What is Return on Health?

In our first episode, we explain why this podcast exists.We talk about how Miguel and Niko met during their Master’s at NOVA SBE, how endless late-night debates about health, medicine, and broken incentives slowly turned into a shared frustration with the system - and why starting this podcast became the only logical step.We break down what “Return on Health” actually means:why most health decisions optimize for short-term comfort, not long-term outcomes;why good intentions fail when incentives are misaligned;and why prevention, incentives, and system design matter more than hacks and biohacking trends.You’ll get a clear sense of:what we will challenge on this podcastwho this is for (founders, operators, builders, and anyone tired of health content that oversimplifies reality)how we’ll approach topics: data-driven, critical, open to uncertaintywhy we will talk to people we disagree withand why some “promising” health ideas never get good evidence — and what to do with that realityMore about Return on Health:https://returnonhealth.de/Niko:https://www.linkedin.com/in/niko-hems/https://www.instagram.com/niko_hemshttps://nikohems.de/Miguel:https://www.linkedin.com/in/miguel-medina-stanivukovic-857b9720b/https://www.instagram.com/miguelmedinastanivukovic/?hl=en