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...
How To Reach Your Goals The SMART WAY

How To Reach Your Goals The SMART WAY

What are your fitness goals? Whether you are trying to lose weight, gain muscle, get stronger, improve endurance… the list goes on. In order to be successful, you must have the right plan and mind set. A great tool to help with this is the S.M.A.R.T. approach.  Let’s...

Doctors Need To Be Questioning

Doctors Need To Be Questioning

The selection criteria, has changed a bit over the years but medicine still draws from the most intelligent members of society. However, there are different types of intelligence, so what I am about to say next comes with the obligatory (albeit pathetic) trigger...

Nutrition For Infertility

Nutrition For Infertility

So, you decided to have a baby, but it’s been months, and still no baby.  One in 6 couples experience infertility which is defined as not getting pregnant after actively trying for 12 months (or 6 months if you’re 35 years or older). Or maybe, you have some type of...

This Time It Will Be Different – Not

This Time It Will Be Different – Not

Many quotes are attributed to Albert Einstein. He may or may not have said them all. One that I suspect he said, or if not would be happy for it to be attributed, is that a definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different outcome....

Is There A Healthy Way To Be Ill?

Is There A Healthy Way To Be Ill?

None of us are immune from ever being ill/ getting sick/ coming down with something/ catching a bug/ getting a disease, and we have many phrases that reflect that this is an everyday part of life. We cannot always prevent ourselves from getting sick, but is there a...

Throw A Chop On The Bar-b-que

Throw A Chop On The Bar-b-que

Here is a disturbing study finding. Breathing air has a 100% association with death. Every person who has died has breathed air during their lives. Clearly, we need public health messages about the harms of breathing the air. The precautionary principle demands that...

How To Heal From Food Intolerance

How To Heal From Food Intolerance

As a Nutritionist who specialises in the management of food intolerance, I often see patients who unnecessarily endure restrictive diets for years. Today I’d like to talk to you about the road to recovery, so you can stop focusing on what to avoid and look forward to...

Amateur Conspirators

Amateur Conspirators

Here is a statement of the obvious. The only thing that we should inhale into our lungs is air. Interestingly, an observational study could conclude that there is a 100% correlation between breathing air and death. Everyone who has died in the history of the planet...

Is Self-Care Actually Good For You?

Is Self-Care Actually Good For You?

If you’re anywhere on social media, you’ve probably noticed that self-care is quite a trend. Everyone is talking about self-care and how important it is. The question is, is self-care actually good for you? And the answer is yes, and no. Self-care in itself is really...

Talking Keto

Cutting through the hype and hysteria about keto diets. Is it for you?