Keeping Up with Your Clients' Health Tracking, and Practical Tips to Start Using AI As Your Marketing Assistant
Plus, a community share, a book recommendation and readers' questions.
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Staying in Sync with Your Clients' Health Tracking Habits
With biohacking on the rise and growing numbers of people tracking their health through apps, we’ve analysed the charts for you and collected the most popular and trending health apps and resources to know about, as your clients bring them along into your treatment rooms.
Not surprisingly, the top health apps in the UK are mostly fitness tracking app that encourage people to move more, including Fitbit, MyFitnessPal, Strava and Sweatcoin. The top rated menstrual cycle tracking app is Flo and on the topic of women’s health, Balance - Menopause Support is a newcomer in the charts. Other up and comers are DoFasting, Dr. Kegel: For Mens Health and Chopra’s meditation app. Especially sleep tracking continues to gain popularity, while heart rate monitoring apps are trending down.
If it’s not the apps, your clients are likely getting lots of health info listening to podcasts. The top 5 podcasts this month include, ZOE Science & Nutrition (you’ll hear from them in one of our July newsletters), Dr Rangan Chatterjee: Feel Better, Live More, Huberman Lab, On Purpose with Jay Shetty, Maintenance Phase and How Do You Cope?.
Community Asks & Offers; Rooms To Rent
The team at the Northern Centre of Integrative and Functional Medicine in North East Lincolnshire are looking to share their wonderful building with other professionals. They have capacity in a number of their beautiful rooms, including a studio, talking therapy room, multiple treatment rooms and a clinical room, with flexibility at affordable prices in an amazing calm and tranquil setting. For more photos and information about their centre see here. If you or someone you know is interested, please email Helen at helen@orchardbarn.co.uk for more details.
Embracing All Intelligence
It’s time for AI, again. ChatGPT is the thing that everyone is talking about but not everyone will get good at. And some won't learn how to use it at all. But you can. If you’re a team of one (like me), DO Lectures founder David Hieatt shared some really practical tips on how to make the most of AI as your marketing assistant, writing coach and brainstorm support. His ChatGPT course is no longer live for the public but they’ve kindly offered to re-open it just for our community, you can find out more here. (If you decide to sign up, I’d love to hear your thoughts!)
And for a different view on AI related to our health and wellbeing, James Bridle's book Ways of Being presents an eye opening look beyond our human-centric ways of knowing, that embraces animal, planetary and artificial intelligence. If you want a quick recap, his interview with Emergence Magazine is brilliant.
Lastly, an interesting article on bedside manner, via AI sharing how US doctors turn to ChatGPT to help them write scripts to talk to patients empathetically.
Ps. it’s important to know I don’t make any money from sharing content or links in this newsletter, I simply share what I think is useful to you. If that changes, I’ll let you know.