Gastroenterologist · Medical director · Practice builder · Betterness investor
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Rabin left Iran as a child after living through war, power outages, and missiles overhead. He connects those formative years to the persistence, family responsibility, and pursuit of better that shaped everything after.
He and his partners left the safer path, emptied their bank accounts, and kept building after being dismissed as kids. The result became one of Brooklyn's largest gastroenterology practices.
His clearest use case is not replacing clinical judgment. It is reducing the non-clinical burden so physicians can stay current, educate clearly, and spend more time with patients.
A story from advanced endoscopy makes medical innovation tangible: a difficult pancreatic procedure that once consumed hours became a minutes-long intervention as the tools improved.
Rabin's microbiome and biomarker lens points toward individualized care: two patients may share a diagnosis while their disease pattern, context, and response are entirely different.
He sees meaningful benefits and fewer side effects than many initially feared, while stressing appropriate use, misuse in the market, and the long-term questions medicine cannot yet answer.
Resilience, patient time, early detection, and the need to understand the person behind the result.
Those formative years definitely shape what kind of person you become.
We could have folded at that point, but we didn't.
Your main goal still is to be a doctor.
It would make us better doctors, would give us more time to spend with patients.
Probably the most important thing that we do as gastroenterologists is prevent colon cancer.
The more we learn, the more we realize how little we know.
Each one stands on its own — built to watch, post, and pass along.
Scud missiles overhead almost daily
“The childhood experience that shaped everything after.”
We could have folded, but we didn't
“Four young physicians bet their own savings on the practice.”
Where doctors actually need AI
“Give physicians back the time to practice medicine.”
Seven hours became seven minutes
“What a decade of endoscopic innovation changed.”
AI is helping doctors detect polyps
“How a second set of eyes can support colon-cancer prevention.”
The same diagnosis, a different disease
“Why microbiome and context push medicine toward personalization.”
Hosted by
Demian Bellumio — co-founder and co-CEO of Betterness, longtime Miami tech entrepreneur — has built across applied AI (his field is graph computing), media, telemedicine, and mental health. On Augmented Wellness he interviews from the inside: a builder comparing notes with the founders, healers, coaches, and operators on a mission to make the world better.
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Recorded at The LAB Miami in Wynwood (studio partner), with on-site production by Podcast Studio Miami.
Episode 004 becomes a private AI interviewer you can run with Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, a local agent, or any LLM that reads Markdown. It turns a scattered digestive-health history into a living context portfolio: symptom timeline, food and bowel patterns, medications, supplements, family history, prior procedures, labs, questions, and missing information. Connect Betterness when you want the portfolio enriched by permissioned health data and reports.
Build the story behind your symptoms, food, tests, medications, and questions before the appointment begins.
The interview
A progressive conversation that asks only the next useful question and distinguishes facts, memories, patterns, and uncertainty.
The context portfolio
Reusable Markdown organizes symptoms, triggers, bowel patterns, diet, medications, supplements, family history, tests, procedures, and care goals.
The appointment brief
A concise output separates what changed, what needs clarification, and the questions worth bringing to a gastroenterologist.
The Betterness layer
With explicit permission, connect reports, labs, wearables, goals, and daily context instead of retyping the same history into every AI conversation.
# create your digestive-health interviewer
digestive-health-context-interviewer.md — the copy-paste interviewer for any capable LLM
context-portfolio-template.md — the living Markdown record produced by the interview
questions/appointment-prep.md — a one-page gastroenterology visit brief
starter-prompts.md — ways to update, compare, and use the portfolio without asking AI to diagnose
For humans & agents
Built to be read by you — or your AI
Produced by Demian Bellumio with the support of agents from Betterness One — the agentic studio inside Betterness — including specialist agents for content, design, video, photography, insights, brand, and social, coordinated by Bett-i. Recorded at The LAB Miami; on-site production by Podcast Studio Miami.
Content Strategist
Built the episode around resilience, medical entrepreneurship, patient time, and individualized care.
Design Director
Prepared Rabin's episode artwork, photography, and visual hierarchy.
Video Producer
Assembled the final master, cold open, captions, and six capsule narratives.
Insights Analyst
Mapped the GI, microbiome, biomarker, GLP-1, and AI themes to the transcript.
Brand Strategist
Kept the medical language grounded in what the conversation actually supports.
Social Intelligence
Selected distinct stories for standalone reels and a multi-video carousel.
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Meet Bett-i and explore the same kind of agentic experience we brought into this episode. Then let Betterness One put the production and insight agents behind Augmented Wellness to work for your business.