This Week In Wellness

This Week In Wellness Australian of the Year and Ophthalmologist James Muecke, former Australian Cricket Doctor Peter Brukner and Orthopaedic surgeon Gary Fettke have written an open letter to the Australian public asking for help participating in a current review of the Australian Dietary Guidelines by the NHMRC (the National Health and Medical Research Council). Listen In The post TWIW 101: URGENT input needed into Dietary Guidelines review appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This Week In Wellness we celebrate our 100th episode. And rather than make it a self indulgent celebration of us, we decided to make it an episode about gratitude. In particular gratitude to our long term podcast producer Joseph who is going through a tough time. If you are as grateful to The Wellness Couch Listen In The post TWIW 100: Help me celebrate 100 episodes by helping Joseph! appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This Week In Wellness a 12-week trial has shown that cats that eat more animal proteins are less likely to impact on wildlife. The study looked at 355 cats in South West England and compared cats whose diet was largely meat derived with cats who were fed more plant-derived proteins. Get personally mentored by me Listen In The post TWIW 99: Do plant foods cause cats to kill wildlife appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This Week In Wellness The American Cancer Society Journal has published a study showing that street lamps and neon signs may increase your risk of thyroid cancer by 55%! In yet another example of people in the alternative medicine fields being ahead of the game (and ignored or worse ridiculed by conventional medicine) the link Listen In The post TWIW 98: Street lights may cause cancer appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This Week In Wellness working outside has been shown to lower the risk of breast cancer for Danish women over the age of 50 by new research in the journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. Whilst previous research has indicated that vitamin D levels in the blood were linked to reduced levels of breast cancers Listen In The post TWIW 97: Outdoor work lowers risk of breast cancer appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This Week In Wellness soil from the West Fermanagh scarp-lands used in ancient Irish folk remedies contains several species of antibiotic producing organisms. The study published in MDPI Applied Microbiology conducted by the Traditional Medicine Group, a collection of scientists from Northern Ireland, Swansea University and Brazil have discovered new antibiotic producing species and believe Listen In The post TWIW 96: Irish soil kills bacteria appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This Week In Wellness one in every eight peer reviewed nutrition studies has a tie to business, and those that are were 6 times more likely to return favourable results, with industry linked studies finding positive results the majority of the time, versus non linked studies showing positive results less than 10% of the time. Listen In The post TWIW 95: Industry influences nutrition research appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This Week In Wellness day cares in Finland have been able to improve the microbiome and therefore immune system of children in just one month by replacing their floors with lawn, forest undergrowth and planter boxes. When compared to other urban day cares where the kids play on pavement, tiles or gravel the forest childcare Listen In The post TWIW 94: Forest day cares improve the microbiome appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This Week In Wellness 2.5 million care home residents in England will be offered a free supply of vitamin D by the Government as researchers investigate whether there is a link between Vitamin D levels and risk or severity of acute respiratory infections, including Covid-19. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/nov/28/more-than-25m-people-in-england-to-get-free-vitamin-d-supply Get personally mentored by me for 30 days for Listen In The post TWIW 93: 2.5 million Britons get free Vit. D appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This Week In Wellness after a brief halt to the plan caused by the Coronavirus my home state South Australia will push ahead with its plan to ban some single use plastics (including straws, cutlery and drink stirrers) by March 1 and indicated that more items are likely to be added in the future. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-23/sa-ban-of-single-use-plastics-and-straws-to-start-in-march/13009582 Listen In The post TWIW 92: Single use plastics banned appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This Week In Wellness the bones of a 9000 year old female found in the Andes have shed new light into the role of females in hunter gatherer societies. The skeleton was found with 20 projectile points and blades stacked neatly by her side, indicating that she was likely a high-status hunter. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/11/woman-hunter-ancient-andean-remains-challenge-old-ideas-who-speared-big-game Get Dr Listen In The post TWIW 91: Women were hunters too appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This Week In Wellness a new systematic review shows the potential benefits of a ketogenic diet for treating Alzheimer’s disease. With between 400 thousand and 500 thousand Australians suffering from dementia in 2020, and Alzheimer’s accounting for 70% of those, it really is an important finding. Especially as the billions spent searching for a pharmaceutical Listen In The post TWIW 90: A Keto Diet may help Alzheimer’s appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This Week In Wellness Australian Prescriber published its annual list of the 10 most commonly taken and the 10 most costly prescription drugs for the Australian Government based on Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme data collected between July 2019 and June 2020. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/dec/01/zoloft-enters-list-of-10-most-commonly-prescribed-drugs-in-australia https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2020-12-01/australias-most-commonly-prescribed-medicines-statins/12936626 https://www.nps.org.au/australian-prescriber/articles/top-10-drugs-2019-20 http://anmf.org.au/pages/the-facts-on-australias-health-spending#:~:text=Approximately%2040%25%20of%20Australia’s%20health,than%202%25%20spent%20on%20prevention The post TWIW 89: The 10 most commonly taken drugs in Australia appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This Week In Wellness a study published in nature food has shown that sterilising plastic baby bottles at the high temperatures recommended causes them to shed millions of microplastics and trillions of nano plastics every single day. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/19/bottle-fed-babies-swallow-millions-microplastics-day-study https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-020-00171-y Get Dr Brett’s latest book Rock Bottom; How to not only survive but thrive through personal Listen In The post TWIW 88: Bottle fed babies swallow millions of microplastics a day appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This Week In Wellness Doctors and scientists at Melbourne’s Royal Children’s hospital have studied three children who tested negative and did not get seriously ill with Covid-19 despite spending a week and a half with their Covid-19 positive parents and concluded that they had in fact contracted the virus and that it was their own Listen In The post TWIW 87: Children’s own immune system protects them from Covid-19 appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This Week In Wellness common household chemicals may alter the gut microbiome. This study measured the levels of semi-organic compounds found in detergents, plastics, soaps, shampoos, hair sprays and stain and water repellent fabrics in the blood and urine of 69 toddlers and preschoolers and then examined their gut microbiome using fecal samples. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201112080906.htm https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.estlett.0c00776 The post TWIW 86: Household chemicals alter microbiome appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This Week In Wellness new research published in the journal Psychological Science showed that people who feel “enthusiastic and cheerful” are less likely to experience memory decline as they age adding to a growing body of research on the benefits of positivity in ageing. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201029135501.htm https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797620953883 Get personally mentored by me for FREE for 30 Listen In The post TWIW 85: Positivity prevents memory loss appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This Week In Wellness infectious disease epidemiologists, public health scientists and concerned citizens have come together online to state their grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies, and recommend an approach called “Focused Protection” in a document titled The Great Barrington Declaration. Over 550,000 concerned citizens, over Listen In The post TWIW 84: The Great Barrington Declaration appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This Week In Wellness “Independent” Australian researchers Nutrition Research Australia (NRAUS) are asking people to #rethinkthepink suggesting that pink salts contain low levels of nutrients and potentially harmful levels of heavy metals. The study looked at 31 samples of pink salts commercially available in Australia and suggested that the contents were unpredictable and inconsistent in Listen In The post TWIW 83: Is pink salt healthy? appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This Week In Wellness the FDA has re-evaluated its recommendations on amalgam fillings in teeth. The FDA have now acknowledged that the mercury vapour released from these devices may cause harmful health effects in “certain groups”. In particular pregnant women, nursing women, children (especially those under 6), people with neurological disease such as MS, Alzheimer Listen In The post TWIW 82: FDA warns about dental amalgam appeared first on The Wellness Couch.