Conversations Unplugged
with Siggi Clavien
You can eat well, exercise, barely drink, and still develop fatty liver without knowing it. That’s the problem Siggi Clavien is trying to bring into the open. After 18 years of research and development around liver health, his approach starts with something surprisingly simple: measure the liver first. In this conversation with STEMREGEN Founder and Chief Science Officer Christian Drapeau, Siggi explains why symptoms such as brain fog, stubborn weight gain, poor sleep, and high cholesterol can warrant a closer look at liver health, and why he believes earlier screening could change the way we approach one of the body’s most important organs.
Siggi Clavien
Rather than waiting until someone is already dealing with advanced liver disease, Siggi’s focus is prevention. His team uses tools including MRI, FibroScan, and blood testing to establish a baseline, then follows people over time to measure changes. That matters because, as Siggi explains, blood work alone may not reveal fat accumulation in the liver. His philosophy is to identify the problem earlier, while there is still an opportunity to intervene. “My job and our business and our mission is to prevent you getting ill,” he tells Christian. “So early diagnostics and screening is key to do that.”
That philosophy is also bringing Siggi and Christian together on a new research project. They discuss plans for a study in Madrid exploring a combined approach to liver health, bringing Siggi’s work together with STEMREGEN’s focus on supporting the body’s own circulating stem cells. The idea is to investigate two different parts of the problem: addressing fat accumulation in the liver while also studying whether supporting the body’s repair system could play a role once liver damage has progressed toward fibrosis. The study is still planned, so the answers aren’t in yet, but both see an opportunity to document what happens when these complementary approaches are brought together.
For Siggi, the liver is a perfect example of why health should be approached proactively. It is an organ known for its remarkable regenerative capacity, yet damage can accumulate quietly long before someone realizes there is a problem. That is why his personal routine combines his own liver-focused product with STEMREGEN, an approach he says reflects the philosophy he and Christian share: support the body with plant-based compounds and give its natural systems the opportunity to work more effectively. As Siggi puts it, “the body is amazing,” and the goal is to help it do what it already knows how to do.
