The Healthusiasm Podcast
The Healthusiasm Podcast is about the future of health — and how technology, consumers and culture are reshaping it from the outside in. Across every industry — healthcare, pharma, retail, tech, food, finance, hospitality — the same shift keeps surfacing: people are no longer passive patients. They're active participants, choosers and managers of their own health, well-being and longevity. We call that shift Healthusiasm, and it's quietly redesigning what organisations must do to stay relevant. Most weeks, host Christophe Jauquet — health business expert, keynote speaker and author of the Healthusiasm books — turns the latest signals in consumer-driven health into something you can think with: GLP-1 and the new weight-loss economy, AI in healthcare, AI health coaches and wearables, longevity, women's health, preventive care, digital health, and the hospitals quietly moving into everyday life. Once a month, the full international panel gathers for a health-innovation round-up. He's joined by Thalia Muses — the Healthusiasm GPT, trained on the entire Healthusiasm intelligence: the books, frameworks, blog archive and every past episode. Thalia isn't a gimmick. She's a working example of what the show explores — human and AI thinking side by side, connecting signals across industries and pressure-testing the panel's ideas in real time. The show doesn't just talk about human-AI collaboration in health. It practises it. The panel: Christophe Jauquet — Belgian, travelling the world. Health business expert, keynote speaker, author of the Healthusiasm books. Thalia Muses — the Healthusiasm GPT and Christophe's AI thinking partner, with total recall of every framework, blog and episode. Aline Noizet — French, based in Barcelona. Digital Health Connector with a sharp eye for the start-up scene. Mo Zouina — Belgian with North African roots. Human-experience specialist focused on wellness, personal care and cosmetics. Dr Keith Grimes — Scot, based near London. Pioneer in medical digital innovation. Estefanía 'Nia' Escobar-Kölle — Colombian, based in Berlin. Start-up and innovation expert. Krupa Suthar — Indian, based in London. Customer-experience and research expert focused on women's and youth's health. Plus guest thought leaders whenever a topic calls for one. Streamed in 95+ countries, this isn't a trend report. It's a sensemaking session on where health, technology and human behaviour are heading next — and what that means for the organisations trying to keep up. Tune in, take what's useful, and start seeing your industry through a Healthusiasm lens.
Episodes
In January 2025, Panasonic presented Umi at CES: an AI health coach for the whole family. It never went on sale. Panasonic called it "discontinued before commercialization" and closed its Panasonic Well unit. So the idea failed? Not quite. In 2026, a Belgian supermarket, a Korean insurer, a hospital group, several health apps, national governments and even the founders of Fitbit are building around exactly the same idea.
In this wee...
A bathroom scale that takes a heart reading. A bank that trains its staff to notice early signs of dementia. A hospital check-up in southern China sold as a five-day holiday. None of these stories starts with a doctor. None starts with a Google search either. So if health no longer starts at the doctor, where does it start?
This episode is a preview of The Health Shifts 2026: The New Front Door of Health, Christophe Jauquet's year-e...
The pharmacy is being unbundled. In one week, NHS England widened Pharmacy First, New South Wales moved pharmacists into chronic care, Musinsa opened a beauty store in Seoul with a licensed pharmacy in the basement, Eucerin, Avène and Ducray moved onto Amazon in Germany, Amazon Pharmacy put licensed pharmacists on the phone 24/7 in Spanish, and Welcia placed dietitians on the drugstore floor in Japan. Six signals, one shift: the pr...
An insurer that books a pet hotel when you get cancer. A GoodRx plan that covers your pets. A hospital open on Sundays. A stroke ward with a Penny supermarket inside it. In the same two weeks, MetLife Korea, GoodRx, Apollo Hospitals, Cureety and Reimagine Care, Novo Nordisk and Asklepios all moved in the same direction: illness is being redesigned around normal life. Christophe Jauquet and AI co-host Thalia Muses unpack why this is...
In April 2024 Walmart closed 51 health clinics, and everybody called it retail's exit from healthcare. By the summer of 2026 Walmart is bigger in health than before. In this weekly update, Christophe Jauquet and Thalia Muses unpack why retail never left health: it learned that health comes in two speeds, and which speed to use where. Signals from Walmart, Target, Kroger, Instacart, Sam's Club, Holland & Barrett, Hy-Vee, Kauflan...
Sword Health buying Headspace. A French exoskeleton cleared by the FDA for the living room. A Japanese convenience store turned into a neighbourhood health hub. And an AI app from Dubai that coaches men to become better husbands.
This is episode 79 of The Healthusiasm Podcast, and the start of year five. Christophe Jauquet is joined by Dr Keith Grimes (medical expert in digital innovation, UK), Nia Escobar-Kölle (digital health expe...
Oura, WHOOP, Google's Fitbit Air, Garmin CIRQA, RingConn, Dreame, boAt, Noise, Luna, Ultrahuman and Samsung all shipped the same idea in 2026: a health device with nothing to look at.
