The HII Method Philosophy
A Shift in Perspective
Every one of us is more than just a human body, we're also a human being. Using science and technology to our advantage helps us understand how the body functions. Understanding the human being applies context and allows for those individual differences to shine. It takes a human body powered by the human being to reach any goal, and to make an impact.
Vision
For every individual to be well, do well, and live well-rounded means that each individual feels in control of their health, their wellbeing, and is able to perform well and make a lasting impact in what matters most to them. Bringing necessary change to outdated systems and attitudes around health, wellness, and performance through sustainable efforts, social and financial responsibility, and applying humane context to clinical and performance metrics.
Mission
To shift our perspective of what we are each capable of, and to guide each individual to understand themselves, the impact they want to make, and how to make the most of where they are currently, and the resources around them, to achieve any goal. This is done through self-assessments to improve our understanding of ourselves, innovating technology to create new actionable solutions, advancing science to expand our knowledge, and opening access to education and tools in a sustainable way to improve human health, wellbeing, and performance in all areas of life for an individual, an organization, a community, and a collective good.
The HII Method fund
support purpose-driven projects
The HII Method fund is designed to support projects within The HII Method model for independent research, allocating resources to three critical areas:
1. Research efforts towards sustainable and personalized health solutions and product design within The HII Method Innovation Lab
2. Producing no-cost publicly-accessible education within The HII Method Insight Studio
3. Supporting community health and environmental sustainability within The HII Method Impact Projects
The Methodology
Taking a Holistic + Integrative + Innovative approach and applying it to health, performance, and wellness. Inspired by sports science and research concepts, using science and technology to learn about ourselves and how we adapt so we can make better-informed decisions, helping us to meet or exceed any goal we have.
Holistic
All parts are interconnected to make up the whole.
Our body is not comprised of separate systems working independently. Everything is connected and always working dynamically to keep you alive, functioning, and thriving.
You have an internal environment of interconnected factors, designed to coexist and respond to your external environment.
Integrative
Separate concepts come together in unity
Separate fields of study like nutrition, exercise physiology, psychology, and environmental factors all come together to provide context of the individual and their experience.
There's no progress without perspective; context across all areas of life gives perspective.
Innovative
New methods; advanced and original.
Forward-thinking and progressive changes to old systems, tools,
and ideas. Using technology to our advantage to optimize human potential, in support of human nature.
The goal is not to out-science the human body, but to learn from it through science so that we can make informed decisions for improvements we want to see.
How this applies to YOU
Using science and technology to our advantage, we can learn about these interconnected and dynamically changing factors that come together to make up you as the human body and the human being you are.
Once we know how you are responding to stressors across your life, and what internal and external factors contribute to you and who you are, then we can make better-informed decisions that help put you in a position to thrive.
Your Internal Environment
Your body is intelligently designed and complex with it's own internal environment of interconnected systems, chemical reactions, hormone signaling, and more. This design not only includes biological systems but is also in coordination with the mind; psychoneuroimmunology is a perfect example of how activity in the mind can trigger activity biochemically in the brain, and trigger the immune system to respond throughout the body. Understanding ourselves means we learn to identify our cerebral workload and indicators of our internal stress load as communication of what our body and mind may be experiencing. Your body will communicate with you through biofeedback, symptoms, and responses to inform you of your current state of health, readiness, and capacity for stress.
We use objective and subjective tools to assess your internal stress load, and nutritional and physiologic state, to map out your always-changing physical and psychological capacity.
Your External Environment
That intelligence of your internal environment is designed to coexist with your external environment. All of the external stressors placed on you have an impact on your internal stress load and your capacity to handle them. It's not all bad though: you need external stressors to trigger positive changes and adaptations too. Your external environment also supplies the necessities for your internal environment (food and water that exists outside of your body gets broken down and used for energy within your body, and builds and operates all the cells and tissues you have. Sunlight and light exposure dictates and directs your circadian rhythm, driving your sleep hormonally. External resistance triggers strengthening and stability in skeletal muscle, connective, and bone tissue.) When you learn what your body is communicating, you can make decisions in your external environment to give yourself what you need internally.
We use technology to track changes in our external factors, like food tracking and workload, while monitoring trends with our internal stress load to identify the best decisions for what we need.
Where they come together
The last piece of this intelligent design is the most complex, where the human body connects with the human being: the human brain. Your overall capacity to handle any stressor in life comes down to how the brain perceives it at that time, and your neurological capacity to overcome it. If we are sleep-deprived (i.e. limiting our brain from it's necessary restorative process), our capacity drops because our brain drives everything we do. Yet the brain isn't just a biological organ, it's also responsible for our mind; our psychological experience. Everything that you know, you had to learn. This learning process requires insight from an external source, repeatedly reinforced until it becomes a belief, an attitude, an action. That means your perception of yourself, others, and the world around you is entirely shaped by external influences. The system, support, and influences around you can reinforce attitudes and beliefs that dictate your actions (in your external environment) and therefore your body's responses (in your internal environment). A placebo effect is a phenomenon that illustrates this, as well as athletes breaking records or setting new ones: our capacity can be limited to what we believe it to be.
Surround yourself with influences, support, and resources that reinforce your capacity to meet or exceed your goals.
Holistic, Integrative, Innovative
Where advancements in science & technology meet the human being
You are the cross-section where these worlds join, and where human potential becomes action. It depends on you first. It depends on what you feed yourself physically, mentally, emotionally, and the support, resources, tools, and influences around you. It depends on your internal environment, your immediate external environment, and the large scale global or societal environment. It depends on your knowledge of yourself, the questions you ask, and the answers you seek. This is a methodology where science and technology meets humanity and individuality.
We can no longer live by outdated attitudes and beliefs about our bodies and minds. The outdated view, or "siloed" approach, to health looked at each system as independent as if operating biologically within it's own silo, and this includes the brain and mental health. Likewise, we can no longer afford to operate as an organization made up of "silos" independently operating within their own domain without the necessary context and collaboration across the group as a whole. It's time to bring everything together, and to integrate, and innovate, holistically.
Gone are the days of "Silos"
with how we view ourselves and our organizations
Everything we do and everything about us is an energy exchange. What we take in, and what we're able to do with it, translates to what we put out, and able to make of it.