Genetic profiling: A fast-track ticket to optimal health

iamYiam founder Lorena Puica explains why she left a high-flying career in investment management to launch an innovative health service

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I left home at the age of 17, with €300 in my pocket and a burning ambition. By the age of 29, I had five degrees in finance, a published book and was working as director of strategy for multi-asset funds, looking after about £2.2bn and an army of portfolio managers. Working 80 hours a week, travelling three weeks of each month across time zones and pushing both intellectual and physical boundaries obviously comes at a price. On that intense journey to the highs of investment management, the price was my health.

I began suffering from the typical health problems many busy people complain of – stress, anxiety, insomnia, back and neck pain – but I just carried on, thinking this was normal. In your twenties you don't consider the possibility you could get a serious illness, you think you are immortal.

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