Body

Today’s Brain Booster is: Look after your eyes to stay sharp and wise. Maintaining good eyesight, and treating vision loss, can help reduce the risk of developing dementia. Conversely, the [...]

Today’s Brain Booster is: Visualise to actualise your healing. Have you ever imagined something so vividly that your body responded as if it were real? You imagine your child falling off their [...]

Today’s Brain Booster is: Calm your fear, and pain will disappear. Last week I did a deep dive into pain, and the key points were that there are two types of pain, classified by their cause: [...]

Today’s Brain Booster is: Retrain your brain to release chronic pain. Since starting my podcast I’ve received a lot of questions about how to manage chronic pain, including back, neck and [...]

The wooden figurehead in the window of the New Orleans Pharmacy Museum is called a Gaper. Starting in the late 16th century in the Netherlands, Gapers were displayed outside pharmacies, and soon [...]

Today’s Health Headline is: microbes mess with our genes! I haven’t forgotten about the Brain Booster, I’m saving it for a treat later. Did you know that you have a gene called ‘The Guardian [...]

Last week’s Brain Booster was Go with your gut — a deep dive into all things gut health. It was another very long segment so I ended it after the Health Headline. That means if you haven’t [...]

What does this image have to do with gut health? Think of your body as a planet. It’s inhabited by trillions of micro-organisms adapted to the various environments provided by different parts of [...]

I took this photo while walking above Spiral Beach on Vancouver Island. Spending time in nature or by the water is a great way to lower blood pressure — the theme of today’s podcast episode, [...]

Last week’s Brain Booster was Turn up the heat! — a deep dive into how using a sauna more than 4 times a week can reduce the risk of dementia by over 60%!  Given that this is a very bold claim, I [...]