The Healthusiasm Podcast

An insurer that books a pet hotel when you get cancer. A GoodRx plan that covers your pets. A hospital open on Sundays. A stroke ward with a Penny supermarket inside it. In the same two weeks, MetLife Korea, GoodRx, Apollo Hospitals, Cureety and Reimagine Care, Novo Nordisk and Asklepios all moved in the same direction: illness is being redesigned around normal life. Christophe Jauquet and AI co-host Thalia Muses unpack why this is not a coincidence, and why the next competition in health is about the hours around the treatment, not the treatment itself.This week's HealthusiasmsMetLife Korea – Treatment Support Pack (3 Sep 2026): after a serious diagnosis, choose from ten services – a nurse escort, transport, a carer, a cleaner, recovery meals, home physiotherapy, childcare, hotel accommodation, a pet hotel and a pet sitter – up to 17 times, on top of the normal payout. Some services extend to your partner, children, parents and even your partner's parents.iM Life and Hanwha Life (1–2 Sep 2026): a new dementia insurance product with long-term and home-care benefits, and a programme for people with mild cognitive problems and their families. Three Korean insurers, one direction: beyond the payout, into daily life.GoodRx family plan (3 Sep 2026): about $25 a month for you plus four household members – children, other adults and, yes, pets. Health as a household affair.Apollo Hospitals, India (Aug 2026): consultations, tests, check-ups and some planned procedures now available on Sundays. Healthcare fitting around life, not the other way around.Cureety acquires Reimagine Care (2 Sep 2026): a Paris company that supports cancer patients between hospital visits buys a Nashville virtual cancer-care provider. AI triage plus an oncology-trained team around the clock, 250+ cancer centres, ~100,000 patients supported, ~150 employees. The company says it resolves 95% of patient needs virtually – a company-reported number.Wegovy tablets in Germany (1 Sep 2026): the first EU country where the oral semaglutide pill is commercially available. Not reimbursed – roughly €170–280 a month out of pocket. A Danish study of 150,000+ adults found about 49% had discontinued after twelve months.Novo Nordisk × smartpatient (2 Sep 2026): the MyTherapy support programme (12M+ users) expands to injectable and oral GLP-1 treatment. smartpatient belongs to Redcare Pharmacy since 2021 – medicine, digital support and pharmacy moving closer together.Asklepios × Penny, Hamburg (Aug 2026): a new neurological therapy centre with a training supermarket inside it, equipment and retail know-how donated by Penny. Stroke patients practise shelves, trolleys and the checkout belt – normal life brought inside medicine, without the queue.Why it mattersThese companies are not simply being nicer to sick people. They are competing on what happens around the treatment. MetLife is competing on your week. Cureety and Reimagine Care are competing for your three o'clock in the morning. Novo Nordisk has an interest in your sixth month. All of those moments are normal life – which is exactly what Healthusiasm describes: health moving into the shop, the phone, the kitchen and the home. And it is what Customer Transformations asks: not what does this person buy, but what is this person trying to become – a good parent, someone who keeps working, the person who still walks the dog every evening.The Monday-morning taskMap everything your customer normally does in a week. Ask which of those things becomes difficult when they get sick. Then ask which of them you can help with. MetLife did not build a pet hotel; it partnered with one.Question of the weekWhat does your company already understand about your customer's normal week that a hospital does not see? That knowledge is hard to copy quickly – and it may become your biggest advantage in health.Chapters00:00 Illness redesigned around normal life00:22 Welcome – Christophe Jauquet and Thalia Muses00:59 MetLife Korea's Treatment Support Pack: pet hotel, childcare, home help02:45 Insurance for the whole family – the buyer and the user are two people03:35 Korea's dementia wave: iM Life and Hanwha Life04:37 GoodRx family plan: five household members, pets included05:32 Apollo Hospitals opens on Sundays06:27 Cureety buys Reimagine Care: cancer care at 3 a.m.09:39 Wegovy tablets launch in Germany – who pays?10:55 The 49% problem: staying on GLP-1 treatment11:14 Novo Nordisk × smartpatient: MyTherapy and the Redcare link13:06 Competing on your week, your 3 a.m., your sixth month15:14 Healthusiasm and Customer Transformations16:37 The Monday-morning task: map the routines illness disrupts17:25 Asklepios × Penny: a training supermarket inside a hospital18:47 Practising normal life without the queue19:04 What changed: care beyond the clinical encounter20:40 The bet: health products from companies already in your week21:20 The better question for your companyHosted by Christophe Jauquet – author, keynote speaker and expert in consumer-driven health – with Thalia Muses, the AI co-host of The Healthusiasm Podcast. It's a Healthusiasm world: the boundaries between healthcare, wellness and consumer industries are blurring.Send us your ideas, suggestions or questions.Subscribe to Healthusiasm newsletter:https://www.healthusiasm.com-- -- --Book Christophe Jauquet for keynotes: www.christophejauquet.com

In April 2024 Walmart closed 51 health clinics, and everybody called it retail's exit from healthcare. By the summer of 2026 Walmart is bigger in health than before. In this weekly update, Christophe Jauquet and Thalia Muses unpack why retail never left health: it learned that health comes in two speeds, and which speed to use where. Signals from Walmart, Target, Kroger, Instacart, Sam's Club, Holland & Barrett, Hy-Vee, Kaufland, Assaí, KIWI, Colruyt, Olive Better, Müller, Costco, Lawson and Dreams.The two speeds of retail healthOne part of health has rules attached: licences, qualified professionals, rooms built a certain way. Retail moves carefully there. The other part has no rules at all: price, pack size, shelf position, opening hours. Retail has been good at that for a hundred years, so there it moves at full speed.Healthusiasms in this episodeKaufland × Sana (Mosbach, Germany, Nov 2025): a 54 m² telemedicine practice before the checkout. The hospital group holds the licence; the retailer provides the floor space.Assaí (Brazil, Jul 2026): its own pharmacies inside its own stores after the law changed, in a closed room with a qualified pharmacist.KIWI (Norway, Aug 2026): leaner minced meat permanently cheaper than the fatty one. Healthier products up about 35% year on year (company figures).Colruyt (Belgium, Aug 2026): child-sized packs with age labels. No nutrition lecture, just the right size.Olive Better (Seoul, Jan 2026): 3,000 wellness products from 500+ brands; 1.8 million first-time wellness buyers in five months.Target (US, Jan 2026): wellness range up 30%, thousands of products under $10. And 70% of Target shoppers were already buying wellness there.Holland & Barrett (UK, Jul 2026): a GLP-1 support range in 400 stores, plus a Pfhlo partnership for virtual medical consultations.Hy-Vee (US Midwest, Jul 2026): a six-week dietitian-led programme for people on weight-loss medication.Sam's Club × Weight Watchers (US, Jul 2026): Weight Watchers inside a warehouse-club membership, including the clinical GLP-1 programme at a discount. Sam's Club belongs to Walmart.Kroger × Instacart (US, Aug 2026): prescriptions and groceries in one order, one van.Müller Gesundheitswelt (Uster, Switzerland, Aug 2026): dermocosmetics, OTC medicines, supplements, self-tests, blood pressure monitors and an AI advice tool in one 120 m² health world.Three unusual HealthusiasmsDreams × Mind & SAMH (UK, Jun 2026): a mattress retailer funds mental-health charities, backed by a survey on lost sleep. A real partnership, a real number, and an untested claim underneath.Costco × SCAN (US, Aug 2026): Costco-branded health insurance plans, pending approval. Retail moves into insurance.Lawson (Japan, 4 Aug 2026): a convenience store built for an ageing 1971 housing estate. Fresh food, a pharmacy, a help desk for phones, money and paperwork, solar backup. One hundred planned by 2030.Why it mattersHealth left the hospital and went shopping. Price, pack and the shop around the corner are exactly the part of health the healthcare system never took care of, because nobody was ever paid to do it. This is the Copernican Health Revolution standing in a supermarket aisle: the hospital becomes one of many places where health happens, and for most people, most weeks, not the main one. Weight-loss medication showed that retail can build around a chronic condition during a shopping moment. Diabetes, heart failure and cancer recovery come next, and retail cannot do that alone. It owns the aisles, the prices and the packs; pharma, hospitals and patient organisations own the knowledge.The question for this weekSomewhere in your business, a customer is already making a health choice in front of you. Do you know who they are, and what they are choosing?Chapters00:00 Cold open and welcome01:23 Walmart closed 51 clinics, and came back bigger02:54 Health comes in two speeds04:23 The medical corner: Kaufland × Sana (Germany)05:04 Assaí opens its own pharmacies (Brazil)06:19 The aisles: KIWI makes leaner meat cheaper (Norway)08:21 Colruyt's child-sized packs and Olive Better's wellness store09:31 Target: 70% of shoppers already buy wellness (US)11:22 Boundaries blur: Holland & Barrett's GLP-1 range (UK)12:17 Hy-Vee's dietitian programme (US)12:34 Sam's Club puts Weight Watchers in the membership13:50 Kroger × Instacart: prescriptions with the groceries14:42 Müller's Gesundheitswelt: two speeds in one shop (Switzerland)15:28 Health left the hospital and went shopping16:30 What this means for you: the Copernican Health Revolution in the aisle18:43 Retail owns the aisles, pharma owns the knowledge19:33 Unusual #1: Dreams × Mind & SAMH (UK)20:15 Unusual #2: Costco × SCAN health insurance (US)21:23 Unusual #3: Lawson's convenience store for an ageing estate (Japan)23:30 OutroSend us your ideas, suggestions or questions.Subscribe to Healthusiasm newsletter:https://www.healthusiasm.com-- -- --Book Christophe Jauquet for keynotes: www.christophejauquet.com

