Twelve Austrian national championships.

Fourteen years in banking.

More than three decades studying strength, recovery and human performance.

Today, Martin Gratzer helps lead performance, biohacking and longevity initiatives inside one of Austria’s most established health companies.

This is not a conventional sports nutrition career—and that is exactly why it is worth hearing.

On November 19, Martin will join GPNi live from Frankfurt to discuss how elite sport, corporate experience and performance nutrition shaped the career he has today—and why the next frontier of performance may be longevity.

Beyond the Science: Building a Career and Business in Sports Nutrition 

Date: Thursday, November 19, 2026 

Time: 

Germany: 3:30 pm CET / US East Coast: 9:30 am EST / US West Coast: 6:30 am PST / China: 10:30 pm / Japan: 11:30 pm 

Platform: Live worldwide on Zoom 

Host: Drew Campbell, CISSN 

Guests: Martin Gratzer and Daniel Molina 

Language: English, with AI-powered live translated captions 

Registration: https://nxkkc.share-na2.hsforms.com/2asfMJ5WgQlqYiRNi6W2lCg

Winning Was Only the First Education

Martin became a 12-time Austrian national champion as a professional shot putter.

Competing at that level meant learning what performance feels like when the outcome matters: how to build strength, manage fatigue, recover from heavy training and keep improving when progress is measured in centimetres.

His interest did not end with his own sporting career. Over more than three decades, Martin studied strength training, supplementation and performance with internationally recognised experts, including the late Charles Poliquin. He also worked with recreational athletes, corporate executives, elite competitors and Olympic-level athletes.

Alongside his life in high-performance sport, Martin also spent 14 years in banking—building experience in commercial decision-making, leadership and demanding corporate environments.

Banking may appear far removed from sport, but it taught him how organisations work, how commercial decisions are made and what sustained performance looks like in another high-pressure environment.

Martin did not choose between those experiences. He built a career from their combination.

From One Athlete to More Than One Million Customers

Today, Martin is Managing Director at BIOGENA, responsible for BIOGENA ONE as well as the company’s biohacking and longevity initiatives.

BIOGENA operates on a scale few sports nutrition professionals ever see from the inside: around 500 employees, more than one million customers across over 90 countries, a network of more than 30,000 doctors and therapists, and a portfolio of over 300 products.

At that level, having a good idea is not enough.

The science must be credible. The product must solve a real problem. Customers must understand it. Teams must be able to deliver it, and the entire concept must work beyond one coach, one athlete or one market.

BIOGENA ONE, one of Martin’s main areas of responsibility, received an ISPO Award for its approach to workplace wellbeing and performance. Its central idea is that health should not be treated as an optional employee benefit, but as a strategic part of long-term performance.

That makes Martin’s experience especially valuable for anyone asking: 

• How do I take what I know and make it useful at a much larger scale?

The Bigger Performance Question: Can You Keep It?

Martin’s work covers sports nutrition, recovery, metabolic health, muscle and strength preservation, corporate health, biohacking and practical longevity.

Longevity is often marketed through extreme interventions and futuristic promises. Martin’s approach begins with a more practical foundation: training, nutrition, recovery, measurable health and consistency.

For athletes, this raises an important question. Improving this season matters—but what will today’s decisions mean for health, strength and performance ten or twenty years from now?

For professionals and business leaders, the question is similar. High output may look impressive in the short term, but it is not genuine high performance if it cannot be sustained.

Martin’s principle is simple:

• High performance should not come at the expense of long-term health. The goal is performance for the long run.

What Can You Take From This Conversation?

Martin’s career offers more than an impressive biography. It provides practical lessons about how to build value across different environments.

The discussion will explore:

• How experience from elite sport can become a professional advantage
• How skills from another industry can strengthen a career in sports nutrition
• How scientific knowledge becomes a product or service people will use
• How to think about performance and longevity together
• How to preserve strength, muscle and metabolic health over time
• What established health companies look for in employees and collaborators
• How to move from helping one athlete to creating solutions at scale

Bring the Question You Cannot Google

The podcast will include a live Q&A, giving participants the opportunity to speak directly with Martin, Daniel and Drew.

You can ask Martin about careers in sports nutrition, corporate health, product development, biohacking or longevity. You can ask how to make your athletic experience relevant to an employer, what skills large health companies need, or how someone with an unconventional background can enter the industry.

A course can teach you the science. It cannot always show you how an athlete becomes a managing director—or how expertise becomes influence at international scale.

That is the conversation Martin can offer.

Join us live on November 19, and come prepared with questions.