new york in no mood to see. the. single ladies. how will climate change affect us and our children. e.w. dot com slash water. the digital world is the big winner in this pandemic watching from online shopping education live streaming the internet is growing stronger lockdowns of forced firms into digitizing and it's giving us newfound freedoms like flexible work and the chance to keep in contact with family and friends on a different level. but it all comes at

a price the true faces of digitalisation topic today are made well it's game over for a number of top level e sports professionals the so-called athletes have hit on an incredibly lucrative business opportunity over the past few years which we've reported on before but this young stars have also found out all those hours in front of a screen and the global pressures of the entertainment sector can become a health hazard. reports. streaming is fast becoming a go to activity to relax and socialize to skate from the pressures of everyday life. this is me hanging out with some friends this is no way any of us could make it to the professional level jump again at aix but for a growing number of people playing video games is providing a golden ticket to fame fortune and legions of fans. the sport has moved into

a $1000000000.00 industry attempting a young game is all around the world to pursue a shot at the big time but what price when you look at the stats of today's professional players the average retirement age is between just 23 and 25 years old . physical and mental burnout is a growing problem for professional sports players it's not something that's widely acknowledged within the industry players are finally starting to speak out and cool the change. better known as all of. your gaming fan you already know who he is born in sweden and playing professionally since the age of 20 he's a gaming legend widely regarded as one of the best counterstrike global offensive players in history. 2015 he helped power his former team fanatic to world number one and was awarded the title of most valuable player. cool and i've been gaming my

whole life of course i loved it but there was also some kind of a escape you could just. escape in another world and you don't have to think about anything else but just the game and i think that's something that i really enjoyed but following a wrist injury in 2016 the pressures of real life and a grueling competition schedule started to become overwhelming and everything now is just a lot bigger of this a lot for tournament a lot more pressure like normally when it's not corona we were with travel oak ridge travel like to honor plus they say year if not more and it's kind of stressful for your mind because you always have something where you have to perform and one of the times for some. people analyzing what you did wrong and everybody has so many opinions in 2017 he took a short leave of absence g. to personal reasons i just couldn't sleep good i was just thinking about the game 247 and like being stressed almost every day at all times on earth came back

refreshed but then in may of 2020 shocking his fans he announced in a tweet that he would be taking an extended break from professional gaming due to critique strain on his mental health and knack of motivation to compete it's so hard because if you see a team playing 8 hours a day that are better than you they want to play mind i was today because you want to beat them right it just keeps going like that then you have like 12 hours practice just like 5 hours individually and you could do that for every day but i don't think it can be good for you with the cut of a pandemic adding even more pressure to train around the clock a number of the best players in eastport to or announce career breaks this year citing burnout and stress. medical professionals in the gaming industry have been concerned for years about the health impacts of overtraining sleep deprivation and players taking on regulated energy supplements we're seeing so much burnout we

unfortunately had a couple deaths in the community this year people need to be addressing the mental health people and to be addressing the physical health of these athletes or or we're seeing repercussions are any a lot of the reasons are we're pushing these gamers well beyond how far we should be pushing anyone let alone an 18 year old kid and we're not giving them the correct support you know gaming is a pastime in sports as a career for so much money at stake professional gaining teams like excel e sports are starting to make more holistic changes to safeguard the health of that player as we are doing blood tests we're having nutrition companies supporting us you know working out we're focusing on sleep with citric oh say using an m.b.a. my name is head of performance or my status as really quite surreal that i have to tell the players to play less if people have a bird or have issues they're just getting replaced. in my point of view so

organization is responsible or mainly responsible why is this effort has to slide started a growing number of top the sports teams are starting to build support for their players health into their contracts providing team houses and personal chefs fitness and performance coaches physios and mental health training but industry wide and for smaller teams don't have many official regulations that are actively safeguarding professional player is they are sleeping too that they're having not a structure at all so they go to bed at 3 at 5 pm they are not having enough sunlight they're looking at vitamin d. they're normally don't have to cook so the nutrition is really bad in football for example be off the exit. meese and b of coaches and so on if you suppose there's no coaching goes and see it in the end it's nice to be successful not a lot of money but it's a really really disgusting when

a person is 25 or 30 and has to stop what they are doing because it's really unhealthy for them and they have lifetime issues with. one of my state is now back playing professionally again with his team face plan but the road to recovery has been a challenging one i've been working out a lot more and tried to eat a lot more healthy think that helps me there are a lot more players are a lot more stress than they would like to admit to the public without people saying anything to schedule your spitta same on the it's not good for people self use force is still a very new industry but as the tournament's in the prize money get bigger protecting young professionals from physical and mental burnout is going to become an important challenge. the pandemic has bankrupted countless businesses and continues to do so millions are out of work but then you hear the experts saying there's no better time to start your own business than in

