What Does Good Look Like?

Continuing last week's conversation with Sports and Exercise Medicine consultant Dr Kush Joshi, we learn more about the benefits of being physically active, more ways of testing our level of fitness, and how we can move more in our daily lives.

Meet Dr Kush Joshi, a Sports and Exercise Medicine consultant working with elite athletes as well as with patients within the UK’s national health service.  We’ve invited Kush because we want to learn more about how Sports and Exercise Medicine is translating lessons from elite athletes into normal medical practice in areas as diverse as obesity, diabetes, cancer, stress and mental illness. Listen in to learn more about F.I.T.T. principles, how to measure your functional strength and Kush’s zumba skills.

In this 2nd episode with Dr Hugh Selsick, we’ll learn about common mistakes people make when struggling with sleep, links between sleep and other health issues, and what a session at the insomnia clinic is like. And of course, we will also cover topics such as caffeine, alcohol and sleep hygiene - what you hear may surprise you!

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This is the 1st of two episodes with Dr Hugh Selsick, a specialist in sleep medicine. We’ve invited Hugh to learn more about sleep from someone who works directly with patients who suffer from sleep problems to help us understand what good, and bad, sleep looks like. We’ll cover topics such as how to tell whether or not you are a good sleeper, good (and bad) ways of measuring sleep, and what impact it can have on someone’s life when their sleep improves. We'll also debunk a few sleep myths along the way.

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Disclaimer: This podcast is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment of disease. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking appropriate medical support because of something you have heard on the podcast.

You may already be generating a wealth of your own health data, from how many steps you take & hours of sleep you get, to measuring your heart rate and variability - but how do we make sense of it all? In this week's episode with Paul Wicks we'll be focusing on what information you can get from tracking your own data, and how that can be used to implement better habits.

This week we meet Paul Wicks, a research neuropsychologist that through his work has helped thousands of patients with chronic conditions improve their health by accessing, structuring and generating information about their health. We’ve invited Paul on this show because we want to learn more about the benefits of tracking our own health data, and how we can make better use of it.

In our second episode with Dr Sophie Cassidy she will tell us how the BBC series ‘How to stay young’ came about, and how they came up with the concept of 'body age'. We’ll also find out which tests Sophie herself recommends for finding out how well your body is aging, and what changes she has made to her own life.

Dr Sophie Cassidy is a researcher in lifestyle and chronic disease, and she will help us go beyond the latest exercise trends and fad diets to get a better understanding of what the science can really tell us. And what signs should we be looking for to tell if our bodies are aging quicker than they should?

Continuing last week's conversation with Dr Jack Kreindler, we get into the specifics of how to measure biological ageing and why fitness is a key weapon in the war on cancer. We’ll also aim to once and for all take the ‘fluffiness’ out of lifestyle medicine.

This is the first part of our conversation with medical doctor, serial entrepreneur and mountain climbing enthusiast Jack Kreindler. We’ll cover a range of topics such as biological age clocks, cage fights and treating cancer patients as elite athletes.

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