Healing with Dr Helena -
Podcast Resources
Healing with Dr Helena – Podcast Resources
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EP 1 - What if disease were a doorway, instead of a defect?
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Reference Paper – Dunedin MRI in midilfe predicts AD-May 2025
EP 2 - Can a person really die of a broken heart?
EP 3 - The language of medicine is making us sick
Reference Paper: Laughter Helps Blood Vessels Function Better | ScienceDaily
EP 4 - A laugh a day keeps dementia at bay!
EP 5 - Sitting is the new Smoking
Reference Papers:
- Breaking up prolonged sitting-2021
- Increased sedentary behavior is associated with neurodegeneration-Mar 2025
- Sedentary behaviour and incident dementia-2023
- Standing desks and CVD-2021
- Sedentary time and intense PA-2024
- Sitting damages muscles-2025
- Sitting increases BP-June 2020
- Sitting increases breast cancer-2025
- Sitting reduces temporal lobe-2018
- Systematic review of sedentary behaviour and dementia-2025
- Two different sitting break scenarios-2016
- Varicose veins and dementia-2025
EP 6 - Every soft drink is a bullet to your brain
Reference Papers:
- High glycemic diet is associated with amyloid
- Impact of fructose on brain function-2021
- Sugar increases AD-2024
- Sugary beverages and preclinical AD-2017
- Sugary beverages increase dementia-2023
- Soft drinks and erectile dysfunction-2011
- Soft drinks cause hyperuricaemia-2018
- SSBs and cancer-2018
- SSBs and CVD in women-2009
- SSBs cause fatty liver-2019
EP 7 - People are more powerful than pills
Reference Papers
- Loneliness predicts cold symptoms-2017
- Social regulation of pain-2018
- Social relationships and mortality risk-2010
- Social stress induces neurovascular pathology-2017
- Social support and the perception of geographical slant-2008
- Vascular and blood-brain barrier-related changes underlie stress responses-2022
EP 8 - Learning to feel can heal
Reference Papers
EP 9 - Purge yourself of plastic
References Papers
EP 10 - Give thanks for your life — and you’ll live a longer life!
Reference Papers:
- Effects of gratitude after coronary events-2016
- Gratitude and back pain-2023
- Gratitude and mortality-2024
- Gratitude in coping with uncertainty-2024
- Gratitude in heart failure-2015
- Gratitude interventions systemic review-2023
- The Gratitude Questionnaire
- Gratitude journaling and HRV-2016
- Sleep onset is a creative sweet spot-2021
