Category: The Healthy Shift Worker

HSW 29: Cooking and Shift Work Nutrition with Spa Chef and Clinical Nutritionist Samantha Gowing.

Woohoo!  I’m so excited to air this episode because not only is today’s guest, Samantha Gowing, a Nutritionist, but she’s also spent decades working in the hospitality industry as a Chef, so she totally gets what it’s like to work shift work! Sam is a Chef hat-winning restaurateur, who traded her fast-paced city career to… Continue reading HSW 29: Cooking and Shift Work Nutrition with Spa Chef and Clinical Nutritionist Samantha Gowing.

HSW 28: Sleep Deprivation and Chronic Pain with Naturopath and Nutritionist Ananda Mahony.

OK, so I had lots of fun this week as I had the pleasure of interviewing one of my former lecturer’s, Ananda Mahony, who is the Senior Lecture of Nutritional Medicine at Endeavour College of Health here in Brisbane.  In addition to her role as senior lecturer, Ananda works in clinical practice as a Naturopath… Continue reading HSW 28: Sleep Deprivation and Chronic Pain with Naturopath and Nutritionist Ananda Mahony.

HSW 27: What’s With Wheat with Nutritionist Cyndi O’Meara.

Cyndi O’Meara is certainly not your typical Nutritionist.  Despite being in the industry since the 1980’s, she continually questions and challenges a lot of the dietary and nutritional recommendations that we are being subjected to in the media today. Last year, Cyndi embarked on a massive project as she travelled the world interviewing scientists and… Continue reading HSW 27: What’s With Wheat with Nutritionist Cyndi O’Meara.

HSW 26: Gut Health and Our Microbiome with Kale Brock.

Shift workers are notorious for experiencing gut discomfort thanks to our disruptive lifestyle, which can certainly impact on our overall health and well-being.  One of which includes increasing our susceptibility to developing Leaky Gut Syndrome, otherwise known as intestinal permeability which can lead to an overgrowth of pathogens, nutritional deficiencies, allergies, autoimmune disease, irritable bowel… Continue reading HSW 26: Gut Health and Our Microbiome with Kale Brock.

HSW 25: Over 50 Years of Working Shift Work with Jim Ward.

Holy smokes!  Can you imagine working shift work for over 50 years?  That’s 50 years of disrupted sleep, getting out of bed in the dark, working weekends, public holidays and time away from family at Christmas?  Well my mind boggles at the thought, but Train Driver Jim Ward did exactly that.  In fact, Jim spent… Continue reading HSW 25: Over 50 Years of Working Shift Work with Jim Ward.

HSW 24: Rewiring Our Shift Working Mindset with Dr Laurence Tham.

In this week’s episode Audra chat’s with Chiropractor, International Speaker and Business Coach Dr Laurence Tham, on all things to do with improving our shift working resilience – from a mindset perspective. Whilst it’s not a topic often discussed, Laurence shares some of his “mindset wisdom” on how we can improve our health and wellbeing… Continue reading HSW 24: Rewiring Our Shift Working Mindset with Dr Laurence Tham.

HSW 23: Adrenal Fatigue and Insufficiency with Naturopath Jules Galloway.

Thanks to our crazy, sleep-deprived lifestyle the adrenal glands of shift workers, which are responsible for pumping out our stress hormones adrenalin and cortisol, are notorious for becoming burnt out. This is because we’re quite literally “biologically stressed” from having to work 24/7. But get ready for a super entertaining and informative podcast as Naturopath… Continue reading HSW 23: Adrenal Fatigue and Insufficiency with Naturopath Jules Galloway.

HSW 22: Respecting our Emergency Services Staff with Maddy Birt.

Every now and then I get blown away by some the achievements of my guests who I interview on this podcast.  None more so than this young lady, school girl Maddy Birt, who has launched a social media campaign called Hug the Helpers to help raise awareness for the plight of some of our emergency… Continue reading HSW 22: Respecting our Emergency Services Staff with Maddy Birt.

HSW 21: My Journey So Far, and Why I Care So Much With Audra Starkey

In this week’s episode, Audra goes solo for the very first time – without a guest, and shares a little about what she’s been up to, and why she’s so passionate about improving the health and well-being of shift workers around the globe. Having commenced shift work at the tender age of 22, and walking… Continue reading HSW 21: My Journey So Far, and Why I Care So Much With Audra Starkey

HSW 20: Gut Microbiome, Sleep Disruption and Obesity with Dr Amy Reynolds

In this week’s episode, Audra chats with Dr Amy Reynolds from CQ University’s Appleton Institute in Adelaide, who in conjunction with researchers at the University of Chicago, is heading up a research study to identify if disrupted sleep affects the human gut microbiota.  The study aims to explore ways in which sleep duration affects the… Continue reading HSW 20: Gut Microbiome, Sleep Disruption and Obesity with Dr Amy Reynolds