Data-driven healthspan coaching for high performers. Maximum health ROI with targeted levers, not biohacking hype.
As a PhD scientist, I translate complex longevity research into a data-driven plan that fits your 60-hour week in Zug or Zurich. You know Attia, you've listened to Huberman, you understand the concepts. What you're looking for is someone who reviews your own lab results with you and prioritises the three to five interventions that will actually move the needle in your life. As a longevity coach based in Zug, I work online with clients across Zug, Zurich and the rest of Switzerland, Germany and Austria.
Important context: I'm a PhD scientist and coach (not a medical doctor). I don't diagnose conditions and I don't treat disease. My coaching complements medical care.
You run a team, a company, a project. You're functioning. But you sense that your current pace wasn't built for another three decades. You listen to Huberman, you've read Attia, you know what ApoB means. You don't need someone to explain longevity to you. You need someone who reviews your own labs with you and builds a plan that fits your life in Zug or Zurich.
The body that used to keep up with anything is asking different questions now. Sleep gets lighter, weight redistributes, recovery takes longer. For women, perimenopause often enters the picture; for men, a slower shift in energy and recovery. This is the moment to design the next two or three decades on purpose, rather than letting them catch you off guard.
You're in your mid-fifties or older. You've built a career, maybe a family. Now you want the next thirty years to be lived actively and cognitively sharp, not just survived. The research is clear: this is where the biggest levers live — strength, cardiovascular health, metabolism, sleep. It's never too late, and never too early.
Longevity isn't a miracle drug. It's an investment that compounds over decades.
Longevity research is broad. The foundations underneath it are narrower. If you keep five biological systems in view, you hold the highest-impact levers. Everything else builds on top of these.
Cardiovascular disease is still the leading cause of death. The most important modifiable marker is ApoB, not classic LDL. Add Lp(a) (largely genetic, measure once), blood pressure and low-grade inflammation (hsCRP). Understanding these markers early gives you a decisive long-term edge.
Insulin resistance starts quietly, often decades before HbA1c moves. Fasting insulin, HOMA-IR and the triglyceride-to-HDL ratio are far more sensitive markers than fasting glucose alone. Catching this early changes more than diabetes risk — it changes dementia risk too, because the brain is extraordinarily glucose-sensitive.
Muscle is not just movement. It's a metabolic organ and a central reserve for longevity. VO2max, leg strength and body composition predict your healthspan more reliably than almost any blood marker. Without active counter-pressure from your mid-thirties on, you lose three to eight percent of muscle mass per decade. That's reversible — but only with deliberate training.
As we age, sex hormones, the thyroid and the stress response shift. For women, perimenopause is often the milestone; for men, testosterone and DHEA-S drift slowly downward. A flat or inverted daily cortisol curve amplifies almost every longevity theme — sleep, metabolism, cognition. Taking healthspan seriously means looking here early enough.
While you sleep, the glymphatic system clears your brain. Poor sleep is one of the strongest independent risk factors for dementia, cardiovascular disease and metabolic dysfunction. It's not only about hours but about sleep architecture: enough deep sleep, enough REM, stable cycles. Add brain-health markers: omega-3, vitamin D, B12, folate, homocysteine, hsCRP. What supports sleep also supports the brain — and the other way around.
Important: Longevity coaching doesn't replace medical diagnostics or specialist treatment. What it offers is depth and continuity: reading markers that primary care rarely orders and connecting them with your daily life. Specific medication, hormone therapy or specialist procedures stay with the corresponding physician.
My path into functional medicine didn't start with the goal of „living longer". It started with gut issues, exhaustion, and the question why my body as a child didn't work the way it was supposed to. The search for answers took me deep into the research literature: into functional medicine, micronutrient science, hormonal biology, the microbiome.
What I came to understand: health isn't „not being sick". Health is a state shaped over decades, with five to seven large biological levers that either support or undermine each other. That's exactly the language longevity research uses today.
Today, I work with clients in Zug, Zurich and across Switzerland, Germany and Austria who want to understand and shape those levers. Many are high performers who know their current pace wasn't built for another three decades. Others are at a stage where the body is recalibrating. What they share: they don't want to leave their healthspan to chance.
My coaching is for people who want to work on longevity in a scientifically serious way — without hype, without promises, but with real depth.
„Longevity isn't a discipline that starts at fifty. It's a mindset that starts with the decisions you make today — and with the question of how you want to feel twenty years from now."
Dr. B.J. Huber
Longevity is often staged as maximalism: twelve supplements, two-hour workouts, ice plunges every morning. For most people with demanding roles in Zug or Zurich, that's neither realistic nor necessary. My approach is different. First understand your lab results, then prioritise the three to five interventions that deliver the maximum effect per hour of effort. Health ROI, not an add-on stack.
