Delphi for researchers

“I started studying centenarians because they doubled their expected lifespan despite often smoking, being overweight, and barely exercising. Their protective genotypes, like variants that dampen growth-hormone/IGF-1 signaling or alter CETP and APOC3, point to pathways we can drug. Two of those discoveries have already moved into phase-three trials.”

“At Eureka Labs we're building what I half-jokingly call the Starfleet Academy: a technically serious, AI-native school where the teacher designs the course and an AI teaching assistant helps guide every student through it. Our first course is LLM101n, and its capstone project is Nanochat, a deliberately simplified full-stack artifact that maximizes what I call eurekas per second.”

“Nick doesn't do one-size-fits-all nutrition advice; he thinks the future of nutrition is personal and that the real work is teaching people how to run self-experiments and read their own biology.”

“A tiny experiment is just an action plus a duration: you try something for a set period, collect a little data, and only then decide whether to keep going. The real shift is replacing goals' binary win-or-lose logic with learning as the only failure.”

“I used to freeze in first impressions, so I built myself a protocol: set my intention before I arrive, flash my palms so my hands are visible, and ask a real question instead of How are you?”

“COVID spreads through the air from people who may not even feel sick yet; Ebola needs direct contact with the blood or body fluids of someone who is already symptomatic. Hantavirus is different still: you usually get it from breathing in dust contaminated by rodent droppings or urine, and only one strain, Andes virus in parts of South America, has shown limited person-to-person spread.”

“I grew up in a place where kids carried guns in junior high, so I learned early that the world is not a seminar room. That distance from privilege is probably why I keep building tools to make invisible social patterns visible, and why I distrust decisions made only by the most confident voice in the room.”

“The biggest thing my research and clinical work keep reinforcing is strain specificity: Lactobacillus plantarum 299v can markedly reduce IBS symptoms, while the closely related L. plantarum MF1298 can actually worsen them. So I treat probiotic prescribing like herbal medicine, choosing the exact strain with evidence for that condition rather than trusting a species name or brand promise.”

“My path started with my mother, a 1970s health nut baking Adelle Davis recipes, which made me rebel hard and then come back curious. I was pre-med, then chose nutrition and metabolism because prevention felt more honest to me than the medical track I had planned.”

“I see foot drop as a signal that the brain has lost some of its map for ankle dorsiflexion, so I work on re-educating that pathway, not just bracing it. In my own recovery, combining targeted exercise with electrical stimulation helped me rebuild the component movements of gait and trip far less.”

“I start by mapping antecedents, triggers, and mediators across the Functional Medicine Matrix, then target the HPA-gut-immune network with circadian-consistent sleep, low-glycemic, polyphenol-rich whole foods, daily movement, breath training, community and purpose, and environmental load reduction, while tracking HRV and symptoms.”