Livehealthy editorial director John Bromley is a public health consultant and director of the U.K.-based National Social Marketing Centre, and he has been a driving force behind Abu Dhabi Sports Council’s Abu Dhabi 360 program. He has more than 20 years of experience in developing, implementing and evaluating behavior change programs in the UK and internationally. And he joins us to talk about how the Abu Dhabi government is working to engage everyone in the...

Livehealthy editorial director Ann Marie McQueen speaks with Denis Liam Murphy, a performance coach for everyone. He’s worked with entrepreneurs, parents, children – anyone looking to get past their pain and move into health, wellbeing and emotional freedom. He has just written his first book, The Blame Game, and in it he does what no one else seems to be doing: unpacks how our personal – and historical, societal and cultural – addiction to blame...

As a doctor, co-founder and chairman of the integrated diabetes company GluCare.Health, you wouldn’t think Ali Hashemi would be one of the many silent cases of pre-diabetes walking around Dubai. Yet that is exactly what happened – and his slim wife was too. Ali joins Livehealthy editorial director Ann Marie McQueen to talk all about Zone.Health, a new metabolic program powered by coaching, tracking, the latest science, knowledge and curiosity to help turn obesity, insulin...

Christine Clinton is co-founder of Junior Genius Global, which provides support to parents, children and their teachers. She is also Chair of the Wellness for Children Initiative with The Global Wellness Institute. She joins us to talk about the Home Wellness Collection, which was launched in Dubai and around the world during the pandemic to help support parents, caregivers and children with all the tools they would need to get through homeschooling. Christine talks about...

Michael Askew and Matthew Gaziano are the co-founders of ASKWHO, a made-in-the-UAE app designed for getting people off their phones and out in the real world. The social media platform they launched in October 2021 now has 130,000 users and is growing 60 percent, month-on-month. Highlights: • How, where and why the app was born • How it works, and why it’s not like Tinder or other social media for friends • The mistakes we make when...

This is an episode from our archives where Livehealthy editor Ann Marie McQueen talks to Dubai’s Dr David Roze about the pioneering field of biological dentistry. This look at a holistic approach to dental care was one of the most fascinating episodes of The Livehealthy Podcast: Get ready to reconsider everything you thought you knew about your teeth.

Livehealthy editor Ann Marie McQueen interviews Dr Arif Khan, a specialist in pediatric neurology and a consultant and director at Burjeel Medical City in Abu Dhabi. He also founded the first comprehensive children’s neuroscience center in the UAE, called Neuropedia. We talk all about what happens before, during and after an autism spectrum disorder diagnosis, the rise of ADHD, and what he sees as the number one problem for all children’s brains: screen time. This...

After spending time in Dubai during Covid, British three-time Olympian, celebrity personal trainer and body transformation specialist Sarah Lindsay decided it would be the perfect location for the first outpost of her London-based personal training gym Roar.   The 42-year-old trainer and nutrition coach tells us all about her latest venture and dives into some of the latest in wellness and fitness. Highlights include:   Why she chose Dubai for her fourth location What is...

Dr Jonathan Conroy is a British surgeon and engineer who has done over 1,000 surgeries. But he’s not the one wielding the scalpel in all these hip and knee replacements: a robot is. These robotic-assisted surgeries have been brought to the UAE by Mubadala Health partner Healthpoint. Yet while the evidence shows that this new technology provides greater accuracy, better outcomes, faster recovery, and less pain for patients, in a recent poll conducted by the...

عبد الرحمن الزعابي هو مرشد سياحي معتمد لإمارة أبو ظبي. وقد كرّس نفسه للتجول في عاصمة الإمارات العربية المتحدة بهدف واضح: العثور على الجواهر الخفية للإمارة، وإظهار ما تقدمه أبو ظبي لكل من المغتربين والمواطنين مع الرغبة لتثقيف الناس عن الفن والثقافة والتاريخ الإماراتي. في حلقة اليوم، يخبرنا الزعابي المزيد عن مغامراته الغنية وتعاليمه وآرائه، بالإضافة إلى إلهامه وراء كل ذلك. يتحدث أيضاً عن تغلبه على الصدمة الثقافية بعد تخرجه من مدرسة ثانوية للبنين في...