This section contains two types of videos:
1. Video Guides: short videos with guidance that is relevant to the stage you are about to embark on
2. Video Modules: these are videos with detailed information on the program, health, food, dietary techniques, mindset and/or guidance through the relevant stage.
Work you way through each of the videos - without skipping any - so you don’t miss out on essential information! The more you know, the better the outcome will be in the longterm.
Video Guide 1: Bio-Alai Personalised Nutrition Program and Manual Orientation: Getting Started
Dr Agnes provides an overview of the key sections of your Bio-Alai Personalised Nutrition Plan and the Program Portal to help you feel comfortable with accessing and finding the relevant information for each stage of the program.
She also discusses how to reframe your mindset for success and gives you the tasks to complete before starting the Preparation Stage.
Video Module 1: Welcome & Program Overview
- About Dr Agnes - personal and clinical experience
- About Bio-Alai products
- The underlying drivers of ageing and chronic conditions
- Bio-Alai Personalised Nutrition Program Overview
Video Module 2: Why we get sick and what we can do about it
In this module you will learn about
- The true causes of ageing and illness
- The gut microbiome in health optimisation, energy balance and the gut-brain-skin connection
- Why we get sick: the gut-body- brain-skin connection, metabolic disruptions and their role common chronic symptoms
- What we can do about it: key aspects of health optimisation
- How the microbiome influences the health of your skin, how much you weigh and how well your brain functions via the gut-brain-fat-skin connection
Video Guide 2: Bio-Alai Personalised Nutrition Program - Navigating the Challenges of Habit Change
Dr Agnes provides an overview of the key sections of your Bio-Alai Personalised Nutrition Plan and the Program Portal to help you feel comfortable with accessing and finding the relevant information for each stage of the program.
Video Module 3: Guidance Through the Preparation Stage
In this module you will learn about:
- The modifiable factors and underlying physiological processes that contribute to chronic conditions and accelerate the ageing process.
- Changing your internal and external signals to facilitate neuroplasticity and rewiring of the brain connectome for long-term habit formation.
- How to prepare your body, mind and home for a diet and lifestyle change and why it’s essential.
- How to identify what your body is telling you: signals, symptoms, and signs.
Video Guide 3 - Your Bio-Alai Personalised Nutrition Plan - A Therapeutic Tool
Dr Agnes will discuss the therapeutic power of food and dietary techniques that have been incorporated into your personalised nutrition plan. She'll also talk about the role of specific nutrients in optimising health span.
Module 4: The Therapeutic Stage
In this module you will learn about:
- How your personalised nutrition plan can reprogram your epigenome to change your gene expression
- How certain compounds found in food interact with the microbiome and epigenome to produce allergic, autoimmune and inflammatory disease.
- How insulin resistance is linked to polycystic ovaries, adrenal and thyroid issues, menopause and ageing and why its so hard to lose weight long-term
- Which dietary techniques are incorporated into your plan, why and how to cycle through them. The pros and cons of intermittent fasting, circadian rhythm timing, carbohydrate and calorie cycling and protein pacing
- Food myths: why you should reconsider collagen, fermented foods, and proteins powders
- How supplements, stress management and lifestyle modifications can boost the healing process
Video Guide 4 - Supporting Dopamine and Persistence
Dr Agnes discusses the science of dopamine addiction and the tools to help normalise dopamine levels for lifelong health and wellbeing.
Module 5: Guidance Through The Maintenance Stage
In this video, you will be guided on intuitive eating and sustainable health. Learn:
- How to establish intuitive eating to balance health benefits and enjoyment
- How to reintroduce new foods and identify food intolerances
- How to determine your carbohydrate tolerance levels
- The pros and cons of biohackers and bio-trackers: Continuous blood glucose monitors, DNA tests.
- How to adjust your plan according to the changing needs of your body over time
- When to seek help and what tests are beneficial for on-going symptoms
Video Guide 5 - Maintenance Stage
Maintaining health is a life-long process. There is no end date, so it is important to create a life that is sustainable.
If you are at your goal weight, you must now establish how much food your body needs to maintain your weight and health.