by Grant Schofield (PreKure Chief Science Officer) | Apr 29, 2020 | Behaviour Change, Science
Prof Grant Schofield talks about coming out of lockdown and what the next steps are. Should we still be trying to eliminate an endemic virus? And why are we not talking about metabolic health? If we go back six weeks, we learnt that Covid-19 had spread outside of...
by Carlo Bellini | Apr 24, 2020 | Behaviour Change, Fitness is Medicine, Food is Medicine
Behaviour change is hard. Eating healthier, stopping smoking, starting to exercise, increasing your activity – living a more healthy lifestyle is really, really hard. But with Covid-19, we can change our behaviour relatively quickly. Hand washing suddenly...
by Grant Schofield (PreKure Chief Science Officer) | Apr 22, 2020 | Fitness is Medicine, Food is Medicine, Lifestyle is Medicine, Nutrition, Prevention is Cure, Science
I’d like to ask you three questions that we still don’t know the answer to. I’d like to know that answer because I think it would help us get to a better place. Question 1: What is the denominator? Whenever we have cases of an illness or a disease and it...
by Louise Schofield | Apr 21, 2020 | Alcohol, Behaviour Change
If you find yourself responding to emotions or tension with the need to drink, then I want you to try this – the DBT rule. I just made it up and it works for me. The D is for Distraction. I watched the announcement by our Prime Minister about the fact that...
by Carlo Bellini | Apr 20, 2020 | Science
We are in a rapidly changing landscape. Dynamic would be an understatement. I think that the phrase, ‘In some decades we only move weeks, but in some weeks we move decades’, is absolutely appropriate for what we’re seeing with the Covid-19 pandemic. Let’s...
