‘In Case of Emergency’ - Doctors’ Note, Episode 9
From hosting the Health Forum at London Tech Week 2022, to dealing with health emergencies at home and office - our Doctors give you a weekly download of everything they’ve been up to, themes in longevity, and healthech research, and growing concerns about reproductive rights, Monkeypox and of course, COVID.
Consume Food Science Wisely - Knowledge is Power
Is Wine killing you? Is Turmeric healing you? No and No, but we’re being swayed everyday by laughable headlines drawing from ‘leading’ studies in nutrition science. Allow us to help you make sense of the pile of dueling information on nutrition.
Doctors’ Note - Episode 8
Our Doctors’ weekly download on the future of medicine, self testing, health summits, promising cancer drugs, sperm tests, and of course, this week’s newsletter.
Highlights From the 2022 Health Optimisation Summit
What are the recent trends in Health Tech? Linda Vlasaku trials and writes about some of the stand-out products/themes from the 2022 Health Optimization Summit.
A Treatment That Put Every Single Cancer Patient Into Remission
A new experimental drug tried on 12 patients with rectal cancer resulted in zero remission. Is this a magic cure to cancer?
Get your Mojo back - Get Your Sperm Tested
There are many reasons to why you should get your sperm tested - fertility is only one of them. Mojo’s at sperm test kit makes it easier to take from the comfort of your home.
From the Doctor’s Desk
Our Doctors’ download on growing rates of monkeypox, hepatitis amongst children, the crashing biotech stock market and more…
Taking a Personalized Approach to Sleep
Is there a set number of hours that we should be sleeping each night? Or should we take a personalized approach to examining our sleeping patterns?
A Scan a Day Keeps the Doctor Away?
With whole body MRI scan and CT scans being aggressively marketed as diagnostic tools for the possible early detection of cancer, and other diseases, should we be getting yearly full body scans? Find out what our doctors have to say..
Oh, Don’t Be So Hormonal! Managing Hormones in Mid-life
Being hormonal isn’t just limited to puberty and teenage acne! In fact, midlife is when most of us need to seriously start taking steps towards managing our hormones.
Factoring in Hormones, Menopause and Andropause into your Relationships
A woman’s body ages 6% faster after having gone through menopause, making it an integral topic of discussion for couples approaching their mid to late 50s.
8 Today. 8 Trillion Tomorrow.
Longevity Biotech is a child on a mission - to have us live ludicrously-long, physically-healthy lives. But what about those who won’t?
Giving the Future of Health a Stage
What are our favourite WIRED health-tech talks of all time? Project150’s Chief Content Officer, in 2013, compiled a report for WIRED magazine setting out the case for a new live event around medicine and health. The WIRED Health event was born. It’s become a world renowned stage. And it’s where we met João.
Rapid Response: Do We Recommend Time-Restricted Feeding (TRF)?
A quick fire ‘Rapid Response’ on a recent NYT article, ‘Scientists Find No Benefit to Time-Restricted Eating’ regarding the efficacy of time-restricted eating.
Is Calorie Labelling the Solution to Weight Management?
The ‘calorie in, calorie out’ approach to weight loss – which a new UK policy seems to be promoting – is antiquated…
Your Medicine Cabinet, Part 1: The Basics
How can you build a handy medicine cabinet that you can reach to during minor health ailments and emergencies? Here are our top tips from our Doctors.
Why Holidays Go So Fast
Whatever you've been celebrating or doing this long weekend, there's lot of fasting, good, bad and fad, happening right now. This, and an increasing stream of questions on how to eat less, when and why, has got us thinking about doing deeper research into the latest on fasting.
The Bugs Inside Us All
Our body consists of more than 100 trillion microbiomes. Learn more about their role and importance in our metabolic and gut functioning.
How Clemency Burton-Hill Treated Her Brain with Music
“Although it might sound ridiculous, the platitudinous equivalent of sticking a Band-Aid over a brain hemorrhage, I still believe music is, above all else, a source of hope”
Is the War Against COVID-19 Over?
COVID-19 cases have finally seemed to decoupled from critical illness. With concerts, travel, holidays resuming, is our war against COVID-19 finally over?