Sword Health buying Headspace. A French exoskeleton cleared by the FDA for the living room. A Japanese convenience store turned into a neighbourhood health hub. And an AI app from Dubai that coaches men to become better husbands.This is episode 79 of The Healthusiasm Podcast, and the start of year five. Christophe Jauquet is joined by Dr Keith Grimes (medical expert in digital innovation, UK), Nia Escobar-Kölle (digital health expert for startups, Berlin) and Mo Zouina (human experience expert, Belgium) to unpack the health innovations of the summer of 2026.The signalsSauna as heat training. Repeated heat exposure (40 to 60 minutes daily, four to six days) improves heat tolerance for about a week afterwards, while the UK counts more heat-related deaths. Keith on community saunas, silent saunas and a sauna road trip.Thaivivat x Decathlon (Thailand). Active Health insurance where moving more this month visibly lowers next month’s premium, with Decathlon as the place where the healthy behaviour actually starts. The follow-on from episode 77 on insurers becoming health journey partners.Belgium warns on alcohol. Mo on the culture around the glass, the busted French paradox, the rise of alcohol-free brewing, and GLP-1s quietly reducing cravings. Plus Keith on Gen Z drinking less but using anxiolytics more.Sword Health acquires Headspace. Musculoskeletal care meets meditation and mental health, with approval expected mid-September. Around 15 digital health acquisitions in the first half of 2026, and what consolidation says about the post-pandemic market.The Oura class action in the US over sleep-tracking accuracy. Consumer health claims now meet consumer scrutiny.Wandercraft Eve. The first self-balancing personal exoskeleton cleared by the FDA for eligible people living with spinal cord injuries. Hands free, no crutches, used at the kitchen counter rather than in a rehabilitation centre.The screenshot myth. Photographing the slide is the best way to forget it. Cognitive offloading, the phone as second brain, why too much memory makes AI answers worse, and what ambient scribes do to a clinician’s thinking.Happy Lawson Town (Japan). Lawson and KDDI turn a convenience store inside an ageing housing estate in Hino into a support hub: pharmacy, consultation desk, AI concierge, online consultations, tablet ordering and same-day delivery, Starlink and solar for disasters. Hundreds of locations planned by 2030.The afterlife of medication. Across more than 2,500 people, researchers found associations between drugs taken years ago and the gut microbiome today, in nearly half of the 186 drugs investigated. We spend enormous effort calculating half-life. Maybe we should start calculating afterlife.Midi Health. The US virtual care company known for menopause and perimenopause expands into acute and postpartum care. 550 clinicians, three major US insurers, a billion-dollar valuation. CEO Joanna Strober describes women’s health as a collection of episodic moments. The fix is to treat women as a continuum.Tanita x America Oudan Ultra Quiz (Japan). A legendary 1970s to 1990s TV quiz becomes a six-month walking challenge, and people pay 3,000 yen to take part. Normally we pay people to walk.The unusual onesPints and Periods by Knix (Toronto): dads invited into the store to learn how to talk to their kids about periods.The Ozempic bridal trend: bodies change between buying the dress and the wedding day, so bridal brands now sell a fit guarantee instead of a fit.Good Husband: a Dubai-built AI coach that helps men prepare difficult conversations with their partner, with a paid Better Husband tier that learns the relationship. Relationship advice has climbed from number 38 to number 7 in LLM use cases.Why it mattersOne pattern runs through all of it: health keeps leaving the places built for it. The exoskeleton leaves the rehabilitation centre. The consultation leaves the clinic and lands in a convenience store. The insurance premium stops being an annual number and becomes weekly feedback. Walking stops being exercise and becomes a quiz show. Health is becoming a layer inside everyday life rather than a destination you travel to.The second pattern is consolidation. Single-need apps are merging into platforms shaped like a life instead of a diagnosis, whether that is Sword and Headspace joining physical and mental health, or Midi refusing to treat a woman as a sequence of unrelated episodes. The question for every organisation is no longer which need do we solve, but which part of someone’s life do we belong to.Chapters00:00 Cold open: what if AI could make you a better husband?00:20 Welcome: Keith Grimes, Nia Escobar-Kölle, Mo Zouina01:09 Summer, the Belgian coast and slowing down03:25 Sauna and heat adaptation: training for the heatwave08:38 Thaivivat x Decathlon: move more this month, pay less next10:51 Has your own insurer ever asked you to move?13:47 Belgium’s alcohol warning and the culture around the glass18:06 Alcohol, social anxiety and the rise of psychobiotics19:52 Sword Health acquires Headspace22:58 Digital health consolidation, and why clinics lag behind26:28 The Oura sleep-accuracy lawsuit28:42 Four layers: medical, health, well-being, lifestyle29:45 Wandercraft Eve: the FDA-cleared self-balancing exoskeleton31:13 Exoskeletons, eye-level conversation and dignity32:22 The screenshot myth: cognitive offloading and the second brain36:18 Slides, cognitive dissonance and feeding AI too much40:33 Ambient scribes: when writing the note is the thinking41:44 Happy Lawson Town: the convenience store as a health hub44:31 Ageing Japan and what the West can learn46:41 From the half-life to the afterlife of medication49:09 The microbiome as a rainforest51:31 Midi Health: women’s health as a continuum, not episodes55:17 Siloed evidence versus living as a whole person1:01:21 Year five, episode 791:01:49 Tanita x America Oudan Ultra Quiz: paying to walk1:05:17 Unusual one: Pints and Periods by Knix1:08:07 Unusual one: the Ozempic bridal trend1:09:54 Unusual one: Good Husband, the AI relationship coach1:17:37 Relationship advice: from 38 to 7 in LLM use casesSend us your ideas, suggestions or questions.Subscribe to Healthusiasm newsletter:https://www.healthusiasm.com-- -- --Book Christophe Jauquet for keynotes: www.christophejauquet.com

