Augmented Wellness

Betterness

Augmented Wellness is not a show about wellness. It is a show where wellness becomes buildable. Hosted by Demian Bellumio of Betterness, it is a hands-on media lab where AI, health data, wearables, research, startup life, and agents stop being talking points and start becoming usable systems. Every episode turns a conversation with a real builder into a public artifact: an AI interviewer, starter kit, agent pattern, or workflow you can adapt with your own tools. The recurring idea is to create your own AI interviewer. Use the artifacts with Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, a local agent, or any LLM that can read Markdown. Serve them through MCP when you want tools to read the context automatically. Connect Betterness when you want the system to come alive with permissioned wearables, labs, reports, goals, and lifestyle data. Produced by Demian Bellumio with the support of agents from Betterness One, the agentic studio inside Betterness. Nothing on this show is medical advice. Opinions belong to our guests. Intelligence in pursuit of better.

Episodes

  1. 6d ago

    Dr. Rabin Rahmani: from wartime Iran to Brooklyn — and where AI can give doctors time back

    Dr. Rabin Rahmani grew up in Iran during war, left as a child, became a gastroenterologist, and helped build one of Brooklyn's largest GI practices. He joins Demian Bellumio to talk about resilience, medical entrepreneurship, and where AI can give doctors time back without pretending to replace them. The conversation moves through endoscopic innovation, AI-assisted polyp detection, colon-cancer prevention, fatty liver, the microbiome, biomarkers, protein, fiber, GLP-1s, IBS, IBD, and EPI. The final section brings a Bett-i nutrition agent into the room for a live research question. Watch, read, and build Episode page: betterness.ai/augmentedwellness/004-rabin-rahmani Build the Digestive Health Context Interviewer Connect your permissioned health data at betterness.ai Chapters 00:00 Cold open 00:42 Augmented Wellness 00:58 Meet Dr. Rabin Rahmani 01:17 Growing up in Iran and coming to America 05:49 Why medicine and gastroenterology 08:36 Building a Brooklyn medical practice 13:51 Where physicians need AI 15:14 Doctors as educators 18:11 GI innovation and colon-cancer prevention 22:11 Fatty liver, microbiome, and personalized care 30:21 Biomarkers, normal ranges, and patterns 34:27 Protein, fiber, and nutrition 37:31 GLP-1s: promise, misuse, and unknowns 40:09 IBS, IBD, and EPI 42:47 Live agent research 45:18 Practical foundations for gut health 47:58 Outro Guest Dr. Rahmani is a board-certified gastroenterologist and the Medical Director of Gastroenterology Associates of Brooklyn and Brooklyn Endoscopy Center. He is also an investor in Betterness. Practice: Gastroenterology Associates of Brooklyn Instagram: @gastrobrooklyn X: @GastroDoctors About Augmented Wellness Augmented Wellness is where we meet the people in pursuit of better: founders, doctors, researchers, coaches, and healers building at the edge of health and AI. Every episode leaves a public system you can use and make your own. This conversation is educational and is not medical advice. Discuss personal symptoms, screening, medications, and treatment decisions with a qualified clinician.

    Dr. Rabin Rahmani: from wartime Iran to Brooklyn — and where AI can give doctors time back

  2. Jul 5

    Dr. Lloyd Camper: stop waiting for the warning light — build your healthspan baseline

