Episode Six: Why Do You Exist? Dr. Henna A. Karna on AI, Brain Health and Fixing Mental Health Care

Episode Six: Why Do You Exist? Dr. Henna A. Karna on AI, Brain Health and Fixing Mental Health Care Why do you exist? It sounds like a question for a philosophy seminar. Dr. Henna Karna argues it’s the most urgent question in healthcare AI, and the one most leaders skip. Henna has held C-suite roles at Google, AXA and AIG. Today she’s co-founder and president of NeuroVitals, an AI platform that brings together biomarker tracking, behaviour and therapy to treat mind and body together in mental health care. In this episode of Redefining AI, Lauren and Henna discuss: Why she ended up building from scratch, after years of telling people “don’t reinvent the wheel” The “N of one” idea: using AI to connect your own biology, habits and symptoms with what science already knows Why patients keep retelling their story from specialist to specialist, and how AI can connect the dots The 17-year gap between scientific discovery and medical practice, and where AI can safely shorten it Moving mental health away from treating symptoms and towards finding causes like brain inflammation, the microbiome and mitochondrial health Why “why do we exist?” has become the key question for companies, and for people, in the AI era Her one small habit for everyone: notice what you eat, how you sleep and how you breathe A conversation on keeping the human at the centre of the system while AI speeds things up.