Haircut, and Would you Like Heart Checkup To? This week I am talking to Andrew Suggs, Co-Founder of Live-Chair (@livechairinc) – addressing healthcare disparities through the community of trusted barbers and barbershops (long the center of medicine and in particular surgery). The company started out providing scheduling and customer management tools to the many barbershops […]
Continuous Monitoring of Health So the opportunity to dive deep into glucose metabolism in my body with detail previously confined to laboratories was an exciting proposition. This especially true as I contemplated CES this coming week which has seen each year an ever-expanding Digital Health Pavilion with more companies and new solutions springing up. The […]
Do You Need to Take Supplements A recent editorial in the Annals of Medicine by my friend Dr. Eric Topol and his colleague Dr. Pandey caught my eye. Dispense With Supplements for Improving Heart Outcomes. In the United states, nearly 75% of people are taking some supplement or another with the supplement market set to […]
What is Cinnamon You might have heard of Cinnamon – no not Cinnamon the dog in the Big Bang Theory and the only non-human semi-regular cast member but rather the spice and more importantly something you need to be taking for its amazing health benefits. But should you be adding this to your daily collection […]
I spoke with Tim Eggena, Chief Strategy Officer for Diasyst at the Connected Health Initiative (CHI) Connected Health Demo & Reception at the Rayburn House Office Building Diasyst has a unique approach to Diabetes management. They allow patients to manually report their sugar results via a smartphone app, but for those that don’t have a […]
Dementia and How to Reimagine Life With It This week I am talking to Dr Tia Powell, (@tiapowell) the Director for the Center for Bioethics at Montefiore Medical Center (@MontefioreNYC) and an expert in Dementia and author of the book: Dementia Reimagined: Building a Life of Joy and Dignity from Beginning to End. We talk about […]
Applying AI in Healthcare for Iterative Efficiencies This week I am talking to Dr. Falgun Chokshi, MD (@FalgunChokshiMD), a Neuroradiologist and host of the podcast “Looking Around the Corner”. Falgun’s vision is to connect a healthcare innovation ecosystem that creates collaboration and focuses on a novel but importantly practical solutions. He has experience in bioinformatics (machine learning/AI) and advanced […]
Does Intermittent Fasting Work? This week I’m covering the world of Intermittent Fasting. What’s that you ask – in its simplest form Eat – Stop – Eat In other words, challenging your body with no intake of calories for a variable amount of time. In my case I fast for about 36 hours […]
It’s the artificial holiday that celebrates the play on words from Star Wars movies – a rallying cry The list of suggested actions from the Starwars site may not be to everyone’s taste and includes everything from Holding movie marathons Dress up as a Star Wars Character Star wars food including blue milk! Getting a Star Wars […]
via nature.com This article helps detail some of the new findings emerging relative to the effects of the Microbiome and perhaps start to explain the significant differences found in populations based on where they grow up. In a controversial claim from the Irish study the study also suggests that this microbial make-up is driven by […]