    Dr. Lloyd Camper joins Augmented Wellness for a practical conversation about longevity, sports medicine, Cenegenics, and what it means to build a real healthspan baseline before the warning light comes on. Lloyd is a board-certified family medicine and sports medicine physician, a former collegiate athlete, a longevity physician with Cenegenics, and an advisor to Betterness. We talk about exercise as medicine, why traditional care often begins only when something is already wrong, how blood work, DEXA, VO2 max, recovery, and habits fit together, and how Bett-i can help make health data easier to organize before a clinician visit. This episode includes a live look at Demian's own DEXA and VO2 max reports as an example of how a doctor and a personal AI agent can turn scattered health data into better questions. We also turn the episode into a public artifact: a Healthspan AI Interviewer. It is a markdown system you can use with Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, a local agent, or any LLM to organize goals, history, reports, labs, DEXA, VO2 max, habits, recovery, and clinician questions before a visit. Connect Betterness when you want that context enriched by permissioned labs, reports, wearables, goals, and lifestyle data. Full episode page: betterness.ai/augmentedwellness/003-lloyd-camper Build the artifact: Healthspan AI Interviewer Chapters (00:00) Welcome to Augmented Wellness (01:30) Meet Dr. Lloyd Camper (02:56) Exercise as medicine (04:47) Longevity, executives, and Cenegenics (07:53) The gas-tank model of health (12:11) Blood work: you don't know what you don't know (14:07) AI, labs, and why context still matters (16:11) MRI, genetics, and too much information (20:14) Regenerative medicine, PRP, and stem cells (26:42) DEXA and VO2 max: fuel and engine (28:23) Bett-i reviews Demian's data (37:39) Improving VO2 max safely (40:47) The plan you can follow for years (44:04) Cold plunge timing and recovery nuance Where to find Betterness Web: betterness.ai Instagram: @betterness.ai X: @betterness_ai Disclaimer: nothing in this episode is medical advice. Use this conversation for education and work with a qualified clinician for personal medical decisions.

    Dr. Lloyd Camper: stop waiting for the warning light — build your healthspan baseline

  3. Jun 24

    Ulisses Abbud: recovery is not the reward — it is the adaptation mechanism

    Ulisses Abbud spent 13 years competing as a professional cyclist. Today he is a high-performance coach, researcher, endurance athlete, and physiology thinker working with athletes, executives, and people trying to understand how performance and longevity actually work. In Episode 002 of Augmented Wellness, we go deep on recovery: why it is not a luxury, why it is not the reward, and why it may be the missing operating system for founders, executives, and anyone whose mind never really shuts down. We talk about HRV, cortisol, resting heart rate, overtraining, metabolism, nutrition, gravel cycling, Girona training camps, community, and the difference between training from fear and training from love. We also turn the episode into a public artifact: a Cycling + Recovery AI Interviewer. It is a markdown system you can use with Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, a local agent, or any LLM to understand the person behind the training data before reacting to HRV, sleep, fatigue, or training load. Connect Betterness when you want that context enriched by permissioned wearable, training, lab, goal, and lifestyle data. Full episode page: betterness.ai/augmentedwellness/002-ulisses-abbud Build the artifact: Cycling + Recovery AI Interviewer Chapters (00:00) Cold open: recovery, longevity, HRV, and the agent (01:01) Brand reveal: Augmented Wellness (01:20) Meet Ulisses Abbud (02:45) From professional cycling to riding for love (04:13) Thirteen years as a pro cyclist (05:24) Road, gravel, speed, risk, and why gravel feels different (10:22) The diet trap: why eating less can make the body hold on (12:12) From engineering to physiology (14:21) Breathing, HRV, and simple nervous-system tools (15:53) Why executives think like athletes but skip recovery (18:54) Chronic sympathetic mode: the founder and vibe-coding problem (21:09) Recovery is not the reward — it is an adaptation mechanism (24:13) Cortisol, HRV, resting heart rate, and overtraining signals (26:13) Longevity: dying young as late as possible (28:38) Bett-i turns known basics into daily action (33:56) Girona training camp, stress with intention, and community (38:22) Recovery routines: cold plunge, sauna, yoga, reading, and mental shutdown (40:40) Live demo: a breathwork agent reads Demian's HRV (45:19) Final advice: routine, nutrition, breathing, and sleep Where to find Betterness Web: betterness.ai Instagram: @betterness.ai X: @betterness_ai Disclaimer: nothing in this episode is medical advice. This is educational conversation about training, recovery, HRV, breathwork, nutrition, and longevity. Work with qualified professionals for personal health decisions.

