Peakspan Is the New Healthspan With Eduard de Wilde

In this episode of the Biohacker's Podcast, Teemu Arina speaks with Eduard de Wilde on peakspan, the idea of extending the years you can keep doing what you love, how he healed from a medication-induced anxiety disorder through lifestyle, the 20/80 rule and five dials of his book More Good Years, and why trends in your data matter more than single numbers.

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Eduard de Wilde, author of More Good Years and founder of LiveHelfi and NoordCode

Eduard de Wilde is a Dutch entrepreneur, biohacker and Certified Bulletproof Coach. After the antimalarial Lariam left him with a severe panic and anxiety disorder in 1999, he rebuilt his health through lifestyle and has spent the past two decades bringing biohacking to a wider audience. He founded LiveHelfi, one of Europe's largest biohacking webshops, and the supplement and functional food brand NoordCode, and is also behind a coach training school for health optimization professionals. His book More Good Years is about peakspan: keeping the things you love in your life for as long as possible. He gives a keynote on the book at HOLOLIFE Summit in Amsterdam on 14 and 15 November 2026.

Website: https://www.dewilde.com

Instagram: @eduarddewilde

- Peakspan shifts the goal from adding years to extending the period in which you can still do the things you love.

- Many people say they care less about when they die than about staying able to enjoy their favourite activities, which makes function a more motivating target than lifespan alone.

- A 20/80 approach focuses on the few basics that deliver most of the benefit, while advanced protocols remain optional for enthusiasts.

- Regular bedtimes and a stable circadian rhythm are a foundation that supports energy, mood and recovery.

- Strength training, intervals, cardio and especially mobility help counter age-related muscle loss and keep everyday movement possible later in life.

- Cooking whole foods, limiting ultra-processed products and avoiding large glucose swings covers much of what good nutrition requires, and Mediterranean-style eating has broad research support.

- A system of default habits with room for occasional indulgence tends to be more sustainable than strict perfectionism, which often ends in rebound.

- Mental wellbeing and relationships matter alongside the body, from stress regulation to handling difficult people and deeper emotional work.

- Health data is most useful when you follow long-term trends such as heart rate variability rather than reacting to single readings, and it should support rather than override how you feel.

- Small, consistent habits woven into ordinary days, such as taking the stairs instead of the escalator, compound over decades into more good years.

00:00 - Cold Open

00:56 - Meet Eduard de Wilde

02:12 - Lifespan, healthspan and peakspan

03:41 - Lariam, Cameroon and a panic disorder

05:45 - The psychiatrist's verdict

06:13 - Healing through lifestyle

08:56 - The 20/80 rule

10:07 - Biohacking for non-biohackers

13:33 - How peakspan differs from healthspan

15:17 - Joyspan and reframing wellness

16:50 - The five dials of More Good Years

18:25 - Biohacking 3.0: three layers of the mind

20:41 - Hacking the ego

21:55 - Nutrition tests and the nocebo effect

25:32 - A system of habits beats perfection

27:03 - Sleep, movement, mobility and nutrition

29:41 - Biohacking built into daily life

33:44 - What makes people take charge of their health

35:19 - His mother, the original biohacker

38:41 - Technology that simulates nature

39:48 - Infrared, HeartMath and HRV trends

42:23 - The tests worth doing

46:07 - When to overrule your data

48:24 - Informed consumers and the medical system

52:10 - Where to find the book and products