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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 advicehttps://www.enhanced.com/gamesSponsored by:Polymarket: https://polymarket.comZcash: https://z.cashCitizenX: https://citizenx.comNetwork Press: https://network.press_______________________________Plausibly Deniable: https://plausiblydeniable.orgLukas: https://x.com/SCHIZO_FREQSaila: https://x.com/sailaunderscoreChristian: https://x.com/C_Angermayer00:00 — The moral case for performance enhancement02:52 — Intro: Christian Angermeyer03:26 — What are the Enhanced Games?06:01 — PEDs, medical supervision, and building the first real data set09:09 — Biohacking, looksmaxing, and body autonomy14:40 — The Enhanced Games pitch: approved drugs, doctors, and athlete choice17:14 — Why recovery may matter more than strength21:09 — Psychedelics, stigma, and using data to change public opinion22:42 — Which world records could the Enhanced Games break?24:49 — Are elite athletes already using PEDs?30:22 — Clean Olympics vs enhanced competition32:17 — Enhanced Games as a viral sports business38:12 — Future events: older athletes, celebrities, robots, and combat sports41:00 — Telehealth, supplements, peptides, and the Red Bull model47:45 — The data business behind human enhancement48:47 — Christian’s personal health philosophy and stack01:00:04 — Can retail investors get exposure to the Enhanced Games?01:03:00 — Europe, America, ambition, and risk-taking01:10:00 — Christian’s early career in finance01:30:35 — Building and selling an African banking group01:43:00 — Consent, alcohol, drugs, and personal choice01:50:00 — Christian’s five-point self-improvement framework02:00:00 — Coming out, identity, and personal narrative02:15:04 — Psychedelics, therapy, religion, and founders02:30:32 — What psychedelics actually reveal02:33:11 — Closing thoughts