Oura, WHOOP, Google's Fitbit Air, Garmin CIRQA, RingConn, Dreame, boAt, Noise, Luna, Ultrahuman and Samsung all shipped the same idea in 2026: a health device with nothing to look at.Christophe Jauquet and his AI co-host Thalia Muses unpack the fastest-moving shift in consumer health hardware — the screen disappearing, and the decision moving with it. Your health device used to be something you read. Now it is something that reads you.The signals in this episode:Oura unveils its fifth-generation ring (28 May 2026) — still no screen, but it can now route you straight to a real doctor. More than 5.5 million sold.Google launches the Fitbit Air (7 May 2026): a $99, five-gram screenless band. In the same move it renames the Fitbit app Google Health and adds a Gemini-powered AI health coach at $10 a month — an entire health stack rebuilt in 19 days.Garmin launches CIRQA (21 July 2026), its first screen-free band: basic tracking free, the smarter AI insights paid on top. The sensor is cheap; the interpretation is the product.India goes screenless at scale: boAt's Smart Ring Active at around 3,000 rupees (roughly €35), and Noise's screen-free band with AI coaching built in and no subscription (9 July 2026, about $120) selling 35,000 units on day one.China makes the ring touch you back: RingConn's third-generation haptic ring (29 May 2026, over 150,000 users) and Dreame's haptic ring (March 2026) — "technology that feels, rather than just tells".Luna (end of July 2026): a screenless band you talk to by voice, that taps you instead of showing you a plan.Ultrahuman's Jade (27 February 2026): an AI that does not just interpret but acts — starting a breathing exercise when stress climbs, flagging a heart-rhythm anomaly. Read, decide, act.Samsung at CES (January 2026): sleep data from the wearable feeding the smart home, adjusting temperature, light and air in your bedroom while you sleep.Why it matters: when the screen goes, the deciding has to move somewhere — and it moves to the machine. Anyone can make a sensor now, so the value and the money move to whatever interprets the stream and acts on it. That is the Transformation Economy. Underneath sit the same universal Life Aspirations: safeness, calmness, autonomy, energy. The ring is only the doorway. This is consumer-driven health — Healthusiasm: health pulled by the person, not pushed by the system, and now arriving as ambient health.The one thing to do on Monday: stop asking "what should our screen show?" and start asking "what should our system do — quietly, at the right moment, without being asked?" The winners will own the interpretation and the action. Everything else slides towards a commodity sensor.Chapters:0:00 Cold open: every object becomes a health-optimising moment1:21 The signal: wearables without screens1:58 Oura's fifth generation and 5.5 million screenless rings2:46 WHOOP and the band you cannot check3:12 Google's $99 Fitbit Air, Google Health and the Gemini coach4:08 You used to read your device — now it reads you5:07 Healthusiasm: the demand was already there6:16 Garmin CIRQA: cheap sensor, paid interpretation7:10 India: boAt and Noise take screenless to scale8:06 China: RingConn and Dreame tap instead of tell8:46 Luna: the screenless band you talk to9:50 Product or transformation? The Transformation Economy10:35 Life Aspirations: safeness, calmness, autonomy, energy11:44 Ultrahuman's Jade: read, decide, act13:06 Samsung at CES: the bedroom that adjusts itself15:02 Ambient health: the interface dissolves into the walls16:15 One decade on: the screenless wave goes global17:55 What to do on Monday: own the interpretation and the actionSend us your ideas, suggestions or questions.Subscribe to Healthusiasm newsletter:https://www.healthusiasm.com-- -- --Book Christophe Jauquet for keynotes: www.christophejauquet.com

For two hundred years, insurance did one thing: you paid, something went wrong, they paid you back. In 2026 that quietly changed. Generali, AXA, Bupa, Discovery Vitality, Ping An, UnitedHealthcare and HSBC are all making the same move at the same moment — from claims-payer to health journey partner. Christophe Jauquet and his AI thinking partner Thalia Muses unpack the rise of what Christophe calls the Participatory Insurer: protection reframed as taking part in your health, not a payout triggered by failure.The signal isn't one company — it's a whole industry turning at once. Genes, questionnaires, AI, home routines: completely different tools, the exact same move, nearly all inside the first half of 2026.The signals unpacked in this episode:Generali (Milan, July 2026) — health lead Luca Tavecchia reframes a 200-year-old insurer as a "health journey partner," not a claims-payer.AXA (France, June 2026) — prevention built into the policy: questionnaire, personalised risk report, then a doctor, to catch cancer, heart disease and diabetes early; age-based check-ups and blood tests for companies.Bupa (UK, from September 2026) — DNA-based prevention pathways (genetic breast-cancer risk, funded monitoring, lifestyle support, medication, even preventive surgery) plus a live saliva-based medication check; up to 200,000 customers within two years.Discovery Vitality + Google Cloud (South Africa) — AI-driven "next best action" rewards, moving toward personalised, conversational guidance through 2026.Ping An (China, June 2026) — "Ping An Home" moves into the household (sleep, food, exercise, chronic-disease follow-up); a shift from "post-event risk compensation" to full-lifecycle health support. Plus (July 2026) an AI companion for people with cancer and serious illness.China's super-apps (H1 2026) — AI guidance from JD; Alibaba's health agent wired into 2,000+ hospitals and into insurance payment; real-life medical escorts via Didi and Meituan.UnitedHealthcare (US, March 2026) — "Avery," a 24/7 AI companion that knows your coverage and claims, explains costs, finds care and books appointments; scaling toward ~20 million members.Prior-authorisation reform (US, spring 2026) — even rivals UnitedHealthcare and CVS's Aetna adopt shared standards; more than half the volume moving to common rails to cut friction.The money — UnitedHealth is investing ~$1.6bn in AI in 2026 with 1,000+ AI solutions live, describing itself as "a data company."Banks want in — HSBC (Singapore, May 2026) sells longevity and health concierge to wealth clients; an Indonesian bank drops health insurance one tap inside its everyday app.Why it matters: Protection is becoming participation. When a company stops selling you a product and starts helping you become a healthier version of yourself, that's a Customer Transformation — and insurance has just walked into the Transformation Economy. The new ladder for insurers: price the risk, reduce the risk, guide the person. Whoever makes managing your health easiest earns a place in your day. That's consumer-driven health — and it's a Healthusiasm world.Chapters0:00 Insurance you'll actually want to use1:06 This week's signal: Generali rewrites insurance in Milan3:17 AXA France: prevention built into the policy4:40 Bupa UK: DNA pathways & saliva medication checks7:20 Discovery Vitality + Google: AI next best action8:54 Ping An Home: the insurer moves into your household11:41 The click: protection becomes participation13:33 Customer Transformation & the Transformation Economy13:57 When you get sick: Ping An's AI companion & China's super-apps17:12 UnitedHealthcare's Avery: the 24/7 AI companion18:39 Cutting the friction: prior-authorisation reform20:11 Banks want in: HSBC longevity & the "data company"22:10 Price the risk, reduce it, guide the person24:47 It's a Healthusiasm worldSend us your ideas, suggestions or questions.Subscribe to Healthusiasm newsletter:https://www.healthusiasm.com-- -- --Book Christophe Jauquet for keynotes: www.christophejauquet.com

