Future of Ageing | Mehdi Yacoubi

Mehdi Yacoub is an engineer and entrepreneur from Paris, passionate about optimizing health, longevity and well being. Through Lifetizr, he is building a solution to help people optimize their metabolic health, prevent chronic diseases, and live healthier and longer.

Mehdi also writes a weekly newsletter (The Long Game), were he shares the best stuff he comes across each week.  He covers a broad range of topics, always including health, wellness, and tech. In a given episode, you can read about the Horvath clock, the art of doing nothing, pricing strategies, risk management, the VIP world, behavioral biology, Bruce Lee, and Michael Jordan.

Podcast Notes:

• Lifetizr and their work through Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM)
• Personal experiences monitoring glucose levels and benefits of tracking
• Moating and how startups understand their strengths and positioning
• Tips on fasting, 72 hour fasts, cold showers
• Could immortality be achieved?
• David Sinclair's Information Theory of ageing
• Need for utopian science fictions (White Mirrors)
• Twitter as the true social network
• Increased polarisation of societies and rise in social media wokeness
• Andy Matuschak's mnemonic writing