Most guides to preventive clinics in Sweden hand you a shortlist. This one starts from a count, then does the harder thing, which is to place that count against what Swedish medicine has actually published about screening healthy people. The number tells you how big the market is. The evidence context tells you what you are buying.

This guide maps every qualifying clinic in the Atlas rather than selecting a shortlist. It orders them by geography and by evidence posture. No clinic pays to appear or to rank. The judgment here is about what each service is for and what its evidence supports, not about crowning one winner. For the bare record, the count, the pillar breakdown and the full entity list, see the Sweden country page in the Atlas, one country within the wider Europe region view. This guide is the judgment layer that sits next to it.

How many longevity and preventive clinics are there in Sweden?

The Healthspan Economy Atlas records 16 Swedish organizations as of August 2026. Twelve of them deliver longevity, preventive or advanced-screening services to individuals, and those twelve represent 10 organizations across 12 premises.12 The gap between the two figures is not a rounding error. Neko Health runs two Stockholm premises and Funmed runs a Stockholm and a Gothenburg premise, so the premise count runs two ahead of the organization count. Sweden has ten preventive and longevity providers, at twelve addresses, not twelve separate companies.2

The other four rows in the Atlas are not clinics and this guide does not count them as longevity provision. One sells an at-home brain-stimulation device and an app for depression, one is a Nasdaq-listed probiotics company, one is a supplement brand and one is a yoga and mindfulness retreat.2 They sit in the wider dataset on their own merits. None of them screens or treats a person for the purpose of extending healthy years, which is the bar this count applies.3

The market is concentrated. Nine of the twelve qualifying premises are in Stockholm, two are in Gothenburg and one is in Danderyd on Stockholm’s northern edge.2 There is no qualifying premise in Malmö, Uppsala or anywhere north of the capital region in the counted set. Any guide that describes a national Swedish longevity scene is describing Stockholm with two Gothenburg addresses attached.

Choose the Atlas view if you want the shape of the whole market before you shortlist. It is less useful if you have already chosen a clinic and only want a booking link.

Why does Sweden’s medical establishment argue against screening healthy people?

This is the fact that makes Sweden different, and it is documented rather than inferred.

SBU, the Swedish Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Assessment of Social Services, reviewed the evidence on general health checks for adults and stated its conclusion plainly: “Det finns inget vetenskapligt stöd för att erbjuda generella hälsokontroller till friska personer, varken av offentlig eller privat hälso- och sjukvård,” that is, there is no scientific support for offering general health checks to healthy people, whether by public or private healthcare.4 SBU reached that reading from the Cochrane systematic review of general health checks, which found that checking healthy adults did not reduce overall mortality or death from cardiovascular disease or cancer, while the number of diagnoses rose.45 More diagnoses without fewer deaths is the signature of overdiagnosis, finding things that were never going to hurt the person.

Sweden’s approach to screening the asymptomatic is not a free market, it is a gated list. Socialstyrelsen, the National Board of Health and Welfare, decides which population screening programs the country recommends through a formal assessment model run with a national screening council, and the recommended list is short, covering a defined set of conditions such as breast, cervical and colorectal cancer, abdominal aortic aneurysm and a panel of newborn conditions.67 Screening the whole population is treated as a serious intervention that has to earn its place against evidence, not as a consumer default. In March 2026 the government commissioned Socialstyrelsen to review that very model and its cancer-screening guidelines, with the guideline revision due February 2027, which tells you the framework is live and contested rather than settled.8

So a private clinic selling a full-body scan to a healthy thirty-five-year-old is not operating in a vacuum. It is selling, directly to a consumer, close to the exact activity Sweden’s evidence agency says has no scientific support and its screening authority admits to the population only after a formal evidence test. That is the spine of this market, and no clinic’s brochure resolves it for you.

What does Sweden actually require of a private preventive clinic?

Less than a first-time buyer usually assumes, and this matters for how much a clinic’s existence tells you.

