OPTIMIZE — The Performance and Hormone Program in Bali

Dr Shirley Yuliana Kwee is our medical director — MBChB from Glasgow, GDFM from NUS Singapore, and certified by the American Board of Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine. Depending on what your program involves you may also see Dr Muhammad Nadim for regenerative work, or Dr Andrew Uidjaja, who has practised in Bali since 2008. You'll know who you're seeing before you arrive, not on the day.

A licensed medical clinic. Our licence is registered as Klinik Utama, number 10092501114890005. The distinction matters more than it sounds: it governs who is legally allowed to perform procedures, how products are sourced and stored, and what happens if something goes wrong.

The diagnostics are fairly standard — you need much the same baseline picture whatever your goals are. What changes is everything after that. Two people booking the same duration can leave with very different protocols. Where we don't personalise is safety: if your bloodwork rules something out, it's out, regardless of what you arrived hoping for.

No. The pre-arrival call exists to map your goals and order anything that needs lead time. A lot gets decided on day one, once your doctor has your results in front of them, and protocols get adjusted mid-program more often than not.

Genuinely free, and there's no obligation to book afterwards. We'd rather establish on a video call that we're not the right fit than have you fly here to find out.

Less than most people expect. A single day runs roughly 09:00 to 17:00 with proper breaks. Longer programs are paced deliberately — usually a morning or an afternoon rather than a full day, so you still get Bali. Tell us what else is in your itinerary and we'll build around it.

Your results explained in person, rather than emailed as a PDF you can't interpret. A written protocol covering nutrition, movement, supplementation and any ongoing therapy. And a follow-up consultation three to six months out.

Yes, and plenty of couples do. Each person gets their own assessment and their own protocol — we don't run joint programs, because the entire point is that it's built around one person's results. Scheduling can be arranged so you're not waiting around for each other.

Tell us as early as you can and we'll move things. Some diagnostics are ordered in advance, so very late changes can carry a cost — but we'll say so plainly rather than surprise you with it.

Payment is direct, by card (Visa, Mastercard or American Express) or transfer, in Indonesian rupiah. We don't bill insurers, though we'll provide documentation if you want to claim afterwards. Whether it's covered depends entirely on your policy, and most travel and health policies don't cover elective preventive medicine.

Come back in and we'll look at what happened. We won't promise outcomes in advance, because nobody honestly can, and a clinic that does should worry you. What we do commit to is measuring where you started, so the conversation afterwards is about data rather than impressions.

You should be cautious anywhere, and Bali has both excellent clinics and places you'd want to avoid. Reasonable questions to ask us or anyone else: Is the clinic licensed? Who performs the procedure? Where do the products come from? And can you see the batch details? We're happy to answer all four.

SŌMA is the first specialist longevity and anti-ageing clinic in Bali, funded by a UK- and Singapore-trained Medical Director, Dr Shirley Yuliana Kwee, with over 20+ years of clinical experience at top Asian clinics, implementing Singaporean standards of medical care. Our physicians are internationally trained in longevity, anti-ageing, and regenerative medicine and are members of the American Board of Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine.

"Normal" usually means within a reference range built from the general population, which is a low bar. A ferritin at the bottom of range or a thyroid marker at the edge can leave you flat while still being reported as fine. We look at where you sit in the range, not just whether you're in it.

No, and if you only want a drip we'll say so and charge you for a drip. The point of this program is finding out why you're depleted, thyroid, iron, glucose, hormones, recovery capacity, and treating that. An infusion may be part of it. It isn't the answer on its own.

Some things shift within a day or two, particularly hydration and sleep. Correcting an actual deficiency takes weeks to show, because your body has to rebuild stores. Be sceptical of anyone promising a transformation by Thursday.

It's the most common reason people book this. Persistent fatigue with no diagnosis is exactly what a proper workup is for.

It helps, though jet lag mostly resolves with time and light exposure regardless of what we do. What we can address is the state underneath it, if you arrived depleted, the jet lag lands harder and lasts longer.