HealthAide

HealthAide

Ultimate Health, Optimum Performance. Do you want to be seriously fit? Like an athlete. Do you want to push your body and mind to the limit? To max out your potential and live the best life you can, physically and mentally. Do you want to live longer and more importantly be healthy? Do you want to be stronger, fitter and mentally tougher as you age? Do you want to be superhuman? Do you want to know how? With HealthAide you can now learn from the best - we talk to the teams behind the professionals who push their bodies and minds to the limit, every single week.

  1. 02/16/2023

    Oura Ring Review - Australia with Dr Molly Maloof MD

    Today on HealthAide chats, Barry Nguyen (CEO and co-founder of HealthAide) speaks to Dr Molly Maloof MD about the Oura Ring and how you can use it to optimise your health.   Dr. Molly Maloof is passionate about extending healthspan through her medical practice, personal brand, entrepreneurial and educational endeavors. She provides personalised medicine to world-class entrepreneurs, investors, and technology executives in Silicon Valley.    Since 2012, she has worked as an advisor or consultant to over 50 companies in the digital health, consumer health, and biotechnology industries.    For three years she taught a course on healthspan in the Medical School at Stanford University before founding Adamo Bioscience, a company pioneering the science of love.    In 2023, she published her first book, The Spark Factor, with Harper Wave Books.   Learn more about Molly at https://drmolly.co/ and find her on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/drmolly.co/  The content in this video is for informative purposes only and does not serve as medical advice. Please see your usual medical practitioner for a review or further information before starting any training regime or treatment plan.   (0:16) Introduction  (1:09) Dr Molly Maloof’s background  (2:37) What's your definition of healthspan?  (3:38) Is the Oura ring a fad?  (4:55) What do you think of the content provided by Oura that supports the use of the ring?  (9:25) What does rest mean?  (10:15) From a doctor's perspective, what variables do you look at on an Oura ring?  (16:32) Is the Oura ring comparable with gold standard sleep testing?  (22:33) Is meditation equivalent to sleep?  (24:46) Oura Ring and fertility  (26:23) Research on Oura Ring Heart Rate Variability (HRV) data  (28:13) Dr Molly Maloof's book - The Spark Factor  (31:54) How do you manage health anxiety from using wearable tech?  (36:04) How do you tap into your intuition?  (38:56) What type of meditation allows you to tap into your intuition?  (41:46) Can people with Asbergers benefit from meditative practices?

    47 min
  2. 08/07/2022

    How To Make Weight For Boxing And Other Combat Sports

    Today on HealthAide chats, Dr Khurram Akhter speaks to Matt Hind and Connor Nowaczyk who run a bespoke sports science service that helps athletes achieve excellence through specialist nutrition & physiological support.    They currently work with both amateur and professional boxers on the national and international stage, helping to optimise training recovery and adaptations, sustainable weight loss towards fight night and enhancing fight night nutrition protocols.   Matt and Connor can be found at https://www.linkedin.com/company/prime-health-performance/  Content in this video is for informative purposes only and does not serve as medical advice. Please see your usual medical practitioner for a review or further information, prior to starting any training regime or treatment plan.   (0:00) Intro  (1:33) What is the process you go through with a fighter at the start of a training camp?  (2:49) Tools of the nutritionist  (4:06) At the start of a training camp, what metrics are you measuring?  (7:14) How do you do body composition testing?  (9:04) What is dexa analysis?  (10:03) Do you look at a fighter's current diet to work out how to improve things?  (11:35) How do you divide and time your macros?  (22:54) Should you use electrolytes when rehydrating?  (24:29) After losing fat over the first 4 weeks, what happens next?  (33:59) What are the risks of water loading?  (38:40) What supplements do you recommend?  (46:51) What supplements should you take for general health?  (53:32) What should you eat after the weigh-in?

