Simone Biles, the legendary American gymnast, had the courage to prioritize mental health at her peak in sports. This happened at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 when she decided to withdraw from several finals due to stress. She stopped when it seemed like everything was within her reach. "Giving importance to mental health is no longer a weakness but a strength. It is time to talk about it," she said yesterday at the fourth edition of Future Health The Event, organized by Sanitas. "I am not ashamed to go to therapy; all of this helps me a lot, and every time I have an event, it drives me to give my best version. It is necessary to have a stable mind to improve as a person. Without therapy, it would not have been possible for me to fully compete in the Olympics."
The gymnast has won 11 Olympic medals, seven of them gold. After the Tokyo Games, she hit the pause button. She returned to high-level competition in 2024, at the Paris Games, where she won three events. The issue she faced in 2021 - experiencing "twisties," a mental block related to acrobatic sports - prevented her from fully trusting her body again. "It has all been a learning process. Thanks to my team, I have become myself again. If you do something and overcome it day after day, you have to embrace it, realize it, and overcome it."
Biles shared her personal journey in a conversation with Yolanda Erburu, Sanitas' Head of Sustainability and Corporate Affairs. Both emphasized the benefits of finding "real well-being that requires mental, emotional, physical, and personal balance."
The fourth edition of Future Health The Event focused on a care model that is "digital, preventive, and sustainable, where emotional health, digitization, genomics, and the environment are part of the same care vision."
Technology allows for the detection of tumors in chest X-rays or mammograms at very early stages, thanks to a system that automatically analyzes and rates cancerous nodules. One of the most important sections of the event delved into preventive medicine. According to the data provided, Sanitas "has already sequenced the genome of more than 9,500 people." With this information, personalized health plans are generated to help "each patient."
Other experts who participated included César Morcillo, Medical Director of Sanitas, Simone Biles, the legendary American gymnast who had the courage to prioritize mental health at her peak in sports. This happened at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 when she decided to withdraw from several finals due to stress. She stopped when it seemed like everything was within her reach. "Giving importance to mental health is no longer a weakness but a strength. It is time to talk about it," she said yesterday at the fourth edition of Future Health The Event, organized by Sanitas. "I am not ashamed to go to therapy; all of this helps me a lot, and every time I have an event, it drives me to give my best version. It is necessary to have a stable mind to improve as a person. Without therapy, it would not have been possible for me to fully compete in the Olympics."
The gymnast has won 11 Olympic medals, seven of them gold. After the Tokyo Games, she hit the pause button. She returned to high-level competition in 2024, at the Paris Games, where she won three events. The issue she faced in 2021 - experiencing "twisties," a mental block related to acrobatic sports - prevented her from fully trusting her body again. "It has all been a learning process. Thanks to my team, I have become myself again. If you do something and overcome it day after day, you have to embrace it, realize it, and overcome it."
Biles shared her personal journey in a conversation with Yolanda Erburu, Sanitas' Head of Sustainability and Corporate Affairs. Both emphasized the benefits of finding "real well-being that requires mental, emotional, physical, and personal balance."
The fourth edition of Future Health The Event focused on a care model that is "digital, preventive, and sustainable, where emotional health, digitization, genomics, and the environment are part of the same care vision."
Technology allows for the detection of tumors in chest X-rays or mammograms at very early stages, thanks to a system that automatically analyzes and rates cancerous nodules. One of the most important sections of the event delved into preventive medicine. According to the data provided, Sanitas "has already sequenced the genome of more than 9,500 people." With this information, personalized health plans are generated to help "each patient."
Other experts who participated included César Morcillo, Medical Director of Sanitas, María Isidoro García, Regional Coordinator of the Precision Medicine Strategic Plan of Castilla y León, Raúl Rabadán, Professor in the Department of Systems Biology, Biomedical Informatics, and Surgery at Columbia University in New York, and José María Ordovás, a global reference in nutrigenomics and professor at Tufts University in Boston.
"Our new pharmacogenetics service analyzes the response to more than 120 medications to reduce the risks associated with medication and improve treatment efficacy," Morcillo analyzed.
Before that, Simone Biles left an optimistic message for future generations. It is the message of someone who has been on the other side and returns with part of the solution. "You have to take care of your mind as well as your body. Trust, have dreams, and speak to yourself honestly," added the champion.