After spending a few months working on an AI coach for health & fitness, I'm now convinced that it is NOT going to be a thing for a very long time.
I found myself face-to-face with a truth that changed my entire thinking:
@BorisJohnson
We have taken back control of our money, borders, laws, trade and our fishing waters.
However, we have basically lost everything else in the process, but look mummy, we are sovereign!
Health does not come from going to the Drs. office. It’s not generated in the room with the Dr.
No matter how good they are, that is not how you become healthy.
It's mind-blowing people feel 1x a year health check-up & an all-clear actually makes them a 'healthy person'
Why founders should care about REM sleep 📢
Emotional regulation, memory processing & the ability to learn is paramount in any start-up.
It's tempting as a founder to convince myself I can cheat sleep. The reality is more REM = Patrick is a better CEO
@alexfmac
Unfortunately it's still the case that smaller countries with a higher than average average income are more efficient at using taxes to deliver value to the public. Somehow we haven't figured out how to scale public organizations while maintaining the capital efficiency.
Caffeine is an addictive drug.
Like you, I'm addicted.
As a CEO running a company, that delectable morning mug gives me life.
So now what?
We need to know how to effectively manage it.
Let's dive in:
• Misconceptions
• Benefits
• Negatives
• Best practices
Thread👇
Looking for runners and hosts of running groups who would be interested in early access to a new platform designed to find like-minded runners. Reply or DM me if you're up for it!
In the early 1700s, the average person consumed 2.7g of sugar per day or 1/2 teaspoon.
In the early 2000s, the average person consumed 200g of sugar per day or 50 teaspoons.
In 2015, the sugar market was estimated at $35B, growing 6% annually.
4 mistakes you’re making when interpreting your HRV:
1) You think a *constantly* high HRV is a good thing
Reality:
Short-term stressors can be beneficial.
Think strength training, tearing muscle to build back bigger.
Always green
@whoop
? Are you training hard enough?...
@ylecun
To some extent, we have built a combination of Broca's and Wernicke's areas of the brain. What we're missing is the understanding of concepts, their relationships, and the ability to reason about them.
@Suhail
100%. I'm designing a mobile-first experience for health & fitness with exactly this principle in mind: no prompt, no chat interface, but a user interface serving implicit intents with deep personalization.
One of our members
@span_health
just qualified for the world championship after his first race 🏃
Pre-race we ran a few of sleep & HRV experiments to optimize 💪
Imagine a holistic approach covering nutrition, exercise, sleep, and mental fitness – 100% tailored, 100% human-driven, supercharged by AI insights. Your health journey, now guided by the perfect blend of tech and human expertise.
It's St. Patrick's day, so I thought I'd take a chance and share this.
Be one of the first to catch a sneak peek of what I'm working on with this teaser 🫣
Spoiler alert: Powered by
@OpenAI
's ChatGPT.
Immigrants are doing
#startups
with their life. They're putting their all their capital at risk - not only financial capital but their language, social, spiritual, and cultural capital.
#entrepreneurship
@hubermanlab
favourite sleep cocktail:
1) Magnesium L-threonate: increases mg concentrations in brain. has positive effects on sleep and depression
2) Apigenin: found in chamomile. can help w sleep and anxiety
I still can't believe how much we've grown as a company in the last 2 months.
If you love brands like Oura, Whoop, Eight Sleep, Levels, and your dopaminergic neurons fire when I say "longevity fitness", DM me and I'll convince you to join our team 🏃♀️🤓
@hubermanlab
Science behind UV-caused skin damage and accelerated aging, recommendations in terms of exposure practices, sunscreen as a preventative treatment, and ideally also any differences between different ethnicities.
1/ We're all going to wear some kind of technology measuring our real-time health & fitness in 10 years. The big question is what are we going to do with this data.
NEWS: Oura acquires Veri
Evolving from sleep tracker to holistic health device, the smart ring maker sees metabolic health as the next frontier.
— 97% of Oura users want insights on how food impacts health
— 13% have worn a continuous glucose monitor
— 53% are interested in
Just spent the most amazing weekend with > 100 entrepreneurs, staff and investors
@_TheFamily
- I've finally found my crew in this world.
So pumped at the idea it's going to be even more awesome 🚀
1/ Some personal news: I’m launching The Family (AAA): London’s Programme to go from Seed to Series A. Beyond excited for taking on this new role with the amazing team that will help me make it reality:
@daedalium
@Baltdelavergne
@pastormhm
@giuliamazzo
In 18 months, we have helped more than 10,000 people live better, longer. 90% of our members alleviated their primary symptom.
We reimagined chronic care how it should be: personal and continuous.
Now it's time to expand. Pre-register to invest today 👇
For a long time now, I've been thinking about what gamification could look like for health & longevity fitness.
Yesterday, a
@beondeck
fellow made me realize we already do it, and could lean into it even more: "it's like a video game".
Lower REM sleep is shown by studies to be strongly linked to increased *all-cause mortality*
It's no exaggeration to say it's dam important
Yet REM is a tricky one. Let's break it down.