As of July 2026 Sweden has no license category specific to longevity or preventive-screening clinics.9 A private preventive clinic operates as an ordinary healthcare provider, a vårdgivare, under the Patient Safety Act. Before it starts, it must notify IVO, the Health and Social Care Inspectorate, and enter the care-provider register, and it then falls under IVO’s supervision.9 That step is a notification, an anmälan, not a permit granted after inspection. Since July 2023 IVO can impose fines on a provider that fails to register, which makes registration effectively mandatory, but registering is still a declaration the clinic makes, not a quality mark IVO awards.9 The people delivering care must hold professional licenses, legitimation, which Socialstyrelsen issues and can withdraw, so the individual clinician is licensed even where the clinic category is not.6

This is the mirror image of the Gulf. Abu Dhabi built a dedicated Healthy Longevity Medicine Centre license and Dubai created a Longevity Authority to license the category.10 Sweden did the opposite. It has no special longevity license because it folds these clinics into the same general healthcare regime as any other provider, staffed by licensed clinicians, watched by the same inspectorate, and it lets its evidence agencies argue in public that the underlying activity is unproven. In Dubai the state’s move was to regulate a new category into being. In Sweden the state’s posture is that there is no new category, only healthcare, held to healthcare’s evidence bar. For how Sweden sits beside fifteen other markets on this exact point, see Longevity Clinic Regulation, Market by Market.

Choose a Swedish clinic understanding that IVO registration confirms the clinic exists and is on the inspectorate’s map. It does not tell you the clinic’s screening menu is evidence-based, because Sweden licenses providers and clinicians, not longevity programs.

What is each service actually for, and what does the evidence say?

The house position is old practices, honest evidence. The most useful way to read a Swedish preventive menu is by service, because a single clinic often sells one thing with good evidence next to another with little, and the setting changes neither.

The body scan. Neko Health, in the Atlas as Neko Health (Mood) and Neko Health (Östermalmstorg), sells a doctor-led preventive scan at two Stockholm premises that its own site describes as a full-body sensor scan capturing more than two thousand skin images with mole mapping, arterial and circulation analysis, an ECG, blood pressure, on-site blood analysis, body composition and grip strength, with results reviewed by a clinician in the same visit, priced at 2,750 kronor as published on its own site.11 This is a broad first-pass screen, not a diagnosis. Some of its components, blood pressure and blood glucose and a skin check, map onto things a doctor would sensibly look at. The scan as a whole is still a screen of an asymptomatic person, which is the activity SBU’s conclusion covers.

Full-body MRI. The Health Clinic Stockholm, Executive Health and Göteborgskliniken each offer whole-body MRI to people without symptoms.121314 MRI uses no ionizing radiation, so the harm is not the scan itself, it is what the scan finds. A systematic review of whole-body MRI screening in asymptomatic people found that critical and indeterminate incidental findings appeared in around a third of subjects, 32.1 percent pooled, while about 16 percent of findings were false positives, and the authors concluded the false-positive rate was substantial and that verification data were lacking.15 A scan that flags something in one person in three, mostly things that turn out to be nothing, is not a neutral reassurance purchase. It is a generator of follow-up.

Blood biomarker panels. Nordic Lifespan tracks 120 or more biomarkers on a quarterly cycle, EndoHealth runs a 90-plus marker panel built around women’s physiology, Funmed measures up to 200 markers, and Executive Health and others run panels in the 47-marker range.16171813 Blood testing is the better-evidenced part of these menus when it targets known risk factors, ApoB and markers of glucose regulation among them, and when a physician reads the result in context. The honest caveat is that the more markers you measure in a healthy person, the more values fall outside a reference range by chance alone, and a panel of two hundred is a panel with many chances to produce a number that means nothing but demands a follow-up.

Functional medicine. Funmed and Nordic Clinic Stockholm practice functional medicine, which frames symptoms as expressions of root causes to be found through extensive testing.1819 Both are physician-led and Funmed states on its own site that it is a registered vårdgivare under IVO supervision with care led by licensed physicians.18 The testing is real and the clinicians are licensed. The contested part is the interpretive frame, which can convert normal variation into a condition to be corrected, and that is a per-consultation judgment a buyer has to make with the physician in front of them.