Step 1
Before we meet for the first time, I go through your existing lab results, your training and sleep tracker data, and your family history. That way I can ask targeted questions in our session instead of losing time on the basics. In the conversation itself, I take the time for your full story: energy patterns, sleep, stress, nutrition, movement, earlier themes.
Step 2
After the history session, I review your results and your story in depth. Where important markers are missing, we work out together which tests could bring clarity — from an extended lipid panel with ApoB and Lp(a) to fasting insulin, HOMA-IR, a daily cortisol profile, and, where useful, a microbiome analysis. The tests themselves are ordered through your GP or a specialised lab.
Step 3
Once the results are in, I place them carefully within the full picture — together with your symptoms and your daily life. From that, we develop a prioritised plan that supports your healthspan: nutrition, strength training, cardio at the right intensity, sleep strategies, stress regulation, targeted micronutrients. Specific medication or procedures stay with your physician.
Step 4
Healthspan isn't a sprint. We work through the plan at your pace, reflecting, adjusting, going deeper. A second round of labs after three to six months shows in black and white what has shifted. After that, many clients move to a much lighter cadence — typically one lab round per year plus a check-in.
Not every marker makes sense for every person. Which ones you actually request from your physician is something we work out together. Here is an overview of what a modern longevity panel typically includes.
Which markers matter most in your case depends on your age, your family history and where you're starting from. We discuss that in the free consultation, and in coaching we prioritise together.
Sometimes longevity coaching is broad. Sometimes it converges on one specific theme. Three focus areas are particularly common entry points.
When digestion, intolerances or the gut-brain axis sit at the centre. With microbiome analysis, SIBO breath testing, leaky gut markers.
To the gut health page →When perimenopause, menopause, PMS or hormonal swings shape the picture. With hormone panel (blood or saliva), daily cortisol profile, full thyroid panel.
To the hormone coaching page →When focus, brain fog and the biochemistry behind ADHD are front and centre. Alongside medical diagnosis and treatment.
To the ADHD coaching page →Lifespan is the length of your life in years. Healthspan is the part of those years you live healthy, sharp and fully present. Statistically, the gap between the two sits at about ten to twelve years in Switzerland — a decade of significantly diminished quality of life. Longevity coaching doesn't focus on lifespan first; it focuses on closing that gap. As many years as possible, lived actively, with energy and a clear mind.
Especially then. Most chronic conditions that eventually limit quality of life — cardiovascular, metabolic, neurodegenerative — are decades in the making and run silently for most of that time. Someone who understands their markers at 40 or 50 has a decisive advantage over someone who only reacts once something shows up. Coaching at this stage is an investment, not a repair.
ApoB measures the number of atherogenic lipoprotein particles in your blood — the particles that can lodge in the artery wall and drive atherosclerosis. Classic LDL only measures the cholesterol contained in those particles, while ApoB tells you how many particles are actually circulating. The research is clear: particle count is a better predictor of heart attack and stroke than LDL alone. Yet ApoB is rarely ordered in standard primary care.
I'm differentiated about them. Sauna has some of the strongest evidence for cardiovascular and neurodegenerative risk; that's not really debated. Cold exposure is physiologically interesting, but the individual indication has to fit or it can be counterproductive. NMN is a compelling hypothesis, but the human data is still thin. Rapamycin is an off-label use with real risks and belongs in a physician's hands, not in a coaching context. Across the board: trends don't replace a proper foundation of markers.
It's a fair question — the market is saturated. What to look for: a scientific background rather than personal anecdote alone, working with real markers rather than guesses, no selling of proprietary supplements or products, a clear line between coaching and medical care, and the willingness to say openly when the research is still unsettled. Anyone promising you the next miracle is selling, not guiding.
This is the most common question from my clients in the Zug and Zurich area. The honest answer: not more lifestyle maximalism, but smarter prioritisation. Three to four interventions with the highest impact per hour of effort. The coaching happens online, with one to two sessions per month plus a check-in between. That's doable, even with a demanding role.
Yes, gladly. I coach fluently in both German and English and work with many expats in Zug, Zurich and across the country. You're already on the English version of this page; everything works the same way.
Some Swiss supplementary health insurances such as SWICA or CSS contribute to health coaching. It's worth asking your insurer specifically. The coaching packages themselves are billed directly with me. The cost of laboratory tests is partly on you, depending on the test and your insurance — we discuss this transparently.
A meaningful first arc is three to six months. In that time we build out your marker base, develop a prioritised plan and walk the implementation. After that, many clients continue with a much lower cadence — typically one lab round per year plus a check-in. Healthspan isn't a sprint.
Very rigorous, as long as you stay close to the fundamentals: lipidology, metabolic health, mitochondria, muscle mass, sleep, stress. The data here is robust. It gets more speculative around specific interventions like rapamycin, NAD boosters or cellular reprogramming. My coaching deliberately works with the well-supported foundation, not with the speculative edge.
In the free 30-minute consultation we get to know each other, you tell me where you're starting from, and we look together whether my coaching is a good fit for you.
