How Much Are Your Habits and Addictions Costing You?
Would you like to be able to stop procrastinating, overeating, smoking or other bad habits? Are you engaging in addictive behaviours and wish you could stop these? Have you tried to change bad habits or addictions in the past using will power only to discover the...
Dr Joe Kosterich talking with Chris Ilsley about Australia’s smoking shame.
Pills, Music And History
Recently my daughter was going to a music festival with a group of friends. Like her father she likes music and tried playing it - without great success. On the cusp of her third decade she is a sensible young adult. However, millennials are not known for reading...
Create Healthy Habits That Keep You Young!
Having healthy habits can help prevent disease and premature aging. If we were to address inflammatory conditions, we’d find toxic habits can be the hidden root cause sucking up years of our life force. Which makes the opposite true. Changing toxic habits can keep us...
War, Complete With Rations
There is a great Groucho Marx quote, which was reprised by Bugs Bunny in numerous cartoons - “Of course, you know - this means war”. Regular readers will know my view on the “diet wars”. The straight line correlation between the introduction and promotion of low fat...
4 Easy Changes To Jump Start Your Weight Loss And Fitness
We all desire good health and a fit body but unfortunately, most of us have tried (for a while) and unfortunately, have given up. There are many reasons for this but a common reason is that the majority of people do not have accurate information – simple as that....
What Do Wall Street And Health Policy Have In Common?
Many years ago, I did a share trading course based on the work of W.D. Gann reputed to be the most successful Wall Street trader ever. His approach was to study past cycles to predict future ones. He contended that like crops and the seasons, everything in the...
The Real World
January 26 sees the celebration of Australia Day – commemorating the arrival of the first fleet in 1788. Like all nations, there are aspects of the past and present that are positive and negative. Yet the positives outweigh the negatives by a long way. As the son of...
The Digesting Brain
Our brain is the most important organ in our body. Our brain controls every thought and action we have. This includes sleep, digestion, memories, speech, movement, and more. Our gut and brain work in tandem, each influencing the other. “The brain directly...
The Power To Change Is In Your Hands
Cast your mind back to a time long past – the 1970’s. Very few people were overweight and an even smaller number had type two diabetes. Now think about what people tended to eat in those days. Now ask yourself the same questions about the situation today. What has...
Medication Induced Mental Health Injuries In Children And Adults
It was in April 2013 when I made the link between my son’s suicide attempt at five years of age and his use of the widely prescribed asthma and allergy medication Singulair (active ingredient Montelukast). The Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) had...
Human Beings Are Social Beings
There are eight pillars of health. One that does not get as much airtime as movement, sleep and diet is relationships. Research from Brigham Young University in Provo, UT, reveals that loneliness and social isolation may increase the risk of premature death by up to...