UltimateMe now available

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  • By Airman 1st Class Brittany A. Chase
  • 366th Fighter Wing Public Affairs
MOUNTAIN HOME AIR FORCE BASE, Idaho --  How do you find out your effective age- its biological age based on your overall health-and take steps to maintain or reduce it?

Thanks to Operation Live Well, the entire defense community at Mountain Home Air Force Base can now can find out their relative wellness using the RealAge® assessment on a brand-new site, and recieve personalized recommendations to help maintain or improve lifestyles and provide a variety of empowering resources to support individuals.

UltimateMe, is a secure dot-mil site serving as a one-stop shop for personalized health and wellness tips such as interactive tools like nutrition, sleep and fitness trackers, access to medical experts, workout video clips and a social community where you can post or blog about your progress.

"UltimateMe is a comprehensive health assessment that's done in a web-based format," said Mark Tschampl, 366th Aerospace Medicine Squadron health and wellness center director. "It was designed to get people motivated about their health and one of the ways it does, is by establishing someone's RealAge®."

For example, Tschampl said he's 39 but watches what he eats and works out regularly so when he took the RealAge® assessment it told him he's 34, 5 years younger than he actually is, because of his healthy lifestyle.

"The website really opens people's eyes to how healthy or unhealthy they're being," said Tschampl. "It's a motivating factor to make some changes in their lifestyle habits."

UltimateMe is being pilot tested at all 14 DoD sites participating in Operation Live Well's year-long Healthy Base Initiative demonstration project.

"It's not just the Airmen who can use UltimateMe," said Tschampl. "It's retirees, dependants, virtually anyone can use it."

UltimateMe users are encouraged to share the results of their online health and wellness assessments with their medical providers allowing them to jointly make the best decisions about maintaining or improving the individual's health.

"The Group Lifestyle Program incorporates UltimateMe as a tool to manage their health," said Chelly Gonzales, 366th Medical Group health educator. "We are using it to assess pre/post results to see where they are and how they can improve by using the tools we give them in the 12-week program."

The site content, once logged on, is personalized to meet your individual health and wellness needs.

"UltimateMe is a great tool for the people on our base," said Gonzales. "It's giving people the bigger picture; it's hitting you from all angles by giving you a numeric value that'll hopefully be an eye opener to taking an active role in their health."

For more information about UltimateMe, visit www.health.mil/ultimateme.