Coaching

Nobody has looked at all of it at once

The sleep that doesn't restore. The blood pressure that won't come down. The headaches, the weight that won't move, the low gray mood you can't quite name. Each one gets its own appointment, its own prescription, its own aisle in the pharmacy.

And your tests keep coming back normal. That word is doing a lot of hiding. A yearly check glances at a handful of numbers and pronounces you fine, while the things it never looks at drift quietly in the wrong direction.

Every one of those separate fixes is sensible on its own. That is exactly why the whole thing keeps getting worse — each is aimed at a single dot, and nobody steps back to look at the constellation.

I know, because it happened to me

In my thirties I weighed 110 kilograms. My blood pressure sat at 140 over 90. My knees complained on the stairs, dust and pollen ran my calendar, and I woke tired no matter how long I had slept.

I attacked each problem separately, the way I had been trained to. Diets for the weight. A trainer for the fitness. Antihistamines for the allergies. Each worked a little. None of them worked.

Today I weigh 78 kilograms and my blood pressure reads 120 over 70. What changed was not the effort — I had always had effort. It was that I stopped aiming it at one thing at a time.

Aamir Malik, seated with a cup of coffee.

Five things, read together

Most of what makes us unwell is built at home, in the ordinary shape of a day. Five things carry it, and they pull on each other constantly.

Fix your sleep and eating gets easier. Fix your eating and your mood lifts. Lift your mood and you reach for people again, and the people steady everything else. Pull one up and it reaches over and pulls the others with it — which is also why propping up one alone never held.

  • What you eat
  • How you move
  • How you sleep
  • The habits you barely notice
  • The people you are connected to

How long at your best

We picture health as a long flat plateau — fine, fine, fine, until one day late in life it drops off a cliff. Bodies do not work like that. Most of your systems start sloping downhill from a peak you hit younger than you would guess, and by around fifty most people are already below ninety per cent of their own best across most of them. No alarm sounds. Every test still reads normal.

Researchers led by Alex Zhavoronkov gave it a name: Peakspan. Lifespan asks how long. Peakspan asks how long at your best.

The Healthspan Assessment

Two one-hour video sessions a week apart, a written report, and the analysis in between. You never fill in a form — you bring your numbers, I enter them and do the work myself.

€300, VAT included

How it works

  1. Session one

    Questions only. We go through what you eat, how you sleep, how you move, your days and the people in them. Nothing is decided yet.

  2. The week between

    I put all five on one table and read them together. This is where the work happens, and it is what you are paying for.

  3. Session two

    We read your report together and pick what to change first. One thing, not ten.

Who this is for

People who are broadly well, doing most things right, and still not feeling it.

You need no laboratory, no wearable that costs a month's rent, and no appointment. Before we meet, you spend about fifty minutes taking a few simple checks at your own kitchen table — a tape measure, bathroom scales, a blood-pressure cuff if you have one, a short walk, and an honest hour of thinking about your week. I will send you exactly what to measure and how.

Follow-up sessions are one hour, €200, VAT included. Take one, or none — the assessment is complete on its own.

And who it is not for. I am not a doctor, and I say that plainly because it matters. If a symptom is severe or sudden, if you are being treated for something, or if you are hoping for a diagnosis — that belongs with a clinician. I will say so rather than take the booking.

This is education and coaching. It does not diagnose, it does not treat, and it is not a substitute for your doctor.