Christophe Jauquet and his AI co-host Thalia Muses unpack the fastest-moving shift in consumer health hardware — the screen disappearing, and the decision moving with it. Your health device used to be something you read. Now it is something that ...
For two hundred years, insurance did one thing: you paid, something went wrong, they paid you back. In 2026 that quietly changed. Generali, AXA, Bupa, Discovery Vitality, Ping An, UnitedHealthcare and HSBC are all making the same move at the same moment — from claims-payer to health journey partner. Christophe Jauquet and his AI thinking partner Thalia Muses unpack the rise of what Christophe calls the Participatory Insurer: ...
For a century, health had an address: the clinic. Now your ring, your wrist — even your lunch — are walking through the door, and the medical record is letting them in.
Christophe Jauquet and his AI thinking partner Thalia Muses unpack a fast-moving shift in the United States: consumer wearables are being integrated directly into the clinical system. Oura, WHOOP, Google, Apple, Validic, Epic and Oracle Health are dissolv...
For years, health was something you bought — a gym pass here, a blood test there, a spa weekend once a year. Now it's becoming something you join.
Christophe Jauquet and his AI thinking partner Thalia Muses trace a shift showing up across continents and industries: health as a membership, a place you belong to rather than a service you buy.
The signals:
The Well (Frankfurt): a members' club that is part gym, part clinic, part sp...
For a century, health had an address. In China, it no longer does.
Christophe Jauquet and his AI thinking partner Thalia Muses unpack how six of China's biggest companies — from six completely different industries — have each built their own "front door" to everyday health, right inside the apps people already use.
The signals (six doors into the same house):
Meituan (food delivery): a "Health Butler" AI assistant inside t...
For years, sleep was the pillar of health we were proud to sacrifice. Not anymore.
In the last few weeks alone, a New York hotel turned its rooms into a sleep lab, Singapore Airlines and Fiji Airways redesigned the cabin around your body clock, supplement brands in China and the US launched sleep-and-energy pairings, and a UK mattress shop started funding mental-health charities. Different industries, different countries, one direct...
Brazil and Mexico are now trading health knowledge, not just medicine. Africa’s nine-country AIM 2030 initiative wants to make its own medicines. Korea is funding reverse-aging science, Dubai built a longevity authority, and Thailand is branding itself “the land of life.”
Right across the world, nations are shifting from buying health to building it. Christophe Jauquet calls this new map Healthusiasm Nations &mdash...
Sport doesn't look like healthcare. That's exactly why it matters.
The running club. The HYROX race. The smart ring on your finger. The gym that now calls itself a “healthness” company. None of it looks like medicine — and yet, piece by piece, sport is quietly rehearsing what healthcare is about to become.
In this episode, Christophe Jauquet sits down with Berlin-based digital-health expert and Hyrox...
Most AI-in-healthcare conversations ask what the tools can do. This one asks a harder question: what happens when AI becomes smarter, faster and more emotionally present than the humans around it?
Christophe Jauquet and Dr Keith Grimes go past the “AI will help doctors” narrative to the power, trust and culture shifts already leaking into daily practice.
In this episode:
- The rise of “shadow AI” — clin...
Korea made the world fall in love with K-pop, K-beauty and K-drama. What happens when it turns that same cultural machine toward health?
Christophe explores how Korea is moving far beyond skincare — into cancer AI, dementia detection, women’s health and longevity — and whether it can make health feel as desirable as beauty.
In this episode:
- Korea’s push into cancer AI, dementia detection and women’s h...
GLP-1 stopped being a drug story a while ago.
Christophe explores why GLP-1 is reorganising food, retail, tech, beauty and pharma around the person using it — and what that reveals about health itself.
In this episode:
- Protein-rich products and supplement retailers adding telehealth consultations
- Amazon delivering weight-loss medication; Oura turning wearables into medication dashboards
- Genomics firms personalising food, suppl...
This month’s signals jump from a wellness retreat to brain-surgery robots — but one thread runs through all of them: health is becoming something we track, predict, optimise and increasingly delegate to machines.
Christophe is joined by Aline Noizet, Dr Keith Grimes and Nia Escobar-Kölle to make sense of May’s most telling health innovations.
In this episode:
- PCOS reframed as far more than a reproductive disorder...
Google launched a screenless Fitbit Air — but the real story is the Gemini-powered AI Health Coach behind it, one that even supports Apple Watch.
The battle in consumer health is moving from the wrist to the intelligence layer above it. Christophe maps who’s racing for it and why.
In this episode:
- Why Google, Huawei, OpenAI, Amazon, Ant Group and national health systems are all chasing the AI health coach
- The shift from...
From space research to cuddle beds in palliative care, April’s signals show health quietly reappearing in places that don’t look like healthcare at all.
Christophe, Aline Noizet, Mo Zouina and Nia Escobar-Kölle range across the month’s most revealing innovations.
In this episode:
- Space research and the future of human resilience
- Medical platforms, hospital records and Fitbit shifting the game
- New frontiers in women...
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