This Week In Wellness

This Week In Wellness economists from the Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics have conducted a meta-analysis of the impact of Covid-19 lockdowns on mortality and concluded that they had “little to no effect” on saving lives. Their analysis of the data concluded that lockdowns across Europe and the USA had “reduced COVID-19 mortality by Listen In The post TWIW 141: Lockdowns didn’t work say John Hopkins Institute appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This Week In Wellness a 3 day wellness festival incorporating over 60 events is coming to the Adelaide Hills this April as part of their bushfire recovery efforts funded by the Federal Government. Martin Radcliffe, Chair of Adelaide Hills Tourism Board said that it was fitting that the Adelaide Hills was the first region in Listen In The post TWIW 140: 3 day wellness festival comes to the Adelaide Hills appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This Week In Wellness musician Neil Young has told music and podcasting platform Spotify that “They can have Rogan or Young. Not both,” referring to Joe Rogan, one of the most popular podcasters in the world. Spotify in turn responded by removing all of Young’s music backing in the top-rated podcaster to whom they have Listen In The post TWIW 139: Spotify chooses Rogan over Young appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This Week In Wellness saliva sharing amongst family members helps children discern who they can trust and turn to in times of stress. A 2022 study published in the journal Science showed that exposure to family member spit (or saliva sharing) plays a crucial role in how we define our relationships and it starts from Listen In The post TWIW 138: If you want your kids to trust you, share your saliva appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This Week In Wellness research published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology has shown that a cup of tea can contain up to 60 disinfection byproducts (DBP’s) including some with unknown health side effects. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/09/210915085847.htm https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.1c03419 This episode is brought to you by my FREE mentoring group Healthy Lifestyle Choices. For wellness information, inspiration Listen In The post TWIW 137: Could your cuppa be causing cancer or birth defects? appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This episode is brought to you by my Exercising Resilience mentoring program. For the first time this year Exercising Resilience is open to new members. Head to exercisingresilience.com to get personally mentored by me for free for the first month. This Week In Wellness getting enough DHA during pregnancy may help prevent maternal stress on Listen In The post TWIW 136: DHA may help prevent autism and schizophrenia appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This Week In Wellness acute Vitamin D3 supplementation was shown to almost halve the risk of being hospitalized for more than 8 days in COVID cases with comorbidities compared to cases without comorbidities who did not supplement and decreased the mortality rate by over 2 times. You’ve been listening to This Week In Wellness with Listen In The post TWIW 135: Could Vit D halve COVID deaths? appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This Week In Wellness a randomised control trial conducted by researchers from Pennsylvania State University has shown that diets high in herbs and spices may reduce blood pressure in people at risk of cardiovascular disease. https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/can-herbs-and-spices-lower-blood-pressure#Three-test-diets https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/114/6/1936/6369090 Join me on the 16th of December for my LIVE streamed webinar on “How to strengthen your body Listen In The post TWIW 134: Not so secret; herbs and spices lower blood pressure appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This Week In Wellness researchers from the University of Cincinnati are investigating whether helpful bacteria may be used to help break down and destroy cancers. The study, published in the journal Advanced Healthcare Materials looked at “solid cancers” such as those that affect the breast and prostate as these form a barrier around themselves of Listen In The post TWIW 133: Do you have tumour killing bacteria? appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This Week In Wellness a large meta-analysis published in Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition show that meat abstention, in other words, vegetarianism or veganism is “clearly associated with poorer mental health, specifically higher levels of both depression and anxiety”, whilst meat consumption is associated with “lower levels of depression and anxiety”. https://www.psypost.org/2021/11/meat-consumption-is-associated-with-better-mental-health-meta-analysis-finds-62107 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10408398.2021.1974336 The post TWIW 132: Meat consumption leads to better mental health appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This Week In Wellness in a lesson for all parents and caregivers adults who were picky eaters as kids thank strategies that were positive and encouraging for helping them change their palate. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/11/211111130246.htm https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/eat.23639 The post TWIW 131: Supportive strategies help picky eaters appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This Week In Wellness Australian researchers published in the BMJ Open have confirmed that zinc can help shorten respiratory tract infections including colds, flus, sinusitis and pneumonia whilst suggesting that many over the counter cold remedies only offer “marginal benefits”. https://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/news/20211102/zinc-might-help-shorten-your-cold-or-flu The post TWIW 130: Zinc shortens respiratory tract infections appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This Week In Wellness a study looking at adherence to the PaleoDiet and the relative risk of cardiovascular disease in a mediterranean cohort has shown a 55% relative reduction in risk for those in the highest quintile (or 1/5th) compared to those in the lowest quintile. In other words those most closely in alignment with Listen In The post TWIW 129: Could Mediterranean countries benefit from switching to a Paleo diet? appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This Week In Wellness in yet another potential blow to Bayer (the acquirer of Monsanto) and their controversial weed killer Glyphosate a pilot study published in the journal Environmental Pollution has suggested that it may cause a 4.5 fold increase in the risk of breast cancer. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33714786/ The post TWIW 128: Is Glyphosate also linked to breast cancer? appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

And This Week In Wellness just 4 weeks highly processed, carb laden foods have been linked to inflammation, memory loss and Alzheimer’s whilst Omega 3’s and DHA have been shown to reduce the effects, even without other dietary changes. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/10/211014172753.htm https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0889159121005043?via%3Dihub This podcast is brought to you by my new Facebook community Healthy Lifestyle Choices Listen In The post TWIW 127: Refined carbohydrates harm your memory appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This Week In Wellness breathing in clean air has been shown to reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s and other dementias. Tint particulate matter released by cars and factories known as PM2.5 has previously been linked to memory loss and Alzheimer’s disease due to the capacity of the tiny particles to pass directly up into the Listen In The post TWIW 126: Clean air matters for brain health appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This Week In Wellness a small study published in the journal Circulation of the American Heart Association has shown that regular intense exercise for people with early signs of heart failure may be able to increase the elasticity of their heart muscles. https://min.news/en/news/63b7bf508ecb8f13705d1cd3fe7a32ca.html https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.121.054117 The post TWIW 125: Your heart may need more than just walking appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This Week In Wellness Dr. David Ludwig, Endocrinologist at Boston Children’s Hospital and Professor at Harvard Medical School has published a paper with the bold claim that over consuming processed carbs rather than overeating is the primary cause of the worldwide obesity crisis. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/09/210913135729.htm https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ajcn/nqab270/6369073 The post TWIW 124: Could it be carb intake rather than overeating that causes obesity? appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This Week In Wellness I launch my new online community Healthy Lifestyle Choices. In a world full of information, misinformation, bias, hyperbole and conspiracy theories it is not hard to find information but it is hard to know which information to trust. And in a social media inspired world of echo chambers, where black and Listen In The post TWIW 123: Healthy Lifestyle Choices appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This Week In Wellness a team of American researchers have shown that reducing sugar by just 20% in packaged foods and 40% in drinks could prevent half a million deaths and save over 2 billion dollars in the US alone within the first 10 years. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/08/210827082431.htm The post TWIW 122: Reducing sugar could save $160 billion appeared first on The Wellness Couch.