For a century, health had an address: the clinic. Now your ring, your wrist — even your lunch — are walking through the door, and the medical record is letting them in.Christophe Jauquet and his AI thinking partner Thalia Muses unpack a fast-moving shift in the United States: consumer wearables are being integrated directly into the clinical system. Oura, WHOOP, Google, Apple, Validic, Epic and Oracle Health are dissolving the line between everyday-life data and the medical record — what Christophe calls the Copernican Health Revolution, where the person, not the system, becomes the centre of care.The signals in this episode:Oura puts board-certified physicians inside its app (June 2026); Essence Healthcare, a US Medicare Advantage plan, funds Oura Rings for older members and links nighttime-breathing insights to a physician-led workflow; Oura acquires the team behind Galen AI and partners with Fullscript to bring sleep data into clinical care.WHOOP connects to HealthEx, so members pull diagnoses, medications, procedures and lab history into the fitness app — plus video visits with clinicians.Google Health brings medical records together with Fitbit and wearable data in one personal hub.Validic wires 350+ consumer devices (Oura, Fitbit, Apple, Garmin, Samsung, Withings) into Epic and Oracle Health, with AI summaries for busy clinicians.Apple positions the iPhone Health app between your data and the systems clinicians run on — and data now travels both ways.Hong Kong upgrades its national health app to welcome data from beyond hospital walls — with Singapore, Australia, the UK's NHS App and the European Health Data Space moving the same way.January AI's Clinician Nutrition Monitor passes Mayo Clinic Platform qualification and can be built into Epic (July 2026) — turning a meal photo into longitudinal nutrition data clinicians can act on.A 2025 US "All of Us" study shows wearable data added to medical records improves prediction of high blood pressure, diabetes and depression.Why it matters: the quantified self is becoming quantified care. The scarce advantage is no longer producing data — it's receiving it, trusting it, and turning a flood of outside signals into one clear action. Over the next 18–36 months the real battle becomes: who owns the front door to your customer's health? If it isn't you, that's the most important question on your desk.This is consumer-driven health in motion — health pulled by the person, not pushed by the system — and the boundary between healthcare, wellness and consumer industries blurring in real time.Chapters:00:00 The centre of health is shifting to you00:18 Weekly signal: wearables enter the clinic01:06 Oura turns a sleep ring into a front door to care02:06 Essence Healthcare funds Oura for Medicare members03:40 Galen AI and Fullscript reach the clinical workflow06:02 WHOOP pulls in your medical history via HealthEx08:16 Google Health becomes one personal hub08:35 Validic wires 350+ devices into Epic and Oracle11:10 The Copernican Health Revolution12:04 Healthusiasm: the human engine underneath13:25 Apple sits between you and the clinic15:24 Hong Kong and the national front doors17:03 January AI brings your lunch into Epic18:30 Who owns the front door to health?Send us your ideas, suggestions or questions.Subscribe to Healthusiasm newsletter:https://www.healthusiasm.com-- -- --Book Christophe Jauquet for keynotes: www.christophejauquet.com

For years, health was something you bought — a gym pass here, a blood test there, a spa weekend once a year. Now it's becoming something you join.Christophe Jauquet and his AI thinking partner Thalia Muses trace a shift showing up across continents and industries: health as a membership, a place you belong to rather than a service you buy.The signals:The Well (Frankfurt): a members' club that is part gym, part clinic, part spa — five treatments a month, "for as long as you belong," opened in Europe's banking capital.Stille (Melbourne): an A$10M members' club built around bathing, biomarkers and community — capped at 1,000 people, deliberately treating loneliness and ageing as one problem.India: a group investing $36M in "integrated wellness campuses" in Hyderabad and Bengaluru — gym, physiotherapy, rehab and testing under one membership.The gap: a new McKinsey wellness study finds 84% say wellness is a top priority, but only 13% feel they're getting there.HSBC (Singapore): a bank offering wealthy clients a health-and-longevity concierge through medical partners — because what is money for, if not more good years?Dusit (Thailand): the hotel group's month-long "Wellfest" running across its properties — a recurring franchise that behaves like a membership in disguise, with Gen Z and millennials driving the spending.Why it matters: when banks, hotels, gyms and real estate — industries that share nothing — all start selling belonging, it's not a trend, it's a structural shift. Christophe ties it to the Transformation Economy: the most valuable thing a business can sell is no longer a product or a service, but a transformation — helping you become the person you want to be. Belonging itself is a core Life Aspiration. The strategic question flips from "what health service can we sell?" to "what health relationship can we hold?" — because a membership builds belonging and a longitudinal health record, and whoever holds that record holds the customer. The tension to watch: today this is built for the well-off, and belonging can't stay a luxury.Chapters:0:00 Health you can belong to, not buy1:10 Frankfurt: The Well, a home for your health2:54 Melbourne: Stille, bathing, loneliness and longevity4:50 India: wellness campuses at scale5:59 The wish and the gap (McKinsey: 84% vs 13%)8:39 The Transformation Economy: a relationship with a roof9:41 When your bank becomes a health home (HSBC Singapore)11:17 When your hotel joins in (Dusit Wellfest)12:55 The through-line: industries that were never health companies13:11 What it means for your business15:00 The tension: belonging can't be a luxurySend us your ideas, suggestions or questions.Subscribe to Healthusiasm newsletter:https://www.healthusiasm.com-- -- --Book Christophe Jauquet for keynotes: www.christophejauquet.com

For a century, health had an address. In China, it no longer does.Christophe Jauquet and his AI thinking partner Thalia Muses unpack how six of China's biggest companies — from six completely different industries — have each built their own "front door" to everyday health, right inside the apps people already use.The signals (six doors into the same house):Meituan (food delivery): a "Health Butler" AI assistant inside the app you use to order dinner — symptom triage, online consultation, and medicine at your door within the hour. Reach: 250,000 pharmacies, 440,000 medical institutions, 430 million users.Ant Group / Alipay: "Ant Afu", an AI health companion next to your wallet — it links the health worry to your money and insurance. ~30 million monthly users, 10 million health questions a day.Douyin / ByteDance: "Xiaohe AI Doctor" — care appearing between the videos: scan a medicine pack, upload a lab result, slide from a symptom straight into an AI consultation.Alibaba: "Anzhen'er", an AI agent that works like a GPS through the hospital maze — connected to 2,000+ institutions and guiding 200 million people.JD Health: AI doctor "Dawei" plus AI Hospital 1.0 (Sept 2025) — health built into the physical layer (connected devices, pharmacy, logistics) alongside AI GPs, pharmacists and digital twins of real doctors.Ping An: the insurer's long game — an AI doctor that screens symptoms, manages chronic conditions, even arranges someone to accompany you to hospital. 90 million active users.Why it matters: when six unrelated industries move the same way at once, it's not a strategy — it's a shift. Health is no longer a place you go; it's a layer inside the life you already live. The real battle isn't who has the smartest medical AI — it's who sits closest to the moment a vague worry becomes an action. Your next competitor in health might be a grocery or a payments app. Christophe connects it to the Customer Transformation model (people don't pay for the product; they pay for who they become — a worried parent becoming a calm one) and to consumer-driven health.Chapters:0:00 Health has no front door anymore1:55 A fever in Hangzhou meets a delivery app (Meituan)4:02 Alipay & Ant Group: health next to your wallet5:05 Douyin & ByteDance: care inside the feed6:01 Alibaba: a GPS through the hospital maze7:05 JD Health: shipping the hospital to your door8:16 Ping An: the insurer's long game9:07 Six industries, one shift11:13 Six doors into the same house13:02 Why telehealth — and the West — should pay attention15:44 Selling the transformation, not the advice17:23 Where does your customer's health journey begin?Send us your ideas, suggestions or questions.Subscribe to Healthusiasm newsletter:https://www.healthusiasm.com-- -- --Book Christophe Jauquet for keynotes: www.christophejauquet.com

