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Pass the ‘DASH’ on the table – The DASH Diet (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension)
We often hear practitioners recommending the DASH diet to someone with high blood pressure. But how people friendly is this diet? 
On this episode of Lifestyle Matters, Dr Ferghal and Dr Saveena explore the famous DASH diet.

“A diet as good as the famous statins?”

This week, Dr Ferghal and I explore the ‘Portfolio Diet’; known for its effectiveness in lowering LDL i.e. ‘bad cholesterol’. This diet is said to be as effective as Lovastatin, which is a cholesterol lowering medication! 

I chat with Dr Jesse Zanker, a geriatrician who specialises in the care of elderly patients. We discuss the impact that COVID has had on elderly vulnerable patients and the important role that vaccination has in firstly preventing serious illness and secondly in preventing ongoing transmission to friends and loved ones. We both look forward to a time when we can live without lockdowns, but we acknowledge that it is very unlikely that we will ever re-experience life as we knew it pre-COVID.

The Mediterranean diet is proven to reduce all cause mortality. It reduces the mortality associated with heart disease, metabolic syndrome, Diabetes, Cancer and improves longevity and quality of life.

In this episode, we discuss tools to use when choosing a diet and what a weight loss plateau is.
Over the upcoming episodes, we will be reviewing the various diets that are out there from a medical perspective. 
This episode is to introduce how beneficial diets can be to our lives when chosen correctly.

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How can you trigger a change in someone, how can you unlock their potential for recovery?

In this episode tells us how he has used the miracle question to help a patient suffering from PTSD and prescription opioid dependency find his true purpose in life and thereby escape the shackles of drug dependency. Click below to hear more.

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In this episode Dr Andrew Rees and I discuss human needs in the context of benzodiazepine dependency. We discuss why they are so difficult to come off, but also why coming off them is so important. Andrew describes the his coaching approach which he uses to help his patients free themselves from the shackles of dependency.

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Many of us are time poor due to the various responsibilities and pressures we face these days. As a result, despite the awareness that exercise is tremendously beneficial for our health, it seems to be put on the backburner more often than not. This is the reality most of us face but, there is a possible way out of this- the 4 minute Tabata style workout. 

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This week, Dr Ferghal and Dr Saveena discuss the benefits of exercise both in primary and secondary prevention of cardiometabolic diseases, heart disease and maintaining a robust immune system.