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Work

Introducing Erdo: The AI Workforce for Business

I'm investing in and joining the board of Erdo as Non-Executive Chairman. I won't be operationally involved (life is busy!), but I'm excited to partner with some of the best people I've had the pleasure of working with in my entire

  • Emi Gal
Emi Gal Mar 25, 2026 • 1 min read
longevity

A Minimalist Longevity Protocol

A friend reached out to me recently with an interesting question: "I am 36 years old, have 2 kids, and my goal is to be around for my family as long as possible. I do not intend to consume 50 pills worth of supplements a day, but I do

  • Emi Gal
Emi Gal Aug 6, 2025 • 5 min read
Ezra

Ezra is joining Function Health

From day one, our mission at Ezra has been to detect cancer early for everyone. To achieve this mission we've created the fastest, most accurate, most affordable Full Body MRI in the world. For the past few years, my dream has been to create a $500 Full Body

  • Emi Gal
Emi Gal May 5, 2025 • 2 min read
longevity

The health dataset of the future

A couple of days ago I gave a presentation at Bryan Johnson’s Don’t Die Summit in San Francisco, talking about the health dataset of the future. I’ve since gotten countless emails from people asking for the slides, so I decided to make them public. The slides alone

  • Emi Gal
Emi Gal Sep 11, 2024 • 3 min read
full-body mri

Full Body MRIs vs. liquid biopsies for early cancer detection

I often get asked how Full Body MRIs compare to liquid biopsies (also known as circulating-tumor DNA tests). For those not familiar with these types of screening procedures, full body MRIs take an imaging approach to cancer detection - we’re trying to “see” tumors in the body. Liquid biopsies

  • Emi Gal
Emi Gal Jun 27, 2024 • 5 min read
cancer research

How to prevent cancer

I am often asked by Ezra customers whether cancer is preventable. The good news is that most cancers are preventable and, if detected early, they are also curable. This post covers all the science-backed lifestyle interventions you can make in order to prevent cancer and reduce your risk of

  • Emi Gal
Emi Gal May 21, 2024 • 5 min read
AI

AI Researcher Dinner Series

I spend a lot of time with AI researchers given my work at Ezra, so I've decided to organize a series of AI researcher dinners. Dr. Dan Sodickson, our Chief Scientist and the Chief of Innovation in the Radiology department at NYU will be my co-host. Each

  • Emi Gal
Emi Gal Mar 15, 2024 • 1 min read
longevity guides

A longevity-focused workout protocol for busy people

I work a lot. I also travel for work a lot. In a typical week, I only have 5 to 6 hours available to work out and unfortunately do not have time to work out every day. So over the years, I've developed a workout protocol that'

  • Emi Gal
Emi Gal Feb 11, 2024 • 6 min read
Ezra

Ezra raises $21 million to make Full Body MRIs more accessible

Our mission at Ezra is to detect cancer early for everyone in the world. Since starting the company 5 years ago we have scanned thousands of people and have helped hundreds detect cancer early. Many of our members have gotten treatment and, because their cancer was caught early, are now

  • Emi Gal
Emi Gal Feb 8, 2024 • 2 min read
Work

My personal OKR framework

I spend the last two weeks of every December planning the upcoming year. It's a process I really enjoy, and over the years I've developed a deceptively simple but highly effective personal objectives & key results (OKR) planning framework. I've been using it for

  • Emi Gal
Emi Gal Dec 17, 2023 • 4 min read
longevity

A pragmatic mental health guide for managing anxiety

The life of an entrepreneur is not all Forbes covers and unicorns. In fact, the opposite is true; most days are riddled with stress, anxiety, and doubt. The highs are high and brief, the lows are low and tend to stretch out. Managing your psychology during these long periods is

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Emi Gal Aug 29, 2023 • 5 min read
Projects

Introducing kahla: the most integrated health app for women

My wife, Sabina, and her sister Julia have been working on a new startup for the past year — kahla. It's an app that helps women monitor symptoms, lifestyle, and glucose levels (using a continuous glucose monitor), and provides AI-powered personalized recommendations to help women improve their health.