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 industries, different countries, one direction.This episode names the shift: sleep is moving from a product category to a capability any industry can offer. Christophe and his AI co-host Thalia connect the signals through Healthusiasm and the Transformation Economy, and land what it means for anyone who runs a business - even one with nothing to do with health.Chapters:(00:00) Sleep from category to capability(01:08) Inside the Equinox Sleep Lab hotel room(03:05) Sleep tourism and the Global Wellness Institute(04:23) Sleep at 38,000 feet - Singapore Airlines, Bombardier, Fiji Airways(05:50) Sleep patches (China) and Natrol + Calm (US)(07:01) The signal: sleep escaping its categories(08:46) Healthusiasm: chasing health everywhere(10:16) Dreams mattresses, Mind and SAMH(11:44) The Transformation Economy(12:05) Life Aspirations: recovery, vitality, calmness, nothingness(13:28) Korea, K-Health and Olive Young(15:53) Designing how we feelBecause it's a Healthusiasm world - and the boundaries between healthcare, wellness and consumer industries are blurring.Send us your ideas, suggestions or questions.Subscribe to Healthusiasm newsletter:https://www.healthusiasm.com-- -- --Book Christophe Jauquet for keynotes: www.christophejauquet.com

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 Healthusiasm Nations — health sovereignty as the next chapter of consumer-driven health.What is “Healthusiasm Nations”? It’s the active, ownership-driven instinct behind Healthusiasm — people taking charge of their own health rather than waiting to become patients — now scaling up to whole countries. Governments no longer want to simply buy health from abroad; they want to build it: own the factories, the data, the systems and the science.In this episode — building the system today:Brazil & Mexico — a 26 April pact to trade health-system know-how, linking Brazil’s Farmácia Popular and Mexico’s Farmacias del Bienestar, with Brazil’s 30-year SUS as scaffolding for Mexico’s 2027 universal-care build.Africa’s AIM 2030 — nine countries (Kenya, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Morocco, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa) pooling to make medicines locally and break a 70% import dependency — backed by the World Bank’s “Fit to Prosper” and Kenya’s 30 million health-financing registrations.Betting on tomorrow:Korea — the K-Reverse Aging Total Solution: ageing as a problem to solve and a market to export.China — a national weight-management campaign: the state as behaviour architect.Thailand — “Wellness Thailand, the land of life”: longevity as a national brand.Dubai — a dedicated longevity authority: the state as market-maker.The Nordics — Nordic Health 2030: shared data and incentives that reward prevention.Why it matters: if you sell into health — pharma, devices, software, services — the old assumption that a country is simply your customer is cracking. Nations want capabilities, not just products: the factory, not the pills; the standard, not the software. The question shifts from “What can we sell?” to “What is this country trying to become — and how do we help them build it?” Help them build, and you’re in the room. This is health moving from patient centricity to health centricity.Chapters:(0:00) The question that changes everything(0:55) Brazil & Mexico: trading health knowledge(3:44) Africa’s AIM 2030: making medicine locally(6:04) World Bank “Fit to Prosper” + Kenya’s 30 million(7:19) The pattern: the buyer becomes the builder(8:54) Korea: K-Reverse Aging(11:03) China, “Wellness Thailand” & Dubai’s longevity authority(13:08) The Nordics: Health 2030 & shared data(14:56) Strategic implication: partner, not supplier(17:01) From patient centricity to health centricitySend us your ideas, suggestions or questions.Subscribe to Healthusiasm newsletter:https://www.healthusiasm.com-- -- --Book Christophe Jauquet for keynotes: www.christophejauquet.com

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 expert and Hyrox athlete Nia Escobar-Kölle to follow one thread running through everything happening in fitness today: measurement, coaching, recovery, community and prevention are all being built by people, for themselves, around exercise — long before the medical system delivers them.They land on a name for it: the self-directed health stack. A world where people increasingly run their own health, instead of waiting to receive it from an institution. This is consumer-driven health in its purest form — health pulled by people, not pushed by the system. And sport is where it gets prototyped first, because the feedback loop is short, the motivation is real, and the community is already there.What we get intoHow sport became part of identity — athleisure, Strava and a ~$2 trillion wellness economy driven by younger generationsBelonging as medicine — running clubs, HYROX and why most people now move mainly for connectionThe GLP-1 economy — gyms adding prescriptions, nutrition and strength training to protect muscleFrom weight to function — grip strength as a new vital sign, and muscle as metabolic health (the PURE study, ~140,000 people)Medical gyms — Technogym, eGym and the shift from “fitness and wellness” to “healthness”Measurement that coaches — from BMI and steps to biological age, 60–80 biomarkers and AI coaches (Oura, Whoop, Garmin)The data gap — why there is far more health data outside the system than inside itPersonal science and N=1 — sport as the testing ground for personalized medicineHealth leaving the gym — into homes, hotels, retail and cities, from Barcelona’s sports prescription to the airport loungeThe bigger shift: the way sport is moving — measurement, management, building, recovery and belonging, all in one place — is a preview of where caring for your health is heading. Patient-centricity is becoming health-centricity. And the patient is becoming the architect.Chapters(03:00) Sport becomes identity(12:00) Athleisure and the wellness economy(15:30) Belonging, community and the blue zones(26:00) The GLP-1 economy(28:00) From weight to function: grip strength(33:00) Longevity, healthy aging and medical gyms(40:00) Biomarkers, wearables and AI coaching(43:30) Closing the gap with healthcare data(47:00) Personal science and N-of-1(51:30) Sport leaves the gym(54:30) The self-directed health stackGuest: Nia Escobar-Kölle — digital-health expert for startups, based in Berlin, hybrid/HYROX athlete and creator of the “Nia does sports” community. (IG: @nia.does.sports )Information is not the goal. Transformation is.Send us your ideas, suggestions or questions.Subscribe to Healthusiasm newsletter:https://www.healthusiasm.com-- -- --Book Christophe Jauquet for keynotes: www.christophejauquet.com

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” — clinicians and patients quietly using tools faster than the system around themSignals from HLTH Inc. Europe and the AI-in-the-NHS clinician communityWhether AI flips the old power dynamics of medical expertiseWhat’s left for the human when AI can advise, reassure, remember and explain at scaleTrust, ego and the collective intelligence of technologyWith Dr Keith Grimes, pioneer in medical digital innovation.AI isn’t just a tool inside healthcare — it’s reshaping who holds authority in it. Another signal of health being remade from the outside in.Send us your ideas, suggestions or questions.Subscribe to Healthusiasm newsletter:https://www.healthusiasm.com-- -- --Book Christophe Jauquet for keynotes: www.christophejauquet.com

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’s healthNational ambitions around longevity and reversing ageingWhy making health feel desirable, emotional and everyday is the real moveWhat happens if “Korean health” reaches Europe and the US the way K-beauty didThe expectations that softness, speed and cultural power create for traditional healthcareHosted by Christophe Jauquet.When culture, not medicine, makes health desirable, healthcare gets reshaped from the outside in — the heart of consumer-driven health.Send us your ideas, suggestions or questions.Subscribe to Healthusiasm newsletter:https://www.healthusiasm.com-- -- --Book Christophe Jauquet for keynotes: www.christophejauquet.com

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 consultationsAmazon delivering weight-loss medication; Oura turning wearables into medication dashboardsGenomics firms personalising food, supplements and dosingWhy people aren’t buying a drug — they’re buying energy, autonomy and controlWhat it means when health becomes a transversal layer across every industryHosted by Christophe Jauquet.GLP-1 is a textbook case of consumer-driven health — and proof that health is shifting from a vertical industry to a transversal layer running through every part of life. That is the Transformation Economy.Send us your ideas, suggestions or questions.Subscribe to Healthusiasm newsletter:https://www.healthusiasm.com-- -- --Book Christophe Jauquet for keynotes: www.christophejauquet.com

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 reproductive disorder; obesity mapped with AISingapore selling longevity services; Hong Kong’s eHealth app as a personal health interfaceWHOOP moving closer to clinical care; GLP-1 entangled with genomics and nutraceuticalsRobots scaling brain surgery, and what Neuralink signals for neurological careThe uncomfortable question: is AI sharpening our health, or just telling us what we want to hear?With Aline Noizet, Dr Keith Grimes and Nia Escobar-Kölle.Across every story, the same shift: health is moving out of the clinic and into everyday life, tracked and co-managed with AI. That’s Healthusiasm.Send us your ideas, suggestions or questions.Subscribe to Healthusiasm newsletter:https://www.healthusiasm.com-- -- --Book Christophe Jauquet for keynotes: www.christophejauquet.com

