Movement is medicine

Chores are good for us. I can hear you all screaming already. Household chores typically aren't the most popular activity that people do through the course of the week. And I get it. It's not what you do for fun, but it keeps your house in order. And that can include...

Outcomes Matter More Than Intentions

In sport, you can tell how you or in a team sport, your team is traveling by the scoreboard. It's not to say that winning is everything, and you can certainly enjoy playing sport for the enjoyment of playing sport. That's a good thing. But if you want to know whether...

Observations on Black Friday

Is the season of Black Friday sales. It's interesting. Black Friday hails from the USA, the day after Thanksgiving, which we've had very recently. And like a lot of American trends, if you like, they do tend to spread around the world. It is interesting. Australians...
Modern Heresy

Modern Heresy

When Galileo Galilei proposed that the earth revolved around the sun (heliocentrism), he was investigated by the Roman Inquisition, which concluded that heliocentrism was "foolish and absurd in philosophy, and formally heretical since it contradicted in many places...

What Does It Mean When Your Brain Is “Aging?”

What Does It Mean When Your Brain Is “Aging?”

Our brain operates as a complex bioelectrical system with about 85 billion neurons working around the clock. This send, receive, respond process (electrical pulses) of our brain and central nervous system, autonomic nervous system and sympathetic nervous system, is...

Truth In Medicine

Truth In Medicine

Fairly quietly the effectiveness of this year’s flu vaccine in different ages groups has been released. Previously, Australis’s chief medical officer Professor Brendan Murphy, said this season's vaccine, selected by the WHO, gave "moderate to good" coverage of the...

It’s Time To Unleash Your Positive Mindset

It’s Time To Unleash Your Positive Mindset

If you ever turn on TV to the news, what do you see being broadcast? “Freaking negative after negative after negative.” There is so much negative in the news that you may think the world is going to hell. Is that the reality? Do you see shootings and crime daily in...

Reasonable Doubt Still Matters

Reasonable Doubt Still Matters

We like to think that human civilisation advances and learns from history. To some degree that happens. However, it is uncanny how often the mistakes of history are repeated albeit in different ways and for different reasons. All the while those involved will deny any...

8 Weight Loss Tips For Busy People That Actually Work

8 Weight Loss Tips For Busy People That Actually Work

Daily life can be stressful, busy, and at the very least, distracted, so the first thing that goes by the wayside is following through on our weight loss and health – despite our best intentions. However, it’s not an all or nothing case as taking smart action steps...

Riding In Circles

Riding In Circles

Since the introduction of compulsory bike helmets in Australia, bike riding has declined. There has been a growing view that the net public health effect has been negative as whilst there have been a few less head injuries (there were not many to start with) the...

Why Haven’t We Gone Viral Yet?!

Why Haven’t We Gone Viral Yet?!

With the beautiful Cottesloe beach in the background Dr Joe and Goorge Helou have a laugh about going viral. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xrf4vgKcXo