James Brown James Brown is the co-founder and nutrigenomics director of Muhdo, a DNA testing and personalised health, fitness and wellness company. He is an ex-professional rugby player who represented Harlequins and England schools and has spent the last 20 years working as a sports and performance nutritionist with a degree from St Marys Twickenham,…
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Dave Wright Dave Wright is the founder and CEO of MyZone, a HRM hardware and software solution to track and reward physical activity, and board member of ukactive, the not-for-profit industry association promoting the interests of commercial fitness gyms and community leisure centres. He lives in Nottingham, England. Visit myzone.org and ukactive.com.
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Aubrey de Grey Aubrey de Grey is a biomedical gerontologist, author and president and chief science officer of the Longevity Escape Velocity Foundation. He is best known for his groundbreaking work in anti-ageing and longevity research focusing on developing strategies to combat ageing and extend human healthpan and lifespan, believing ageing is a condition that…
Sebastian Porsdam Mann Sebastian Porsdam Mann is a bioethicist and legal scholar. Following military service, he was educated in philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, where he also obtained his first PhD in neuroethics. He has held postdoctoral positions in bioethics at Harvard Medical School and, as Carlsberg Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, at…
Jamie Gold Jamie Gold, CKD, CAPS, MCCWC, is a wellness design consultant and the author of "Wellness by Design: A Room-by-Room Guide to Optimizing Your Home for Health, Fitness, and Happiness". Follow Jamie on Instagram. Visit jamiegold.net.
With a wealth of knowledge and a passion for creating spaces that promote well-being, Jamie Gold has been…
Liv Boeree Liv Boeree is host of the Win-Win podcast, former professional poker player, science broadcaster, and co-founder of Raising for Effective Giving. She lives in Austin, Texas. Follow her on X and Instagram. Visit livboeree.com.
Liv Boeree: AI could wipe out humanity
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Dr Ash Kapoor Dr Ash Kapoor is a qualified medical practitioner specialising in human optimisation and longevity, focusing on applying interventions to optimise cellular function and decelerate decline to prevent dysfunction, disorder, disease and ultimately ageing. To further advance the study of longevity medicine, Dr Kapoor supported the launch of Levitas Academy, a specialist training…
For both elite athletes and amateur enthusiasts, heart-rate workouts have become one of the most popular training tools to boost short-distance speed, long-distance endurance and improve peak performance and overall wellness and longevity by boosting important cardiovascular health biomarkers such as resting heart rate, heart-rate variability (HRV) and VO2 Max.
Heart-rate training involves exercising at…
“Total loss of human agency.”
That was the end-point on a list of predictions I asked ChatGPT to make regarding the potential downsides of AI’s influence on the future of the health and wellness industry.
Other entries were equally apocalyptic. One scenario described how AI might be “used to implement a global eugenics program”. Another…
If you work in health and fitness media, you get at least one press release a week touting a "groundbreaking" new item of strength training equipment. Genuinely innovative products, however, are so rare that you can count them on one hand.
In 1796, Francis Lowndes introduced the Gymnasticon, an early exercise machine equipped with levers,…