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 health coachThe shift from selling data — steps, sleep, heart rate — to telling people what to do nextWhy the wrist is becoming a commodity and the coach becomes the relationshipWhat it changes for wearable brands, insurers, pharma and employersWhy the winner won’t have the best sensor, but the most trusted health voiceHosted by Christophe Jauquet.The relationship layer, not the device, is where consumer-driven health is won — health reshaped from the outside in.Send us your ideas, suggestions or questions.Subscribe to Healthusiasm newsletter:https://www.healthusiasm.com-- -- --Book Christophe Jauquet for keynotes: www.christophejauquet.com

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 resilienceMedical platforms, hospital records and Fitbit shifting the gameNew frontiers in women’s health and the fight against medical gaslightingWhat ageing Singapore reveals about work, care and longevityThe softer side: meditation as culture, air quality, FIKA and the rise of the connection economyWith Aline Noizet, Mo Zouina and Nia Escobar-Kölle.The future of health may not arrive as healthcare — it shows up in infrastructure, culture and community. Health, reshaped from the outside in.Send us your ideas, suggestions or questions.Subscribe to Healthusiasm newsletter:https://www.healthusiasm.com-- -- --Book Christophe Jauquet for keynotes: www.christophejauquet.com

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 pointA $200M health centre built inside a New Jersey commuter train stationApollo Hospitals embedding a 400-bed facility in Hyderabad’s financial districtA medical complex built as an amenity of a New Cairo residential projectChina’s Boao Super AI Hospital matching patients to the best treatment with AI agentsA conversation between Christophe Jauquet and Thalia Muses, the Healthusiasm GPT.The hospital is finally being designed around the customer — outside-in healthcare, fitting into where people already live.Send us your ideas, suggestions or questions.Subscribe to Healthusiasm newsletter:https://www.healthusiasm.com-- -- --Book Christophe Jauquet for keynotes: www.christophejauquet.com

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 healthWhat a whisky brand, a super-app and a car cabin reveal about the same trendHow health is becoming a layer inside products, not a separate industryThe question: if your customer were quietly looking for help with their health, would they think of you?A conversation between Christophe Jauquet and Thalia Muses, the Healthusiasm GPT.Health is arriving where people already are, inside industries that never called themselves healthcare. That’s outside-in healthcare.Send us your ideas, suggestions or questions.Subscribe to Healthusiasm newsletter:https://www.healthusiasm.com-- -- --Book Christophe Jauquet for keynotes: www.christophejauquet.com

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 wearable walking into the wardWhen your insurer’s algorithm, grocery receipt and sleep hotel know more than your GPMeta and Google fined again — are we regulating the pipes, or have we stopped trusting them?Sam Altman betting on Retro Bioscience to reverse ageing; dementia and euthanasia at the other edgeA virtual train inside a nursing home, and why plants having ~20 senses mattersWith Mo Zouina, Aline Noizet and Nia Escobar-Kölle.As health leaves the hospital, the real question is who decides it — algorithm, company or person. Consumer-driven health, in tension.Send us your ideas, suggestions or questions.Subscribe to Healthusiasm newsletter:https://www.healthusiasm.com-- -- --Book Christophe Jauquet for keynotes: www.christophejauquet.com

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 treatmentWhy institutions still organise around disease, process and silosFrom fixing problems to unlocking potential; from prescribing to intrinsic motivationFrom vertical structures to transversal thinking; less burnout, more belongingWhy the next transformation in healthcare is cultural, not technologicalWith a live panel of doctors, psychologists, and policy and innovation leaders, hosted by Christophe Jauquet.People are more conscious, proactive and aspirational about health than ever — a Life Aspirations Model, not a disease model. A Healthusiasm Culture is how organisations meet them there.Send us your ideas, suggestions or questions.Subscribe to Healthusiasm newsletter:https://www.healthusiasm.com-- -- --Book Christophe Jauquet for keynotes: www.christophejauquet.com

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 Healthusiasm.Send us your ideas, suggestions or questions.Subscribe to Healthusiasm newsletter:https://www.healthusiasm.com-- -- --Book Christophe Jauquet for keynotes: www.christophejauquet.com

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 2025A first live recording for the Healthusiasm panel — and what’s planned for 2026Where consumer-driven health, AI and digital health are heading nextWith Roberto Ascione (Eversana) and Jessica DaMassa (WTF Health).A year of health being reshaped from the outside in — reviewed live, on stage.Send us your ideas, suggestions or questions.Subscribe to Healthusiasm newsletter:https://www.healthusiasm.com-- -- --Book Christophe Jauquet for keynotes: www.christophejauquet.com

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 choicesSophie Maxwell Brown on wellbeing reshaping consumer goods (CPG)Kristel Vanderlinden on the unmet needs in women’s healthLaetitia Descamps on brands taking mental wellbeing seriouslyWhy health is becoming a marketing reality for every categoryFeaturing insights from Rory Sutherland, Sophie Maxwell Brown, Kristel Vanderlinden and Laetitia Descamps.When every brand becomes a health brand, marketing itself gets reshaped from the outside in. That’s consumer-driven health.Send us your ideas, suggestions or questions.Subscribe to Healthusiasm newsletter:https://www.healthusiasm.com-- -- --Book Christophe Jauquet for keynotes: www.christophejauquet.com

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 childrenOpenAI-backed brainwave-reading tech edging toward human-machine blendingSamsung and Google pushing AI health coaching into everyday lifeOura’s sprint: FDA-cleared hypertension detection, gamified sleep, and a controversial Palantir data dealWhat it all signals for trust, data and consumer healthWith the Healthusiasm panel.The future isn’t arriving with a bang — it’s slipping into everyday life. Health, reshaped from the outside in.Send us your ideas, suggestions or questions.Subscribe to Healthusiasm newsletter:https://www.healthusiasm.com-- -- --Book Christophe Jauquet for keynotes: www.christophejauquet.com

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 bornAlgorithms estimating a drug’s approval odds before it’s ever prescribedNanorobots and GLP-1 microdosing hinting at subtle, continuous, almost invisible treatmentAmazon teaming up with Cleveland Clinic; Novo Nordisk rewriting the rulesWhat predictive health means for patients, pharma and trustWith the Healthusiasm panel.Health is shifting from reactive care to predictive orchestration — and moving out of the clinic into everyday life.Send us your ideas, suggestions or questions.Subscribe to Healthusiasm newsletter:https://www.healthusiasm.com-- -- --Book Christophe Jauquet for keynotes: www.christophejauquet.com

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 tech can show more empathy than doctorsWhy BYD, Emirates, PlayStation and Roblox are entering the health conversationFrom robotics and epigenetics to nanopills and the rise of the “quantumologist”Practical tools: the Human Gap Analysis, Medical Value Analysis, and building your own virtual clinicWith a live panel of global experts including Dr Avi Mehra, Megan Huffman, Dr Tamara Sunbul, Dr Justus Wolff, Dr Fatih Mehmet Gul, Dr Mazen Gadir, Philippe Gerwill and Mohamad Sabri.The companies redrawing health in 2050 aren’t all healthcare companies. That is the Transformation Economy — every industry becoming, in part, a health industry.Send us your ideas, suggestions or questions.Subscribe to Healthusiasm newsletter:https://www.healthusiasm.com-- -- --Book Christophe Jauquet for keynotes: www.christophejauquet.com

