This Week In Wellness

This week Brett and Damian interview Jodie Heselwood from The Whole Way. Jodie is travelling Australia, with 2 kids and a husband in tow teaching everyone how to incorporate healthy food into their lives. After suffering from Chronic Fatigue and depression Jodie was able to turn her own life around and so decided to combine her passion for travel and camping with a new way of life. Through a combination of home stays and cyber coffee catch ups she is helping families all over the country adopt more healthful habits!

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This week Brett and Damian cover a very important topic in Australian (and worldwide) health, being Script Wise. Would you be surprised to hear that the deaths from opioid medications in Victoria exceeds the road toll? The Boys were! This week we are joined by Bee Mohammed from www.scriptwise.org.au who shares some alarming statistics about the deaths from prescription and non-prescription medications in Australia, in particular opioids. So tune in for an eye opening discussion around what can be done about this terrible problem.

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This week Brett and Damian are once again at the 6th Bioceuticals Research Symposium and this time interview one of the worlds leading researchers into Ketogenic diets Dominic D’Agostino. Keto has been massive over the last year or two and Dominic shines out as a fantastic voice of reason in the community. He understands what the research does (and does not) show better than most and gives a very pragmatic view of what works and what does not when it comes to this way of living. So tune in for another very informative episode of The Wellness Guys Show!

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This week Brett and Damian have a fascinating chat with ‘The One Minute Coach’ Jaemin Frazer about overcoming insecurity. The boys question Jaemin about why we are so insecure and what we can do about it. Why do so many people feel like they are not good enough? Is this just life and we need to get over it and push on or is it something that we need to resolve in order to move forward? All this and more in an enlightening episode of The Wellness Guys Show.

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This week Damian and Brett were joined by inspirational Dementia researcher John Quinn (along with his wife Glenys). John was a school principle when he was “relieved” to get his diagnosis of early-onset familial Dementia. He says that whilst having Dementia was not his choice, he is choosing to live well with Dementia and based on this episode we can confidently say that he is succeeding. John has now done some wonderful research into the field of Dementia and speaks at major conferences about how to thrive with the condition and also about how it affects male masculinity.

He will be speaking at the International Dementia Conference in Sydney on the 8th of June. Find out more at www.dementiaconference.com

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This week Damian and Brett interview James from Egmont Honey (www.egmonthoney.co.nz) about Manuka honey. Why is Manuka Honey so good? What do those ratings on the jar mean and how does it impact on the health benefits? What is the difference between Manuka and Kanuka? And What about Australian Manuka (Jelly Bush), what is the go with that? And why the heck would you use a helicopter to move your bees around? All this and more including what Egmont (with their Wiamete Honey range) are doing to look after the bees and help prevent their demise.

To purchase this amazing Waimete Honey in Australia head to www.woolworths.com.au or your local Woolworths store.

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This week Brett and Damian interview world renowned integrative paediatrician Dr Elisa Song from www.healthykidshappykids.com at the 6th Bioceuticals Research Symposium. Dr Song shares a wealth if information about Chronic disease in kids including just how prevalent it is, why it is so high and what we can do to not only manage it but also to prevent it. So if you have kids in your life who you love you are not going to want to miss this one!

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This week The Wellness Guys are at the 6th Bioceuticals Research Symposium in Melbourne and have been fortunate enough to be given the opportunity to interview the fantastic lineup of speakers. There will be more to come in the following weeks, but this week Brett and Damian had the pleasure of interviewing a world renowned expert in auto-immunity and in particular the thyroid, Dr Amy Meyers. They talk about why auto-immunity is becoming so common, what can be done to prevent it, what can be done to manage it and even what can be done to maintain your health after the worst has passed. So tune in for a wonderful interview with a very intelligent lady!

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School holidays have just finished in South Australia and Victoria and with Damo and Brett’s kids at different ages they proposed different challenges (and opportunities) for each. This week the boys discuss how they navigate these busy times with their families and find some harmony between work, family, their partners etc. So tune in for a nice catch up between 2 mates with a whole heaps of little gems sprinkled in between.

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This week Damian and Brett welcome on Toni Powell, author of the book “What A Feeling” to talk about positive relationships. Toni has a great way of taking a complex topic and making it seem quite simple with a practical. a no-nonsense approach that seems wise and kind at the same time. This episode is so full of little gems that I am sure it is one you will want to listen to again and again!

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