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Technology to benefit health and fitness

Factual: Health & Wellbeing

08/02/2016

BBC Radio Scotland - Personal Best, Technology to benefit health and fitness

Gillian Russell hears about online life-coaching and a course to help new mothers.

Shannon Nelson talks about how post-partum depression led her to set up an online course to help other new mothers, plus Pete Cohen talks about online life-coaching.

Think technology is bad for you? Think again!

Edinburgh mum of two Shannon Nelson tells Gillian Russell why her post-natal depression, poor diet and lack of exercise were the triggers to not just turn her own life around, but to set up an online course to help other new mums get their lives back on track.

Life coach Pete Cohen talks about why he set up Mi 365, an online daily dose of life coaching ... and admits that the virtual community he's connected with have helped and inspired him just as much as he's helped them.

Would you consider life coaching? Perhaps not but lots of people do and producer Suzy Beaumont is no exception. She shares her story about why it worked for her.

Dr John McBeth from the University of Manchester talks about a new app which aims to explore the link between weather and pain ... through mobile phone input from sufferers across the country.

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