Jürgen Mehrtens has built one of Europe’s most ambitious longevity clinics. His approach with YEARS: prevention over reaction. Instead of waiting for disease to emerge, he uses holistic diagnostics to build individual risk profiles and design personalized interventions.

Rather than thinking in protocols, routines, and averages, he thinks in data, systems, and individual trajectories. His core thesis is provocative: modern healthcare measures the wrong things – and in doing so, misses how we actually age.

In this conversation, it becomes clear why longevity is not a wellness topic for him, but a structural problem in medicine. And while his work demands maximum precision, his guiding principle remains simple: don’t overthink – start.

In this conversation you’ll learn:

- why Jürgen’s career path shows that curiosity beats planning

- how to build a global supply chain for PPE during a pandemic

- why the current healthcare system fails at prevention

- how to use health data without becoming a "slave to the numbers"

- the vision: Why YEARS could become the most important data provider for pharma research

- concrete steps on how to start prioritizing your health today

Timestamps:

00:00 – Intro & Journey
05:21 – From inventor to entrepreneur
10:36 – The billion-euro project during the pandemic
22:19 – What is longevity really?
27:17 – Why therapy is more expensive than prevention
33:26 – AI & health data
50:13 – The mission of YEARS
1:01:13 – Tips for your own health optimization