Feed exclusively dedicated to disruptive well tech devices, programs, companies & opportunities across digital health 🔬 in partnership with @wellaccel_
Histosonics’ Histotripsy System Demonstrates 90% Local Tumor Control at 12 Months in #HOPE4LIVER Trials. Durable local control and favorable safety profile position histotripsy as a non-invasive alternative to standard of care locoregional therapy.
https://t.co/6Uy1V6nkQD
She lived to 117.
Her cells aged - but her systems didn’t.
María Branyas, the world’s oldest woman, became a living paradox in a new Cell Reports Medicine study by Eloy Santos Pujol et al.
Despite showing classic signs of aging - shortened telomeres, immune shifts - her biology told a different story: a gut microbiome like a 40-year-old’s, an immune system in perfect balance, and an epigenome decades younger than her chronological age.
Multi-omics analysis (genomics, proteomics, microbiomics) revealed what medicine has long missed: longevity isn’t about stopping aging - it’s about synchronizing systems that age at different rates.
The future of biotech is already making moves here - companies are decoding these biological signatures to develop therapeutics that extend healthspan, not just lifespan.
From senolytics to microbiome modulation, the goal isn’t to just live longer & "not die" - it's to adventure & experience life to the fullest.
Healthspan medicine & therapeutics are going to get us there.
Who else is excited about LA Tech Week? We’ll be diving into the future of Ai, longevity, biotech, fourth space design & sooo much more.
I’ll be speaking, volunteering & attending events all over the city. DM if you’re coming into town! Would love to meet up.
70% of U.S. bankruptcies trace back to medical costs.
We chase wealth as if it can be insulated from health - yet it collapses the moment the body does. Health isn’t a luxury, it’s the balance sheet everything else rests on.
America spends $4.5T a year on healthcare - most of it treating preventable disease. Imagine the wealth, creativity, and joy unlocked if we invested that energy into living well instead of repairing what’s broken.
Chronic disease drains $3.7T annually - almost 20% of GDP. Health isn’t a side pursuit; it is the economy. Protect it and you create compounding returns money alone cannot buy.
Every $1 in prevention saves $6 in future costs.
That’s the highest ROI investment you’ll ever make - because it buys you more time, more energy and more life.
For the last 15 years I've worked as and with high-performing executives at the intersection of business and health optimization .
Because the same traits that drive success in boardrooms - focus, resilience, relentless pursuit - are the very ones that can erode the body if left unchecked.
My role is to help them uplevel their foundations and channel that drive into healthspan & wealth creation. Utilizing health coaching paired with my accelerator.
Our aligned goal: build systems where energy, clarity and resilience become their unfair advantage - so health fuels their performance and an improved ROI on every action..
cc @whealth_
Why VC-Backed Longevity Startups Keep Failing & What I’ve Learned Building a Healthspan Ecosystem
Forbes recently highlighted why so many venture-backed longevity companies collapse in a $5T wellness market:
1️⃣ Lack of deep expertise. Without credible leaders in aging biology, trial design, and regulation, many default to hype over substance. In our ecosystem, every layer - from diagnostics to delivery - is led by true subject-matter experts. Not “wellness” advisors who have no concierge integrative medical experience, like our team at @wellaccel_ .
2️⃣ Clinical shallowness. Weak biomarker validation erodes trust. We tie every intervention to measurable change, tracked over time.
3️⃣ Undifferentiated experience. They can’t match the standard set by premium wellness destinations. We merge regenerative medicine with hospitality and community design to create spaces people want to return to.
4️⃣ Poor retention. Most clients engage once and leave. Our ecosystems builds continuity - every service and touchpoint feeds into the next. It’s an art & science merged for true patient transformation.
5️⃣ Wellness^ longevity disconnect. Scientists can miss consumer engagement, marketers can lack clinical credibility. We bridge both - pairing medical authority with brand and spatial storytelling.
Longevity isn’t won through flashy tech or one-off protocols. It’s earned through integration, trust and design that delivers outcomes patients can feel and measure.
And here’s the risk no one wants to talk about: the wellness sector is now insanely saturated with people who think they understand the space but operate from a single, siloed perspective. That narrow view breeds dogma - and in scientific progress, dogma is dangerous. The future belongs to those who integrate multiple disciplines, test relentlessly and design for human complexity, not just ideology.
Excited to be building, architecting & designing the future of integrative medicine. The real opportunity is to stay curious enough to question your own lens and disciplined enough to build beyond it.
🚨 HIRING 2 experienced freelancers for a project with a wellness center in a the U.S.
1. Brand designer
2. Squarespace web dev
Please heart this post and DM us your portfolio link.
Note, you must be available to start by October 15th!
Looking forward to hearing from you
Great news!
Our first patient has been enrolled and randomized in the Rapamycin & Exercise study
Please consider enrolling in the study if you're:
- between 65-85
- live in Auckland, New Zealand
- don't already exercise regularly
https://t.co/DRC1rs7STl
Read our H1 2024 funding recap to digest the past six months of digital health investments, public exits, acquisitions, and more.
https://t.co/ap3hO8VizE
Digital health founders and investors are a resilient and adaptable bunch, and H1 2024 showed fruits of their labor. $5.7B was deployed across 266 digital health startup raises in the first half of the year, meaning 2024 could potentially outperform 2023 if investment pace holds.