I brought ten years of medical reports, wearable data, training records and personal notes into one AI-assisted health dashboard. What became visible changed my conversations with health professionals, and my view of what AI health companies can defensibly sell.
Published on Linkedin on November 8th, 2025 Reading Qatar’s latest precision medicine and national strategy reports as my flight approached Doha, I found myself genuinely impressed and, as a veteran of biomedical strategy, more than a little astonished. In barely a generation, Qatar has accomplished what it has taken the world’s leading medical innovation centers…
Published on Linkedin on August 3rd, 2025 While everyone chases longevity drugs, the real fountain of youth sits in your liver In the ever-expanding dialogue around longevity in a medical setting, we hear a lot about telomeres, senescence, mitochondrial decline, DNA repair, VO2 Max, stem cells and, unfortunately, an endless stream of pseudo-science powering rising…
This reflection was heavily reliant on sourcing information and testing arguments with my favourite AI agent: Perplexity.AI. The ideas, interpretations, and conclusions are mine. The estimates on impact (e.g., life-years gained, cost savings) are approximations and should be taken with a grain of salt. Finally, I did my best to make sure no ‘source hallucinations’…
Last Saturday I was at Culturgest discussing Big Data and Medicine with Joana Sá (NOVA SBE), Elsa Cardoso (ISCTE) in a session organised by Davide Scarso and moderated by Hugo Almeida, both from the Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia. While the panel covered different topics – potentials and pitfalls, what I…
I was yesterday at the annual meeting of the Associação Portuguesa de Nutrição Entérica e Parentérica discussing with an audience largely composed by nutritionists the routes and clinical evidence for microbiome manipulation. It is yet another dimension that we investigate in our attempt to understand our health, one that raises important challenges to he health…