Healthy-ish

Swallow a pill and become a better, clearer and more focused you? Well, science says it can work (if it’s the right pill, that is). Ryan Morgan is a psychologist and specialist in cognitive performance and talks about nootropics for better brain function.   WANT MORE FROM RYAN? To hear today's full interview, where Ryan discusses what a nootropic stack is exactly...search for Extra Healthy-ish wherever you get your pods. Find out more about Ryan via BioV8, here, or for more on Yootropics, click here.    WANT MORE BODY + SOUL?  Online: Head to bodyandsoul.com.au for your daily digital dose of health and wellness. On social: Via Instagram at @bodyandsoul_au or Facebook. Got an idea for an episode? DM host Felicity Harley on Instagram @felicityharley.  On YouTube: Watch Body + Soul TV, here. In print: Each Sunday, grab Body+Soul inside The Sunday Telegraph (NSW), the Sunday Herald Sun (Victoria), The Sunday Mail (Queensland), Sunday Mail (SA) and Sunday Tasmanian (Tasmania). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Alf the Label CEO Sophie Doyle shares her story on discovering she had a brain tumour, what it’s like living with a chronic illness and how she manages her health and wellbeing day to day.   WANT MORE FROM SOPHIE? To hear today's full interview, where Sophie shares more health and wellbeing lessons...search for Extra Healthy-ish wherever you get your pods. Find out more about Sophie via Instagram @_sophie_doyle or @afl_thelabel, or see her website, here.    WANT MORE BODY + SOUL?  Online: Head to bodyandsoul.com.au for your daily digital dose of health and wellness. On social: Via Instagram at @bodyandsoul_au or Facebook. Got an idea for an episode? DM host Felicity Harley on Instagram @felicityharley.  On YouTube: Watch Body + Soul TV, here. In print: Each Sunday, grab Body+Soul inside The Sunday Telegraph (NSW), the Sunday Herald Sun (Victoria), The Sunday Mail (Queensland), Sunday Mail (SA) and Sunday Tasmanian (Tasmania). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Want to know if the fat around your middle is healthy or harmful? Listen in as exercise scientist and nutritionist Amelia Phillips discusses stomach fat and what you can do to lose it or love it.    WANT MORE FROM AMELIA? To hear today's full interview, where Amelia shares her science-backed secrets to weight loss...search for Extra Healthy-ish wherever you get your pods. Find out more about Amelia via Instagram @_amelia_phillips or check out her podcast Healthy Her, here.    WANT MORE BODY + SOUL?  Online: Head to bodyandsoul.com.au for your daily digital dose of health and wellness. On social: Via Instagram at @bodyandsoul_au or Facebook. Got an idea for an episode? DM host Felicity Harley on Instagram @felicityharley.  On YouTube: Watch Body + Soul TV, here. In print: Each Sunday, grab Body+Soul inside The Sunday Telegraph (NSW), the Sunday Herald Sun (Victoria), The Sunday Mail (Queensland), Sunday Mail (SA) and Sunday Tasmanian (Tasmania). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Celebrity PT Gunnar Peterson has trained and shaped the bodies of Jennifer Lopez, Sofia Vergara and the Kardashians to name a few. His new gig: F45’s Chief of Athletics. So, what’s the secret to his success in the gym? He tells all…   WANT MORE FROM GUNNAR? To hear today's full interview, where Gunnar shares his favourite celebrity to train...search for Extra Healthy-ish wherever you get your pods. Find out more about F45 here. Or for Gunnar, see his website or follow him on Instagram @gunnarfitness.   WANT MORE BODY + SOUL?  Online: Head to bodyandsoul.com.au for your daily digital dose of health and wellness. On social: Via Instagram at @bodyandsoul_au or Facebook. Got an idea for an episode? DM host Felicity Harley on Instagram @felicityharley.  On YouTube: Watch Body + Soul TV, here. In print: Each Sunday, grab Body+Soul inside The Sunday Telegraph (NSW), the Sunday Herald Sun (Victoria), The Sunday Mail (Queensland), Sunday Mail (SA) and Sunday Tasmanian (Tasmania). