Sabs · Kokorology · Speaker

    The Optimization Substitute

    Quality of life over longevity is the goal.

    One thesis, three lengths. Built so the manifesto IS the audition tape — every speaking opportunity a variation of the same core argument.

    KhalsaPorgesMcEwenMattsonFitzgerald

    Signature talk · three variants

    7 minutes

    Quality of life over longevity

    TEDx · podcast intros · founder dinners

    The opening movement of the thesis. One image, one frame, one doorway.

    20 minutes

    The Optimization Substitute: what longevity is actually a substitute for

    Conference keynote · podcast main · panel opener

    The default. A friend's biological-age screenshot becomes the false frame for the longevity movement — and the science of interoception becomes the doorway back.

    45 minutes

    The Optimization Substitute: a thesis on what the wellness industry has been selling and what the body is actually asking for

    Premium keynote · GWS-style stage · university lecture

    The full argument. Khalsa, Porges, McEwen and the cultural critics, in sequence, with the regulated-operator destination held until the close.

    Talk specs · in detail

    7 minutes

    TEDx · podcast intros · founder dinners

    Quality of life over longevity

    AudienceMixed wellness, longevity-curious, founder rooms

    What the talk covers

    • One image — a friend's biological-age screenshot — opens the false frame of the longevity movement.
    • One mechanism — interoception, from Khalsa 2018 — names what the body is actually asking for.
    • One doorway — regulation as foundation, not protocol — lands the close.

    Outcomes for the room

    • Audience leaves with a single reframe they can repeat the next day.
    • Plants the phrase 'optimization substitute' as a memorable category label.
    • Functions as an audition tape for 20- and 45-minute formats.

    Quality of life over longevity is the goal.

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    20 minutes

    Conference keynote · podcast main · panel opener

    The Optimization Substitute

    AudienceOperator, founder, and executive audiences

    What the talk covers

    • Opens with the screenshot moment and names the false frame the industry is selling.
    • Walks Khalsa, Porges, and McEwen to show what dysregulation is doing under the dashboard.
    • Shows how wellness borrowed the vocabulary (adaptation, regulation, polyvagal) without the mechanism.
    • Closes on the regulated operator as the next industry archetype.

    Outcomes for the room

    • Operators get language for the gap between their protocols and their felt state.
    • Programmers get a defensible thesis for repositioning longevity content.
    • Audience walks out able to describe regulation as foundation, not protocol.

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    45 minutes

    Premium keynote · GWS-style stage · university lecture

    The full thesis — what the wellness industry has been selling and what the body is actually asking for

    AudienceWellness institutions, longevity industry leaders, graduate-level health audiences

    What the talk covers

    • Full cultural critique: why the optimization industry has plateaued and where the substitution started.
    • Full mechanism stack: Khalsa (interoception), Porges (polyvagal), McEwen (allostatic load), Mattson and Fitzgerald (metabolic regulation).
    • Operator case studies: the executive who tried everything, the dashboard that never moved the felt state.
    • Strategic implication: the regulated operator as the next industry archetype and what institutions must build to serve them.

    Outcomes for the room

    • Institutions leave with a clear product and curriculum roadmap.
    • Audience can name the four mechanisms underneath every regulation claim in the market.
    • Establishes Kokorology's foundations-first sequence — regulation, stabilisation, capacity, performance — as the reference architecture.

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    20-minute keynote · beat structure

    0–2
    The screenshot
    A friend sent his biological age — reversed by four years. I asked how he was. He said tired.
    2–5
    The false frame
    The longevity industry says people want more years. Almost no one chasing it is afraid of dying.
    5–9
    What the body is doing
    Khalsa, 2018: the dysregulated nervous system loses the capacity to feel itself.
    9–13
    The industry borrowed the words
    Adaptation. Regulation. Polyvagal. Same products, new vocabulary.
    13–17
    What this is for an operator
    The executive who has tried everything. The supplement stack. The dashboard. Still tired.
    17–19
    The doorway
    Regulation as foundation, not protocol. The earned identity: regulated operator.
    19–20
    Close
    Quality of life over longevity is the goal.

    Speaker bio · three lengths

    50 words

    Sabs is the founder of Kokorology, a curriculum for nervous system regulation built for operators, founders, and executives. Her thesis — The Optimization Substitute — names what the wellness industry has been quietly selling and what the body is actually asking for.

    100 words

    Sabs is the founder of Kokorology, the nervous-system regulation curriculum built for operators. Her thesis — The Optimization Substitute — names what the longevity and wellness industries have been quietly substituting for the felt experience of being a self. She works from the science (Khalsa, Porges, McEwen, Mattson) and the culture in parallel, building the bridge that lets premium audiences move from protocol-stacking into regulation as foundation. Based between Lisbon and Dubai. Founder of Kokorology, the brand naming and building the architecture of the regulated operator.

    200 words

    Sabs is the founder of Kokorology, the curriculum and brand naming The Optimization Substitute — the cultural and physiological gap between what the wellness industry has been quietly selling and what the body is actually asking for. Her work translates the peer-reviewed science of interoception (Khalsa, 2018), polyvagal theory (Porges), allostatic load (McEwen) and metabolic regulation (Mattson, Fitzgerald) into a curriculum built for the operator class: executives, founders, and high-functioning women whose protocols have stopped working. Kokorology's offer ladder runs from the 7-Day Nervous System Reset through L1 Regulation, the Anchor series, and L2 Performance — a foundations-first sequence: regulation, stabilisation, capacity, performance. Sabs speaks on the cultural critique (why the optimization industry has plateaued), the mechanism underneath (what regulation actually restores), and the strategic implication for wellness institutions (the regulated operator as the next industry archetype). Based between Lisbon and Dubai. Available for conference keynotes, premium podcasts, university lectures, and corporate workshops on burnout, longevity critique, and nervous-system literacy.

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    Founder · Kokorology

    Sabin Lakhani

    Founder, Kokorology

    • Regulation for high-performing operators in their 30s–50s.
    • Repair faster than you burn out™ — 12-year autonomic methodology.
    • Reset → L1 → Anchors — in that order, always.
    • The Missing Subject — book in progress.
    • kokorology.com/regulation-tell

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    Global Wellness Summit

    Partnership track. Trends contribution, Summit slot, longer-term industry curriculum.

    World Economic Forum

    Authority track. Health & Healthcare panel; women's-health science stack.

    Premium podcast circuit

    Cultural reach. Tier 1 longevity + operator podcasts. Thesis-led pitch.

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