Health-e-Bytes

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 [...]

What does neuroplasticity mean for our brain health as we age? Why is dementia twice as common in women as in men? How is education more powerful than medication? These are a few of the questions [...]

After last week’s Health-e-Byte, I was inundated with requests to expand on practical strategies to build a better brain and reduce our risk of dementia. The best answer is to read my latest [...]

Soon after returning from Sri Lanka, I was interviewed on Channel 7’s Weekend Sunrise about the impact of physical exercise on our brain. The key message is that exercise isn’t a nice-to-have, [...]

Positive emotions — joy, curiosity, gratitude, hope, optimism, excitement, enthusiasm, anticipation, love — all fuel our brain and strengthen our immune system. This does NOT mean forcing [...]