Hack It: Health and Fitness

Fitness and lifestyle hacks, the latest health tech, diet innovations and more! Meet the creators behind the world’s most exciting health products. Find out how they came up with their ideas and how they could improve your health. From the producer behind New Scientist Weekly. An OG Podcasts production.

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Failed by Antidepressants? Try This Instead - Daniel Mansson, Flow Neuroscience

Medication-free depression treatment - that’s the promise of the Flow Neuroscience headset. With increasing numbers of people being prescribed antidepressants - dealing with all the side effects they come with - Flow’s headset might seem too good to be true. But is it? That’s what I wanted to find out. Daniel Månsson is co-founder of Flow Neuroscience and in this episode he tells us exactly how his company’s over-the-counter, wearable headset works to treat depression. In this episode Daniel tel...

Jun 02, 2024•41 min•Season 1Ep. 4

Barefoot Shoes: Everything You Need To Know - Steven Sashen, founder of Xero Shoes

Have you come across barefoot shoes and wondered how on earth this weird shaped footwear could be better for your feet than normal shoes? There’s plenty of hype, mixed advice and even opposition to barefoot shoes - but what does the science say? Steven Sashen is the founder of barefoot shoe brand Xero. Not only is clued up on all the latest research, he’s also one of the fastest runners in his age group in America and has been teaching physics since he was 14 - so he’s well placed to tell you ev...

Apr 21, 2024•1 hr 37 min•Season 1Ep. 3

This Guy INVENTED Weighted Blankets - Keith Zivalich, founder of Magic Weighted Blanket

A chance encounter with his daughter’s beanie baby Pugsley led to an invention that went on to sweep the globe. Keith Zivalich is the man who gave weighted blankets to the world, after stumbling upon the idea in 1997. Starting as an aid for people with disabilities, weighted blankets are now used for everything from helping people ease anxiety and pain, get better sleep and even relieve symptoms of depression. Discover the origin story of weighted blankets and how they might help you. In this ep...

Mar 03, 2024•45 min•Season 1Ep. 2

Is this the healthiest coffee you can buy? - Exhale Coffee founder Alex Higham

Alex Higham is the founder of “ridiculously healthy coffee” Exhale - and it goes through a lot to make that claim. 9 different tests at independent laboratories across Europe go into Exhale's quest to create coffee that is super high in polyphenols and antioxidants and free of mould toxins and pesticides. But why does Exhale go to such great lengths? In this episode Alex tells us: The difference between Exhale and your standard supermarket beans The epic journey that led to the creation of Exhal...

Feb 18, 2024•49 min•Season 1Ep. 1

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