ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Christian Angermeyer joins Plausibly Deniable to discuss the Enhanced Games, performance-enhancing drugs, psychedelic medicine, longevity, telehealth, ambition, and building companies around controversial ideas before they become mainstream.
Christian argues that the debate around performance enhancement is stuck in moral panic, bad incentives, and missing data. He explains why the Enhanced Games are designed not just as a sports spectacle, but as a research and media platform: athletes competing with medically supervised enhancement, data being collected at scale, and a broader business built around health, recovery, and human performance.
We also get into the ethics of PEDs, whether banning enhancement actually harms athletes, why recovery may be the real performance unlock, how psychedelics went from fringe to medical legitimacy, what founders misunderstand about ambition, and Christian’s path from European finance to building and selling a major African banking group.
Absolutely none of this is medical, financial, or spiritual advice
https://www.enhanced.com/games
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00:00 — The moral case for performance enhancement
02:52 — Intro: Christian Angermeyer
03:26 — What are the Enhanced Games?
06:01 — PEDs, medical supervision, and building the first real data set
09:09 — Biohacking, looksmaxing, and body autonomy
14:40 — The Enhanced Games pitch: approved drugs, doctors, and athlete choice
17:14 — Why recovery may matter more than strength
21:09 — Psychedelics, stigma, and using data to change public opinion
22:42 — Which world records could the Enhanced Games break?
24:49 — Are elite athletes already using PEDs?
30:22 — Clean Olympics vs enhanced competition
32:17 — Enhanced Games as a viral sports business
38:12 — Future events: older athletes, celebrities, robots, and combat sports
41:00 — Telehealth, supplements, peptides, and the Red Bull model
47:45 — The data business behind human enhancement
48:47 — Christian’s personal health philosophy and stack
01:00:04 — Can retail investors get exposure to the Enhanced Games?
01:03:00 — Europe, America, ambition, and risk-taking
01:10:00 — Christian’s early career in finance
01:30:35 — Building and selling an African banking group
01:43:00 — Consent, alcohol, drugs, and personal choice
01:50:00 — Christian’s five-point self-improvement framework
02:00:00 — Coming out, identity, and personal narrative
02:15:04 — Psychedelics, therapy, religion, and founders
02:30:32 — What psychedelics actually reveal
02:33:11 — Closing thoughts
