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Think about this for a moment: modern medicine has made the most staggering advances.  We’ve mapped the entire human genome.  We’ve synthesised hormones.  We’ve implanted embryos, and we’ve [...]

Thank you for your patience in waiting for the first Health-e-Byte of 2026! I’m very excited to announce that I’ve been devoting my time to producing a podcast that will launch on Monday 20th [...]

I took this photo a few weeks ago when I presented at the Videri Rementia Retreat in Wamberal, NSW. Rementia is a composite of the words ‘remember’ and ‘dementia’ to emphasise that the goal of [...]

I took this photo of street art in the suburb of Buckland in Atlanta, Georgia USA. After last week’s Health-e-Byte about the importance of maintaining supportive relationships, many readers asked [...]

This is a photo of me sitting on ‘Nine Arch Bridge’ in Demodara Sri Lanka. Also called ‘the Bridge in the Sky’, it was built entirely by local labour and completed in 1919 despite a shortage of [...]

After last week’s Health-e-Byte about Reminiscence Therapy (RT) and Chris Hemsworth’s documentary A Road Trip to Remember, I received several questions about how to best implement RT if one isn’t [...]

Most people know that dementia — especially Alzheimer’s disease (the most common form of dementia) — profoundly affects a person’s memory, identity, and ability to communicate. Since there are no [...]

This is a photo of a famous swim hole in Upolu, Samoa, called the To Sua Ocean Trench. It’s a spectacular, 30-meter-deep natural sinkhole filled with clear water and surrounded by lush gardens. I [...]

What makes you stop in your tracks and takes your breath away? What makes you pause to soak up the incredible beauty or vastness of it? What’s a piece of music that washes your stress away? [...]

During our second radio interview, Sofie Formica from 4BC Brisbane asked me to explain the link between movement and mentation, and how we can mitigate the potentially brain-damaging effects of [...]