Synopsis
#healthHackers is a series of live interviews with the most pioneering & influential figures in health & wellness. It's an opportunity to get inside the minds of experts who have figured out the best health hacks we can all learn from. TV journalist & presenter Gemma Evans hosts and produces the episodes that are recorded as Facebook Lives and include viewer questions.
Episodes
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I reviewed the Slate Electric Flosser - here’s my chat with Brynn Snyder, CEO & Co-Founder
19/03/2024 Duration: 22minThis conversation is taken from my video review of the Slate Electric Flosser. The company describes it as “the future of floss”. It’s listed online at $79.99 and comprises three elements - a flosser, a massaging gum sweeper, and a tongue scraper. I bought it and used it for six and a half weeks before I went for my routine dental cleaning appointment and got my dentist’s reaction (!). You can hear about that in my review video of the Slate flosser that’s now on YouTube. See my video review here: https://youtu.be/cN7whzlICnM As part of my review, I interviewed the company’s CEO and co-founder - Brynn Snyder. Fun fact: Her husband, Dr. Danny Snyder invented the Slate Flosser. Among my questions for Brynn, I asked about the alleged benefits in early users, the possibility of inadvertent gum trauma with the device, the potential benefit to waiting after eating before using the flosser, and what kind of feedback they’d had on the almost $80 price tag. I recommend you take a look at my video review on Yo
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Exploring the Weo Bottle for peak performance & anti-aging with Dr Kelly Halderman
06/11/2023 Duration: 21minThis interview is taken from my video review of the Weo bottle. See the full episode, including my ‘likes’ and ‘dislikes’ about using the $219 smart bottle on the healthHackers® YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/E2LUCbpvBIU Weo uses electricity to apparently enhance the natural health properties of your drinking water at a molecular level. The brand suggests this provides an antioxidant-rich water that “enhances physical performance, cognitive function, and skin health.” In this interview, the company’s chief health officer, Dr Kelly Halderman, spoke to me about all kinds of alleged potential benefits linked to drinking Weo water, including improvements in exercise performance, metabolic health, skin health, gut health, sleep quality, lowering body fat, and more.
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Q&A with a baby physiotherapist: The milestones that matter by 18 months. Ep 63 with Nicole Pates
10/12/2022 Duration: 31minDo you find yourself comparing your little one to their peers, wondering why yours isn’t sitting, crawling, walking, or climbing yet? Then this episode is for you! In episode 63, you’ll hear:
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Protecting your baby’s microbiome to prevent eczema, allergies & asthma. Ep 62 with Meenal Lele
26/06/2022 Duration: 36minIn this episode of healthHackers®, Meenal Lele - medical researcher, author of ‘The Baby and The Biome,’ allergy mom, and founder CEO of Lil Mixins - spoke to me about:
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Ep 61: Bumpin’ birth prep with Leslie Schrock
15/10/2021 Duration: 40minThe author of ‘Bumpin’ - the Modern Guide to Pregnancy’, Leslie Schrock, joined me for this special episode of healthHackers® to talk all about essential preparation for labor and delivery in a hospital setting. Leslie’s book has been described as the “new pregnancy bible” and came about because of her feelings of helplessness following several complicated pregnancies and losses. Bumpin’ was written in real time while Leslie was pregnant with her son TJ. Since then, she's had another baby - Dylan, who’s now three months old. Both birth experiences involved difficult and unexpected events. There was SO much I wanted to talk to Leslie about (the book covers conception all the way to postpartum and has been a resource for me in my own pregnancy) but for this episode we honed in on the key event that pregnant women (including me) spend a lot of time thinking about… the big moment, the showdown… the actual birth. Leslie covers: