Your road to being healthy and fit begins here.
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Check-in
Pick up your awesome, complimentary 98 Octane tee shirt and badge and enjoy a healthy breakfast and coffee, chatting with your fellow veterans and first responders.
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM Opening Remarks
John New, CEO 98 Octane
John introduces himself, the team, and the idea of 98 Octane. Modeled after the analogy of a car, 98 Octane uses comparisons like gut= gas tank, heart= engine and so on. #Always real. Always fun. Always relatable. This is not your average health and wellness class.
9:15 AM - 10:00 AM CHPT 1: Gut/ Gas Tank
John New, CEO 98 Octane
Learn all about your gut health! Discuss tips and tricks to get your microbiome in check and compete in groups to see who can dispel the most diet and nutrition myths to win prizes.
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM CHPT 2: Brain/ Computer
Mary Cha, MD
Did you know that what you eat can severely affect your mood and cognition? Learn how to greatly improve brain fog and sluggishness with the power of the eating the right food for maximum brain power.
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM Break
Mix and mingle, eat healthy snacks, or call your friends and family to tell them how much you learned about the gut and brain! You do you, fam.
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM CHPT 3: Heart/ Engine
Ney Gore, MD
Learn about the heart from retired U.S. Army ICU Physician, Dr. Ney Gore. With decades of experience and the friendliest Southern accent, this is not your normal boring info session about cardiovascular health.
11:45 AM - 1:00 PM Cooking Class-Learn 9 meals for $8 or less
NINE meals for EIGHT dollar or less? See what we did there? Don't thank us, thank our marketing team. Anyway, we know military and first responders have hectic lives with semi-unpredictable schedules, so let us teach you how to cook some quick/ tasty/health meals!
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM Health and Wellness Panel
John New, CEO (host)
Allan Tissenbaum, MD
surprise speaker 1
surprise speaker 2
Digest your food while digesting an amazing Q&A with health and wellness experts from right here in your community! Dr. Allan Tissenbaum is a world record holder for the masters 100m and knows a thing or two about staying fit. (Plus two other surprise guests).
1:45 PM - 2:00 PM Break
Walk off the afternoon snooze and drink some more coffee with your new found friends.
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM CHPT 5: MSK/ Chassis
Allan Tissenbaum, MD
Dr. Allan Tissenbaum has not only been an orthopedic surgeon for over 30 years, but is the world record holder for the 100m masters. If there's anyone who knows how to develop, protect, and/or fix muscles and bones? It's Dr. T. Come take advantage of this amazing opportunity to chat with, listen to, and meet this world class athlete/ scholar.
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM Break
Give Dr. Tissenbaum a high five and eat some more snacks! Remember: nothing tastes as good as free.
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM CHPT 6: Skin
Allergic to everything? Have bad break outs? Struggle with body odor? What you eat greatly affects your skin. Learn about diets like Stanford's low FODMAP and certain skin conditions to watch out for.
3:45 PM - 4:30 PM CHPT 4: Fluids
John New, CEO 98 Octane
Before you potentially leave and enjoy alcoholic fluids at one of our many local bars in Philly, we're going to teach you about the importance of hydration and some fun facts about some other fluids ...
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM Closing Remarks and final-out
John New, CEO 98 Octane
Receive your certificates for the day (congrats! you graduated!), ask questions, and exchange info with your new found friends. Don't forget to take some pics and # our socials with the #98OctaneAcademy.