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Niko Hems

Head of Medical Communications & Strategy at YEARS

Hamburg, Germany

Niko Hems is a preventive medicine and longevity operator, healthcare executive, and science communicator. He serves as Head of Strategy & Medical Communications at YEARS, a physician-led preventive medicine company in Berlin, where he has helped drive approximately fourfold growth in bookings and revenue.

His work focuses on scaling evidence-based preventive healthcare, building data-driven growth systems, and translating complex medical research into practical insights.

Niko is also the co-host of *Return on Health*, a podcast featuring conversations with leading scientists such as George Church, Matt Kaeberlein, Robert Lustig, and Aubrey de Grey. Through his LinkedIn platform, he reaches over 22,000 followers and has been ranked Germany's #1 Aging & Longevity influencer by Favikon.

He holds an MSc in Management from Nova School of Business and Economics, studied at UC Berkeley, and is pursuing an MSc in Longevity Science at GCLS.

His mission is to help make scientifically grounded preventive medicine more accessible, effective, and scalable, while encouraging critical thinking about emerging longevity interventions and healthcare innovation.

Available For: Speaking
Travels From: Hamburg, Germany
Speaking Topics: Longevity, Healthcare, Preventative Medicine

Niko Hems Points
Academic 0
Author 128
Influencer 236
Speaker 1
Entrepreneur 30
Analyst 0
Total 395

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Company Information

Company Type: Company
Business Unit: Management
Minimum Project Size: $1,000+
Average Hourly Rate: $200-$300
Number of Employees: 11-50
Company Founded Date: 2026

Areas of Expertise

Business Strategy
Health and Wellness 42.84
Healthcare 34.99
Leadership 30.45
Management
Personal Branding
Startups
Venture Capital

Industry Experience

Publications & Experience

14 Article/Blogs
Why Most Health Dashboards Make You Worse at Decisions
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April 13, 2026
More data ≠ better judgment. Why dashboards turn long-term signals into short-term stressors.

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The Hidden Cost of 'Feeling Fine'
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March 30, 2026
Chronic disease doesn't start with symptoms. It starts with drift.

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What I'd Cut First If You Forced Me to Simplify Longevity
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March 16, 2026
Ruthless prioritization beats perfect protocols. The three things that actually matter.

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Why Most Blood Tests Create False Confidence
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March 02, 2026
'Normal' and 'healthy' are often two very different things. Why reference ranges create false confidence — and what to track instead.

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Why Longevity Feels So Confusing — and What We Actually Need Instead
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October 15, 2025
When ten experts give ten different answers, the problem isn't ignorance — it's fragmentation. Longevity doesn't need more hacks. It needs systems thinking.

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The Most Dangerous Effect Often Forgotten — the Nocebo Epidemic
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October 02, 2025
Inside the nocebo epidemic, where expectation alone creates real pain, fatigue, and disease.

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Longevity: Myths vs. Reality
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September 15, 2025
Why longevity isn't about immortality, hacks, or hype.

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Three Things I Believe About Longevity
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September 01, 2025
Why staying open-minded, fixing the system, and cutting through hype matters more than any single supplement.

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When Longevity Stops Listening
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July 21, 2025
The problem isn't the tools. It's how we use them.

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The Rise of Wellness Grifters
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June 11, 2025
What I saw at several longevity events.

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When Optimization Becomes Obsession — And Why It's Making You Less Healthy
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June 02, 2025
Why your wellness routine might be the very thing wearing you down.

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Longevity Isn't a Pill — It's a Systems Problem
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May 20, 2025
Why living longer won't be solved by your supplement stack.

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Why Your Oura Ring Won't Save You
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May 13, 2025
Biometrics do not equal behavior change.

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Health Is Broken. So What Do We Do Now?
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May 05, 2025
Built to treat disease, not prevent it. Let's change the model.

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1 Board Membership
Head of Medical Communications & Strategy
YEARS
May 01, 2026

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1 Book
Überinformiert und fehlgeleitet: Digitale Fehlinformation im Gesundheitsbereich
Springer Nature
May 01, 2026
Explains how digital misinformation emerges and why it increasingly influences clinical conversations.



Outlines clear communication strategies to address misleading online content calmly and understandably.



Demonstrates how healthcare professionals can use social media, websites, and podcasts to strengthen credible health education.

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1 Influencer Award
#1 Aging & Longevity Content Creator LinkedIn Germany
Favikon
October 01, 2026

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1 Panel
fireside chat on nutrition science, longevity, and separating evidence-based medicine from hype.
LifeSummit Berlin
May 29, 2026

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18 Podcasts
Why Investors Are Betting on Aging: Can We Actually Reverse It? | Dr. Karl Pfleger
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October 18, 2026
What if aging could actually be reversed? And why are investors putting money into companies trying to make it happen?Dr. Karl Pfleger spent a decade at Google after earning his PhD in Computer Science at Stanford. Today, he's an aging biotech investor who has backed around 30 companies working

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Chronic Lyme, Mold & Alzheimer’s: What If Medicine Is Missing the Real Cause?
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October 04, 2026
Can chronic infections drive chronic disease?Dr. Richard Horowitz has spent more than four decades treating patients with complex chronic illness, including Lyme disease, long COVID, chronic fatigue, neurological symptoms and multi-system disease.His central argument is controversial: many chronic i

