everyone optimize their mind, body, and soul. He defines cellular optimization medicine as the art of using cell signaling molecules while leveraging genomics, exercise science, and nutrition for healthspan optimization. Leonard is the founder of NuBioAge Wellness Network a company designed to help other practitioners develop the protocols for their practices to optimize patient outcomes. He is also the chief formulator at NuLifeSpan a new start-up built by pharmacists with a focus on developing cutting-edge human optimization products.

Dr. Mario Martinez

Scientific Advisory Board

He is a clinical neuropsychologist who specializes in how cultural beliefs affect health and longevity. He proposes, based on research evidence, that longevity is learned, and the causes of health are inherited. He has studied healthy centenarians (100 years or older) worldwide and found that only 20 to 25% can be attributed to genetics – the rest is related to how they live and the cultural beliefs they share. He is the founder of biocognitive science and author of the bestselling books The MindBody Code and The MindBody Self. Dr. Martinez is a proponent of cultural psychoneuroimmunology. He also serves on the Scientific Advisory Boards for the Longevity Center (Poland and Germany) and Apeiron Center (US).