The fittest founder in the room got cancer. Here’s how he used AI to fight back.
Key takeaways
- He tracks his sleep with a Whoop band, cross-references it with an Oura ring, and gets nearly 100 biomarkers checked every year.
- At 35, building his second company, he was as dialed-in on the latest in health research as anyone he knew.
- A week passed before he saw a doctor, who found two blood clots in his veins and scheduled surgery.
Conno Christou doesn t leave things to chance. He tracks his sleep with a Whoop band, cross-references it with an Oura ring, and gets nearly 100 biomarkers checked every year. He had been doing the annual bloodwork for four consecutive years, following the protocols of longevity researchers like Peter Attia and Rhonda Patrick. He was optimizing his supplements, his circadian rhythm, his protein intake.
At 35, building his second company, he was as dialed-in on the latest in health research as anyone he knew. His last checkup, in 2025, was green across the board. It was the best I d had in years, he says.
He didn t think much of it at first. A week passed before he saw a doctor, who found two blood clots in his veins and scheduled surgery. But the pre-op exams changed everything. A doctor walked back into the room and told him the procedure wasn t happening.