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Starve Cancer – Jane McLelland, Noted Cancer-Starving Diet, Drug, and Supplement Expert; Author, How to Starve Cancer – Strategies to Combat Cancer Via Diet, Supplements, and Low-Toxicity Drug Treatment
November 20, 2018 10:25 - 40 minutes - 18.1 MBAuthor Survivor and former chartered physiotherapist Jane McLelland, physiotherapist, alternative cancer treatment expert, and author of How to Starve Cancer expounds upon the wrong turns that many people, unfortunately, take when they set out to fight their cancer. She provides a thorough and extremely important overview of the steps that anyone can take to dramatically improve their chances for survival when faced with a dire diagnosis. Cancer survivor, Jane McLelland, talks about her ba...
Bypassing Surgery An Oral Pill for the Treatment of Morbid Obesity—Hasan Celiker—Xeno Biosciences
November 15, 2018 09:11 - 31 minutes - 21.4 MBGastric bypass surgery is the most effective form of treatment for morbid obesity and a familiar term to most of us, but until recently, the underlying mechanism that makes it so successful has been largely misunderstood. Most people—including health professionals—attribute the weight loss that follows from this surgery to reduced stomach size and therefore reduced food intake and malabsorption, but the evidence is pointing elsewhere: to the changes in gut microbiota that occur after the sur...
Brain Breakthrough – Cavin Balaster, Author, and Founder of Feed a Brain, and Adventures in Brain Injury – Neurology, Nutrition, and the Specific Dietary Changes That Can Optimize Brain Function and Repair The Brain
November 14, 2018 10:49 - 49 minutes - 33.6 MBCavin Balaster, founder of Feed a Brain (<a href="http://feedabrain.com">feedabrain.com</a>) and Adventures in Brain Injury (adventuresinbraininjury.com), author, and sought-after speaker, delivers an informative and important discussion on brain function and the nutritional protocol that can deliver dramatic results. Cavin Balaster made a miraculous recovery from an accident that could have easily taken his life instantly. In 2011, he survived a two-story fall and was comatose for twelve d...
The Most Healthful Diet, or an Exercise in Irrational Exuberance--Valter D. Longo, PhD--Biogerontologist, Cell Biologist, and Author of The Longevity Diet
November 09, 2018 05:56 - 34 minutes - 23.1 MBThe ketogenic diet, intermittent fasting, whether or not you should skip that first meal of the day...you’ve probably heard a lot of arguments for and against each, so how do you know what’s “right”? What will provide YOU with healthful longevity? Valter D. Longo is a biogerontologist, cell biologist, and author of several books, the latest of which is The Longevity Diet. He joins the podcast to discuss his views on these issues and shed light on some of the main arguments in his book, each ...
Age-Defying Stem-Cell Infusions—Joshua Hare, MD—Longeveron
November 09, 2018 05:02 - 22 minutes - 15.6 MBAgeing: it’s an inevitable part of life, it affects us all, and there’s just no way around it. Or is there? “Ageing is a major societal problem that we’re turning our attention to in the biotechnology industry as something that’s treatable...and that we can modify biologically to improve the health span of people in our country and worldwide,” says Dr. Joshua Hare, co-founder, and chief science officer at Longeveron. Founded four years ago after receiving a technology license from the Univer...
Regeneration Creation – Dr. Stuart Williams, Cell Biology Expert and Founder of Bioficial Organs – The Mind-boggling Science of Bioengineered Organs and Tissues, and the Future of Regenerative Medicine
November 08, 2018 11:06 - 32 minutes - 21.4 MBDr. Stuart Williams, founder of Bioficial Organs (cvregen.com), delivers an interesting overview of the future of bioengineered organs and tissues, and the medical advances that we are seeing daily. Williams has extensive experience in the areas of biomedical engineering, surgery, physiology, as well as materials science and engineering. He is the former director of research for the Department of Surgery at Jefferson Medical College, former faculty at the University of Arizona, and founder o...
