About Niko.
Niko is a longevity expert focused on aging research, public health and evidence that survives the trip into clinical practice. He leads strategy and medical communications at YEARS, a Berlin diagnostics clinic, hosts Return on Health, and runs Project Peakspan, an open N=1 biomarker experiment that documents what actually moves his own numbers.
He studied business and data analytics at Nova SBE and UC Berkeley, then completed a second Master's in Longevity at the Geneva College of Longevity Sciences. He now works at the intersection of health data, longevity science, and preventive system design, and uses that lens on every conversation on the podcast.
In 2026 he completed the Healthy Longevity Talent Incubator at the NUS Academy for Healthy Longevity, National University of Singapore, under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Andrea Maier and Prof. Dr. Hans Meij. He is also Communications Lead at Young HLMS, the early-career branch of the Healthy Longevity Medicine Society led by Prof. Dr. Andrea Maier and Prof. Dr. Evelyne Bischof.
Principles: question assumptions, rely on evidence, separate confidence from competence. Fundamentals compound. Fads don't.
- Aging research
- Geroscience, biomarkers, VO₂max, early detection and the hidden phase before disease.
- Public health
- Prevention at population scale, and infrastructure that makes measurable prevention the default path rather than the exception.
- Evidence
- Effect sizes over headlines, mechanism over anecdote, and honest uncertainty when the data is thin.
- Clinical translation
- What actually survives the trip from study to clinic, and the protocols that move long-term outcomes.