    1h 1m
  3. 08/07/2022

    Preventing Yoga Injuries Through Strengthening Practice With Dr Travis Pollen

    Dr Travis Pollen is an Exercise Science Professor, personal trainer, author, PhD in Health & Rehabilitation Sciences, yoga teacher and American record holding paralympic swimmer .  His research interests focus on movement screening, identifying injury risk and returning to sports for athletes.  In this video, William Chen (physiotherapist) at HealthAide chats to Travis about what exactly is an injury and how injuries happen, how you can identify the risk of injuries and start minimising them. Travis speaks about the importance of strengthening in a yoga setting for injury prevention and performance, as well as tips on how one can start implementing some strength practice.    (0:42) How do injuries occur?  (5:09) What defines an injury?  (10:48) Do niggles count as injuries?  (12:36) Load vs capacity   (14:56) Why objective measures are important for injury risk identification  (18:59) Easy strength measure for amateur athletes   (23:50) Injuries in yoga  27:07 How to start preventing injuries if you do yoga  (33:30) How to start strengthening program  (35:24) Common injuries in yoga  (39:09) Tips for yogi who dislike the gym  (43:03) The most optimal exercise routine   (49:03) Top injury prevention exercises for yoga    https://travispollen.com/  https://www.strengthforyoga.com/  https://www.instagram.com/fitness_pollenator/?hl=en  https://www.instagram.com/strengthforyoga/

    54 min
  4. 07/10/2022

    Productivity and Wellbeing Hacks for Entrepreneurs with Patrick Lee, Co-Founder of Rotten Tomatoes

    Today on HealthAide chats, Patrick Lee, Co-founder of Rotten Tomatoes talks to our CEO Barry Nguyen about productivity and wellbeing hacks for entrepreneurs. Patrick is the Co-founder and founding CEO of Rotten Tomatoes (www.rottentomatoes.com) one of the  world's leading entertainment websites focused on movie reviews and news and consistently one of the top 1,000 most trafficked sites in the world. He has started six startups across three countries (US, China, Hong Kong). Five targeting consumers. Four in the intersection of technology & entertainment. Four raised outside funding. Three exited. Patrick knows what it takes to succeed in the startup world and we were lucky to talk to him about his thoughts about staying well and improving performance in what is a challenging industry. Content in this video is for informative purposes only and does not serve as medical advice. Please see your usual medical practitioner for a review or further information, prior to starting any training regime or treatment plan. (0:00) Intro (1:27) Have you changed how you work since becoming a father? (1:58) Has working remotely impacted your productivity? ​​(4:22) What is a typical day for Patrick Lee? (9:36) How did you develop your productivity habits? (11:17) Do you use visualisation tools? (11:56) How much time do you recommend blocking out for a brainstorm session? (12:28) What consistent health and wellbeing habits have you seen with successful founders? (14:43) Any mental health tips for founders in times of stress? (17:39) Do you recommend having a coach? (19:00) Should your startup be your passion? (21:22) Is there a point when you should quit your startup?

    24 min
  5. 07/03/2022

    Tennis Psychology Tips For Juniors

    Today at HealthAide chats, Barry Nguyen, CEO of HealthAide talks to Jeff H. Greenwald.    Jeff is an internationally recognized sport psychology consultant/elite mental coach and licensed therapist.  In addition to this, he is a winner of two world tennis championships (Men’s 35 and 45’s) and was No. 1 in the world ITF Men’s 35. He is the author of the best-selling book, The Best Tennis of Your Life and a Hall of Fame inductee in Northern California, for contributions to sport psychology.     In today’s episode we talk to Jeff about tennis psychology tips for juniors.  This episode will be of interest to you, if you have a child who has the potential to do well as a tennis player and want insights about how to support them in the sport and optimize their mental performance.     Having succeeded at an elite level in tennis  and now working with elite players, refining their mental performance, there is no person better than Jeff to guide you as a parent.    For more information on Jeff, visit his website: www.fearlesstennis.com    Content in this video is for informative purposes only and does not serve as medical advice. Please see your usual medical practitioner for a review or further information, prior to starting any training regime or treatment plan.      (0:00) Intro  (0:41) About Jeff Greenwald  (3:48) What trends do you see with parents pushing kids into tennis?  (6:12) What are your thoughts on research that shows tennis improves academic performance?  (7:50) How do you know if you should ramp up your child’s training?  (11:59) How does winning or losing affect mental health?  (17:13) Do you have tips for parents to monitor their child’s mental health?  (24:09) What are the benefits of sleep with performance?  (26:05) Should my child be achieving 10 000 hours of training as soon as possible, in order to succeed?  (29:35) How mental health awareness is changing.  (32:28) How to connect with Jeff.

    36 min

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Ultimate Health, Optimum Performance. Do you want to be seriously fit? Like an athlete. Do you want to push your body and mind to the limit? To max out your potential and live the best life you can, physically and mentally. Do you want to live longer and more importantly be healthy? Do you want to be stronger, fitter and mentally tougher as you age? Do you want to be superhuman? Do you want to know how? With HealthAide you can now learn from the best - we talk to the teams behind the professionals who push their bodies and minds to the limit, every single week.