Our Lifeplus Unlocked podcast series features interesting talks from our inspirational sponsored athletes, industry experts, leaders and more. In this podcast episode, we sit down with Rick Cesarski, Chief Administration Officer (AKA our 'Fun Director'!) and Michelle Wilson, Head of Events. With over 50 Lifeplus years between them, they've got plen…

Our Lifeplus Unlocked podcast series features interesting talks from our inspirational sponsored athletes, industry experts, leaders and more. In this podcast episode, we sit down with Lifeplus CEO, Robert Christian and Chief Legal Officer, Beatrice Nelson-Beer. Here, we cover some exciting updates: our work with Direct Selling Associations, expand…

Sandra and Johannes, who have been Lifeplus Members for more than 20 and 16 years respectively, share their experience with Bronze Visits. They've known each other for many years and have plenty of highlights to look back on. Let's discover why they find the Bronze Visits so valuable...By Lifeplus

In this podcast we meet Rudi and Sigrid, long-standing Lifeplus Members. Sigrid enjoyed her first Bronze Visit back in 2004, attending with just a handful of others. This occasion was Rudi's 4th visit since 2015, and with each trip they find new things to enjoy about the Bronze Visit experience...By Lifeplus

Walter and Anke are Members who have been part of our Lifeplus family for many years. Here, they reminisce on their previous Bronze Visits and discuss an atmosphere which can only be experienced in person. Discover how we make Bronze Visits special for each and every attendee...By Lifeplus

Wellness is within us all, it just needs to be unlocked. Our Lifeplus Unlocked podcast series features interesting talks from our inspirational sponsored athletes, industry experts and more. In this podcast episode, we sit down with HYROX athletes, Chris and Clemens. Here, we cover everything you need to know about HYROX competitions, how they bala…

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Wellness is within us all, it just needs to be unlocked. Our Lifeplus Unlocked podcast series features interesting talks from our inspirational sponsored athletes, industry experts and more. In this episode, we sit down with Christian Taylor^ (Olympic Triple Jumper) and James Ellington^ (Olympic Sprinter) as they join us remotely for a Zoom podcast…

Wellness is within us all, it just needs to be unlocked. Our Lifeplus Unlocked podcast series features interesting talks from our inspirational sponsored athletes, industry experts and more. In this podcast episode, we sit down with Andi Schweiger (Michelin star chef) and Isabel Hirschauer (hula hoop trainer) from our Wellbeing For Life Festival. W…

Wellness is within us all, it just needs to be unlocked. Our Lifeplus Unlocked podcast series features interesting talks from our inspirational sponsored athletes, industry experts and more. In this podcast episode, we sit down with Johanna Fellner (mindset expert) and Daniel Gärtner (kickboxing coach) from our Wellbeing For Life Festival and popul…

Wellness is within us all, it just needs to be unlocked. Our Lifeplus Unlocked podcast series features interesting talks from our inspirational sponsored athletes, industry experts and more. In this podcast episode, we sit down with Ella Wyllie and Margaux Vigié - teammates from Lifeplus-Wahoo. We cover everything from how to be a high-performance …

Wellness is within us all, it just needs to be unlocked. Our Lifeplus Unlocked podcast series features interesting talks from our inspirational sponsored athletes, industry experts and more. In this podcast episode, we sit down with Olympic sprinter, James Ellington and Hyrox doubles world champions, Chris and Clemens. We cover everything from how …

Roads are one of the defining features of modern civilizations, believe it or not. To me and I think most others, the state of the roads in a country gives an idea of the level of development. It does not surprise then that chemistry features quite heavily in how we make roads. A request from a listener, I explore in this episode the chemistry of b…

It takes a little bit more than 100mg of cyanide to kill a 75 kg human being. A little more than 100mg and the unfortunate victim will show the telltale signs of “bluish tones of oxygen deprivation mottle the skin.“ Cyanide Poisoning is as old as the usage of chemical compounds containing cyanide and this episode looks at the chemistry that happens…

Both starch and cellulose are made of glucose, one of the main sources of energy for the human body. Yet... we can digest starch that we find in things like potatoes or flour, but we cannot digest cellulose, a compound that is found in virtually every plant... Why?!? If you would like to share feedback or have a suggestion for a topic, I can now be…

Dear Chemistry in Everyday Life Fans, I am off this month and as a consequence, we are looking back on past episodes over the summer. Today’s re-run is one of the first episodes that I ever recorded by the name of “Protection from the Sun Pt. 1 – The Ozone Layer”. I hope you all enjoy your summer. Stay safe and take care :)…

Dear Chemistry in Everyday Life Fans, I am off this month and as a consequence, we are looking back on past episodes over the summer. Today’s re-run is one of the first episodes that I ever recorded by the name of “Protection from the Sun Pt. 1 – The Ozone Layer”. The survey is still open and you can still submit an answer under https://forms.gle/L…

