Every 15 Minutes Someone Dies From a Preventable Condition

Dr. Gillian Singleton, the insightful GP and founder of our new partner, Thrive, often uses a brilliant analogy that I find incredibly powerful and relatable:

“I’m pretty sure most of us wouldn’t drive a car without any dashboard indicators, but unfortunately, that’s what most of us do with our health.”

It’s a stark truth, isn’t it? We navigate our daily lives, making countless decisions about our wellbeing, often without a clear, objective picture of what’s truly going on beneath the surface. Next week, that all changes. We are thrilled to announce that we are giving you that dashboard for your health.

This partnership is designed to address a critical issue: Every 15 minutes in Australia, someone under 75 dies from a health condition that could have been prevented. As Dr. Singleton realised, while our healthcare system does so much good, it’s mostly designed to treat illness once it’s already there. Preventive care is vital, but it’s not always easy to access or deliver. That’s why she created Thrive—to provide a digital platform that helps you understand your personal risk for 21 chronic conditions well before symptoms appear.

As a valued part of our Be Well community, you will receive complimentary access to the innovative Thrive Health Check and, crucially, your own personal Health Dashboard and a 10% discount on optional add-ons. This isn’t just another online questionnaire; it’s a confidential, comprehensive, and intelligently designed online assessment that takes only 15-20 minutes to complete. Developed by Australian doctors, it intelligently analyses your data across more than 130 crucial risk factors to construct a truly comprehensive and nuanced picture of your current health status.

Within minutes of completing the assessment, you’ll gain immediate access to your secure Health Dashboard. Here, you’ll discover your key health scores, including your unique Medical Age and Vitality Score. Most people think of their age as just a number, but your Medical Age is a science-backed estimate of how your body is really ageing, based on your lifestyle and biometric indicators. Poor sleep, chronic stress, diet, and inactivity can all add years to your biological age without you even realising it. But here’s what’s exciting: once you know your Medical Age and your other detailed health scores through Thrive, you can actually shift them, essentially boosting your healthspan. This tool calculates your Medical Age, 8 other ‘big picture’ scores, and 22 detailed health scores that look at different aspects of your health.

We firmly believe that this is the essential next step in truly personalised health. It’s about providing you with a data-driven blueprint that allows you to make the effort you consistently put into your wellbeing, wherever you are, whatever your current routine – more intelligent, targeted and profoundly effective. This is about replacing guesswork with clarity and proactive strategy. Those who opt in to receive a comprehensive action plan, reviewed by a lifestyle medicine GP, can access details on exactly how to shift these indicators. You can even access details on how to optimise your health based on the latest science through screening and biohacking, or choose a subscription option for regular lifestyle medicine GP consults and nutrigenomic screening.

The next evolution of your health journey, equipping you with the tools to truly understand and proactively manage your long-term well-being, arrives on Friday, the 8th of August. Get ready to take the wheel with confidence!

We look forward to thriving in health for the decades ahead with you all!