The Healthusiasm Podcast

For years, sleep was the pillar of health we were proud to sacrifice. Not anymore. In the last few weeks alone, a New York hotel turned its rooms into a sleep lab, Singapore Airlines and Fiji Airways redesigned the cabin around your body clock, supplement brands in China and the US launched sleep-and-energy pairings, and a UK mattress shop started funding mental-health charities. Different industr...

Brazil and Mexico are now trading health knowledge , not just medicine. Africa’s nine-country AIM 2030 initiative wants to make its own medicines. Korea is funding reverse-aging science, Dubai built a longevity authority, and Thailand is branding itself “the land of life.” Right across the world, nations are shifting from buying health to building it. Christophe Jauquet calls this new map Healthus...

Sport doesn't look like healthcare. That's exactly why it matters. The running club. The HYROX race. The smart ring on your finger. The gym that now calls itself a “healthness” company. None of it looks like medicine — and yet, piece by piece, sport is quietly rehearsing what healthcare is about to become. In this episode, Christophe Jauquet sits down with Berlin-based digital-health exp...

Most AI-in-healthcare conversations ask what the tools can do. This one asks a harder question: what happens when AI becomes smarter, faster and more emotionally present than the humans around it? Christophe Jauquet and Dr Keith Grimes go past the “AI will help doctors” narrative to the power, trust and culture shifts already leaking into daily practice. In this episode: The rise of “shadow AI” —...

Korea made the world fall in love with K-pop, K-beauty and K-drama. What happens when it turns that same cultural machine toward health? Christophe explores how Korea is moving far beyond skincare — into cancer AI, dementia detection, women’s health and longevity — and whether it can make health feel as desirable as beauty. In this episode: Korea’s push into cancer AI, dementia detection and women...

GLP-1 stopped being a drug story a while ago. Christophe explores why GLP-1 is reorganising food, retail, tech, beauty and pharma around the person using it — and what that reveals about health itself. In this episode: Protein-rich products and supplement retailers adding telehealth consultations Amazon delivering weight-loss medication; Oura turning wearables into medication dashboards Genomics f...

This month’s signals jump from a wellness retreat to brain-surgery robots — but one thread runs through all of them: health is becoming something we track, predict, optimise and increasingly delegate to machines. Christophe is joined by Aline Noizet, Dr Keith Grimes and Nia Escobar-Kölle to make sense of May’s most telling health innovations. In this episode: PCOS reframed as far more than a repro...

Google launched a screenless Fitbit Air — but the real story is the Gemini-powered AI Health Coach behind it, one that even supports Apple Watch. The battle in consumer health is moving from the wrist to the intelligence layer above it. Christophe maps who’s racing for it and why. In this episode: Why Google, Huawei, OpenAI, Amazon, Ant Group and national health systems are all chasing the AI heal...

From space research to cuddle beds in palliative care, April’s signals show health quietly reappearing in places that don’t look like healthcare at all. Christophe, Aline Noizet, Mo Zouina and Nia Escobar-Kölle range across the month’s most revealing innovations. In this episode: Space research and the future of human resilience Medical platforms, hospital records and Fitbit shifting the game New...

For fifty years, the hospital was the place consumer-experience design forgot. That’s quietly ending. Christophe and his Healthusiasm GPT, Thalia Muses, trace five signals across five countries that all point the same way: healthcare is no longer somewhere you go. In this episode: The FDA-approved at-home AI ear exam turning the living room into a triage point A $200M health centre built inside a...

A Japanese whisky giant. A Chinese super-app. A car cabin shaped like an egg. Three moves, three industries with nothing in common — except, suddenly, health. Christophe and Thalia Muses unpack a quiet shift unfolding across three continents, and the question every leader should sit with. In this episode: Why companies far outside healthcare are quietly moving into health What a whisky brand, a su...

Health is quietly leaving the hospital — checking into Equinox, waiting at the supermarket checkout, sitting on a finger as an Oura ring. So who’s actually in charge of it now? Christophe, Mo Zouina, Aline Noizet and Nia Escobar-Kölle dig into March’s signals and a sharper question: what happens when AI doesn’t advise your health, but decides it? In this episode: Alan’s new AI features and the wea...