Regenerative and hormone therapy. Revi Health combines preventive diagnostics, DEXA and VO2 max among them, with regenerative interventions including platelet-rich plasma, orthobiologic injections using the patient’s own fat tissue and hormone therapy.20 The diagnostic half sits in the same evidence band as the panels above. The regenerative and hormone half is a different question. PRP and orthobiologics have narrow, contested evidence and hormone therapy has defined medical indications that are not the same as longevity optimization, so the correct posture for a longevity indication is caution and the correct question is what specific evidence supports this specific use for you.

Choose a diagnostics-led program if your goal is a baseline and early detection, weight established blood markers over large novel panels, and insist on a named physician who will interpret the result. Treat any service sold as a longevity intervention, regenerative injections and hormone optimization above all, as a claim to be checked against evidence for your specific case, not a feature to be collected.

Three ways a Swedish preventive scan goes wrong

These are drawn from what the evidence and the record actually show, not invented. Each is a failure a real buyer walks into.

The incidentaloma you cannot un-see. You are healthy, you buy the whole-body MRI and it finds something. In about a third of asymptomatic scans it finds something, and most of those findings lead nowhere, but you cannot un-know them.15 Now you are inside a workup, more imaging, maybe a biopsy, each with its own small risk, chasing a shadow that was never going to shorten your life. The scan converted a healthy person into a patient, and the evidence that this process extends anyone’s life is the evidence SBU could not find.415

The private scan, the public bill. The scan is private and the follow-up is not. When a consumer clinic flags a finding, the person takes it to Sweden’s public primary care, which then has to investigate it. Swedish physicians have said this out loud. In Läkartidningen, the medical profession’s journal, clinicians warned that preventive body-scanning of the healthy risks overdiagnosis, false positives and false reassurance, and questioned who carries responsibility when a private scan hands a well person a finding that the public system must resolve.21 The failure mode is a market that keeps the scan fee and sends the false positives to a public system whose own agencies argue the scan should not have happened.

The reassurance that is not reassurance. A clean scan reads like a clean bill of health, and it is not one. A single scan or panel is a snapshot with a real false-negative rate, and SBU’s underlying evidence is that checking healthy adults does not lower their chance of dying.45 Swedish clinicians have named the specific danger, false trygghet, false security, where a reassuring result leads a person to ignore a symptom later or to stand down on the unglamorous things that actually move the numbers.21 The failure is paying for certainty a scan cannot sell, and letting it crowd out sleep, movement, not smoking and going to a doctor when something is actually wrong.

How should you choose a preventive or longevity clinic in Sweden?

Match the clinic to a goal, and match the goal to the evidence. If you want a diagnostics-led baseline, prioritize clinics that are explicit about which physician interprets your results and that build in follow-up, and weight established blood markers over the largest panels and the newest biological-age scores. If a clinic’s pitch centers on whole-body imaging of an asymptomatic you, carry the incidental-findings numbers into the decision and ask what the clinic does with a finding, whether it manages the workup or hands you a letter for your public GP. If the menu includes regenerative injections or hormone therapy sold as longevity, treat that as the part of the visit that needs the most evidence and the most skepticism.

The caution that ties the Swedish market together is that its own system has already done the evidence review, in public and reached a skeptical answer. That does not make every scan worthless, some findings are real and caught early, but it does shift the burden. A Swedish clinic earns its fee when it helps you act on established risk factors with a named physician and honest follow-up. It does not earn it by selling the feeling of having been thoroughly checked.

What to ask before you book

Ask which specific physician will interpret your results and whether you will see the same one at follow-up. Ask what the clinic does when a scan or panel finds something, whether it runs the workup itself or refers you to public primary care. Ask, for each service on the quote, whether it is an established diagnostic, a large exploratory panel or an intervention sold for longevity, and ask what evidence supports that specific service for someone with your history and no symptoms. Ask whether the clinic is a registered vårdgivare under IVO, and understand that a yes confirms it is on the inspectorate’s register, not that its screening menu has been judged effective. The Atlas can tell you a clinic exists and what category it sits in. It cannot read your consent form for you.