Dear Chemistry in Everyday Life Fans, I am off this month and as a consequence, we are looking back on past episodes over the summer. I asked you what is your favourite episode and the result said it was the episode "Breathe in, Breathe Out - Oxygen Transfer in the Blood". The survey is still open and you can still submit an answer under https://fo…

PLEASE NOTE: During the month of August, I will repeat some previous episodes. If you want to influence which episodes will be played, you can click on the following link to part in a 1-question survey. Thanks! https://forms.gle/LihJiny4jncB6h2A6 How can you trace a molecule inside the body? How do you know, how a compound inside the body is metabo…

Have you ever wondered how all these scientists come up with their findings in forensics, environmental science, pharmaceuticals, … cooking, cosmetics, and in soooo many more? Chemical purification and analysis lies at the heart of this question and I give you hereby my attempt at answering it. This is Part 2 of this 2-Part series looking at analys…

Have you ever wondered how all these scientists come up with their findings in forensics, environmental science, pharmaceuticals, … cooking, cosmetics, and in soooo many more? Chemical purification and analysis lies at the heart of this question and I give you hereby my attempt at answering it. This is Part 1 of this 2-Part series looking at purifi…

After talking about red blood cells two episodes ago, this episode looks at a different bodily fluid. One that helps in the digestion of fats. We are talking about bile. A liquid associated with bad experiences, but is essential to our survival. If you would like to share feedback or have a suggestion for a topic, I can now be reached on twitter un…

In this episode I confront the horrible memory of my one and only bad car crash. I only remember fragments, but the airbag was a big part of the memory. If you want to know how explosions save lives everyday on the road, then tune in. If you would like to share feedback or have a suggestion for a topic, I can now be reached on twitter under @Chemis…

Oxygen in, Carbon Dioxide out. We learn this basic paradigm about breathing from a very early age on. But how does it work? From a chemical viewpoint this is a lot of fun! So let’s look into it 😊 If you would like to share feedback or have a suggestion for a topic, I can now be reached on twitter under @ChemistryinEve1or you can leave a comment on …

Why does iron rust? Why does this not happen for stainless steel? How else can we protect materials from corrosion? If you want to know, listen to this episode 😉 If you would like to share feedback or have a suggestion for a topic, I can now be reached on twitter under @ChemistryinEve1or you can leave a comment on my website https://chemistryinever…

I always found the concept of energy in the human body very intriguing… or in any organism for that matter. The term energy is very abstract to me. For example, there is a difference to “having the energy to go for a walk” or “the energy to power the oven”. One phrase clearly describes energy as electricity and the other is the energy needed for an…

Space. The Final frontier… a friend of mine asked me if there is chemistry in space and how it is different from the chemistry, we observe here on Earth. This is an exciting topic. So exciting that I had to make a podcast episode about it. If you would like to share feedback or have a suggestion for a topic, I can now be reached on twitter under @C…

I always tried to avoid making an episode about making alcoholic beverages, because there is already so much great content about it and I did not see the extra value in talking about it. For this episode, I shall break this taboo, by talking about distillation. A technique that is used for making spirits, but also for so much more, which is why I o…

Batteries are ubiquitous in daily life and I took them for granted for such a long time that I felt obliged to write an episode about them. Especially since they work thanks to a very basic concept called Redox Reactions. If you would like to share feedback or have a suggestion for a topic, I can now be reached on twitter under @ChemistryinEve1. Al…

From winter gloves and people with inverted organs to the effects of molecular mirror images. Chirality can be found everywhere, so it is high time to talk about it. If you would like to share feedback or have a suggestion for a topic, I can now be reached on twitter under @ChemistryinEve1. Alternatively, you can send an email to chem.podcast@gmail…

We talked about Glow Sticks, we talked about Fireworks. Now it feels like the right time to look at another big factor in color of compounds, the conjugated systems. If you would like to share feedback or have a suggestion for a topic, I can now be reached on twitter under @ChemistryinEve1. Alternatively, you can send an email to chem.podcast@gmail…

Our 2020 new year’s celebration had to look quite different this year. The Belgian government had to restrict contact, so no extended family, and no fireworks this year. All for very good, Corona-related reasons. This meant for us that we had to find an alternative, so that we could still give our 3-year old daughter a little spectacle. With glow s…

So it was time again to add a little Diesel Exhaust Fluid, also known as AdBlue, to the gas tank of my car. So I stood there in the cold winter temperatures, freezing my, you name it off, and just wished that it would add quicker! Inevitably, one thought popped into my headed: “Why, oh why on earth am I doing this anyways?!” This episode is the fin…

