Physician | Life Designer | Founder of Authentic Longevity
Dr. İlknur Akbulut
Less a résumé than a story, because we connect with the story first.
Why I set out on this path
I believe the second half of life can be lived not only longer, but healthier, more meaningful, and more conscious.
Working in health throughout my career, I saw that understanding a person's life, their habits, their choices and their hopes for the future matters at least as much as treating their body.
Over the years that observation brought me together with other disciplines. Scientific developments, healthy ageing research, coaching, leadership, psychology, Jung's analytical approach, literature, travel, and what life itself taught me all gathered in time around a single question:
Can we design the second half of our lives more consciously?
Authentic Longevity was born to look for the answer to that question together.
On this platform I bring together my perspective as a physician, my own experience of living, and what I have learned from other disciplines, so that scientific knowledge meets daily life and people have company while they redesign their own.
I believe that ageing well is not only about preventing illness.
Knowing yourself, caring for your body, keeping your curiosity alive, continuing to create, and being able to give your life a new direction are inseparable parts of this journey.
Authentic Longevity is a platform for sharing and learning, built for anyone who wants to walk this road together.
About Authentic Longevity
It is possible to redesign the second half of life.
Authentic Longevity is a whole-life approach, built so that people can live the second half of their lives more healthily, more meaningfully, and more in tune with themselves.
It brings the scientific knowledge of modern medicine together with behaviour change, psychology, life design, and the practices of ordinary days.
Because living longer is not enough on its own. What matters is how we live those years.
Authentic Longevity sees ageing not as a purely biological process, but as a journey of change that takes our body, our mind, our relationships, our creativity and our sense of purpose together.
The writing on this platform, the science, the books, the travels, the cultural experiences and the observations of daily life all gather around the same question:
How can we design the second half of our lives more consciously?
The aim of Authentic Longevity is not to hand out ready-made prescriptions. It is to give people the spark to rethink their own lives, build their own systems, and turn that into habits they can keep.
So Authentic Longevity is not only a content platform. It is designed as a living system that will grow over time through courses, workshops, guidance programmes and community work.
Because we believe that ageing well is not built by accident, but by conscious choices.
My approach
I move with curiosity rather than fear, with meaning rather than optimization. The goal isn't to postpone death; it's to make the second 50 years truly worth living.
A brief look
Today
Otantik Longevity
Writing, modules, workshops, and consulting on the second 50 years.
Pfizer
Senior Director, Emerging Markets
Multi-country medical strategy and transformation leadership.
Career
Medical leadership roles
Evidence, compliance, digital transformation, and stakeholder alignment.
Foundations
Medicine and science
A solid grounding in clinical discipline and scientific thinking.
Education and experience
- Doctor of Medicine (M.D.)
- 25+ years of leadership in multinational pharmaceutical organizations
- Applied expertise in medical governance, strategic communication, and digital transformation
I trained as a physician and spent years in the pharmaceutical industry. I do not currently see patients; what I write here is personal opinion and experience, not medical care.
Let's walk this path together
The first step to designing your second 50 years is curiosity. Join the letters, or schedule a conversation.