    Ulisses Abbud: recovery is not the reward — it is the adaptation mechanism

  4. Jun 16

    Martin Varsavsky: building an AI that aims to pass the FDA — and a genuinely full life

    Martin Varsavsky has founded six unicorns over 35 years — across telecom, fertility, and now medical AI. In Episode 001 he walks through Certuma — his bid to build an AI physician that earns regulatory trust rather than routing around it, with the stated goal of passing the FDA and a doctor kept in the loop (it is not approved today). He explains how he closed a $10M seed round with AI as his only co-founder, why he cycles 14 hours a week at 66, and how he built "Pedro," a disclosed AI version of himself that posts on his X timeline. We turn it into BetterX: a public, guarded social-autopilot starter kit you can fork. What runs through it: that AI can legally extend a doctor's knowledge to make care more accessible — Martin's bet with Certuma, on the path to FDA approval with a physician always in the loop — and that an AI trained on you for long enough starts to become you (his disclosed persona "Pedro," two months in the making). Underneath both: risk is relative once you've faced the real thing. Build the artifact: BetterX — a guarded social-autopilot starter kit (forks with autonomy OFF by default and a review queue, so nothing posts without you). Full episode page: betterness.ai/augmentedwellness/001-martin-varsavsky Chapters (00:00) Welcome to Augmented Wellness — and why Martin is guest #1 (00:56) Origin story: a hard first 25 years in Argentina and 1970s–80s New York (04:11) The bank that rejected him for a job — then handed him a $9M loan (05:20) Real estate, pre-money valuations, and rezoning Tribeca lofts (10:00) A full life across many homes — buying for beauty, not business (19:30) GLP-1s and Mounjaro: what he takes, why, and where the science stops (22:32) Cycling at 66 — 14 hours a week, no fractures, and the discipline (25:53) Building his own app: "U versus U," watts, and racing himself since 2010 (32:04) Data as motivation: Garmin over Apple, audio cues, a radar that talks (34:00) Certuma: raising a seed round with AI as his only co-founder (39:50) Certuma Link and Fast Doctor: an agentic doctor, with a human in the loop (45:02) Pedro: cloning his own voice on X, and what "authorship" means now Where to find Martin X: @martinvars Website: english.martinvarsavsky.net LinkedIn: /in/martinvarsavsky Instagram: @martinvars From Betterness X: @betterness_ai Instagram: @betterness.ai YouTube: @betterness_ai Credits. Produced by Demian Bellumio with the support of agents from Betterness One — the agentic studio inside Betterness — including specialist agents for content, design, video, photography, insights, brand, and social, coordinated by Bett-i. Recorded at The LAB Miami; on-site production by Podcast Studio Miami. Made by Betterness. Bett-i — a personal wellness AI, a team of specialist agents tuned to help you live better (Men's Fitness asked if it's “the most ambitious AI health product ever built”). Betterness One — for the businesses doing the helping: one of wellness's most comprehensive analytics platforms and the agentic studio that turns that view into action, seeing and doing in one place. You meet Bett-i live each episode; Betterness One's agents produce the show end to end. Collaborate: partners@betterness.ai Disclaimer: nothing in this episode is medical advice. Certuma's FDA approval is a stated goal, not a current status, and it operates with a physician in the loop. Opinions are Martin's own.

    Martin Varsavsky: building an AI that aims to pass the FDA — and a genuinely full life
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Augmented Wellness is not a show about wellness. It is a show where wellness becomes buildable. Hosted by Demian Bellumio of Betterness, it is a hands-on media lab where AI, health data, wearables, research, startup life, and agents stop being talking points and start becoming usable systems. Every episode turns a conversation with a real builder into a public artifact: an AI interviewer, starter kit, agent pattern, or workflow you can adapt with your own tools. The recurring idea is to create your own AI interviewer. Use the artifacts with Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, a local agent, or any LLM that can read Markdown. Serve them through MCP when you want tools to read the context automatically. Connect Betterness when you want the system to come alive with permissioned wearables, labs, reports, goals, and lifestyle data. Produced by Demian Bellumio with the support of agents from Betterness One, the agentic studio inside Betterness. Nothing on this show is medical advice. Opinions belong to our guests. Intelligence in pursuit of better.

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  • Creator
    Betterness
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    4
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Betterness Inc.
  • Show Website
    Augmented Wellness

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