Organic Meals with Doorstep Delivery for Preconception, Pregnancy, and Postpartum Stages of Life—Erica Mock—twenty-fiveEIGHT
November 08, 2018 09:16 - 26 minutes - 17.4 MBMost women who’ve been pregnant are familiar with the strong, sometimes strange food cravings that occur to them—cravings that might not always be for nutrient-dense, healthy, and unprocessed foods. As a mother herself, Erica Mock is all too familiar with the battle between satiating those cravings and eating healthy during pregnancy, but she has an interesting take on the matter, stating, “Our bodies have an incredible innate intelligence. I craved sushi every day, started supplementing hig...
Ketogenic Life – Rachel Burke, Ketogenic Enthusiast and Founder of Aussie Keto Queen – How a Ketogenic Diet & Lifestyle Can Improve Health, Assist with Weight Loss, and Increase Energy
November 07, 2018 05:44 - 24 minutes - 16.1 MBRachel Burke, the ketogenic enthusiast and founder of Aussie Keto Queen (aussieketoqueen.com), discusses the ketogenic diet and lifestyle. Burke’s journey to better health was a long one, as she spent many of her earlier years battling weight, feeling uncomfortable with her body, and being unhappy about it all. From the tender age of just 10 years old, she began weighing herself and struggling with her weight issue. She spent a significant amount of time, unfortunately, experimenting with th...
Benjamin Freedman--Freedman Lab, University of Washington--Growing Organoid Models for Studying the Most Common Kidney Diseases
November 06, 2018 04:46 - 25 minutes - 17.5 MBAn estimated 10 percent of all people have some level of kidney disease--a disease that’s most commonly associated with diabetes and high blood pressure. The numbers are only growing, but much of the research has been limited in the sense that the progression of kidney diseases in humans is difficult to track. For example, polycystic kidney disease--a very common one that’s genetic in nature and affects millions of people--is usually diagnosed in the later stages, only once the changes can...
Angela M. Poff—Cancer Biologist and Metabolic Health Summit Cofounder— Globalizing the Conversation about Ketogenic Diets and Therapies
November 05, 2018 11:08 - 45 minutes - 29.8 MBJust a few years ago, Angela M. Poff noticed that a lot of leading scientists and clinicians were studying ketosis and metabolic therapies for different diseases, but weren’t getting together to share their ideas and have productive conversations; this all changed when she decided to found the Metabolic Health Summit in 2015, which now serves as a hub for those who want to work together to develop ideas and move new information in the field to the next level. The goal of the 2019 Metabolic ...
Elizabeth Donley—NeuroPoint DX—Implementing Metabolomics for Earlier Detection of Autism Spectrum Disorders
November 05, 2018 09:37 - 26 minutes - 18.3 MBStemina Biomarker Discovery was founded about 11 years ago by Elizabeth Donley, who aimed to use the study of metabolism (metabolomics) to understand how the underlying biological and biochemical reactions differ between various disorders. Donley works primarily within the neurological disorders division for NeuroPoint DX and is focused on applying metabolomics for the detection of autism spectrum disorders. The most recent paper on the subject looked at amino acid dysregulation in autism sp...
The Ketogenic State Tyler Cartwright,Trainer, Coach & Founding Member of Ketogains, LLC – The Structure and Science of the Ketogenic Diet, From Calories to Ketosis
October 31, 2018 09:28 - 49 minutes - 33.7 MBTyler Cartwright, founding member of Ketogains, LLC (ketogains.com), shares his incredible journey back to good health and fitness, and the many ways that his keto-focused company can help people reach their fitness and health goals more efficiently. Cartwright is walking proof of the benefits that are available through the Ketogains’ methods for he began his path back to good health at 505 pounds. Together with the support of his wife who had reached 300 pounds herself, they have found succ...
Walk This Way Dr. Charlton Woodly,Board Certified Podiatrist and Founder of Woodly Foot & Ankle – New Procedures and Advanced Techniques to Treat Foot & Ankle Problems and Injuries
October 30, 2018 10:49 - 28 minutes - 20.5 MBDr. Charlton Woodly, founder of Woodly Foot & Ankle (<a href="http://woodlyfootankle.com">woodlyfootankle.com</a>), delivers an informative overview of the many problems, injuries, conditions, and treatments for feet and ankles. Dr. Woodly is a seasoned, board-certified podiatrist with over 14 years of experience in surgical treatment, a sought-after specialist in minimally invasive procedures and a HyProCure Master Surgeon. Dr. Woodly treats a vast array of foot and ankle conditions, includ...