This episode is inspired by my wife's recent experience at the dentist where she needed to get a filling done. It was her first and it reminded me of my first (and so far only) dental filling that I needed to get done a couple of years ago. Our discussion about what the dentist did to fill the dental cavity led to this episode. I hope you enjoy it …

After discussing for 3 episodes the cutting edge technology that led to a Nobel Prize, I would like to return back to more mundane things and there are not many things more mundane than eating bread :-D This episode will look at the reason why bland bread starts to taste sweet after chewing it for a while. I hope you will enjoy it :) If you would l…

Welcome back to the last episode of this Nobel Prize series during which I discuss the technology for which the two research groups around Prof. emmanuelle Charpentier and Prof. Doudna received the joint Nobel Prize for chemistry. This episode will put all the pieces that we encountered over the course of the last two episodes together and finally …

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna for "for the development of a method for genome editing”. Their work has markedly added to the toolbox available to researchers in the life sciences and in my humble opinion, it is worth talking about. To understand why this work is so important, we will need to ha…

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna for "for the development of a method for genome editing”. Their work has markedly added to the toolbox available to researchers in the life sciences and in my humble opinion, it is worth talking about. To understand why this work is so important, we will need to ha…

In this episode, I discuss a special group of materials called hydrogels. For something that is hardly ever mentioned publically, it has a surprising amount of uses in the world... I can now be reached on twitter under @ChemistryinEve1 , if you have feedback that you would like to share. Alternatively, you can send an email to chem.podcast@gmail.co…

We all know that statues in the cities are green, like for example the statue of liberty. But do you all know why they are green? This episode looks at this question. I can now be reached on twitter under @ChemistryinEve1 , if you have feedback that you would like to share. Alternatively, you can send an email to chem.podcast@gmail.com . Sources ht…

Why do our eyes burn and tear when we cut onions? This listener question will be discussed in this episode. I can now be reached on twitter under @ChemistryinEve1 , if you have feedback that you would like to share. Alternatively, you can send an email to chem.podcast@gmail.com . Sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tear_gas https://de.wikipedia.o…

Water is all around us and we kind of take it for granted. It is an accepted basis for life and makes our planet inhabitable. Have you guys ever wondered why that is? Well, water is also a very special liquid. This episode revolves around a specific feature that water has, namely hydrogen bonds, how they function and why they change the way water b…

This episode is based on a discussion I had with an acquaintance at a barbecue. He, being the smarty pants that he is, asked "Do you know the difference between diesel and heating fuel?"... I didn't... I, being the smarty pants that I am, was annoyed by that. With a wry smile he suggested: "Better look it up then." And I did! The result is a not to…

When talking about chemistry, one of the first topics to breach is the chemistry of soap. In the time of a global pandemic, washing our hands has become second nature and at some point at the beginning the stockpiling of soap even led to shortages in some areas. So let's talk about soap and how it does its job. Sources https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki…

I love fireworks, folks. I don't see the spectacle often, but when I do , it is an absolute beauty to behold, especially when it is an entire choreography. I sometimes cannot believe that there are people whose job it is to "make" fireworks. Especially, the development of new ones must be a blast!... in more ways than one :-P. This episode looks at…

Virtually every time before I record an episode of my podcast, I open a can of coke. That little 'fizz' sound heralds the beginning of my late evening, I take a brief sip and then I start recording. I do this with such regularity that I dedided to make the fizz the topic of today's conversation. How do we make carbonated drinks? If you want to find…

After we discussed the concept of catalysis in our last episode, it is only fitting to look at a specific example. If you are interested in knowing how nature uses catalysis to run the show in our bodies, then tune in to learn about Enzymes, nature's catalysts. I can now be reached on twitter under @ChemistryinEve1 , if you have feedback that you w…

Catalysis is a word that is rarely used in daily life, yet it influences many facets of it. If you are interested to know how catalysis changed the way car engines run or how margerine is made, then listen in. References · https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annika_S%C3%B6renstam · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKBUL2yesR4 · Inorganic Chemistry by C. E…

When you immerse an egg in vinegar the shell will slowly disappear, leaving a flexible and bouncy egg. Bread dough leavens when you use baking soda. Find out in this episode the reasons for these phenomena. References Inorganic Chemistry by C. E. Housecroft, A. G. Sharpe 1st Ed. 2001 ISBN 0582-31080-6 General Chemistry by D. D. Ebbing 5th Ed. 1996 …

Proteins are one of the key elements that define life in a way that we know. They have such a vast array of functions it is staggering. Seemingly, every problem and obstacle that an organism encounters, a protein comes to the rescue. Humans have them, other mammals, birds, bacteria, even viruses consist for a big part of proteins. You want to walk …