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.
- Frontend:
- React Native
- Expo
- Tamagui
- Backend:
- Firebase
- Python
- Additional Tools:
- OpenAI
Clone/fork the repo
run yarn install
run npx expo prebuild
run npx expo run:ios
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
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
- because of it's legitimacy and efficacy.
- 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.
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