Rick Adams: the Olympic insider leading the Enhanced Games

If you had to design the person you'd want on your side if you were an athlete about to walk into the most scrutinised sporting arenas of the modern era, you'd probably end up with someone who looked a lot like Rick Adams. Six Olympic Games. Fourteen years inside the American Olympic machine. Former Chief…

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ByJon Lipsey

HEALTH Vanguard

Life Biosciences Raises $80m To Advance Cell Reset Therapy

Life Biosciences has raised $80 million in a Series D round to fund the clinical development of its lead therapy, ER-100, and expand its broader platform targeting the biology of aging. The capital will support a Phase 1 human trial already underway in patients with optic neuropathies, including glaucoma and non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy.…

April 15, 20260Comments

ByJon Lipsey

BUSINESS Vanguard

The Enhanced Games Are Here. Sport Will Never Be the Same.

Five and a half weeks out from the inaugural Enhanced Games, world records are already being broken. Earlier this month Chilean weightlifter Arley Méndez Pérez snatched 182kg in training at 88kg bodyweight, 5kg heavier than the current official world record. That follows Greek Olympic swimmer Kristian Gkolomeev, who last year eclipsed the standing 50m freestyle…

April 15, 20260Comments

ByJon Lipsey

MIND Vanguard

The race to copy your brain before AI replaces you

Christian Larsen does not hedge when the conversation turns to AI. If a superintelligent AI “species” emerges, one that is faster, more capable and operating at a fundamentally different level of capacity, he believes the outcome is already decided. “There’s no question that they will have the upper hand,” he says. Not in ten years.…

April 2, 20260Comments

ByJon Lipsey

TRAINING Vanguard

What is Xenom, and why it could reshape fitness competition

Xenom has raised $15 million and calls itself the “decathlon of fitness”. That’s the headline but it’s not the most interesting thing about the latest addition to the competitive fitness calendar. Xenom is a new global fitness competition designed to test all-round fitness across a standardised format. What really stands out is how Xenom founder…

March 25, 20260Comments

ByJon Lipsey

BUSINESS Vanguard

Meet the man building the “CES of longevity”

For eight years, Phil Newman has watched the longevity megatrend gather momentum. As founder and CEO of First Longevity and Editor-in-Chief of Longevity Technology, he has had a front row seat as the industry evolved from niche curiosity to cultural phenomenon. Now he’s building a stage of his own. The Longevity Show, launching this June…

March 9, 20260Comments

ByJon Lipsey

TECH Vanguard

Will AI replace human coaches in professional sport?

Dr Mikael Mattsson, Phd Mikael Mattsson is CEO at exercise intelligence company svexa, which creates algorithms and software for decision support for sports teams, elite and recreational athletes, as well as hardware and software companies in the sports and health tech industries. He lives in Menlo Park, California. Follow him on Instagram. Visit svexa.com and…

December 12, 20250Comments

ByJoe Warner

HEALTH Vanguard

Can stem cells provide a longevity breakthrough?

Longevity is dominating the cultural and scientific zeitgeist as a health domain, spanning serious medicine, lifestyle optimisation, speculative biotech and cultural fantasy. Everyone wants more years but not everyone is prepared to talk honestly about what those years actually require. Dr Elisabeth Roider is an exception. When the physician-investor discusses longevity, she doesn't start with…

August 6, 20250Comments

ByJon Lipsey

Luxury car wellness and health innovation

TECH Vanguard

Wellness on wheels: can a new generation of cars make you healthier?

Wellness isn’t the first thing you associate with getting behind the wheel of a car, is it? After all, sedentary time spent increasing your blood pressure while someone cuts you up or expanding your waistline as you absent-mindedly shovel a family pack of sweets into your mouth to alleviate the boredom of sitting in traffic…

April 10, 20250Comments

ByKyle Fortune

Psychedelic therapy mental health business

BUSINESS Vanguard

Business trip: The new economy of therapeutic psychedelics

Do you like your office? Wait until you see top IT offices in the world…

April 8, 20251Comment

ByJoe Warner

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