What We Need & What You Get:
Funding
This started as a personal goal to do what was necessary to remain a player in the Game Of Life as long as possible. It gave me a new zest and a desire to share what I was learning.
Having been a serial entrepreneur in the IT industry. I naturally thought about packaging what I was learning in an App so the curated knowledge could be shared.
But to do this I needed to hire the right technical people.
I have been very lucky to have found a team that has successfully brought a nutrition App to market. But GOL is much more than a nutrition App.
I also stumbled on a senior Apple software developer who is doing research into AI.
And thus was GOLLY born. GOLLY (Game Of Long Life for You) uses neural network methodologies to learn from the data it receives about someone so that he can direct the activities of that person towards the achievement of the goals that person has specified.
But if GOLLY is going effective he will need to be imbued with compassionate empathy,
My enthusiasm comes at significant financial cost.
Game Of Life has been a year in the making and we are nearly there. Unfortunately, the year has depleted my financial resources. I need an injection of cash to keep the target delivery date on track.
The Body module should be ready for beta testing in December and the Brain module next January.
Game Of Life
Is an Android and iOS App and a Wordpress blog designed to guide and motivate members to take the actions necessary to extend life and reduce the risk of disease.
The Body module
The Body Module gives you the tools to eat the right nutrient-dense foods in the right quantities, It encourages you to move in the most efficient manner to meet your health needs goals. It will monitor your fibre and probiotic intake so your gut supports your health.
The Food Dairy
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The food column includes previously analysed recipes.
On the right, the nutrient wheel shows the proportions of fats, proteins, carbohydrates, fibre and calories/kilojoules.
The nutrient shortfall accumulates and highlights the deficiencies of the nutrients, vitamins, minerals, and amino acids for the week.
Click on GOLLY to see which foods have the highest concentrations of the deficient nutrients.
You are invited to contribute your favourite recipe, whether its Grandma’s secret or the best Keto imaginable. The recipes are analysed for nutrients and saved in a format that will enable the publishing of a book. The contributor of the best recipe each week earns an award that can be redeemed in our health goods related shop.
The Brain Module
The Brain Module helps you sleep adequately. It engineers social inclusion through a buddy system. It asks you to set and it helps you meet, goals that give your life meaning. It gives you the tools to understand your psychological profile. Mindfulness, meditation, relaxation and just chilling all prolong life. We provide the resources you will need.
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Laughter is not only the best medicine, it helps us live longer. Enjoy our daily joke. Contribute the bedtime story that enraptured your kids or grandkids. Give us your favourite recipe. We will publish and donatee the proceeds to www.feedthechildren.org.
harvests and presents peer-reviewed scientific papers on the factors affecting morbidity, including nutrition, exercise, microbiome, sleep, meditation, brain entrainment, sense of purpose, social inclusion, and humour.
It is through our brain that we experience who we are. Our task is to provide our brains with the best environment for it to function.
Knowledge is power so we kick off with the Ryff scale of Psychological wellbeing delivered over 6 weeks with an assessment each week of one of the six categories.
Poor sleep hygiene is associated with increased mortality. We have proprietary music visualisation software that entrains the brain to a soporific state through binaural mimicry.
Our market is primarily Baby Boomers and many of you have wonderful bedtime stories that calmed your children and grandchildren. Submit them so we can share them and publish them.
Meditators live longer, have less stress and disease than the average population.
Kirtan Kyria protects against Alzheimer's. Vipassana builds neurons. Yoga, rest, relaxation, Pilates all confer benefits. We have tutorials on each of these.
The key to success is to develop a sense of purpose. Tell us about it and let GOLLY provide curated and psychologically appropriate coaching and motivation.
So, apart from AI Coaching, what do you get with Game of Life?
How we can express our gratitude for your contribution
We need 300 contributors at $100AUD each to cover the next few months commitments.
There must be many thousands of Indegogo viewers who would like to live longer and healthier. GOL will help them do that in some unique ways.
- As beta testers, you will have access to the App for 12 months after its launch.
- Your $100 commitment represents around 40% of what the initial subscribers will be paying.
GOL accesses data from wearable devices. You will need a smartwatch.
You can obtain this from our gameof.life WordPress shop .
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If you already have a smartwatch please give it to someone else who could benefit.
Longevity Calculators
We have developed some unique proprietary fitness calculators.
There are three widely researched tests with reference data that can be used to approximate one's physical fitness, maximal aerobic capacity and strength level.
We are selling them as stand-alone products but as they are part of the future App we will send them to you now.
We have five calculators based on peer-researched algorithms which assess biological age from different perspectives. They assess aerobic fitness, strength, metabolic health, psychological wellness and deficit accumulation. The combination of these assessments will give a fairly accurate estimate of your current biological age and the probable years to live. "Know Thyself" so you can plan your road to a younger and healthier self.
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You will be able to approximate your biological age with these simple tests.
The 6MWT only requires a flat surface of 12M or more. Measure a distance and place cones then walk for 6 minutes and record distance.
The 6MWT assesses the distance walked in 6 minutes as a submaximal test of aerobic capacity and endurance.
Reference standards have been gathered from seven countries. The most important factor influencing the 6MWD in healthy subjects was age. Also, the 6MWD is greater in males than females.
The calculator will inform you of the percentile band you fall in for people of similar age, gender, weight, and height. You will also see the age at which you would have fallen into the 50th percentile.
The goal is to grow younger physiologically. So, put down a goal date and distance and then from time to time retest yourself to see how you are going.
