Marc Kielburger wants to live forever — and there's a multitrillion-dollar industry helping him get there

financialpost.com:

Marc Kielburger describes his old injury in aching detail. The first thing that came to mind upon hearing the sickening “pop,” he said, was a desperate hope that it had not come from his body and that the twisted mess of an ankle at the bottom of a pile of high school rugby players, circa 1994, did not belong to him.

But, alas, it did, and any plans the teenaged Kielburger had of cutting a rug at school dances were replaced by crutches and seven months in a cast, followed by several months of physiotherapy and then, perhaps counterintuitively, by a return to the rugby pitch as an undergraduate at Harvard University and later as a law student at Oxford University in England.

His college athletic career can be divided into two halves: him playing and him sitting on the bench, icing the left ankle that he repeatedly reinjured. A pain that was bad in his 20s would grow exponentially worse, such that by the time he hit 40, he and his wife Roxanne Joyal shared a running joke that they would be skipping to the front of the lines at airports and museums in another 20 years because he would be rolling through them in a wheelchair.

Of course, Kielburger had other ideas, but so did the ankle, which would blow up into a swollen mess whenever he spent too much time on his feet. Workouts were sheer agony. Physiotherapy did not help, nor did the random medical therapies and supposed miracle elixirs he ordered off late-night television infomercials.

“I tried everything, everything, everything,” he said.

Compounding the chronic physical discomfort was the psychological pummelling he absorbed in 2020 after WE Charity, the outfit he and his younger brother Craig co-founded in 1995, unravelled in spectacular fashion during parliamentary