548 The Mad Scientist’s Plan to Change Healthcare w/ Andrew Herr (Fount)

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Andrew Herr is the founder and CEO of Fount, a health and performance advising platform trusted by the world’s top performers. He started Fount to make cutting edge performance insights more widely available and change the quality of health outcomes for all. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fount is backed by Founders Fund, Elysian Park, and Allen & Co to apply, and scale, their expertise from optimizing the minds and bodies of US Military, professional sports teams, and leading business executives.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Andrew is a graduate of Health Physics, Microbiology & Immunology, and Security Studies from Georgetown University. He was honored as a Mad Scientist by the U.S. Army (twice) and as a Fellow by the Synthetic Biology Leadership Excellence Accelerator Program, the Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity Initiative, and others.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode, Aaron and Andrew talk about how he can change human health and performance at scale, how he helped the Department of Defense allocate millions of Dollars towards the optimization of the military, and how structures, data & machine learning make this the perfect time to build a disruptive  personalized health company.</span></p> <p><br /> <br /> <br /></p> <p><strong><em>Andrew Herr’s Challenge:</em></strong> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Run experiments on yourself. Pick an experiment for the next two weeks – nutrition like decreasing sugar, cutting down meat, or wearing blue light blocking glasses before bed – and observe if it affects you.</span></em></p> <p> </p> <h1><span style="font-weight: 400;">Connect with Andrew Herr</span></h1> <p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-herr/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Linkedin</span></a></p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/AndrewHerrBio"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Twitter</span></a></p> <p><a href="https://fount.bio/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Websit