Mairav Cohen-Zion, PhD—Dayzz—A Digital, Personalized Sleep Training Program
October 30, 2018 09:51 - 29 minutes - 19.1 MBSleep: we all know we need it, but many of us don’t realize how badly. Missing just a night or two of quality sleep can increase our susceptibility to the common cold, and chronic sleep loss can lead to much more serious conditions. With 60-70% of the global population failing to get the right amount of sleep, sleep deprivation is now considered an epidemic—one that’s affecting people across the age spectrum. However, seeking the right type of treatment is expensive, time-consuming, and ofte...
Bridging the Human-Animal Gap and Lengthening the Bond—Dr. Barbara Royal, DVM—The Royal Treatment Veterinary Center
October 29, 2018 05:06 - 46 minutes - 31.4 MBWhen an obese, arthritic, 12-year-old dog walked sluggishly through the doors of her hospital with a cancer diagnosis and a life expectancy of about four months, Dr. Barbara Royal wasn’t discouraged, or saddened, or intimidated by the work ahead of her; she was enlivened by an opportunity to grab from death’s door a life that had living left to do. The dog managed more than to merely hang on for four months; he lived vibrantly and energetically—running, playing, jumping…doing all the things ...
Dropping Weight – Dr. Tro Kalayjian, Board-Certified Internal Medicine Physician and Weight Loss Expert – A Diet and Exercise Program That Produces Real Weight Loss, Reverses Medical Problems, and Improves Overall Heath
October 26, 2018 11:14 - 48 minutesDr. Tro Kalayjian is a board-certified internal medicine physician and weight loss expert who has passionately devoted his life to bringing good health and wellness to everyone. Dr. Kalayjian delivers an interesting and useful overview of his methods to achieve weight loss and health improvement. Dr. Kalayjian has a medical degree from Touro Medical College and he completed his internal medicine residency in the Yale New Haven Health System at Greenwich Hospital where he served as a chief m...
John Limansky-Biohack MD-A Holistic, Tailored Approach for Preventing and Managing the Most Common Conditions and Diseases
October 25, 2018 10:08 - 40 minutes - 27 MBAs a traditional internal medicine physician, John Limansky began to notice that many of the most common and chronic diseases suffered by his patients were based around diet and lifestyle, and he soon acknowledged the importance of not just treating the symptoms of any particular illness, but understanding the underlying mechanism that contributes to so many of them. Dementia, cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes...the list goes on...but what do they all have in common? They’re driven ...
Gillian Szollos-Keto All Day Every Day-The Ketogenic Diet and a Life Transformed
October 25, 2018 07:22 - 37 minutes - 24.4 MBGillian Szollos had always struggled with obesity, but it wasn’t until she began having seizures in 2014 that she realized something was really wrong, and that something needed to be done about it. The medications she was prescribed did nothing but worsen the seizures and produce unbearable side effects; she was at the end of her rope, and willing to try anything. That’s when her husband stumbled upon a seizure support group that introduced him and Gillian to the ketogenic diet. One of her d...
Brianna Stubbs, PhD-Research Lead Of HVMN & Co-Host of The HVMN Podcast- The World’s First Ketone Ester Sports Drink For Improved Performance and Cognition
October 25, 2018 06:50 - 31 minutes - 20.6 MBThere are a variety of exogenous ketone products on the market today, many of which are consumed by athletes and people looking for a natural source of energy to increase their endurance and physical performance. Most of these products, however, have to be consumed in relatively large volumes and have high quantities of artificial sweeteners. That’s not the case with HVMN Ketone--the world’s first ketone ester sports drink shown to increase endurance, athletic performance, and cognitive abil...
Ross Taylor DropAnFBomb HighQuality Keto-Friendly Grab and Go Snacks
October 25, 2018 05:15 - 23 minutes - 15.2 MBFor over 10 years, Ross Taylor tried to stick to a high-quality ketogenic diet while travelling the world for work; he quickly realized that accomplishing the two simultaneously was no easy task. “It’s easy when you’re not home to find proteins or vegetables...but getting enough fat--if you want to make fat your primary source of calories--is not always easy when you’re not home,” says Taylor. It was from this idea and this idea alone that Taylor and his wife decided to found a company--uniq...
