About Rodrigo

I started Calibrate Health because the gap between "your bloodwork is normal" and "you are operating at your real capacity" is enormous. Most founders live in that gap without ever realising it. I know, because I lived in it too. About seven years ago I made the decision to actually figure out what it takes to feel exceptional, not just functional. What followed was roughly two years of doing everything wrong before I started doing anything right.

I was skinny fat, inconsistently trained, bought weight gainers that did absolutely nothing useful, followed generic workout plans off YouTube, and spent real money on testosterone boosters and random supplement stacks because the internet told me to. I was doing everything except the foundations (sleep, recovery, whole-food nutrition, personalized training, and most critically, medical testing). The testing part turned out to be the most important one. When I eventually ran a comprehensive panel, I found markers I had no idea were out of range. Things that were affecting my energy, my mood, and my body composition in ways I had been attributing to genetics or bad luck. It was not genetics. It was data I had never looked at.

The turning point, as cheesy as it sounds, was reading about what Cristiano Ronaldo invests in his body. Over a million dollars a year in nutrition, recovery, sleep coaches, and a personal medical team (slightly biased here since I am Portuguese, but the man does make a compelling argument). The point is not the money. The point is that the highest performers in the world treat the body like a system to be engineered, not a problem to be managed. That reframing changed everything for me. I stopped looking for hacks and started building the system.

The founders I work with have already built something real. A business, a reputation, a lifestyle most people only read about. From the outside it looks completely dialled in. But the first call usually sounds the same: four to five hours of broken sleep, resting heart rate in the 80s, caffeine to feel anything resembling normal, brain fog that comes and goes, and a quiet sense that the body is not keeping up with the pace of the business. I play padel obsessively and train most days, so I take the body-as-instrument idea seriously. Calibrate Health is the structured version of that. 150+ markers of diagnostics, DEXA, VO2max, gut, sleep, and a protocol built around what the data actually shows, not what a generic wellness coach guesses might help. If you have figured out that your health is an asset worth managing properly, we should talk.