Andrea Wachter is a psychotherapist and author. Having struggled with her own mental health issues she is perfectly placed to help those people presenting with anxiety, depression and other mental health concerns and she has been doing for the last 30 years.

Dr Sean O Mara is one of the world's leading health and performance optimising physicians who loves to use his huge presence on social media to educate people on their health and demystify many of the topics that intimidate and confuse thereby, putting people back in the driving seat of their own optimal health management.

In this episode we talk about a subject dear to Dr O Mara, that of visceral fat, we ask what it is and why we need to take it seriously.

We hear about the different kinds of fat in our bodies and why all bodyfat is not equal.

We talk about bodyfat's relationship with longevity and chronic inflammation.

Most importantly we discuss the basic strategies that Dr O Mara suggests we employ to lessen the amount of visceral fat in our bodies.

We hear Sean's views on the negative effects of the pharmaceutical industry on our health.

Expect to learn about a simple way to reverse erectile dysfunction.

Expect to discover why Dr Sean is not a fan of endurance sports like long distance running.

We discuss sarcopenia, resilience, and how selection pressure has been replaced by selection pleasure in the modern age, to our detriment.

This is a lively discussion, Dr Sean is a passionate medic who says it like it is, and given his own great physical condition at 60 , is a testament to his own health philosophy.

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Prof George Bonanno is Clinical psychologist and author of The end of Trauma, and The other side of Sadness.

In this episode we define what trauma means as far as the professor is concerned and how it differs from the commonly accepted definition of trauma.

Plus we ask why the coventional wisdom on trauma is so at odds with Professor Bonanno's findings.

The professor asks why trauma only crops up in the literature a couple of hundred years ago when it should have been present all throught human history.

We hear about PTSD and how it doesn't apply to everyone who has experienced a traumatic life event.

We learn about resilience, the traits of resilience, the resilience paradox and why a flexibility mindset is so important.

Expect to learn what steps to take in order to enhance your resilience.

Plus we explore how the lessons learned to bolster our relience can be applied to the grieving process.

https://www.georgebonanno.com/

Prof Bonanno's books : https://rb.gy/ln776n

Thomas Gilovich is the Irene Blecker Rosenfeld Professor of Psychology at Cornell University. His work in social psychology includes the key textbook in the field, How we know what isnt so, and has written books that touch on topics such as behavioral economics and the fallibility of human reason.

In this episode we talk about the subject of regret, and the impact hindsight has on our making judgements.

We explore the relationship between beliefs, emotions and judgements.

We ask my people are cautious in the light of a potentially positive outcome.

Why do people overstate their abilities, where does this overconfidence ?

We explore the subject of biases.

And we ask how we can become better thinkers and decision makers.

We talk about anxiety and why Dr Anna sees anxiety as a rocking chair and also a bully.

We ask why people find it so difficult to deal with anxiety and speculate whether anxiety is tolerated because it is a familiar bedfellow.

Expect to learn about why we catastrophise when we know we shouldnt.

We find out about the stop technique, how and when to use it.

And we discuss the area of self-sabotage, and why we might engage in it.

https://www.dranna.co.uk/