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 learnAI tools that might actually deskill cliniciansDigital twins that could change how we treat diseaseWearable ‘tiny labs’ bringing diagnostics onto the bodyWhat it all means for the future of careWith the Healthusiasm panel.From training to treatment, health is being reshaped from the outside in.Send us your ideas, suggestions or questions.Subscribe to Healthusiasm newsletter:https://www.healthusiasm.com-- -- --Book Christophe Jauquet for keynotes: www.christophejauquet.com

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 medicinesAI stepping in as coach, advisor and companionHow AI reshapes patient expectations and emotionsThe messy in-between: when AI promises more than is possible, or names a disease with no cureWhat this new zone does to the balance of power in careWith Mo Zouina, human-experience specialist.AI doesn’t just speed up medicine — it shifts power toward the person. Health, reshaped from the outside in.Send us your ideas, suggestions or questions.Subscribe to Healthusiasm newsletter:https://www.healthusiasm.com-- -- --Book Christophe Jauquet for keynotes: www.christophejauquet.com

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 travelAn AI health coach that knows your sleep, your DNA, even the weatherAI predicting breast cancer risk years before symptomsBarbers stepping into healthcare, and what brain grooves reveal about riskExtending human senses — like seeing infrared through a contact lensWith the Healthusiasm panel, including Mo Zouina.Health keeps escaping the clinic — into everyday life, culture and even the body’s edges. That’s Healthusiasm.Send us your ideas, suggestions or questions.Subscribe to Healthusiasm newsletter:https://www.healthusiasm.com-- -- --Book Christophe Jauquet for keynotes: www.christophejauquet.com

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 a problem for the healthcare system?Regeneron buying access to 23andMe’s genetic dataBlack-Mirror edges: seeing infrared, compost culture, and “groove in the brain”With the full Healthusiasm panel.Detection, prevention and data are moving into consumers’ hands — health reshaped from the outside in.Send us your ideas, suggestions or questions.Subscribe to Healthusiasm newsletter:https://www.healthusiasm.com-- -- --Book Christophe Jauquet for keynotes: www.christophejauquet.com

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 own solutions with AI?What if people ran “personal science projects” on their own health?What if care were decentralised the way entertainment already is?System-led care versus person-led transformation — and who comes out aheadWith Christophe Jauquet, Dr Keith Grimes and Aline Noizet.The revolution here isn’t technological — it’s a transfer of power to the person. That is outside-in healthcare, and the move from transactions to Customer Transformations.Send us your ideas, suggestions or questions.Subscribe to Healthusiasm newsletter:https://www.healthusiasm.com-- -- --Book Christophe Jauquet for keynotes: www.christophejauquet.com

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 surgeriesNature-filled cities and blood-filtering treatments‘Brain-grown music’ and the stranger edges of health techJoySpan and ‘Unhappy Leave’ — when wellbeing becomes policyCould the simple feeling of joy become a form of medicine?With the Healthusiasm panel.Health keeps showing up where you least expect it — in cities, workplaces and emotions. That’s Healthusiasm.Send us your ideas, suggestions or questions.Subscribe to Healthusiasm newsletter:https://www.healthusiasm.com-- -- --Book Christophe Jauquet for keynotes: www.christophejauquet.com

For the first time ever, Christophe flies solo — and says the things he normally wouldn’t.A candid one-man episode: the health innovations that don’t usually make the cut, and the big moves that could reshape your health.In this episode:The off-menu innovations: brain implants, ‘sound pockets’, IKEA, 23andMe, the NHS, GallupBig Healthusiasm moves from Apple, Google and DeepSeekWhy these shifts could change your health and healthcare for goodThe unfiltered take you only get when no one else is in the roomA solo episode, hosted by Christophe Jauquet.Even the off-menu signals point one way: health is being reshaped from the outside in.Send us your ideas, suggestions or questions.Subscribe to Healthusiasm newsletter:https://www.healthusiasm.com-- -- --Book Christophe Jauquet for keynotes: www.christophejauquet.com

Most women still learn about menopause the hard way: by living it. This episode treats that as a failure of the system, not of the woman.A menopause specialist joins the Healthusiasm panel to unpack the symptoms, the long-term health risks, the generational divide, and the new treatments reshaping women’s health.In this episode:Why menopause is still under-researched and barely discussed — and what that silence costs womenThe symptoms women are rarely prepared for, and the long-term risks to bone, heart and brainHow generations experience and talk about menopause differentlyThe latest treatments and innovations widening women’s optionsWhy partners, friends and employers need to understand menopause tooWith menopause specialist Dr Elise Dallas, host Nia Escobar-Kölle, and panellists Mo Zouina and Dr Keith Grimes.Menopause is turning into a consumer-driven health story — women demanding knowledge, options and dignity instead of silence. That is Healthusiasm: health reshaped from the outside in.PS. You may also discover the link between Renaissance ceramics and menopause while learning the Latin word for brain fog.Send us your ideas, suggestions or questions.Subscribe to Healthusiasm newsletter:https://www.healthusiasm.com-- -- --Book Christophe Jauquet for keynotes: www.christophejauquet.com

The future of health is happening so fast it’s overwhelming — and you’ll feel it too.Aline Noizet, Mo Zouina and Christophe race through February’s most surprising health signals.In this episode:Holograms for telemonitoring — your cardiologist beaming into the living roomChina’s virtual human doctors diagnosing patients around the clockThe surprising science of the microbiomeWhen even ChatGPT seems to ‘need therapy’ — AI’s emotional edgesWhat it all says about where health is headingWith Aline Noizet and Mo Zouina.Care is leaving the clinic and arriving everywhere — even as a hologram in your living room. Health, reshaped from the outside in.Send us your ideas, suggestions or questions.Subscribe to Healthusiasm newsletter:https://www.healthusiasm.com-- -- --Book Christophe Jauquet for keynotes: www.christophejauquet.com

Women’s health is transforming — and this International Women’s Day special dives into the innovations shaping its future.Guest host Nia Escobar-Kölle is joined by an expert panel to explore the latest Healthusiasms in women’s health.In this episode:Breakthroughs in femtech and diagnostic toolsMental health and wellbeing for womenWomen’s leadership in shaping healthcareAI-driven healthcare and what it means for women’s bodiesThe role of women in building the future of healthGuest-hosted by Nia Escobar-Kölle with an expert panel.Women are reshaping health from the outside in — demanding tools, research and care built around them.Send us your ideas, suggestions or questions.Subscribe to Healthusiasm newsletter:https://www.healthusiasm.com-- -- --Book Christophe Jauquet for keynotes: www.christophejauquet.com

Misinformation, disinformation — or, as Mo prefers to call it, plain old BS.Dr Keith Grimes, Mo Zouina and Christophe unpack how bad information spreads in health, and why it matters more as people take charge of their own care.In this episode:The difference between misinformation and disinformation in healthWhy health is especially vulnerable to bad informationThe human and technological forces that amplify itWhat clinicians, brands and patients can actually do about itWith Dr Keith Grimes and Mo Zouina.As people take control of their own health, trustworthy information becomes the real battleground — the trust side of consumer-driven health.Send us your ideas, suggestions or questions.Subscribe to Healthusiasm newsletter:https://www.healthusiasm.com-- -- --Book Christophe Jauquet for keynotes: www.christophejauquet.com

January is when health innovations launch — and this year didn’t disappoint.Aline Noizet, Dr Keith Grimes and Christophe pack in the month’s biggest moves.In this episode:Big names in motion: Whoop, Oura, Illumina, Nvidia, DeepMind, Mayo Clinic and IQVIANew tools from Elehear, Isaac, Your Coach and LuminovaDr Keith’s first-hand account of his full-body scan at Neko HealthWhat this wave says about where consumer health is headingWith Aline Noizet and Dr Keith Grimes.From whole-body scans to AI labs, health keeps moving into consumers’ hands. That’s Healthusiasm.Send us your ideas, suggestions or questions.Subscribe to Healthusiasm newsletter:https://www.healthusiasm.com-- -- --Book Christophe Jauquet for keynotes: www.christophejauquet.com

