Dr Joe Unplugged

Dr Joe Unplugged is your home for open commentary on health, wellbeing and life in the broadest sense. We will explore diet, exercise, sleep and stress amongst other health matters as well as issues that may impact you and your wellbeing in direct or indirect ways....

It’s Christmas!

If Christmas did not exist it would need to be invented. Perfectly timed at the end of the year, it allows for many people worldwide to celebrate in some way, shape or form. This may be the formal religious celebration or simply a catch up with friends and family....

We Need Our Sleep

Human beings spend more time being asleep than anything else. It is estimated that at the turn of the twentieth century the average American slept nine hours each night. By the turn of the twenty first century this figure has dropped to under eight hours. Lack of...
It’s The Sugar, Stupid

It’s The Sugar, Stupid

I have contended that the push for low fat diets over the last 30 years has coincided with a rise in obesity and diabetes.

3 Tips For Simplifying Nutrition

3 Tips For Simplifying Nutrition

The Australian Government has released guidelines on what we should eat. The document runs to nearly 200 pages. Last year the US government did something similar. Why does what we eat have to be so complex? It does not. A lion in the jungle doesn’t need a book to tell...

Choices and Consequences

Choices and Consequences

We all make choices. We can choose to make different ones if we get new knowledge. The choices remain ours, as do the consequences for better or worse.

Creating A Healthy Mindset

Creating A Healthy Mindset

Do you feel you could use a healthier attitude toward life? Would you like to approach things in a different way? Is a healthier lifestyle attainable?

The Disorder Disorder

The Disorder Disorder

The growth of new disorders and the growth industry of medication of the masses based on suspect motives and justifications is the elephant in the room very few speak about.

Nothing Like A Good Crisis To Boost Funding

Nothing Like A Good Crisis To Boost Funding

There is a particular narrative to public health messages and almost a certain morality, which runs through them. We need to be wary of experts talking up a crisis and offering to fix it.

3 Tips For Back Care

3 Tips For Back Care

The lower back is the commonest area of the body for people to experience pain. Whilst for most it is transient some people will experience ongoing lower back pain and this can reduce enjoyment of life and impact on the capacity to work. Treatments include...

Don’t Blame Stress

Don’t Blame Stress

Contrary to what we may think, the amount of stress that we experience isn’t what determines whether we develop chronic health problems.
It’s all about how we react to things.

Not Funny!

Not Funny!

There is an old adage about laughter being the best medicine. Indeed there are a number of positive effects on the body from laughing. Yet this is under threat.