TriFusion Devices – 3D Printing Lower Limbs & Prosthetics
October 24, 2018 09:22 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MBThe average prosthetic leg cost thirty thousand dollars, it takes several weeks to make and wears out in less than 5 years. TriFusion can make a custom prosthetic device in hours instead of weeks that fits better and costs far less than anything on the market today. They’ve developed a novel carbon nano-tube-coded printer filament and a microwave welding process to fuse 3D printed parts together making them super strong and durable. Combined with their advanced 3D scanning capabilities they...
Yousef Hesuani – 3D Bioprinting Solutions (a Russian research company)
October 24, 2018 07:30 - 35 minutes - 32.4 MB3DBio is researching and bringing to market bio printing technologies for the generation and transplantation of tissues, including multilayered skin, bone, vascular grafts, tracheal splints, heart tissue and cartilaginous structures. Yousef Hesuani, co-founder of 3DBio, explains how bio printing is becoming a viable opportunity to generate patient-specific tissue for the development of accurate, targeted and completely personalized treatments. Yousef shared an experiment where they successf...
BioBots – The Future of 3D Bioprinting
October 24, 2018 07:11 - 20 minutes - 5.85 MBCo-founder and CEO of BioBots, Danny Cabrera, joins us to talk about the technology and advancements in 3D bioprinting and the future of this fascinating industry. BioBots is building tools to design and engineer life. Their goals are to cure disease, eliminate the organ waiting list, reverse climate change, and live on other planets. Their first products are 3D bioprinters, software, and bioinks that print 3D living tissues one layer at a time. Listen, subscribe, and review Future Tech Po...
Xabian- Developing Prosthetic Limbs
October 24, 2018 06:56 - 29 minutes - 7.91 MBXabian tech specializes in designing and 3D manufacturing prosthetic lower limbs and sockets. Xabian works by analyzing a 3D scan of the residual limb and then designing the best fitting prostheses for that amputee. Traditionally it is an enormously challenging problem, but Xabian’s 3D scanning and printing of a matching socket to an amputee’s residual limb makes the process simple, faster, and more customized. Ben Hayward, CEO of Xabian Tech talks about prosthetic limbs’ attachment and the...
Advanced Brain Monitoring – Producing Innovative Medical Devices
October 24, 2018 06:37 - 31 minutes - 73 MBChris Berka of Advanced Brain Monitoring talks to us about how they have challenged the orthodox thinking by creating advanced medical devices that provide a superior patient experience, lower healthcare costs, and improved quality of care. Talking about some of their successful experiments she explained how they were able to predict from the teams’ brains states which team had more cardiac synchrony & brain coherence and which team will be able to solve a given problem successfully by meas...
Cynata Therapeutics – Producing Stem Cells for Regenerative Medicine
October 24, 2018 06:17 - 31 minutes - 9.12 MBCynata Therapeutics is an Australian stem cell and regenerative medicine company that is creating a therapeutic stem cell platform technology, Cymerus™, using discoveries made at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Kilian Kelly, Vice President, Cynata talks about Cymerus™. A platform for stem cell technology based upon extremely important and versatile stem cells known as mesenchymoangioblasts (MCAs). MCAs are a predecessor of mesenchymal stem (or stromal) cells (MSCs) which are being ...
Tiffany Vora on Digital Biology – Changing What Being Human Actually Means
October 24, 2018 06:09 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MBTiffany Vora an Educator, Writer, Research Scientist, and Entrepreneur who is excited to bring her diversity of experience to Singularity University as Principal Faculty in Medicine and Digital Biology. Tiffany explains what Digital Biology is and how living things can be “programmed” to do things they could never do previously. Tiffany discusses Gene Editing & CRISPR/Cas9, a technology that allows for fast, precise & permanent changes to DNA. Through this cutting-edge technology, it may be...
Migrainex – Helping 38 Million Americans Get Rid Of Migraines
October 24, 2018 06:03 - 26 minutes - 60.4 MBJohn Donahue, head of marketing at Cirrus Healthcare, who explains how their product Migraine X is fighting and controlling migraines. Around 38 million people in the US suffer from a migraine. In 78% of the cases, what triggers migraines is changes in barometric pressure, (in aeroplanes or weather changes). MigraneX has a free App that alerts the users to changes in the pressure. Users put in special earplugs created by Migraine X that prevent migraines. Learn, subscribe, review FutureTech...
