Music as Medicine, Aloe Blacc at NextMed Health

Aloe Blacc is a Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter, and also a biotech entrepreneur as CEO and founder of Major Inc. focused on solutions for infectious disease.

In this magical session at NextMed Health Aloe shares his music and some of his journey into biotech-- plus a novel experiment with the audience looking at the impact of music on their vital signs.

Aloe was joined by Ricky Mehra, General Partner with Continuum Health Ventures ( An unofficial 'experiment': Impact of Music on Health: Ricky led the NextMed Health audience through an experiment, collecting their vital signs via the digital health platform Binah.ai which enables collecting vital signs via smartphone camera looking at a user's face, or with a finger placed over the phone camera, and measured the effect of Aloe's performance on heart rate, blood pressure and HRV.

More about Aloe: here and aloeblacc.com

Aloe's biotech company Major Inc: https://MajorIsLife.com

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