Dr. Vicente Mera
Vicente Mera, M.D. is Head of Internal & Longevity Medicine at SHA Wellness Clinic in El Albir, Alicante, a pioneering integrative health destination on Spain’s Costa Blanca.
Recognized internationally as one of Europe’s leading physicians in healthy aging, genomic medicine, and preventive internal medicine, he has built a 35-year clinical career around a systematic seven-pillar approach to longevity that integrates Western preventive medicine with evidence-based natural therapies.
Vicente was awarded the European Awards in Medicine 2021 in Paris as the best European doctor in the field of Anti-Aging Medicine, and in November 2025 he received the Premio Dr. Fleming a la Excelencia Sanitaria (V Edición), conferred in Madrid by the Sociedad Europea Cultural, Social y Empresarial (SECSE) for his innovative and integrative approach to preventive and personalized medicine.
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Vicente joined SHA Wellness Clinic in 2008 as a freelance specialist, became Chief Consultant Physician in 2009, and has led SHA’s Internal Medicine and Longevity Unit since 2011. He additionally directs SHA’s Sleep Medicine service since 2010, Anti-Tobacco Unit since 2009, and Clinical Echography & Densitometry since 2014.
In 2018, Vicente supervised the development of SHA’s multidisciplinary Healthy Aging program, a fully customizable methodology focused on slowing and minimizing the effects of aging through healthy nutrition, supervised physical exercise, stress management, optimized rest, hormonal balance, depurative and metabolic capacity, immune system analysis, and genomic and epigenetic study.
His clinical method pivots on seven pillars: nutrition, physical exercise, emotional management, restful sleep, intestinal microbiota, toxic substances and depurative/regenerative processes, and hormonal balance. Read European Awards in Medicine and Sha Wellness Clinic, 15 años de camino a la excelencia internacional.
In addition to his leadership at SHA, Vicente practices as Especialista Asociado en Medicina Interna at Hospital Vithas Alicante since 2021 and at Hospital IMED Levante in Benidorm since 2015, and as Consultant Physician in Internal Medicine at Clínica Britannia in Calpe since 2008. Between 1997 and 2015, he served as Especialista en Medicina Interna at Clínica Benidorm.
Vicente has developed biological clocks based on multiple biomarkers of health and biological age, using techniques ranging from artificial intelligence applied to genomics, telomere length measurement, and epigenetic methylation analysis to ancient Eastern health practices, integrating research on food supplements collected during travels across five continents.
He is a pioneer in the clinical application of bioidentical hormone therapy in Spain, combining it with genomic and epigenetic counseling, telomeric and immunosenescence assessment, and the therapeutic use of mesenchymal stem cells and enriched plasma. Read Dr. Vicente Mera, referente europeo en longevidad y antienvejecimiento and Dr. Vicente Mera, galardonado en Medicina Antiaging.
In November 2025, the Universidad de Alicante and SHA Wellness Clinic consolidated their alliance through the Cátedra SHA & AB Living Group de Innovación para la Salud de las Personas y el Planeta, a joint initiative advancing applied research, scientific dissemination, and the incorporation of disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence into health, wellbeing, and sustainability.
Read La Universidad de Alicante y SHA Wellness Clinic refuerzan su colaboración a través de la Cátedra SHA & AB Living Group de Innovación para la Salud de las Personas y el Planeta and SHA y la Universidad de Alicante impulsan la Cátedra SHA & AB Living Group de Innovación para la Salud de las Personas y el Planeta.
Vicente is the author of Joven a cualquier edad: El método definitivo para una vida larga, saludable y feliz published in 2023. This 336-page volume synthesizes his clinical method through real patient cases and practical recommendations on nutrition, exercise, sleep, detoxification, microbiota, social engagement, and emotional management.
He has published articles in medical journals including The Lancet, Medicina Clínica, Revista Clínica Española, The Journal of Infectious Diseases, and Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, and participates actively in Spanish and international associations of Internal Medicine, Anti-Tobacco Medicine, Travel Medicine, Sleep Medicine, Nutrition, and Regenerative and Anti-Aging Medicine.
Vicente earned his degree in Medicine from the Faculty of Medicine at the Universidad de Sevilla in 1985. He obtained the highest score in Spain’s national MIR examination among nearly twenty thousand candidates, which enabled him to pursue his Internal Medicine specialty at the prestigious Hospital Clínica Puerta de Hierro in Madrid, where he trained between 1989 and 1995 and served as chief resident.
He subsequently completed specialized international training in Dallas (Doppler ultrasound imaging), Cleveland (mesenchymal stem cells and regenerative medicine at Case Western Reserve University), Paris (tissue repair), Dubai (bioidentical hormones), Cambridge (genomics), Orlando (peptides and growth hormone), and Okinawa (longevity lifestyle research among the world’s longest-lived inhabitants).
Between 2012 and 2015, he obtained the ABAARM board certification from the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine, completing theoretical preparation in London and practical training in Melbourne. He has also led medical student tutorials with the Universities of Glasgow and McGill.
Vicente has shared his clinical experience at international forums including the Longevity World Forum, and has become a frequent voice in Spanish and European media on healthy aging, sleep, and preventive medicine.
Watch SHA & Harvest Series Present: The Longevity Equation with Dr. Vicente Mera and Los pilares de la longevidad y envejecimiento con el Dr. Vicente Mera en Las 3 R.
Read Doctor Mera, experto en longevidad: ‘La apnea del sueño es causa de divorcio. Para dormir bien, mejor solo’. Doctor Vicente Mera, experto en envejecimiento: ‘Dame más calidad de vida hoy y viviré más años mañana’. Consejos de Vicente Mera, el mejor médico Antiaging de Europa, para envejecer sanos. and Vicente Mera: ‘Envejecer no significa enfermar’.
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