Which are the most common health issues at work?

The Office for National Statistics can provide us with a closer look as to how a variety of health issues can affect us at work, as during 2016 a total of 137 million work days were lost due to sickness or injury.?

1st: Minor illnesses (such as coughs and colds) accounted for the most days lost due to sickness in 2016, with 34 million days lost (24.8% of the total days lost).?

2nd: Musculoskeletal problems (including back pain, neck and upper limb problems) at 30.8 million days (22.4%).

3rd: Mental Health issues, which we will undoubtedly see a dramatic increase over the coming years (including stress, depression, anxiety and more serious conditions such as manic depression and schizophrenia) which resulted in 15.8 million days being lost (11.5%).

Health issues will affect every section of society and are all multifaceted issues, each with a generic link or correlation.

But having a genetic link or correlation to a particular health issue, such as being prone to stress and anxiety or getting a bad back is just part of the equation.?

We also need to see the causation (nurture) as your day to day lifestyle and environment through a process called epigenetics must also be considered and will largely contribute towards developing a?particular illness or ailment.

Science in the workplace

The science of genomics and the benefits of understanding your own DNA is now well established in the medical, sports and health industries.

But a new area where DNA testing could prove extremely useful is that within the corporate world and improving the health of employees.??

For years now, there has been a certain amount of HR box ticking and white noise surrounding health and wellbeing in the workplace, with the usual juice bar, massage at your desk or a cheap spin class membership to the gym just around the corner.

Up until now, with the emergence of DNA then epigenetic testing in 2020 nothing new and exciting has entered the corporate wellbeing and employee benefits space for at least the last 10 years.

Personalised health technology has made a real impact in the last couple of years and had already made tremendous in roads before the Covid outbreak.?

And if Covid has sadly taught us anything, it's that unfortunately the general health of the nation is both extremely poor and more worrying than we had previously thought.??

Alarmingly 67% of the U.K population are either overweight or obese, with 70% of ICU patients admitted for Covid being obese or clinically obese.

How have we managed to get ourselves into this obesity and health epidemic in the first place, which has now been brought to the forefront, as well as undoubtedly magnifying the severity of the virus itself.?

Luckily, Muhdo Health is pioneering the new science of epigenetics, which can help provide some of the answers and recommendations as to why various lifestyle and environmental factors will trigger us to become sick or injured.

And all of which are individualised and specific to your own DNA and at a touch of a button, with the world’s first and truly unique internal health check.?

Muhdo understands that we all come with a set of unique genetic predispositions, whether that be an increased risk of colds or flu, more likely to develop back pain or have stress and anxiety issues.

But then our lifestyle and environment will affect those same genetic traits and either diluted or accentuated them.?

For the most part there will be two things that you with keep with you for the majority of your life, your mobile phone and your health.

And as the symbiosis between humans and AI moves every closer and at an exponential rate, the realisation that the synergy between man and machine could possibly be the panacea for improving our health and longevity.

Muhdo allows each of our customers the ability to understand their genetic blueprint, but to then be able to see how their day to day lives such as their diet, exercise, sleep and environment are affecting them at a genetic and cellular level.

The $64,000 question and the key to epigenetics is that if we only look at one of these areas, we miss the influence and power of the other.

How will you look to improve the health of your employee’s next year?

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