The Atlas of the Healthspan Economy is a neutral record of organizations working on healthspan. It records what each organization delivers, cites regulators and the operators themselves for every figure, and separates what a service is for from what its evidence supports. It does not recommend. See the Sweden page and read the methodology.

A note on what this piece does not claim. No clinic is called the country’s best or endorsed; the guide maps the qualifying market and does not rank it. The Swedish count is the Atlas’s own, computed against Entities_Public and dated, and the evidence and regulatory statements are attributed to the cited primary sources, SBU, Socialstyrelsen, IVO and the others, not offered as the Atlas’s own medical advice.

Footnotes

  1. Healthspan Economy Atlas, Entities_Public dataset, counts computed August 7, 2026. Internal dataset of record; figures are attributable to Healthspan Economy. ↩

  2. Per-row classification for all 16 Swedish rows is recorded in the Atlas’s Sweden count method alongside this run, so the count is auditable against Entities_Public. Twelve rows qualify, representing 10 organizations across 12 premises; four rows do not qualify. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  3. Healthspan Economy, Atlas inclusion policy (ATLAS_POLICY.md), scope bar requiring delivery of a health service to individuals. Internal, July 2026. ↩

  4. SBU (Statens beredning för medicinsk och social utvärdering, the Swedish Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Assessment of Social Services), SBU-kommentar “Generella hälsokontroller för vuxna,” commenting on the Cochrane systematic review. Conclusion quoted: “Det finns inget vetenskapligt stöd för att erbjuda generella hälsokontroller till friska personer, varken av offentlig eller privat hälso- och sjukvård.” The commentary’s own publication date is not displayed on the SBU page; the page states only that it was published more than five years ago and that it comments on the Cochrane review published in 2012 (Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2012, Issue 10). The exact SBU publication date could not be established from the page and is therefore not stated here. https://www.sbu.se/sv/publikationer/sbu-kommentar/generella-halsokontroller-for-vuxna/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  5. Krogsbøll LT, Jørgensen KJ, Gøtzsche PC, “General health checks in adults for reducing morbidity and mortality from disease,” Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2012 (updated 2019). Finding: general health checks did not reduce overall, cardiovascular or cancer mortality; number of diagnoses increased. As cited by SBU. ↩ ↩2

  6. Socialstyrelsen (National Board of Health and Welfare), “Om nationella screeningprogram,” describing the national screening assessment model and the National Screening Council, and the professional-license (legitimation) function. Accessed July 27, 2026. https://www.socialstyrelsen.se/kunskapsstod-och-regler/regler-och-riktlinjer/nationella-screeningprogram/om-nationella-screeningprogram/ ↩ ↩2

  7. Socialstyrelsen, “Nationella screeningprogram,” the list of recommended national screening programs (including breast, cervical and colorectal cancer, abdominal aortic aneurysm and newborn screening) assessed through the model “Nationella screeningprogram, modell för bedömning, införande och uppföljning” (2019). Accessed July 27, 2026. https://www.socialstyrelsen.se/kunskapsstod-och-regler/regler-och-riktlinjer/nationella-screeningprogram/ ↩

  8. Regeringen (Government of Sweden), press release, “Modell och riktlinjer för cancerscreening ska ses över,” March 5, 2026. Socialstyrelsen tasked with reviewing the screening assessment model and cancer-screening guidelines; guideline revision due February 28, 2027. https://www.regeringen.se/pressmeddelanden/2026/03/modell-och-riktlinjer-for-cancerscreening-ska-ses-over/ ↩

