About Niko.
Niko is a longevity expert focused on prevention and data-driven health. He leads growth 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.
Principles: question assumptions, rely on evidence, separate confidence from competence. Fundamentals compound. Fads don't.
Website
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Experiment
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Areas of focus
- Longevity
- Biomarkers, VO₂max, metabolic health, early detection and the hidden phase before disease.
- Prevention systems
- Designing infrastructure that makes measurable prevention the default path rather than the exception.
- Performance
- Strength, Zone 2, recovery and the protocols that actually move long-term outcomes.
- Evidence
- Effect sizes over headlines, mechanism over anecdote, and honest uncertainty when the data is thin.