Storing Data 215,000 times more densely using DNA – NY Genome
October 24, 2018 05:38 - 23 minutes - 54 MBDina Zielinski from NY Genome talks about storing data using DNA – not traditional hard drives – and it’s amazing what nature can do that human engineering (until now) can not. Losing data stored on flash drives, hard disks, USBs and on computer servers may become a thing of the past with DNA storage. At NY genome, Dina has successfully managed to encode and decode data stored onto a strand of DNA. Incredible, but true. This project has the possibility of storing 215,000 times more data in ...
How the Clinical Trial,Braingate,Transforms the Human Brain Into A Computer Interface and What That Means for Quadriplegics, With Dr. AjiBoye
October 24, 2018 05:20 - 36 minutes - 83.9 MBImagine having a spinal cord injury that prevents you from performing everyday tasks without assistance. Though your brain is still intact, you can’t hold and sip your morning coffee or even grip your bagel and raise it to your mouth. Now imagine, after living that way for nine years, a computer chip in your brain makes it possible to feed yourself again. That is exactly what the clinical trial, Braingate has achieved. Tune in to hear Dr. AjiBoye explain. Here’s a sampling of what you’ll d...
Francois Binette – Healing the Blind
October 24, 2018 04:53 - 33 minutes - 77 MBMacular degeneration is the leading cause of blindness worldwide. This, especially in the aging population: you reach a certain age, and you can’t see as well as before. Up until this point, there has been no cure for macular degeneration. In the late stages of the illness, people are declared legally blind. Enter BioTimeInc. Francois Binette, head of product development, explains. “The cells that are keeping the photoreceptors healthy and happy are called the ‘retinal pigmented epithelial...
How New Software from Brainvivo Transforms MRI’s into Microscopes and What That Means for Those With Brain Disease with Yaniv Assaf
October 23, 2018 12:16 - 32 minutes - 74.7 MBPreviously, the only way to see cells inside brain matter was to dissect a corpse’s brain and put it under a microscope. Not so useful if you’re a brain disease patient seeking to stay alive. But, what if doctors could look at your living brain through a microscope without making a single incision? That’s just what Brainvivo has made possible with brain imaging software that transforms MRI’s into virtual microscopes. Listen in as Brainvivo’s co-founder Yaniv Assaf discusses some of the end...
The Cell Solution Susan Stevenson,Executive Director, and Craig Mickanin, Director, Novartis – Gene Therapy Provides New Hope For Disease Treatment
October 23, 2018 06:59 - 24 minutes - 16.6 MBSusan Stevenson, executive director, and Craig Mickanin, director, of the Swiss multinational pharmaceutical company, Novartis, based in Basel, Switzerland, deliver an informative overview of the incredible advances in gene therapy and transformative technologies that are rapidly changing the techniques medical professionals utilize to fight disease. Sue Stevenson is an experienced director with an extensive history in the pharmaceuticals industry. Her focus is in biologics, life sciences, v...
Total Health – Ben Bocchicchio, Doctor, Author, Health and Fitness Expert – High Intensity Exercise and Proper Diet For Maximizing Metabolism
October 22, 2018 10:24 - 40 minutes - 27.1 MBDr. Vincent “Ben” Bocchicchio, doctor, author, and health-oriented fitness expert delivers an interesting and important analysis of the body, exercise, and diet connection, and how we can all make positive changes that will improve our health significantly. Bocchicchio has over 40 years of experience in the fitness and health industry. He is a sought-after expert whose practical methods for achieving optimal health combine science with effective body conditioning and technology for top resul...
Why We Age – Siegfried Hekimi, Professor of Biology at Mcgill University, Head of The Hekimi Lab – The Complex Science of Aging, Free Radicals, Myths & Unknowns, and How Cellular Biology May Hold Answers to the Aging Process
October 22, 2018 09:32 - 41 minutes - 29.5 MBSiegfried Hekimi is a professor of biology at McGill University and head of The Hekimi Lab where he and his team specialize in the study of aging. Hekimi delivers an informative overview of the complex, and often unknown, processes that produce aging, and the work his lab is involved with to try to uncover the mechanisms that accelerate, and retard aging, and why they do. Hekimi studied biology at the University of Geneva. After Geneva, Hekimi began work at the celebrated Laboratory of Mole...