Sleep runs in 90-110 min cycles:
Light sleep > deep sleep > REM sleep
The snag? 👇
You’re probably wrong about how much sleep you need.
Why? Sleep Debt.
You have it. It's totally unforgiving! So what is it?
The difference between optimal sleep duration and habitual sleep duration.
Studies show just 1 hour sleep debt takes 4 days to recover from 👇
@daedalium
NFTs are a game changer for artists to get off the ground, with traceability and a whole new ownership economy for their art. Every single aspect of IP rights we've been trying to build for the digital world since web2 is now native in web3.
Just invested in
@emma_finance
after witnessing 4 impressive years of relentless execution by
@AntonioMarino0
,
@edoardomoreni
, and the team 🚀
They launched this morning at 9am, funded by 12pm - check this out:
Vraiment triste que cette toxicité systémique persiste en France.
@_TheFamily
a été et reste un atout clé et unique dans l'écosystème pour mon développement personnel et celui de ma boîte depuis 2016.
Le succès de leur portfolio parle de lui-même.
My solution? Having a wind-down routine. Quite the luxury as a start-up CEO I hear you say.
10m reading offline + 10m journal + 10m writing down highest impact task for tomorrow + 10m deep rest yoga Nidra meditation.
= 40 mins. Net result: restorative sleep. Better performance
@vedikaja_in
Makes so much sense – my body is now in London but my head and network is still 95% in the Bay Area. Would love to grab a coffee before the move if you're up for it.
My biggest frustration assessing my longevity & performance protocols?
Identifying metrics that:
• Accurately estimates biological age
• Modifiable with lifestyle
• Accessible
• Evidence-based
My proxy measure? HRV. A reliable measure of your autonomic nervous system👇
Glad to see more investors thinking & writing about impact
@Siftedeu
and mentioning
@span_health
as an example among other great startups in London 🔥 Thank you
@janabakunina
!
Turned 36 today.
Life feels totally different vs expectations, in a good way.
But it's not so different: realized many dreams, found my crowd, learned faster, traveled the world with
@tmahesan1207
, ...
Now it feels like the beginning of chapter II, and I'm here for it.
Inspired by a new wave of longevity, concierge medicine, and diagnostic companies, consumers are taking their health into their own hands.
They’re flocking to get extensive preventative testing—from comprehensive blood tests and full-body MRIs to cancer screenings and genetic
A well-designed approach to health tracking with wearables reduces the amount of time spent in the Valley of Disappointment when building new health habits (cc
@JamesClear
).
I met
@maxcoutte
in 2018 and was blown away by his vision and a deep attention to details that truly matter to design a successful VR experience 🚀
Unai is a VR headset & world designed for real social interactions: via
@naval
Jeanette Cajide (
@whengoodenough
), investment banking analyst, consultant, and startup founder, returned to competitive figure skating at the age of 40.
Two years later, she won the Gold Medal at both Adult Sectionals and Adult Nationals in her division.
After spending 10 days traveling and sleeping on dum mattresses during a heatwave, my wife and I couldn't wait to get back to our
@eightsleep
pod. That first night back home yesterday was magical and this article tells you exactly why:
Wearables massively increased health awareness and education, but by emphasizing noise and lacking personalization, it's also made health conscious consumers feel overwhelmed. Which also means it's the right time for a different approach.
@paulg
It's really amazing how many companies started in that building at Stanford. I remember the Coursera founders writing the first codebase in the Security lab where I was also working on research back in 2012. This is also next to the room where Donald Knuth did lunchtime talks.
Wow! We did not expect this level of interest 🤯
We've been hustling and brought on board even more top-tier performance coaches from the NBA, MLB, Olympics, and Esports leagues.
The next cohort will be 🔥 DM if you want in.
Introducing Peak: a new and unique performance coaching platform.
- Encompassing nutrition, exercise, sleep, cognition
- 100% delivered by human experts (augmented by AI)
- Driven by your data, informed by science
BREAKING NEWS: we have evidence
@eightsleep
Pod's thermoregulation improves recovery. Preliminary data is showing that half our members could be seeing an increase in their average HRV by 10% in just one week. More to come soon 🦾
Announcing AlphaFold 3: our state-of-the-art AI model for predicting the structure and interactions of all life’s molecules. 🧬
Here’s how we built it with
@IsomorphicLabs
and what it means for biology. 🧵
The co-founder of The Family talks about Span and says a culture that promotes employee health and happiness is one of the keys to success.
« Winning businesses in the 21st century will be the ones who attract exceptional talent »
@daedalium
@_TheFamily
Working as a freelancer in France and frustrated about a lack of health and economic protections that actually fit your needs?
@wemindio
and
@hind_elidrissi
are what you've been waiting for -->
Awsome insights from
@lennysan
and
@tjack
.
Continuous growth "requires finding product-market fit over and over again. Just because you found product-market fit on your main product doesn't mean it's free on all your new products."