Andrea Betschart

When people ask Andrea Betschart what she does, she rarely answers with a title. She answers with a mission: to restore vitality where the system has left people depleted.

Andrea is the founder of RESPIRA, a longevity-focused initiative built around a powerful tool: IHHT, Intermittent Hyperoxia-Hypoxia Training. But RESPIRA is more than a health concept. It’s a movement rooted in redefining resilience, from mitochondria to mindset.

With a deep background in coaching, corporate development, and cross-cultural leadership, Andrea bridges science and soul. Her work meets people where modern medicine often stops, before true healing begins.

At the heart of RESPIRA is the belief that the body knows what to do if we give it the right signals. Through IHHT, Andrea has helped clinics, health entrepreneurs, and executives access foundational improvements in energy, metabolic function, and emotional regulation.

She’s witnessed transformations that defy conventional thinking, from chronic fatigue turned into calm stamina, to burnout replaced with renewed clarity and purpose. These are not overnight fixes, but the result of precision-guided, nervous system-supportive approaches.

Leadership, for Andrea, is about creating structures that return people to themselves. It’s not about control, it’s about remembering. About asking: what if vitality is our natural state, and we’ve just forgotten how to access it?

As a founder, she operates at the intersection of evidence-based protocols and intuitive health wisdom. RESPIRA was built not for hype, but for what works. Her team collaborates across Switzerland, Europe, Mexico, Canada, and the U.S., working with clinics and longevity leaders to bring IHHT and integrated care models into practice.

Andrea is also the founder of Essential Coaching, where she supports leaders and change-makers in building nervous system-friendly businesses, ones that align with their energy, not just their ambitions.

Her clients range from functional medicine clinics to regenerative wellness pioneers. But the common thread? A desire to create impact without depletion. To scale influence without abandoning health.

“We can no longer afford to separate energy from leadership,” she says. “One without the other doesn’t last.”

This conviction drives Andrea’s work and makes her one of the emerging voices in the field of longevity and regenerative leadership.

Whether speaking, consulting, or co-designing clinical models, her goal is the same: help people remember their power. The power to heal. To lead. To live fully, with energy that lasts.