Wherever I am in the world, I avoid meetings before 10am. That doesn’t mean I sleep until 9.45am, but it does mean I can wake without an alarm, somewhere between 7am and 10am, when my body is ready.

I fly to America roughly every two weeks, so going to bed at the same time each night is impossible. Still, I’m sleep-obsessed, so if I can’t have consistency, I can at least make sure I am never dragged awake by an alarm.

The first thing I do is look at my phone, which I shouldn’t. Then I pray and meditate. Some days I manage it the other way round, which is better.

If I have a routine, it’s really an anti-routine: I never drink alcohol. Constant time-zone travel, which I love, is a drag on the body, medically speaking, and I don’t want to burden it with anything else.

I don’t eat breakfast. I’ve done intermittent fasting for so long that I barely notice. I eat within a window of four to eight hours. Dinner is unavoidable, because while people are fine if you don’t eat at a breakfast meeting, it’s very weird if you don’t eat at dinner.

When I eat, it’s roughly Mediterranean: more fish than meat, no bread, legumes rather than bad carbs. But anyone who knows me knows I’ll have a cookie once a month.

For two years I’ve been on a low-dose GLP-1 injection. I’m a stress eater, even when the stress is good, and when I’m busy, I’ll accidentally eat a cookie here and there. The GLP-1 is outsourced discipline: I don’t think about food until someone brings it up.

I do mild testosterone replacement therapy, too. I believe most men over 40 would benefit from bringing their levels back to where they were in their thirties.

I cycle tesamorelin, a peptide that boosts the body’s own growth hormone production. For energy I take SS-31. Then pinealon and epitalon for sleep and I use a topical copper peptide for my skin. Then there are DHEA, pregnenolone, magnesium, 5-HTP and vitamin D. Unless you live on the equator and run around naked all day, you’re probably deficient.

A few months ago I started taking Quviviq, a new sleep drug that isn’t addictive. Things like Ambien and Xanax were never really sleep drugs; they knock you out and rob you of deep sleep, which is why people wake up feeling worse. With Quviviq, I sleep better, and shorter, and wake feeling refreshed.

Its daytime opposite is modafinil, a narcolepsy drug that has been around for decades. It keeps me awake and focused for around 12 hours, and it’s much cleaner energy than coffee. I’m very, very against amphetamines.

I train four or five times a week, mixing weights and cardio. A few times a week I do Peloton and while I ride, two big red-light panels give me full-body red-light therapy. I do sauna every day, usually before bed, and I have one in every apartment.

In the evening I need 30 minutes of TV, now with blue-light blocking glasses. My rule is nothing related to my life, so no lawyers, politicians or business. Even sci-fi is getting too close to the deep tech I invest in. I need a witch, a werewolf, a vampire or a dragon, or very cheesy romcoms.

Once or twice a year I do a proper psychedelic session, mostly psilocybin, and occasionally I microdose. Early on I had a lot of questions. Now it’s maintenance.

At the Enhanced Games we only allow FDA-approved drugs. My advice is to be open to enhancement, but don’t trust every random person on Instagram and don’t make yourself a guinea pig. Anything done obsessively is bad for you. Care about your health, but never stress about it.

Christian Angermayer is the founder of the Aperion Investment Group and co-founder of the Enhanced Games.