a crisis you have to learn how to scrimp and save when financing dries up you have to find customers when there's no demand and you need a really good idea last year i met the founder of a tiny startup in spain that's created an eco friendly healthy and affordable beacon state from a 3 d. printer a year on the company continues to grow and continues to wow the skeptics reading even tastes pretty good to tell you the truth. well well my colleague to sound bites on the bus of the biotech for some tips on how to develop a successful stop. people felt that with very good beginning we have killed the bird there the freedom to plan big. i'm going to fish and see if the founder of let me put it up that start up in barcelona working on the future of the land they need it is my advice for you to be in stuff like that the fire. could have been

your idea your perfectly good effect will keep your pressure on what do you get your balance i come from a tie or the 50 i will. be sure you're nearing the cliff they've been working all my life i'm a good kid now building organic for human resource for biomedical purposes so the beginning i was that it could be secure never at the top of the war but we created the new technology and once you create your technology if you want to find the feedback from the safety in my case for example a way. check it please let me briefly before you leave me fair and warmth are very interesting or many people would set up a period tell you that because nothing then you have. to drive you to go forward. very important think that buying in that sector right would be the fault of the bank would rather that we

need to find a better way to bring the problem to market so you can find the right 550 and the right that at most for example upbeat if the b.p. people would meet for example you know or create that direct plan or book to read and if you're not thinking without the right people at the right the. market. start up in very 1st. it's not a complicated and who even in the face that says something doesn't go well then bible meeting that do you can think of that action and here. it is very hard to find better telling the people so you one more time and that is not important because it's being commanded to stay with you for a long time so you don't want just to. online and look for the people to come to you you really sometimes want to be the right people so going to find the

right people at the right places i mean physically we have to be in the technological the recall of the performance in and then we have to be just in which we called back in when the performance is that people that got the music knowledge of the business amy spoke was done with that investors and the client the partners . you want to find the right team but my own started you was to look for v.c. beating on the media so that you would contact me and say hey we are interested in what you are believe we should poking about it and i feel that if you don't feel that your county europe for example i am for me but that are being paid already you cannot find the right but that you have now or you will be you have guys are going to people from all over the ward investing in your company.

the next step is to scale meaning that especially in our day where we have a very strong mission a very strong vision which we want to create a sustainable future food well you need to scale up debris. and because about advances international so the next step is to raise more money says 2000 production per hour and allow our whole got to be available to all over the world the next 5 to 10 years i hope that by 5 or so mandation as you're starting your business there. good tips for business there but how about some tips in organizing our daily lives in the pandemic social distancing to avoid the coronaviruses change so many things paradoxically resulted in better health fuel communicable diseases like colds and flu but everyone gets sick some time how

to visit the doctor in times of limited access if your medical consultation a line. cloudy lush uk took a look at the growing field of telling medicine she started by booking a virtual appointment herself. i need to see a dermatologist at short notice. the next available appointment isn't for months time. but then i discover a doctor offering online consultation. after entering a few personal details on her website i find myself talking to her just a few minutes later. the next day yes i mean outside my hands have been really really dry for quite a long time now and they inch a bit to talk. washing their hands more frequently might have impaired your skin is natural protective barrier this can lead to a kind of eczema so the 1st thing you need to do is apply hand cream a lot more often than. the online consultation costs 30 euros i consider

that a price worth paying if i had a problem i was concerned about as i get help quickly and easily you can manage in many cases we can look at the patient to make an assessment based on the severity and extent of the problem and then also determine the degree of urgency of course that's no substitute for personal contact you still need doctor's surgery for physical checking all for certain technical equipment needed for a more precise diagnosis. yet. the video consultation serves as a preliminary finding for diseases where a visual cue. by that doctor is enough this form tell medical treatment has only been permitted in germany since 2019. in the coronavirus era patients are happy for the opportunity to save time and avoid the risk of infection and demand to soar. like so many other areas of life medical care is now also

becoming digitalized. people with chronic conditions can for example have their blood pressure monitored remotely by staff at a clinic. next i talked to a health care management expert fielding on kind says patients in germany have become increasingly receptive to the concept of telemedicine this is lead to greater willingness among investors to provide funding that enables young companies to acquire new technologies caught in the us i can get a lot of firms in germany of insufficient funding. that's especially the case with startups but that's no changing in some areas we're seeing many parts of the health sector getting a lot more capital. in able to catch up with the u.s. for example our companies now have a better set of all round with competent teams so they can develop a broader scope. with. the digital boom has benefited and.