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Open Health

Inspiration

Problem Personal Trainers: 60-120$ / hr Dietitians: Insurance + can be upwards of $1,000 Appointment with Doctor to discuss diagnosis: Not accessible to all & wait times are insane.

Common Issue A common reservation everyone in the group has was the current culture of referees vs do'ers. More people are willing to post/tell you what needs to be done, but they are not providing something the average busy American with a family can actually implement. This leads to guilt, analysis paralysis, and self-pity. This is why we created a toolbox, rather than a booklet.

Another common experience was a lack of education in the field of nutrition, fitness, and neuroscience. Without great knowledge, comes great levels of powerlessness; we've all spent countless hours looking up the right diet/routine, just to get sucked into the vortex of online fitness influencers providing unsound advice.


Technology Stack:

  • Frontend:
    • React Native
    • Expo
    • Tamagui
  • Backend:
    • Firebase
    • Python
  • Additional Tools:
    • OpenAI

Quick Start

Clone/fork the repo
run yarn install
run npx expo prebuild
run npx expo run:ios

home calories  coach

What it does

TheOpen Health app calculates your:

  • TDEE - Total Daily Energy Expenditure. This is the total amount of calories you burn on a daily basis, based on your height, weight, age, sex, bodyfat, and activity level.
  • BMR - Basal Metabolic Rate. This is the total amount of calories you burn by simply being alive based on your height, weight, age, sex, and body fat.
  • BMI - Body Mass Index.
  • Calorie Deficit or Surplus Suggestions based on your stated goal.

The Open Health app provides:

  • an AI Computer Vision feature that allows you to do 2 big things:
    • Track your reps without thinking
    • Track your calories by simply TAKING A PICTURE OF YOUR FOOD
  • detailed + personalized workout routines that adhere to your current equipment, fitness, and motivational state.
  • detailed nutritional tips, with the overarching goal of decreasing inflammation, and increasing healthspan + vitality!
  • Motivational pieces of advice from Arnold, Mike Mentzer, David Goggins, Dietitians, and more!!
  • a tool for you to track calories, macronutrients, and vitamins

What we learned

To quote Fight Club "Self-improvement is {you know what they said}. Now self-destruction {construction*} is the answer." We all now have tools to take with us in our lifelong fitness endeavors.

More about the field of Nutritional Psychiatry, we believe it is going to be a prevailing field

  1. because of it's legitimacy and efficacy.
  2. because the mental health crisis isn't easy up, and we don't want to continue losing our generation to what starts as surface mental health issues and progressively compounds into a Neurogenerative disease.

Evidence-Based

Earlier studies have shown that symptoms of depression are linked to an increased risk of Alzheimer's disease.

  • Alzinfo

Many studies have found a link between anxiety-prone personality and shortened lifespan.

  • VeryWellMind

What do diabetes and dementia have in common? Studies have shown that type 2 diabetes can be a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia and other types of dementia. This is because the same cardiovascular problems that increase the risk of type 2 diabetes also increase the risk dementia. -Alzheimers.Ca

You may be surprised to learn that being overweight or having obesity are linked with a higher risk of getting 13 types of cancer. These cancers make up 40% of all cancers diagnosed in the United States each year. -CDC

Several small human trials have suggested a time-limited benefit of ketosis in delaying cognitive decline in older adults in various stages of dementia. The benefit seems to be particularly true in people without the apolipoprotein E4 allele.

  • SagePub **

##Previous works on the topic from our Hackers Food & Depression - Exhaustive List Happiness, Depression, Nutritional Psychiatry https://ethancastro.substack.com/p/food-and-mood-exhaustive-list

A lil' Gut-Brain Axis and Suicide Parasites. https://ethancastro.substack.com/p/a-lil-gut-brain-axis-and-suicide