In this episode Andrew and Amelia discuss:
2:00 The last time Andrew and Amelia saw each other 14 years ago, the healthy her podcast and does Amelia want to live forever?
6:50 Duncan, a former Olympic swimmer having a heart attack, spending months with people for a minute of tv and how they missed the biggest changes at the end of the show.
10:45 Amelia being the brains behind the 12 week body transformation program, the change in visceral fat with the participants of Do You Want To Live Forever and Amelia getting the results she wanted from Do You Want To Live Forever.
15:45 Getting exercise in green and blue spaces, the health problems with athletes transitioning out of professional sport and being fit enough to be independent at 75+.
21:05 Staying healthy to improve your quality of life during old age, shifting Duncan’s mindset to be purpose based and the types of exercise Amelia recommends everyone should do.
26:30 Amelia’s weekly exercise recommendations, Andrew’s great grandfather quitting smoking at 99 years old and Amelia’s longevity goals.
34:30 Why individual HRV is so difficult to measure, using data to change behaviours and for every dollar spent on preventative medicine you save $14.
39:00 exercise is the key to health in the 2nd half of your life, the challenge with getting kids to move and exercise and getting people to fall back in love with exercise.
44:15 why there are more centenarians but lower average lifespan, the increase in chronic disease impacting lifespan and why people living in blue zones have a longer lifespan.
51:10 dressing to exercise, Amelia’s business Inner Vitality and how they are trying to improve people’s quality of life.
56:30 The important biomarkers Amelia and her team look at, Amelia changing her lifestyle to get off medication and how Amelia plans to take this information to the masses.
1:03:15 What Amelia’s programs consist of, the importance of HBA1C when preventing diabetes and why Amelia is able to launch this business now rather than 15 years ago.
1:10:45 Starting by looking at the basics in blood work and then going deeper, what Amelia thinks the future of the industry will look like and why Amelia wouldn’t sell her business.
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What is Performance Intelligence Podcast?
A podcast about all things human performance.
Listen in as Andrew May explores the latest in human performance with an all-star cast of subject matter experts covering physical and psychological wellbeing, performance psychology, sport, business, entertainment, the performing arts, leadership, and science.
Learn valuable lessons that can be applied to optimising performance in your personal and professional life. Performance Intelligence applies to the way we turn up in relationships and the way we turn up at work, it applies to the way we perform in front of 10,000 people and the way we perform in front of one.
Episodes include 3 main categories:
1. High Performer Series - exploring the habits, tactics and strategies that have led to success for some of the world’s leading performers…
2. The Science Of - drilling down deep into the science of a specific performance-related construct, with leading domain experts…
3. Performer Spotlight – an interview with a coaching client, an athlete, or a leader of a large team Andrew has worked with and how they have applied Performance Intelligence…