Mark Stephen Meadows-Botanic Technologies-Multimodal Bots and the Democratization of Artificial Intelligence
October 22, 2018 07:25 - 43 minutes - 28.2 MBMark Stephens Meadows developed his first simple chatbot in 2001, but what he’s working on now is much more than that: as the CEO of Botanic Technologies, he’s working on designing multimodal bots for conversational interfaces with several use cases, including gaming and healthcare. Designed as a combination of multiple AI systems, these bots have the ability to exhibit different facial expressions and use different tones of voice, thereby creating a more meaningful, human-like interaction...
Thomas Seyfried, PhD-Boston College Biology Department-Metabolic Therapy: A Toxic-Free and Potentially Standalone Treatment for Cancer
October 22, 2018 06:23 - 39 minutes - 26.9 MBAccording to the American Cancer Society, over 1,600 people in the United States die from cancer every day, many of whom were receiving the current standard of care, which is radiation, chemotherapy, or a combination of both. Thomas Seyfried is a professor in the biology department at Boston College and strong proponent of using metabolic therapy as a form of treatment for every type of cancer, arguing that it’s more effective and less toxic than radiation and chemotherapy. So, what exact...
Travis Christofferson-Understanding and Treating Cancer: Epigenetics, Metabolic Therapy, and Repurposed Drugs
October 22, 2018 05:32 - 35 minutes - 24.1 MBWhat’s the ultimate cause of cancer? It’s not an easy question to answer, and according to Travis Christofferson, author of Tripping Over the Truth: The Return of the Metabolic Theory of Cancer, there’s no single cause, but a series of complex interactions and events that depend at least somewhat on our environment. Christofferson explains this in terms of epigenetic responses, which result in the turning off or on of certain genes–allowing some to be expressed and blocking others from being...
Jane Langdale – Designing More Efficient Leaves
October 19, 2018 12:08 - 27 minutes - 63.9 MBEarly land plants didn’t have leaves. At a certain point, they evolved. In fact, the anatomy found in C4 leaves evolved 60 times, and leaves themselves evolved at least twice but probably no more than 6 times, essentially independently from one another. Now, this is a complex genetic change we’re talking about. How did this happen? That’s what Jane Langdale is trying to figure out. The whole of Jane Langdale’s research is about shoot development in plants. When a shoot develops, it can eith...
Arterys – Improving Medical Imaging
October 19, 2018 11:35 - 20 minutes - 46 MBIn today’s world, all the data from medical imaging is handled at a local level—the hospital level. For physicians, and especially radiologists, this is a constrained environment. There aren’t enough resources at the local level to get everything done. Much has to be done manually and is (maybe, therefore) less accurate. These constraints were identified by Arterys and improved with faster, more accurate automation, using the cloud and A.I. along the way. “We’re really trying to enable data...
Jan Vijg – How and Why We Age
October 19, 2018 11:25 - 34 minutes - 78.7 MBSince the 80’s, Jan Vijg has been fascinated with the process of aging. This, having heard a fascinating talk on the subject back when he was a student at the University of Leiden. The speaker, then, “actually mentioned the possibility that we age because the damage is accumulating in our DNA—the DNA of our cells and tissues. And I never forgot that,” says Vijg. As soon as he could, he started his own research. Tune in to learn more about how and why we age from Jan Vijg. Subscribe, review...
Dr. Judith Campisi of the Buck Institute Discusses Cell Senescence, Aging, and Quality of Life
October 19, 2018 11:16 - 33 minutes - 76.7 MBShe explains how chronic inflammation is a double-edged sword and that research has uncovered surprising results on mice and how cell senescence impacts their existence. Studies have found that exercise and diet may benefit cell senescence in mice; it’s thought provoking even as the process is not fully understood. Finally, she gives a prediction on the expected lifespan of humans two or three decades from now. Is it even possible to increase it? And if so, how? Dr. Campisi also discusses:...