What if healthcare is missing the very thing people now crave most? Recorded live at the Radical Health Festival in Helsinki, this panel argues that healthcare needs a Healthusiasm Culture — and that the next transformation won’t be technological. In this episode: Why people now want energy, meaning, belonging and longevity — not just treatment Why institutions still organise around disease, proce...

What will Healthusiasm bring in 2026? Rather than spoil it, Christophe opens the year with a short message — and an invitation to hit play. A New Year marker for the podcast that tracks how technology, consumers and culture keep reshaping health from the outside in. Here’s to a new year of consumer-driven health, AI, longevity and everyday wellbeing. Happy New Year — and welcome to a new year of H...

What were the most important health innovations of 2025? Recorded live on stage at Frontiers Health, the panel closes the year in front of an audience. Christophe is joined by digital-health pioneer Roberto Ascione and Jessica DaMassa for the show’s first live year-in-review. In this episode: The signals that defined health innovation across 2025 A first live recording for the Healthusiasm panel —...

Health consumer marketing is becoming a new reality for every brand — not just the healthcare ones. Recorded at the BAM Marketing Congress, Belgium’s biggest marketing gathering, Christophe distils sharp insights from five standout voices on how health is reshaping marketing. In this episode: Rory Sutherland on the emotional side of health choices Sophie Maxwell Brown on wellbeing reshaping consum...

October felt like the future slipping quietly into the present — every innovation with a pulse you could feel. Christophe and the panel make sense of the month’s most telling health signals. In this episode: Albania’s AI minister ‘parenting’ 83 digital children OpenAI-backed brainwave-reading tech edging toward human-machine blending Samsung and Google pushing AI health coaching into everyday life...

What if health no longer waited for symptoms? September’s signals point to a shift from reactive care to predictive orchestration — Christophe and the panel make sense of it. In this episode: AI forecasting diseases like the weather, and genetic mapping from the moment you’re born Algorithms estimating a drug’s approval odds before it’s ever prescribed Nanorobots and GLP-1 microdosing hinting at s...

Will we actually be healthier in 2050 — or just monitored more closely? Recorded live at WHX Tech Dubai, a future-of-health session with clinicians, technologists and business leaders asking the bold questions that matter for every industry. In this episode: Could disease become irrelevant — and will we still need hospitals as we know them? Solving the healthcare workforce shortage — and whether t...

Where health, business, technology and culture collide — August’s whirlwind of signals. Christophe and the panel range across the month’s most revealing health innovations. In this episode: Medical schools reinventing how future doctors learn AI tools that might actually deskill clinicians Digital twins that could change how we treat disease Wearable ‘tiny labs’ bringing diagnostics onto the body...

Some of the most surprising breakthroughs shaping the future of health — from cell death to contact lenses that see infrared. Christophe and the panel open the door on June’s boldest frontiers in medicine and technology. In this episode: Necrosis — messy cell death — as a possible key to slowing ageing and surviving space travel An AI health coach that knows your sleep, your DNA, even the weather...

Nowhere is people taking control of their health more radical than with artificial intelligence. Beyond the headlines of faster drug discovery and AI companions, Christophe and Mo Zouina explore how AI changes our expectations, emotions and the balance of power in healthcare. In this episode: AI speeding up drug discovery and creating new medicines AI stepping in as coach, advisor and companion Ho...

An exceptionally packed month — where biotech, AI and human behaviour collide. The full panel is back to dive into May’s boldest health innovations. In this episode: Cancer care reimagined: breath tests, AI diagnostics, even hairdressers spotting the signs (SpotitEarly, Tempus AI) Full-body scans and 160+ biomarker check-ups (Function Health, Ezra) The provocative question: is prevention actually...

What would actually have to change for healthcare to be revolutionised — not just upgraded? Christophe, Dr Keith Grimes and Aline Noizet revisit the question that sparked their first conversation in Toulouse, each arguing for a different version of a radically better future. In this episode: What if prevention and self-care became the main act, not the afterthought? What if patients built their ow...

A shift you might feel before you can explain it. Christophe and the panel focus on April’s most inspiring health innovations. In this episode: Hospital robots and AI-powered surgeries Nature-filled cities and blood-filtering treatments ‘Brain-grown music’ and the stranger edges of health tech JoySpan and ‘Unhappy Leave’ — when wellbeing becomes policy Could the simple feeling of joy become a form...