One of Australia's richest businessmen reveals the very bizarre and strict routine he follows to 'stay young forever' - and the traumatic event that inspired his mission Wealthy developer Tim Gurner plans to live a very long time He owns the anti-ageing wellness clinic, Saint Haven READ MORE: I look like a teenager because I avoid the sun and never drink alcohol - but can you guess my age? By Padraig Collins For Daily Mail Australia Published: 02:56, 9 September 2024 | Updated: 02:56, 9 September 2024 e-mail View comments Australian luxury property and resort developer Tim Gurner is not only very rich - he's reportedly worth $989million - he also plans to live for a very long time to enjoy his wealth. Mr Gurner made international headlines in 2017 for implying want-to-be homeowners in Australia had their priorities wrong, saying that when he was trying to buy his first home he 'wasn't buying smashed avocado for $19 and four coffees at $4 each' . The rich lister, 42, 'wants to live to 500', according to one of the staff at his Melbourne-based anti-ageing wellness clinic, Saint Haven.
While you don't need to be a billionaire to join the exclusive club, with fees costing $23,000 a year, you do need to be wealthy and to pass a five-stage interview process. Since his father died of cancer , Mr Gurner wants to live the best and longest life he can, to the point that it's become 'an obsession', he told the Sydney Morning Herald . He gets a nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) injection every morning and takes 40 tablets a day, including boron, taurine, creatine and peptides he says the Russian military invented in the 1980s to protect soldiers from radiation.
He also measures everything he eats so it amounts to exactly 3,300 calories a day, including 'The exact same numbers of fruits and vegetables'. Mr Gurner gets all these supplies, of course, at his Saint Haven premises in inner-city Collingwood. Australian luxury property and resort developer Tim Gurner (pictured) is not only very rich, he also plans to live for a very long time to enjoy his wealth Mr Gurner, 42, 'wants to live to 500', according to one of the staff at his Melbourne-based anti-ageing wellness clinic, Saint Haven.
He is pictured with his wife Aimee Read More How the ultra-rich spend £50,000 a year to stay young...
At home, where he lives with his wife Aimee and their three children, there is circadian lighting which displays what would be the colour of the sun at different times of the day. It's orange first thing in the morning, then yellow for most of the day, and back to orange before sunset. From 7.
30pm until he goes to bed, Mr Gurner wears goggles with red lenses to block blue light. About one-third of all visible light is considered blue light, with most of it coming from sunlight, but smartphones and LEDs also emit blue light . Some studies have found that blue light can affect your sleep and potentially cause disease.
The quest for eternal youth doesn't take a break when he goes to bed, though. He sleeps with a Chilipad - which has also been recommended by Oprah Winfrey's sleep doctor - to keep the bed at 18 degrees. Before going to sleep, he also tapes his mouth shut to ensure he only breathes through his nose.
He told reporter Tim Elliott that 'mouth-breathing is very bad ...
it's changed the structure of our jaws'. Mr Gurner's desire to live a long and prosperous life goes back to setting up his first business more than two decades ago, and the traumatic event that followed almost immediately after. Poll How old would you like to live? 80 90 100 200 500 How old would you like to live? 80 0 votes 90 0 votes 100 1 votes 200 0 votes 500 0 votes Now share your opinion He started My Well Being, which offered yoga, massage, pilates and personal training, when he was just 21.
But six weeks later, his father died from multiple myeloma. He became terrified of dying and ever since has lived his life trying not to get sick and die. He said his goal became, 'How do I live the best life possible with the least risk possible for as long as possible?' Mr Gurner also has the phrase 'flow of life' tattooed in Morse code on his left arm.
His aim for longer life isn't just a personal obsession for him and other multi-millionaires looking for ways to spend some of their money, though. He also firmly believes living longer would benefit the whole country. 'If we can extend everyone's age by 20 years, that would be the best thing for the economy,' he said.
'Twenty years more taxes and spending, plus all the savings you'd make in the health system. All those gains you could redirect to poverty alleviation.' In between making a name for himself with his views on the price of smashed avocado toast and his desire to live a long time, Mr Gurner accused Australian workers of becoming 'arrogant' after Covid .
'We need to see pain in the economy,' he told the Australian Financial Review's Property Summit a year ago, adding that he wanted to see unemployment rise by 40 to 50 per cent. 'We need to remind people they work for the employer, not the other way around.' Mr Gurner (pictured with his wife Aimee) measures everything he eats so it amounts to exactly 3,300 calories a day, including 'The exact same numbers of fruits and vegetables' Mr Gurner made international headlines in 2017 for saying that when he was trying to buy his first home, he 'wasn't buying smashed avocado (pictured) for $19 and four coffees at $4 each' Mr Gurner took particular aim at tradies, claiming productivity had dipped since the pandemic.
'People decided they didn't really want to work so much through Covid and that has had a massive issue on productivity,' he said. 'Tradies have definitely pulled back on productivity. They have been paid a lot to do not too much in the last few years and we need to see that change,' he said.
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