You Have More Health Data Than Any Human In History. So What Do You Do On Monday?

The Answer Lives In The Corridor

I practised at Complete Health Medical Centre in Melbourne as the resident Naturopath. GPs, physiotherapists, chiropractors, podiatrists and me, all under one roof, all seeing the same patients.

Naturo, natural. Path, from the Greek pathos, suffering or sickness. Natural approaches to sickness. Pharmaceuticals were one option out of ten on that table, and often the right one. Sometimes the answer was a drug. Sometimes an orthotic. Sometimes sleep, or a magnesium deficiency, or the fact that the bloke had hated his job for eleven years.

The value in that building lived between the consulting rooms. The physio mentioning that a patient’s shoulder kept regressing. Me mentioning his sleep had collapsed six months earlier. The podiatrist spotting a gait change that nobody had connected to the back pain. The answer sat in the overlap, in what we made together.

Every app you own is optimised to tell you about itself. WHOOP knows your recovery and nothing about your ferritin. Thriva knows your bloods and nothing about nineteen straight nights under six hours. Strava knows exactly how hard you rode on Sunday and has no idea your resting heart rate has drifted upward for three months.
We have vastly more data than that clinic ever had, and we’ve lost the corridor.

Triangulation Rebuilds It

Put your sleep, your training load, your bloods, your body composition and your actual life into one place, and the signals start to corroborate each other.
One marker moving on its own is interesting. Three markers moving together, from three independent sources, pointing at the same underlying thing, is a lead. That’s triangulation: independent readings combined to pinpoint a position that no single reading could give you.

Pinpoint it and you can rank it. That’s where the leverage sits, because you have a limited budget of change. Limited willpower, hours, money, and patience from the people you live with. Almost everybody can sustain one or two new habits. Nobody sustains eleven.

So the whole game is this. Which one or two?

Health SatNav is the repository I wish that Melbourne clinic had. Your wearables, your panels and your bloods go into one place, as one picture. It triangulates across them and hands back simple, ranked steps you can take now, with the reasoning shown, across every domain of your life rather than the single one your device happens to measure. Your doctor diagnoses and prescribes. My job is to get you better prepared for that conversation.

A satnav tells you where you are, where you’re going and which turn to take next. A map only tells you where everything is.

What Another Five Years Of This Costs You

• Chasing red. You go after whatever went red most recently, fix it, watch something else go red. Effort in, no compounding. Five years of genuine work with very little to show for it.
• Paralysis. You do nothing, because “everything” is not an instruction. The panel results stay in the drawer. The amber marker stays amber.
• Spend that moves nothing. The supplement cupboard. The fourth subscription. The protocol you read about at 11pm and abandoned by March.
• A window that narrows. Between 45 and 60 your trajectory is still highly responsive to what you do. Prevention quietly becomes management, and the same effort buys progressively less.
• Ten minutes wasted. You get roughly that with your GP. Arriving with a shrug rather than a question is an expensive way to use it.

What Getting The Order Right Buys You

• Effort compounds. The right first move makes the next three easier. Fix the sleep and recovery, appetite regulation and mood often follow with no separate intervention.
• Wins arrive fast enough to keep you going. Early visible progress is what carries people through month three, where most attempts die.
  Prevention stops feeling like a telling off. It becomes welcoming rather than worthy, which is the difference between something you do and something you mean to do.
• Your money goes where it works. One or two things, chosen on evidence from your own body, rather than nine things chosen by an algorithm selling a subscription.
• You walk in with a question. Knowing exactly what to ask changes what you get out of those ten minutes.

Come And Find Out Where You Are

Here’s the test I apply to everything we build.

Will this help someone understand something important about their health, and know what to do next?

Both halves matter. Understanding without a next step is a hobby. A next step without understanding is a fad.

The combination is the power. It always was. In 1994 it was a corridor in Melbourne.
From here it’s a repository you own.

Health SatNav is in free beta now at healthsatnav.com. If you recognised yourself at the top of this, come in and please share your feedback.