Your home is quietly becoming your first point of care — and most health organisations haven’t noticed.The Healthusiasm panel explores health at home: the technologies, players and behaviours turning the house into health infrastructure.In this episode:Remote monitoring and AI-driven care moving routine health out of the clinicIndoor air quality, ventilation and microbiome tech as everyday health infrastructureHow players like La Poste turn existing networks into care deliveryHow homes have always re-designed themselves around health crises — and what’s nextWhat “health at home” means for pharma, insurers, retail and propertyWith Dorothee Doepfer, Dr Keith Grimes, Aline Noizet, Mo Zouina and host Christophe Jauquet.Care is leaving the building. This is outside-in healthcare — health arriving where people already live, not where institutions are built.Send us your ideas, suggestions or questions.Subscribe to Healthusiasm newsletter:https://www.healthusiasm.com-- -- --Book Christophe Jauquet for keynotes: www.christophejauquet.com

The latest innovations and trends shaping the future of health and wellbeing, as the year closes.An expert panel runs through December’s most telling health signals.In this episode:The month’s standout health-innovation launchesWhere digital health and consumer health are heading into the new yearThe cross-industry signals the panel is watchingWith Dorothee Doepfer, Dr Keith Grimes, Aline Noizet and Mo Zouina.Another month of health being reshaped from the outside in.Send us your ideas, suggestions or questions.Subscribe to Healthusiasm newsletter:https://www.healthusiasm.com-- -- --Book Christophe Jauquet for keynotes: www.christophejauquet.com

Even dying well is part of living well.The panel takes a profound plunge into the trends and innovations reshaping death and dying.In this episode:Deathbots and digital immortalityThe death-positivity movement and the rise of death doulasHuman composting and cremation diamonds‘Fun-erals’ and rethinking how we say goodbyeWhy how we die is becoming a design and consumer questionWith Nia Escobar-Kölle, Dr Keith Grimes and Mo Zouina.Even the end of life is being reshaped from the outside in — by consumers, culture and technology.Send us your ideas, suggestions or questions.Subscribe to Healthusiasm newsletter:https://www.healthusiasm.com-- -- --Book Christophe Jauquet for keynotes: www.christophejauquet.com

What’s new in health and self-care?The panel shares its favourite innovations from the month.In this episode:The Healthcare AI Challenge Collaborative — comparing and ranking AI tools for report-writing and diagnosisLilly Digital Health and LCCP’s multi-million digital health investmentThe month’s standout moves in AI and self-careWhat they signal for how care gets delivered nextWith Dr Keith Grimes, Mo Zouina and Nia Escobar-Kölle.From ranking AI to pharma going digital, health keeps reshaping from the outside in.Send us your ideas, suggestions or questions.Subscribe to Healthusiasm newsletter:https://www.healthusiasm.com-- -- --Book Christophe Jauquet for keynotes: www.christophejauquet.com

What if the hospital were designed around the patient, not the other way round?The panel explores innovations transforming patient care and the hospital environment.In this episode:AI avatars from Nvidia and Deloitte easing hospital staysDenmark’s Mary Elizabeth’s Children’s Hospital, co-designed with children and familiesDesigning for emotional support, not just treatmentWhat consumer-experience thinking brings to the hospitalWith Dr Keith Grimes, Mo Zouina and Nia Escobar-Kölle.The hospital is finally being designed around the person — outside-in healthcare in practice.Send us your ideas, suggestions or questions.Subscribe to Healthusiasm newsletter:https://www.healthusiasm.com-- -- --Book Christophe Jauquet for keynotes: www.christophejauquet.com

Health innovations from Frontiers Health in Berlin — a conference with 250 speakers from around the world.Aline Noizet and Christophe share the standout ideas from the floor.In this episode:AI for repurposing drugs, and ChatGPT for patientsHealthy cities (Novo Nordisk) and cities built for cardio health (Novartis)Medibus bringing care to health desertsLifestyle navigation and the consumerisation of healthWith Aline Noizet, Digital Health Connector.From healthy cities to drug-repurposing AI, the future of health keeps arriving from the outside in.Send us your ideas, suggestions or questions.Subscribe to Healthusiasm newsletter:https://www.healthusiasm.com-- -- --Book Christophe Jauquet for keynotes: www.christophejauquet.com

Your monthly — and slightly funny — tour of October’s most intriguing health innovations.The panel ranges across the month’s signals, some serious, some delightfully strange.In this episode:From Oura to Meta’s smart glassesEastman Kodak’s pivot and Google’s NotebookLMGyms as places to socialise, and malaria-free Egypt‘Catching’ mental illness, and orthosomnia — the obsession with perfect sleepThe hydration hype and ‘tribal tech’With the Healthusiasm panel.Health keeps surfacing in unexpected corners of everyday life — reshaped from the outside in.Send us your ideas, suggestions or questions.Subscribe to Healthusiasm newsletter:https://www.healthusiasm.com-- -- --Book Christophe Jauquet for keynotes: www.christophejauquet.com

Children are 24% of the UK population — but receive only 11% of the healthcare budget.Christophe, Dr Keith Grimes and Mo Zouina ask why there’s so little innovation and attention in child health.In this episode:The funding and attention gap in paediatric careWhy child health is so often overlooked by innovationWhere the most promising paediatric innovations are emergingWhat it would take to design care around childrenWith Dr Keith Grimes and Mo Zouina.Designing health around the people too often ignored — children — is consumer-driven health at its most needed.Send us your ideas, suggestions or questions.Subscribe to Healthusiasm newsletter:https://www.healthusiasm.com-- -- --Book Christophe Jauquet for keynotes: www.christophejauquet.com

Plenty of laughs, and a few signals that genuinely matter — September’s health round-up.The hosts run through the month’s trends, from the playful to the serious.In this episode:A ‘living band-aid’ that could change wound careThe lighter side: food that makes you healthier, bath bombs and odd cravingsADHD medication access and everyday health frictionsThe serious innovations hiding among the funWith Mo Zouina and Dr Keith Grimes.Even the playful signals point one way: health weaving into everyday life — reshaped from the outside in.Send us your ideas, suggestions or questions.Subscribe to Healthusiasm newsletter:https://www.healthusiasm.com-- -- --Book Christophe Jauquet for keynotes: www.christophejauquet.com

Are we too focused on curing — and not enough on caring?Christophe and Dr Keith Grimes open Season 3 with a provocative debate about the heart of medicine.In this episode:Why care was once the cornerstone of medicineHow the rise of advanced cures shifted the focus away from caringWhat’s lost when healthcare optimises only for the cureHow to bring care — and humanity — back into the systemWith Dr Keith Grimes.Putting care and the human back at the centre — the cultural core of Healthusiasm.Send us your ideas, suggestions or questions.Subscribe to Healthusiasm newsletter:https://www.healthusiasm.com-- -- --Book Christophe Jauquet for keynotes: www.christophejauquet.com

How do big healthcare institutions actually turn innovation into reality?Recorded around HLTH Europe, the panel digs into realising innovation inside healthcare institutions — and what happiness has to do with it.In this episode:Emerging digital health trends inside large institutionsWhy ‘realising’ innovation is harder than inventing itThe link between innovation and patient (and staff) happinessInternational perspectives on institutional changeWith Aline Noizet, Dr Aditi U. Joshi and Dr Keith Grimes.Even inside institutions, the pull is outward — toward the patient. Health, reshaped from the outside in.Send us your ideas, suggestions or questions.Subscribe to Healthusiasm newsletter:https://www.healthusiasm.com-- -- --Book Christophe Jauquet for keynotes: www.christophejauquet.com