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YOU(th) raised $4.5m in February. The number is unremarkable. The thinking behind the product is worth a closer look. In late February 2026, the German startup closed a $4.5m round…

ByJon Lipsey 0Comments

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2 days ago

BUSINESS

The Enhanced Games came to Vegas and hit the jackpot

Plenty of people have closed their eyes and had one a final throw of the dice in Vegas. Most of them walk away with nothing. Tonight, Kristian Gkolomeev of Greece…

ByJon Lipsey 0Comments

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3 days ago

HEALTH Investigation

What it feels like to be an Enhanced Games athlete

"If I wanted a doctor's opinion on whether or not people's health is at risk, I would go to a doctor. Not Kieren Perkins." It takes a lot to push…

ByJon Lipsey 0Comments

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May 2026

BUSINESS Investigation

Who actually runs longevity in 2026

Longevity has stopped being a Silicon Valley curiosity. Over the past four years, the field has crossed the line from speculative science to institutional industry. Tech billionaires have poured billions…

ByJon Lipsey 0Comments

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May 2026

SPOTLIGHT Investigation

Inside the Enhanced Games: The untold story of the world’s most controversial sporting event

During a Zoom call on the 26th January 2024, Aron D'Souza, founder of the Enhanced Games, revealed something to me that he asked me to keep to myself. The Enhanced…

ByJon Lipsey 0Comments

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May 2026

TRAINING Great minds

Before BALCO: how Patrick Arnold and a bottle of Andro built the prohormone industry before got it banned

In August 1998, an Associated Press reporter spotted a brown bottle in Mark McGwire's locker at Busch Stadium. The bottle was androstenedione. McGwire was in the middle of the home-run…

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May 2026

NUTRITION Great minds

The second act of Patrick Arnold: the chemist who designed The Clear, then invented the ketone supplement industry

In 2011, a University of South Florida researcher called Dominic D'Agostino came to Patrick Arnold with a request. He needed a molecule synthesised. The molecule was a ketone ester, a…

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May 2026

TRAINING Icon

Patrick Arnold: the chemist behind BALCO on doping, ketones, and the rules he tried to live around

The chemist who designed the most consequential undetectable steroid in the history of professional sport spent the last decade of his life trying to build something else. A ketone ester…

ByJon Lipsey 0Comments

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May 2026

TECH Vanguard

Owkin’s Andrea Tassistro on K Pro and the AI drug discovery bottleneck

The AI-drug-discovery sector in 2026 has split into two camps. One camp wants to design new molecules from first principles. The other wants to make existing pharma R&D faster, cheaper…

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May 2026

BUSINESS

Throw your kid higher than the other dads. The Enhanced Games marketing chief on what the wellness category is getting wrong

Bret Kovacs commutes several hours a day into New York. Most mornings he stands on the same train platform looking at the same set of ads. Hims, Ro and the…

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Why YOU(th) is betting against proprietary tech in smartphone health screening

The Enhanced Games came to Vegas and hit the jackpot

What it feels like to be an Enhanced Games athlete

Who actually runs longevity in 2026

Inside the Enhanced Games: The untold story of the world’s most controversial sporting event

Before BALCO: how Patrick Arnold and a bottle of Andro built the prohormone industry before got it banned

The second act of Patrick Arnold: the chemist who designed The Clear, then invented the ketone supplement industry

Patrick Arnold: the chemist behind BALCO on doping, ketones, and the rules he tried to live around

Owkin’s Andrea Tassistro on K Pro and the AI drug discovery bottleneck

Throw your kid higher than the other dads. The Enhanced Games marketing chief on what the wellness category is getting wrong

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