You’re not doomed by your parents – rewiring the brain to change your traits and health. So can you beat the genes that make getting-up in mornings hell?
Deepak Chopra explains how we can our plastic brains can acquire new habits, become happier and more efficient. 
 
Writer & Presenter: Tim Samuels
Executive Producer: Barney Rowntree
Producer: Nick Minter
Assistant Producer: Sera Baker
Researcher: Roser Jorba Soler
Mixing & Sound Design: Ali Rezakhani
Original Music: Xavior Roide
Series Editor: Gloria Abramoff. All Hail Kale is made Tonic Productions for BBC Sounds.

Beat Your Brain

Wellness you can actually trust – from award-winning journalist Tim Samuels. What’s best for your mind, body, diet and mood – served with heaps of expertise &amp; a sprinkling of wit.

Health & Fitness

Does positive thinking work - even if you’re one of the country’s most unlucky people? And revealing how changing your mental state can even improve your immune system. Tim Samuels brings Barrie and Margaret - and their tales of woe - face-to-face with positive-thinking gurus. Will they finally manage to alter their fortunes through a shift of attitude? Tim also hears from a leading mind-body expert that having the right type of mental state - based in meaning - can improve survival rates for serious diseases and lead to better immune systems. For extra content, videos and a regular newsletter go to www.bbc.co.uk/allhailkale

Positive Thinking For Unlucky People

The fascinating story of the fat vs sugar wars - and how it’s still misinforming what we eat today. Told through the life story of Tony The Tiger as he fights for his sugary survival today. Tim Samuels hears how the scare caused by President Eisenhower’s heart attack in the 1950s led to six decades of flawed dietary advice, which still persists even today. Against this dietary war between fat and sugar, Tim tracks the rise and fall of cereal mascot Tony The Tiger from one of the twentieth century’s greatest advertising icons, to now facing an imperiled existence as he approaches his eighth decade.  A cardiologist and dietician debate how much ‘good fats’ we should actually be eating. For extra content, videos and a regular newsletter go to www.bbc.co.uk/allhailkale

The Sweet Rise and Fall of Tony The Tiger

Is modern life making many of us breathe ‘incorrectly’ and can changing your breathing technique lower your stress?  Tim Samuels puts a horizontal form of breathing to the test. He hears from ‘The Iceman’ Wim Hof, who claims the comforts of life (and clothes) have made us too soft - which is bad for our immune system and minds. An emergency doctor reveals how breathing techniques allow him to perform at his peak when a life and death case comes in.  For extra content, videos and a regular newsletter go to www.bbc.co.uk/allhailkale

How to Actually Breathe

The extreme routines of the super successful and whether they really improve productivity or just make you feel guilty for not getting up super early. Tim Samuels speaks to tech entrepreneurs - including one whose last meal of the day is at noon and is always in bed by early evening - who all swear by their daily routines.  Experts weigh on in whether routines themselves can breed success by freeing up the mind; and if it’s all creating another form of status anxiety for the rest of us. Featuring no-nonsense wisdom from Bridget Jones author Helen Fielding. For extra content, videos and a regular newsletter go to www.bbc.co.uk/allhailkale

Do extreme routines work?

The truth behind vitamins and supplements, whether we need them and which pills can actually cause serious harm.  Tim Samuels also reveals the marketing secrets used to snare us in - from horny goats to snail trails; and the Mafia-like tactics of the industry which were straight out of the mob copybook. Mel Gibson makes a strange cameo too. For extra content, videos and a regular newsletter go to www.bbc.co.uk/allhailkale

Beat Your Brain

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