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Emi Gal Jul 2, 2023 • 2 min read
longevity guides

How I use supplements for longevity and performance

I was having dinner with some friends a few evenings ago. To the amusement of my fellow dinner companions, after desert I pulled out a Fount pouch and gobbled up a dozen pills in a single mouthful. My friends were curious what the hell I'm doing, so I

  • Emi Gal
Emi Gal Jun 27, 2023 • 6 min read
Ezra

The Secret Ezra Master Plan (just between you and me)*

[originally posted on the Ezra blog here] Our mission at Ezra is to detect cancer early for everyone in the world. To achieve this audacious goal, our plan from Day 1 was as follows: Step 1: launch a 60-minute full body MRI that screens for cancer everywhere in the

  • Emi Gal
Emi Gal Jun 1, 2023 • 3 min read
full-body mri

On incidental findings

Nikhil from Out of Pocket recently wrote an essay about incidentals in cancer screening that I thought was measured and well documented. Given that I run a startup that offers the types of Full Body MRI scans Nikhil describes, I wanted to provide my perspective on the risks (and benefits)

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Emi Gal Apr 4, 2023 • 7 min read
longevity guides

A comprehensive blood testing panel for longevity

As mentioned in my research-based protocol for longevity, I am religious about blood testing and believe it's one of the best tools to help understand how each of my health systems is performing. Every January, I get a very comprehensive blood testing panel done that includes over

  • Emi Gal
Emi Gal Jan 16, 2022 • 4 min read
Work

How I spent my time in 2021

Each year, I do an audit of how I spent my time in order to look for areas of improvement. I used to do this manually, but this year I decided to write a python script for it. Here's a short outline of how I spent my time

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Emi Gal Jan 8, 2022 • 2 min read
Ezra

A research-based protocol for longevity

Updated 5/16/2023 According to the CDC, the main causes of death for a 37 year old (my age) are unintentional injuries (poisoning through narcotics and psychodysleptics or motor vehicle accidents), followed by cancer, coronary heart disease, suicide or homicide 1. If you fast forward to 65 years+, the

  • Emi Gal
Emi Gal Jan 26, 2021 • 9 min read
Ezra

“Ezra saved my life”

[Originally posted on Medium [https://medium.com/ezraai/ezra-saved-my-life-833ce64b33a1]] Two and a half years ago, we set out to create a new way to screen for cancer that is fast, accurate, and affordable. Eighteen months ago, we launched [https://medium.com/ezraai/meet-ezra-a-new-

  • Emi Gal
Emi Gal Jun 1, 2020 • 4 min read
Ezra

Introducing the Ezra full-body scan, covering 13 cancers in women and 11 in men

[Originally posted on Medium [https://medium.com/ezraai/introducing-the-ezra-full-body-scan-covering-13-cancers-in-women-and-11-in-men-67ba90b4e534] ] We started Ezra [http://ezra.com/] with one mission: help everyone in the world detect cancer early. In 2018, 18.1¹ million people worldwide were diagnosed

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Emi Gal May 23, 2019 • 4 min read
Ezra

Meet Ezra, a new way to screen for cancer

[Originally posted on Medium] 18.1 million¹ people across the world will be diagnosed with cancer this year, and over half will be diagnosed late². Of the 9 million people who will receive a late diagnosis, only a third will survive longer than 5 years³. If their cancer had been

  • Emi Gal
Emi Gal Nov 13, 2018 • 4 min read
experiments

My 2016 experiment

For the past eight years, I’ve taken on a new experiment every year. I do them for three reasons: to learn something new, meet new people and get outside my comfort zone. My experiments vary – in previous years I’ve been a polyphasic sleeper, read a book per week,

  • Emi Gal
Emi Gal Jan 8, 2016 • 1 min read
elderproject

The #elderproject – what I learned

For the past 10 years I’ve always spent the first few quiet days of the year thinking about the past 365 days and planning for the next. This year, my introspection also turned out to be a good opportunity go through all my #elderproject [https://www.emigal.com/tag/

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Emi Gal Jan 2, 2016 • 4 min read
elderproject

The #elderproject #11 – Graham Perolls

I first met Graham earlier this year, when he invited me to become a Honorary Patron on the Copaceni fundraising committee for Hospices of Hope. I’m in awe of Graham’s dedication to helping people in South Eastern Europe with services of palliative care, and this was one of

  • Emi Gal
Emi Gal Dec 25, 2015 • 1 min read
elderproject

The #elderproject #10 – Princess Marina Sturdza

A week ago in New York, I had the great pleasure to interview Princess Marina Sturdza. She is a member [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturdza_family] of the old, aristocratic Sturdza family, who were exiled by the communist regime in Romania when she was just three years old. Princess

  • Emi Gal
Emi Gal Nov 29, 2015 • 1 min read
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