A Billionaire’s Guide To Healing Your Mind And Extending Your Life: Christian Angermayer | E72

Christian Angermayer traces his path from an idyllic Bavarian village and a childhood obsessed with making businesses to dropping out of university to co-found a billion-dollar biotech. He explains a lifelong philosophy of relentless positivity, visualization and never allowing negative thoughts, rooted in success books he discovered at 14. A man who never drank alcohol became the world's leading psychedelics investor after one magic-mushroom trip he calls the most meaningful experience of his life, leading to Compass Pathways and atai. He argues aging is a disease that can be slowed and reversed, that life expectancy will extend dramatically, and that society needs faith, purpose and love to stay sane through accelerating technological change. The conversation also covers his work ethic, views on relationships, longevity habits, and bullishness on Bitcoin as the new store of value.

• Angermayer's first magic-mushroom trip, taken with friends in the legal Caribbean, was the single most meaningful experience of his life and confirmed his path.
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• He has never drunk alcohol, smoked a cigarette or joint, or taken any illegal drug, and only started coffee at 28.
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• A serendipitous chain via Mike Novogratz connected him to Compass founders George and Katya, launching his psychedelics empire.
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• He flatly states aging is a disease and believes we can not just slow but reverse it.
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• He rejects work-life balance entirely, framing all his work as one continuous hobby.
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• He is 'super bullish' on Bitcoin, calling it the new gold and cash the most dangerous asset class over ten years.
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• He is openly gay and chose not to disclose it growing up in a hostile village as a pragmatic risk-return decision.
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• At age six his first act with newfound writing skills was writing his mother an invoice for salad.
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• At 14 he built a tutoring business employing about 10 peers under his brand on a 50% margin.
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• His first biotech company IPO'd about three and a half years after founding for a billion, the quickest biotech IPO in Germany.
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• He cites David Nutt's harm chart showing alcohol as the most harmful drug, ahead of heroin.
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• Ibogaine is described as potentially able to cure addiction, including opioids, with a single trip.
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• A US study found the median answer to 'how many people can you turn to in a crisis' fell from three to zero over 15 years.
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• Angermayer takes roughly 42 pills a day as part of his health regimen.
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• He never wakes to an alarm clock unless travelling, prioritizing natural sleep.
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• He practices intermittent fasting, not eating for 16 to 18 hours a day.
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• In Japan a walk in the forest is prescribed as a treatment for depression.
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