Waimea (Kamuela) · Hawaiʻi Island · February 2027
The Eight
Four days. Eight women. One physician who is not in a hurry.
Most of what passes for a health retreat is a spa with a stethoscope in the brochure. This is the opposite arrangement. You arrive with your bloodwork already drawn and already read. You spend four days with a physician who knows your numbers before you walk in. You leave with a written plan, the prescriptions you need, and six months of follow-up already scheduled.
Eight seats. Enrolment opens this autumn for February 2027.
A telehealth platform can prescribe to you. It cannot know you.
Who it is for
This programme is built for women in the perimenopausal transition, roughly between forty-five and sixty-five, who have arrived at a decade nobody prepared them for.
You may have been told your labs were normal. You may have been offered an antidepressant for what is a hormonal problem, or a hormonal explanation for what is a metabolic one. You may have come off a GLP-1 and watched it all return. You may simply be tired of assembling your own care from eight different specialists who have never spoken to one another.
Four days is not long enough to fix a decade. It is long enough to find out precisely where you are, decide what to do about it, and begin, with someone who will still be there in six months.
How it works
The programme runs in three phases: preparation at home, four days together in Waimea, and six months of structured follow-up. Each phase is clinical work, not tourism.
Four weeks before
Prepare
Your labs are drawn at home and resulted before you travel: metabolic panel, lipids with ApoB and Lp(a), HbA1c and fasting insulin, thyroid, reproductive hormones, vitamin D, ferritin, inflammatory markers. Then a private thirty-minute virtual consultation with Dr. King. By the time you arrive, she has already read your numbers and your history. Nobody starts cold.
Four days in Waimea
Immerse
Day one is where you actually are: the physiology of the transition, what twenty years of hormone medicine got wrong, and a private lab review with Dr. King. Day two is metabolic: insulin, visceral fat, body composition, and resistance training taught properly. Day three is the nervous system: sleep, regulation, and the recovery floor at Longevity Labs. Day four is your plan, written and in your hands.
Six months after
Integrate
Two individual follow-ups with Dr. King. Repeat labs at four months, reviewed and adjusted. A monthly call with your cohort. Portal access for the questions that arrive at ten at night. The four days are the beginning of the care, not the whole of it.
What is included
$5,900 per person. Lodging is not included. Waimea and the Kohala Coast offer everything from modest to extraordinary, and we will send a recommended list with a rate. A $1,500 deposit reserves a seat; the balance is due thirty days before. Payment plans are available on request.
What this is not
- It is not a spa week. There is real clinical content and some of it is uncomfortable.
- It is not a detox, a cleanse, or a reset of anything that was not measured first.
- It is not a place where you will be sold a supplement line.
- It is not group therapy, and it is not a silent retreat.
- It is not appropriate for everyone, and the pre-programme consultation exists partly so that Dr. King can say so before you have booked a flight.
- And it is not ketamine care. That is a separate pathway, for established patients, and it is not part of this programme.
Where
Programming takes place in Waimea and at Longevity Labs in the Shops at Mauna Lani, on the Kohala Coast of Hawaiʻi Island. Mornings are indoors and clinical. Afternoons are not always. There is ocean, and we use it.
Questions
Eight seats.
Enrolment opens this autumn for February 2027, to the waitlist first. Joining the waitlist commits you to nothing and costs nothing.
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This page describes a physician-led educational and clinical programme. It is not medical advice and does not establish a physician-patient relationship. Participation requires an individual medical evaluation, and not everyone who applies will be appropriate for the programme. Recovery modalities offered at partner facilities are provided for relaxation and recovery and are not treatments for disease. Individual results vary. No outcome is promised or implied.
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