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TWIW 200: Fish oil increases your muscle and strength gains

This Week In Wellness supplementing with fish oil may increase the muscle and strength gains of healthy young adults doing strength training. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36822153/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33221700/

SLP 283: Self Love Quicky – The 4 Point Formula for Success

Success is a relative term. If you achieve what you want to and are happy, then perhaps that is success. Success is an individual gauge and can be applied to life in general or to individual tasks in life. Success can simply be achieving personal goals, whatever they may be, a great relationship, good health… Continue reading SLP 283: Self Love Quicky – The 4 Point Formula for Success

SLP 282: Letting Go Of The Baggage You Carry with Jennifer Forster and Allie May

‘If I was to really put it in a nutshell, I just got tired of my shit! I really just got tired of being in this, it felt like this washing machine where I would year on year on year on I would just find myself asking the same questions, having the same conversations, over… Continue reading SLP 282: Letting Go Of The Baggage You Carry with Jennifer Forster and Allie May

TWIW 199: Motor control in kids linked to mathematics

This Week In Wellness better motor skills in first grade have been linked to better performance in reading and mathematics in the 3rd grade in a recent study at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. https://www.news-medical.net/news/20230525/Motorically-skilled-children-in-first-grade-have-better-academic-skills-by-third-grade.aspx https://journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/Abstract/9900/Cross_Lagged_Associations_between_Physical.239.aspx

SLP 281: Self Love Quicky – The Importance Of Loving You

We hear it all the time – love yourself, look after yourself, be good to yourself, be positive – and we all know we should – but the truth is we find it much easier to dislike ourselves, beat ourselves up, knock ourselves and be negative! Why is that? Seriously what is this strange, degrading… Continue reading SLP 281: Self Love Quicky – The Importance Of Loving You

SLP 280: Content Is About Connecting With Your Audience with Bronte Cresswell

‘Content is about connecting with your audience and showing them who you are as a brand. That’s the way that I normally look at content when I am making an assessment on if a piece of content is a strong piece of content. It’s firstly, does it represent your brand? So, is it encapsulating everything… Continue reading SLP 280: Content Is About Connecting With Your Audience with Bronte Cresswell

TWIW 198: WHO advises against non-sugar sweeteners

This Week In Wellness the World Health Organisation (WHO) has updated their advice on the use of non-sugar sweeteners for weight control to reflect the fact that research shows they do not confer any long term benefit and may in fact increase the risk of type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and all death. https://www.who.int/news/item/15-05-2023-who-advises-not-to-use-non-sugar-sweeteners-for-weight-control-in-newly-released-guideline

SLP 279: Self Love Quicky – Healing After Arguing

We all argue, have fights and come across moments of conflict, so this week we discuss 5 steps on how to process and heal from these events. This is about being able to talk about the incident without falling back into it again. It is about staying calm and creating emotional distance. The key is… Continue reading SLP 279: Self Love Quicky – Healing After Arguing

SLP 278: When We Go Through Contrast, We Are Asking with Melissa Schembri

‘Ester Hicks, my favourite personal development speaker – The Law Of Attraction – says that when we go through contrast we are asking. So, whenever something bad is happening to us, that’s just us refining what we want, it’s refining our preferences, it’s helping us work out what we do want, because when we know… Continue reading SLP 278: When We Go Through Contrast, We Are Asking with Melissa Schembri

100NO 528: Is The Quest For Longevity Really Already Over?

An article in Wired recently had the title “The Quest For Longevity is Already Over”. We’re not so sure, for a number of reasons. Jean-Marie Robine is a proclaimed longevity researcher, responsible for validating Jeanne Calment’s extraordinary 122 years and 164 days. On episode 304 we discussed the reasons why we don’t think Jeanne Calment actually… Continue reading 100NO 528: Is The Quest For Longevity Really Already Over?