00:00 Well, the research that we at Uniquely Health Commission showed that people are putting
00:06 their health very far down their list of priorities and that 76% of people prioritize something
00:12 else instead. And those things are important. They're laudable things to be looking after.
00:18 It's like looking after children or elderly relatives or career. But we know that having
00:26 your health low down your priority list means that you won't be making necessarily good
00:30 exercise choices and good dietary choices. And you can only do that for so long. You
00:37 will start to fall into bad health and those bad healthy habits will have long term problems.
00:43 40% of NHS costs go on treating preventable conditions such as diabetes, hypertension
00:50 and high cholesterol. The burden of just one preventable disease, cardiovascular disease,
00:56 cost society over £18 billion a year. Further, 63.5% of the nation is now classified as overweight
01:05 or obese, according to the NHS. Lots of the conditions that we're talking
01:10 about here don't have symptoms with them. You can have high blood pressure without having
01:13 any symptoms. You can have prediabetes or even type 2 diabetes without having any symptoms
01:18 of it. And if you don't check, you don't know. Lots of us may even have inherited high cholesterol
01:24 or just have had high cholesterol since we were quite young.
01:26 Dr Jim Robinson and Sabine Hoadley, who's an exercise scientist, both work for Uniquely
01:33 Health. They are encouraging people to take private health checkups. It's a service that's
01:38 boomed in recent times and is also offered by many other companies.
01:44 Starting small and often. There's lots and lots of social media and fads and crazy crash
01:52 diets that you can do that claim that you can drop 10 kilograms in a couple of weeks.
01:56 And if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. So I think being very careful and cautious
02:02 of what you read out there on the internet and through social media and start with small
02:07 sustainable habits, such as you could add it in a five minute walk at the end of your
02:12 day if it's something that you don't do already and then you can build that over time.
02:16 The neglect of personal health and well-being could mean generally lower quality of life
02:21 and that something preventable goes unmanaged, leading to the need for greater investment
02:27 of time and money in health in the future.
02:31 It's a really, really good way that you can measure trend like track trends over time.
02:35 So for example, if you're looking at your heart rate as an example, using these health
02:38 metrics and using data to improve our understanding of our own bodies and our own physiology is
02:45 really important to allowing us to see progress and to track our progress over time. And as
02:52 clinicians we're here to help you understand that data, what that data means and how that
03:00 looks in terms of your health is really important.
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