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Welcome to my podcast, Healing with Dr Helena, where I challenge the limiting way we currently view disease, and offer a new paradigm for vibrant health and true healing. If modern medicine isn’t [...]

Last month I spoke at the Australasian Metabolic Health Society (AMHS) about diet and dementia.  For those who were not able to attend, my three key takeaways were: Brain changes leading to [...]

Click here to watch Macka B (Christopher Macfarlane) deliver his amusing, veracious message about sugar. Macka B is a British-born Jamaican reggae artist, performer and activist. I believe his [...]

In spite of the incredible advances in science, medicine and technology, why are we seeing soaring rates of chronic diseases? Why has there been a surge in colon cancer in young people? Why are [...]

Coca Cola recruits scientists to manipulate research to support the company’s best interests. In this disturbing interview, Harvard University anthropologist Susan Greenhalgh discusses how Coca [...]

Modern medicine needs to acknowledge that more than 80% of our health is determined by how we live our lives — the food we eat, the work we do, the stress we’re under, the quality of our sleep, [...]

Recently I’ve been asked about the sugar, alcohol and caffeine content of kombucha, so here are my answers. Firstly, there is no such thing as completely sugar-free kombucha. While kombucha can [...]

Last week I flew to Melbourne to speak at the National Dementia Conference. The first thing I saw at the airport when I stepped off the plane was a billboard for ‘The Brain Drink’ pictured above. [...]

What better time than immediately after Easter to talk about sugar?  Is there really such a thing as a sugar rush? What about a sugar crash? Sugar cravings? Sugar addiction? Click here to listen [...]