Grip Strength is a measure of overall muscular strength and has been associated with disability, morbidity and mortality. In a large 11000+ person study, it was concluded that reference values for grip strength increased through childhood and adolescence, peaked around age 40, and then declined. Reference values were higher for males than for females.
Our calculator uses the algorithms developed in that study.
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If you don't have access to a handgrip dynamometer you can get one from our shop
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The risk of dying from cardiovascular disease is 21 % lower for each increase of 3.5 mL/kg/min, or 1 MET.
This association persists after adjusting the analysis for confounding factors. The risk of dying from all causes during follow-up is gradually reduced with better fitness.
The Fitness Calculator estimates your fitness age measured as maximum oxygen uptake (VO2max).
Traditionally this test requires a mask connected to a machine that measures the composition of the subject's breath during graded exercise taken to exhaustion.
Results derived this way will be more accurate than the 6MWT approximation. But the difference in accuracy is not significant.
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FI34 (Frailty Index 34)
The frailty index outperforms DNA methylation age and its derivatives as an indicator of biological age
The measurement of biological age, as opposed to chronological age, is important to allow the study of factors that are responsible for the heterogeneity in the decline in health and function ability among individuals during aging. Various measures of biological aging have been proposed. Frailty indices based on health deficits in diverse body systems have been well studied, and we have documented the use of a frailty index (FI34) composed of 34 health items, for measuring biological age.
Any useful measure of biological age must predict survival better than chronological age does. Meta-analyses indicate that age acceleration difference and age acceleration residual are significant predictors of mortality, qualifying them as indicators of biological age.
In the presence of chronological age as a covariate, FI34 was a significant predictor of mortality, whereas none of the DNA methylation age-based metrics was. The outperformance of FI34 over DNA methylation age measures was apparent when FI34 and each of the DNA methylation age measures was used together as explanatory variables, along with chronological age: FI34 remained significant but the DNA methylation measures did not. These results indicate that FI34 is a robust predictor of biological age, while these DNA methylation measures are largely a statistical reflection of the passage of chronological time.
The term biological aging has been developed to conceptualize the fact that individuals differ in their manifestation of age changes as they age chronologically.
FI34 increases exponentially with age, indicating declining health and function ability. The rate of increase accelerates approximately 2~3 % annually.
A survival analysis indicates that FI34 predicts mortality better than does chronological age.
The fact that FI34 predicts mortality/survival better than does the simple passage of time indicates that it is more than a naive chronometer. Rather, it is a metric of biological age.
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Ryff Psychological Wellness
One of the most widely used survey instruments is Ryff’s multi-dimensional Psychological Well-being scales (PWB). It was specifically defined to measure positive aspects of psychological functioning along six theoretically-motivated dimensions: independence and self-determination (autonomy); having satisfying, high quality relationships (positive relations with others); the ability to manage one’s life (environmental mastery); being open to new experiences (personal growth); believing that one’s life is meaningful (purpose in life); and a positive attitude towards oneself and one’s past life (self-acceptance).
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Final thought
It is projected that a retired 65-year-old couple can anticipate health care costs of $275,000 out-of-pocket in the USA. At 90% of the cost of a Big Mac each week, a subscription to Game Of Life and coaching by GOLLY looks like an excellent investment.
Personal Introduction
My name is Ron Woodward.
My wife Cathy and I have been married for 56 years.
I have been a serial entrepreneur throughout my life.
I started with IBM in South Africa. In 1972 I established my own business “Automated Pay” and the following year “Computed Investment Advisory Services”. Both companies were successful and were sold into Central Data Systems Ltd. pursuant to their listing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.
.In Aug 2018, I had an epiphany moment. I am approaching my 80th. year, and it suddenly dawned on me that I am running out of time.
I started searching for ways in which I could postpone my appointment with Mr.Reaper.
What I found was so motivating that I felt the need to share what I was learning.
The desire is not purely philanthropic. I also want to monetize gameof.life. I have a wonderful wife, four sons, their partners, and six grandchildren, all of whom could use a legacy.
However, I intend to hold on to that legacy for as long as possible.
My Journey
I have been trying to “walk the walk” so that I would feel more comfortable in “talking the talk”.
To that end, in the last year, I have lost 14kg, reduced my girth by 6cm, and acquired a biological age of 65.
I think I was a couple of years younger than my chronological age when I started out but I am prepared to attribute an extra 10 to the “longevity” lifestyle I have been living since last August.
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Risks & Challenges
It is always risky to take a chance on software that has not yet been proven. GOL is no exception.
On the other hand, early adopters have a higher tolerance for the inevitable teething bugs.
For our part, we are very appreciative of the valuable role they play in stress testing the application.
A big part of why we are seeking crowdfunding is so that we can retain our development team to address any problems as they arise.
In the concept design of GOL, we have a number of ways in which members can earn vouchers to spend in our health store. If their recipe, bedtime story, or funny video/joke, is voted best of the week, they will earn an award which they can redeem at the shop.
We recognise that discovering and weeding out bugs is an essential and valuable part of software development.
We will give every early adopter who discovers a new bug or makes a suggestion that we adopt, an additional year's free access.
Other Ways You Can Help
Even if you are not ready to take the plunge, we hope you will register to receive our eBook.
If you think that the information and guidance in longevity and health maintenance is valuable we would appreciate your sharing this crowdfunding invitation to your friends and family.
Indiegogo has some convenient share tools to help you do this
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