Founder
Alex Antoniou, MD, MBA — board-certified in Lifestyle Medicine. Practicing longevity physician, recovering overachiever, father, and the first user of HealthBrew Tracker.
Alex Antoniou, MD, MBA
The honest before & after
I am not telling this story because I have arrived. I am telling it because tracking — not biohacking — is what made the difference. Your numbers will be different than mine. The ritual is the same.
Before
After
Personal experience, not a clinical promise. HealthBrew does not claim that any user will lose weight, cure depression, or change disease outcomes. We are sharing one founder's story to illustrate the ritual the product is built around.
2010 – 2019
Three majors in college. A master's in economics in one year. Nine cities in ten years. Clinical Informatics fellowship at Johns Hopkins. By 35, I had built more than a dozen companies and was running on caffeine, ambition, and a steady undercurrent of dread. I was a physician who could read a lipid panel in seconds — and who could not remember the last time I slept eight hours.
2020
My first child arrived. I held her and did the math: if I kept living this way, I might not get to walk her down the aisle. Not because of some disease lurking in a lab — but because I was spending the next thirty years burning the body and mind I needed for the second half of my life.
2021 – 2022
I tried the protocols. Wearables. Stacks of supplements. Fasting windows. Cold plunges. Some of it helped. Most of it was noise. The deeper I went, the more I noticed: the people who lived longest and happiest weren't optimizing — they were living. They walked. They cooked. They prayed or sat in silence. They knew their neighbors.
2023
I became board-certified in Lifestyle Medicine. I read the Blue Zones research. I sat with the American College of Lifestyle Medicine's six pillars: nutrition, movement, sleep, stress, connection, and avoidance of risky inputs. The plan was simple. It was the execution — and the daily reflection — that was missing.
2024 – 2025
I started closing each day. Just a few minutes. Green, yellow, or red. What I ate. Whether I moved. What I was grateful for. Who I loved well. What drained me. Within a year I had gone from 220 lb to 150 lb, from 80-hour weeks at one job to part-time medicine and several companies. I was smiling more. Sleeping more. My investing got sharper because I got steadier. Life opened up — not because I chased it harder, but because I started brewing it.
2026
I built HealthBrew because I needed it first. Because most of us were never taught to close the day. Because labs are snapshots and life is the movie. Because we shouldn't have to wait until retirement to start living well. If a tired doctor and a piece of paper could change my life, a careful nightly journal can help a lot of people.
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