The Healthusiasm Podcast

Christophe Jauquet

The Healthusiasm Podcast is about the future of health — and how technology, consumers and culture are reshaping it from the outside in. Across every industry — healthcare, pharma, retail, tech, food, finance, hospitality — the same shift keeps surfacing: people are no longer passive patients. They're active participants, choosers and managers of their own health, well-being and longevity. We call that shift Healthusiasm, and it's quietly redesigning what organisations must do to stay relevant. Most weeks, host Christophe Jauquet — health business expert, keynote speaker and author of the Healthusiasm books — turns the latest signals in consumer-driven health into something you can think with: GLP-1 and the new weight-loss economy, AI in healthcare, AI health coaches and wearables, longevity, women's health, preventive care, digital health, and the hospitals quietly moving into everyday life. Once a month, the full international panel gathers for a health-innovation round-up. He's joined by Thalia Muses — the Healthusiasm GPT, trained on the entire Healthusiasm intelligence: the books, frameworks, blog archive and every past episode. Thalia isn't a gimmick. She's a working example of what the show explores — human and AI thinking side by side, connecting signals across industries and pressure-testing the panel's ideas in real time. The show doesn't just talk about human-AI collaboration in health. It practises it. The panel: Christophe Jauquet — Belgian, travelling the world. Health business expert, keynote speaker, author of the Healthusiasm books. Thalia Muses — the Healthusiasm GPT and Christophe's AI thinking partner, with total recall of every framework, blog and episode. Aline Noizet — French, based in Barcelona. Digital Health Connector with a sharp eye for the start-up scene. Mo Zouina — Belgian with North African roots. Human-experience specialist focused on wellness, personal care and cosmetics. Dr Keith Grimes — Scot, based near London. Pioneer in medical digital innovation. Estefanía 'Nia' Escobar-Kölle — Colombian, based in Berlin. Start-up and innovation expert. Krupa Suthar — Indian, based in London. Customer-experience and research expert focused on women's and youth's health. Plus guest thought leaders whenever a topic calls for one. Streamed in 60+ countries, this isn't a trend report. It's a sensemaking session on where health, technology and human behaviour are heading next — and what that means for the organisations trying to keep up. Tune in, take what's useful, and start seeing your industry through a Healthusiasm lens.

  1. Healthusiasm Nations: How Countries Build Their Own Health Future (#72)

    2d ago

    Healthusiasm Nations: How Countries Build Their Own Health Future (#72)

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

    18 min
  2. Sports: the Self-Directed Health Stack — Where Healthcare Is Heading (#71)

    Jun 26

    Sports: the Self-Directed Health Stack — Where Healthcare Is Heading (#71)

    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 into How 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 stack Guest: 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

    57 min

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The Healthusiasm Podcast is about the future of health — and how technology, consumers and culture are reshaping it from the outside in. Across every industry — healthcare, pharma, retail, tech, food, finance, hospitality — the same shift keeps surfacing: people are no longer passive patients. They're active participants, choosers and managers of their own health, well-being and longevity. We call that shift Healthusiasm, and it's quietly redesigning what organisations must do to stay relevant. Most weeks, host Christophe Jauquet — health business expert, keynote speaker and author of the Healthusiasm books — turns the latest signals in consumer-driven health into something you can think with: GLP-1 and the new weight-loss economy, AI in healthcare, AI health coaches and wearables, longevity, women's health, preventive care, digital health, and the hospitals quietly moving into everyday life. Once a month, the full international panel gathers for a health-innovation round-up. He's joined by Thalia Muses — the Healthusiasm GPT, trained on the entire Healthusiasm intelligence: the books, frameworks, blog archive and every past episode. Thalia isn't a gimmick. She's a working example of what the show explores — human and AI thinking side by side, connecting signals across industries and pressure-testing the panel's ideas in real time. The show doesn't just talk about human-AI collaboration in health. It practises it. The panel: Christophe Jauquet — Belgian, travelling the world. Health business expert, keynote speaker, author of the Healthusiasm books. Thalia Muses — the Healthusiasm GPT and Christophe's AI thinking partner, with total recall of every framework, blog and episode. Aline Noizet — French, based in Barcelona. Digital Health Connector with a sharp eye for the start-up scene. Mo Zouina — Belgian with North African roots. Human-experience specialist focused on wellness, personal care and cosmetics. Dr Keith Grimes — Scot, based near London. Pioneer in medical digital innovation. Estefanía 'Nia' Escobar-Kölle — Colombian, based in Berlin. Start-up and innovation expert. Krupa Suthar — Indian, based in London. Customer-experience and research expert focused on women's and youth's health. Plus guest thought leaders whenever a topic calls for one. Streamed in 60+ countries, this isn't a trend report. It's a sensemaking session on where health, technology and human behaviour are heading next — and what that means for the organisations trying to keep up. Tune in, take what's useful, and start seeing your industry through a Healthusiasm lens.