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Rapamycin, NAD & the Truth About Slowing Aging | Matt Kaeberlein
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September 20, 2026
What if the most promising drug for slowing aging already exists.. but we still do not know whether healthy humans should take it?Dr. Matt Kaeberlein is one of the leading scientists studying the biology of aging. His work has focused on mTOR, rapamycin, cellular aging and the mechanisms that may al

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Everything You Know About Calories Is Wrong | Dr. Robert Lustig
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September 06, 2026
What if one of the most basic ideas in nutrition — that a calorie is a calorie — is the wrong way to think about metabolic health?For decades, Robert Lustig has argued that obesity, diabetes and other chronic metabolic diseases cannot be understood through energy balance alone. His central argum

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The First Person to Live to 1,000 Is Already Alive? | Aubrey de Grey
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August 23, 2026
What if aging is less like an inevitable biological process.. and more like damage that can eventually be repaired?For more than two decades, Aubrey de Grey has argued that aging should be treated as a medical problem driven by the accumulation of molecular and cellular damage. His most famous idea,

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Cancer Scientist: What Actually Causes Cancer? (The Internet Got It Wrong)
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August 09, 2026
What if one of the most popular ideas about cancer is simply wrong?For years, social media has promoted the idea that cancer is primarily a metabolic disease - one that can be starved, hacked, or even reversed through diet. But cancer geneticist Dr Moritz Przybilla argues that decades of genomic res

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You Can't Stop Aging! Here's What Actually Matters… | Prof. Suresh Rattan
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July 26, 2026
Most people think aging is a disease.Professor Suresh Rattan thinks that's one of the biggest misconceptions in modern medicine.The anti-aging industry has never been bigger. Every week there's a new supplement, a new biomarker, a new longevity protocol, or another promise that you can slow,

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Longevity Expert: Everything We've Been Told About Living Longer Is Wrong
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July 10, 2026
Most people think longevity is about living longer.Dr. Jack Kreindler thinks that's exactly where we've gone wrong.The longevity industry has never been bigger. Every week there's a new supplement, a new biomarker, a new biohack, or a new promise that you can slow aging.But after more th

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Best Selling Author: This Diet Will Betray You!
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June 29, 2026
Is the longevity supplement hype real - or are you wasting money? Bestselling author Bas Kast breaks down what actually works in nutrition, supplements, and slow aging.Most people don't suffer from a lack of health advice. They suffer from too much of it. One expert says eat more protein, the ne

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Functional Medicine MD: What 5,000+ Patients Taught Him About Root Cause Medicine
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May 31, 2026
Functional Medicine MD: What 5,000+ Patients Taught Him About Root Cause MedicineIn this episode of Return on Health, we speak with Dr. Peter Martin, physician, former CNS pharmacology researcher, and founder of FunMed, one of Europe’s leading functional medicine clinics.Peter spent around 15 year

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Harvard MD: The Truth About Peptides And Longevity Medicine
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May 06, 2026
Harvard MD: The Peptide Boom Is Here.. But Is Medicine Ready?In this episode of Return on Health, Niko and Miguel speak with Dr. Anand Vinjamoori, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Business School trained physician, former founding Chief Medical Officer at Modern Age, advisor to Superpower, and fou

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Geriatrician: Most Aging Is Preventable (But We Start Too Late)
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April 19, 2026
Most people think aging is something that happens later.In reality, the processes that determine how you age — and whether you stay functional — start decades earlier.In this episode of Return on Health, we sit down with Roberta Vella Azzopardi, a geriatrician and geroscientist with a PhD in cog

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Karolinska MD PhD: The Hidden Phase Before Disease
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April 04, 2026
Karolinska MD PhD: You Feel Healthy. Your Data DisagreesMost people think they’re healthy.But biology doesn’t care how you feel.Long before symptoms show up, your physiology is already shifting.. and most check-ups won’t catch it.In this episode, we sit down with Natalia Trpchevska (MD, PhD Ka

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Medical Doctor: Primary Care Is Broken!
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March 21, 2026
Rethinking Primary Care and Longevity: Insights with Dr. Takhar. In this episode, Dr. Takhar, UCLA and Harvard trained physician-scientist shares his journey from emergency and internal medicine to building a groundbreaking primary care model focused on human connection, longer physician-patient tim

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Stanford MD: The Longevity Industry Is Lying To You
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March 07, 2026
Longevity science is advancing quickly. Healthcare systems are moving much slower.In this episode, Stanford-trained physician Dr. Hillary Lin explains why prevention, biological age testing, mitochondria, and health optimization often struggle to translate into real clinical practice. We discuss the

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Longevity Doctor: The Hidden Power of Metabolic Flexibility
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February 20, 2026
Unlock the secrets to lasting health and longevity with Dr. Rhea Kotecha - a physician bridging functional medicine, longevity, and science to transform the way we age. Discover why metabolic health is the underrated pillar of a long, vibrant life, and learn practical strategies that go beyond quick

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Stanford-Trained MD: Do This to Prevent Chronic Disease
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February 13, 2026
This episode digs into why midlife health quietly shapes your future more than most people realize - and why the healthcare system is structurally bad at dealing with that phase of life.Together with Stanford-trained MD Ali Zaidi, we talk about what actually changes in your body during midlife, whic

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What is Return on Health?
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February 12, 2026
In our first episode, we explain why this podcast exists.We talk about how Miguel and Niko met during their Master’s at NOVA SBE, how endless late-night debates about health, medicine, and broken incentives slowly turned into a shared frustration with the system - and why starting this podcast bec

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