  9. IVO (Inspektionen för vård och omsorg, the Health and Social Care Inspectorate), “Vårdgivarregistret.” A provider subject to IVO supervision under the Patient Safety Act must notify IVO of a new operation at least one month before starting; this is a notification (anmälan), not a permit. Since July 1, 2023 IVO can impose fines for failure to register. Accessed July 27, 2026. https://www.ivo.se/vard-omsorgsgivare/anmal-verksamhet-register/vardgivarregistret/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  10. For the Gulf comparison, see the Healthspan Economy Dubai and UAE guide and its sources: Department of Health Abu Dhabi Healthy Longevity Medicine Centre framework (October 2024, effective April 2025) and the Dubai Longevity Authority established by Law No. 17 of 2026. Included here only to draw the structural contrast, not as a Swedish fact. ↩

  11. Neko Health, official site, Stockholm service and pricing pages, two premises (Regeringsgatan 61 and Sibyllegatan 35), scan description and price (2,750 kr) as published on the company’s own site. Accessed July 27, 2026. https://www.nekohealth.com/ ↩

  12. The Health Clinic Stockholm, official site, service and membership pages (full-body MRI, 87+ blood markers, VO2 max, DEXA, membership capped at 25; published prices 12,000 to 52,000 SEK and 1,490 SEK per month, no effective date shown on site). Accessed July 27, 2026. https://thehealthclinicstockholm.com/ ↩

  13. Executive Health, official site, service pages (full-body MRI, brain MRI, 47-marker panel, cardiovascular ultrasound, operating since 2008, clinics in Stockholm, Lund and Marbella). Accessed July 27, 2026. https://executive-health.com/ ↩ ↩2

  14. Göteborgskliniken, official site, health-check and MRI pages (whole-body MRI without referral, blood panels of 31 to 57 markers; published prices 35,950 to 45,450 kr, no effective date shown on site). Accessed July 27, 2026. https://goteborgskliniken.se/ ↩

  15. Kwee RM, Kwee TC, “Whole-body MRI for preventive health screening: A systematic review of the literature,” Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 2019 Nov;50(5):1489-1503. Pooled prevalence of critical and indeterminate incidental findings 32.1 percent; pooled false-positive proportion 16.0 percent; authors note the false-positive proportion appears substantial and verification data are lacking. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30932247/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  16. Nordic Lifespan, official site, describing four yearly diagnostic cycles of 120-plus biomarkers with a dedicated physician, one premise in Danderyd. Accessed July 27, 2026. https://nordic-lifespan.se/ ↩

  17. EndoHealth, official site, describing a women-focused longevity program with 90-plus biomarkers, VO2 max, DEXA, hormonal panel, genetic and epigenetic testing, one premise on Linnégatan. Accessed July 27, 2026. https://endohealth.se/ ↩

  18. Funmed, official site, describing physician-led functional medicine measuring up to 200 blood markers, premises in Stockholm and Gothenburg, and stating it is a registered vårdgivare under IVO supervision with care led by licensed physicians (“Registrerad vårdgivare som står under IVO:s tillsyn. Vården leds av legitimerade läkare”). Accessed July 27, 2026. https://funmed.se/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  19. Nordic Clinic Stockholm, official site, describing functional medicine with physician, clinical physiologist and nutritionist, offering functional and genetic testing. Accessed July 27, 2026. https://nordicclinic.se/ ↩

  20. Revi Health, official site, describing preventive and performance diagnostics (70-plus biomarkers, DEXA, VO2 max) alongside PRP, orthobiologics and hormone therapy, with licensed staff listed; published price 60,000 SEK for a complete orthobiologic joint program, no effective date shown on site. Accessed July 27, 2026. https://revihealth.se/ ↩

  21. Läkartidningen (the journal of the Swedish Medical Association), “Spotify-grundare bakom nytt bolag med fokus på preventiv vård,” February 2, 2023. Swedish clinicians quoted raising overdiagnosis, false positives (“falskt positiva fynd”), false reassurance (“falsk trygghet och underdiagnostik”), and the question of responsibility for incidental findings in healthy people. Cited as documented professional concern, attributed, not as a Neko company statement. https://lakartidningen.se/nyheter/spotify-grundare-bakom-nytt-bolag-med-fokus-pa-preventiv-vard/ ↩ ↩2