Health 2.0 Conference- Promoting High-Tech Innovations in Health Care
October 19, 2018 10:48 - 31 minutes - 71.6 MBMore effective prevention and management of common diseases, better overall health care at lower costs, fewer visits to doctor’s offices, and earlier discharges from hospitals: how can we make this a reality? Matthew Holt, co-chairman of the Health 2.0 Conference, believes that the answer lies in the application of new emerging technologies to the field of health care. Whether it’s a virtual visit to the doctor from the comfort of your home, a sensor that continuously monitors your blood pre...
Elliot Roth, Founder of Spira: Enabling Access to Quality Nutrition for Anyone, Anywhere
October 19, 2018 10:31 - 24 minutes - 56.8 MBImagine having a source of low-cost, basic nutrition growing indefinitely on your own countertop. “Think of it like a Keurig for nutrition…way more nutritious than the fruits and vegetables in your garden, and it takes a lot less space,” says Elliot Roth, founder of Spira. With the use of a specific type of algae called spirulina-one of the most nutrient-dense food sources on the planet, composed of 60% protein by weight, 13 vitamins and 8 minerals-Roth aims to put the power of nutrition in...
Bionyfiken — Hannes Sjoblad, Founder — Community Of Bio-Hackers Exploring Intersection Of Technology And Biology
October 19, 2018 10:17 - 41 minutes - 46.6 MBBioNyfiken, which means “bio curiosity” in Swedish, is a community of bio-hackers who are interested in exploring how technology and biology can interact in the modern world. They are perhaps most famous for their implant parties, where individuals implant NFC microchips into their bodies and discuss the various ways that they can be used. Some of the more mainstream use cases for NCF microchips are to replace badges for offices, to log in to personal devices, or to hold information on libra...
Viome — Naveen Jain, Founder and CEO — Providing Personalized Recommendations for a Healthy Biome
October 19, 2018 07:34 - 44 minutes - 103 MBViome was founded on the idea that we should be able to use science and technology to solve some of the world’s biggest problems, and personal health is one of the biggest problems of today. Viome aims to help people take control of their own health by providing a personalized report of your biome, the collection of microorganisms that live on and in us, that work to keep us healthy. Biome health is both important, with millions of genes in our biomes that affect all areas of health, includ...
S-Biomedic — Marc Guell, Co-Founder and Director — Leveraging the Skin Microbiome for Novel Therapeutic Health Solutions
October 19, 2018 07:03 - 20 minutes - 47.1 MBOne of the more overlooked but still highly important parts of the body is the skin microbiome. Though there are less types of organisms present in the skin microbiome than in other microbiomes, it still plays a role in conditions such as acne, rosacea, detgrmatitis, aging, dandruff, and more. S-Biomedic is currently concentrating their research on the specific part of the skin biome located inside hair follicles, in order to find effective treatments for acne. Because acne is a condition t...
Axel Schumacher – Co-founder/CEO – Shivom
October 19, 2018 06:25 - 31 minutes - 71.8 MBShivom’s mission is to be the largest genomic data-hub on the planet. Contributors own their genomic data, control the right to access it, and receive rewards is they choose to share it. Co-Founder and CEO Axel Schumacher discusses how Shivom is creating a genomic ecosystem on the blockchain. They offer an open marketplace for healthcare providers to add their apps and services.
Ana Maiques – CEO – NeuroElectrics
October 19, 2018 06:21 - 21 minutes - 48.7 MBAna Maiques is the CEO of NeuroElectrics. The company’s mission is to change the way we interact with the brain by developing innovative technologies that monitor and stimulate the brain. Ana discusses how the nature of their work allows for faster FDA testing and approval. She also shares why the company’s initial focus is on epilepsy in children and how this will assist in mass adoption of their technology in the medical space.
Eric Boduch – Co-founder – Pendo
October 19, 2018 06:09 - 23 minutes - 53.8 MBPendo’s overall mission is to make work easier for product managers. Co-founder Eric Boduch discusses Pendo’s product cloud and how it was created. A product created out of pure necessity for his own work became the basis for an entire company. Eric shares how Pendo integrates easily with other established, popular applications. He also discusses how close proximity to Silicon Valley can actually be a negative when building a company up.