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#335: Kyra Bobinet, MD – Systems, Dietary Behaviour Change & the Iterative Mindset

Sigma Nutrition Radio

Danny Lennon

Sigma, Dietetics, Evidencebased, Nutrition, Training, Health & Fitness, Science, Diet, Fitness, Evidence, Bodybuilding, Health

4.8626 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Bobinet received her Masters in Public Health at Harvard University, specializing in Healthcare Management, Technology-enabled Behavior Change, and Population Health Management. She received her medical degree from the UCSF School of Medicine. She has also studied in Dr. BJ Fogg’s Persuasive Tech Lab at Stanford.

Kyra has founded several healthcare start-ups, spanning behavior health, population health, and mobile health. She has designed behavior change programs, big data algorithms, billion dollar products, mobile health apps, and evidence-based studies in metabolic medicine.

Show notes: https://sigmanutrition.com/episode335

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Sigmat Nutrition Radio.

0:11.4

I am your host, Danny Lennon.

0:13.7

You're listening to episode 335 of the podcast.

0:17.9

And today I'm going to be talking with Dr. Kyra Bobine, who was previously on the show

0:23.8

a couple of years ago. We talked all about the concepts of design thinking and applying that

0:28.7

potentially to behavior change in nutrition. And this time we're going to be following up,

0:35.3

digging more into the weeds about topics related

0:37.8

to any behavior change, but also mindset change and some of the evidence base behind some

0:43.4

of these interventions.

0:45.4

Now, Kyra has a Master's in Public Health from Harvard, and she also has a medical degree

0:52.9

that she received from UCSF.

0:55.6

And she's also spent time studying in BJ Fogg's lab at Stanford, and that is kind of

1:02.5

world-renowned at this stage for their work in persuasive technology, design thinking,

1:07.1

habits, etc.

1:08.8

And over the years, Kaira has founded several various healthcare

1:12.6

startups that look into concepts related to behavior health, population health, and then

1:19.7

using mobile technologies to work on both of those. So she and her company have designed various

1:26.4

behavior change programs.

1:28.1

They've worked with big companies to roll out mobile health apps and have now been applying

1:34.5

that in the area of dietary change.

1:37.4

You can get the show notes this episode over at sigma nutrition.com slash episode 335. And if you haven't already subscribed to the podcast

1:47.2

and do that now, you can find the podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcast, Stitcher,

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