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Each Friday, host Felicity Harley and Body + Soul's digital director Ali Izzo chat through three stories that made them spit-out - or guzzle - their green juices. Or wine. This week, they chat about the divided reaction to Chrissie Swan’s weight loss (see story, here); does International Women’s Day messaging still affect change?; how cult wellness distracts us from what really matters (see story, here). WANT MORE BODY + SOUL?  Online: Head to bodyandsoul.com.au for your daily digital dose of health and wellness. On social: Via Instagram at @bodyandsoul_au or Facebook. Got an idea for an episode? DM host Felicity Harley on Instagram @felicityharley.  In print: Each Sunday, grab Body+Soul inside The Sunday Telegraph (NSW), the Sunday Herald Sun (Victoria), The Sunday Mail (Queensland), Sunday Mail (SA) and Sunday Tasmanian (Tasmania). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Apparently most relationships are “starving” right now (you can thank the pandemic for that). Relationships educator, speaker and author of When Love Goes South Emma Power explains what this all means and shares her secrets to helping your relationship flourish.    WANT MORE FROM EMMA? To hear today's full interview, where Emma shares her must-have relationship tool kit...search for Extra Healthy-ish wherever you get your pods. Find out more about Emma’s book When Love Goes South (Hardie Grant, $22.99), here, or via her website. You can follow her on Instagram @emma_power.    WANT MORE BODY + SOUL?  Online: Head to bodyandsoul.com.au for your daily digital dose of health and wellness. On social: Via Instagram at @bodyandsoul_au or Facebook. Got an idea for an episode? DM host Felicity Harley on Instagram @felicityharley.  On YouTube: Watch Body + Soul TV, here. In print: Each Sunday, grab Body+Soul inside The Sunday Telegraph (NSW), the Sunday Herald Sun (Victoria), The Sunday Mail (Queensland), Sunday Mail (SA) and Sunday Tasmanian (Tasmania). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Go on, laugh for the health of it. Positive wellbeing expert, author and La Trobe University researcher Ros Ben-Moshe discusses the power of intentional laughter - and laughing yoga - to boost wellbeing.   WANT MORE FROM ROS? To hear today's full interview, where Ros discusses how the body responds to laughing...search for Extra Healthy-ish wherever you get your pods. Find out more about Ros, here, or via her LaughLife Wellbeing Programs, here.    WANT MORE BODY + SOUL?  Online: Head to bodyandsoul.com.au for your daily digital dose of health and wellness. On social: Via Instagram at @bodyandsoul_au or Facebook. Got an idea for an episode? DM host Felicity Harley on Instagram @felicityharley.  On YouTube: Watch Body + Soul TV, here. In print: Each Sunday, grab Body+Soul inside The Sunday Telegraph (NSW), the Sunday Herald Sun (Victoria), The Sunday Mail (Queensland), Sunday Mail (SA) and Sunday Tasmanian (Tasmania). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Move over sugar, we need to talk about salt - it’s World Salt Awareness Week and new research shows Australians have worrying levels of salt consumption. Dr Sam Hay talks through the stats and how to slash it from your diet.    WANT MORE FROM DR SAM? To hear today's full interview, where Dr Sam talks about salt food traps...search for Extra Healthy-ish wherever you get your pods. Find out more about Dr Sam Hay via his website or follow him on Instagram @drsamhay.    WANT MORE BODY + SOUL?  Online: Head to bodyandsoul.com.au for your daily digital dose of health and wellness. On social: Via Instagram at @bodyandsoul_au or Facebook. Got an idea for an episode? DM host Felicity Harley on Instagram @felicityharley.  On YouTube: Watch Body + Soul TV, here. In print: Each Sunday, grab Body+Soul inside The Sunday Telegraph (NSW), the Sunday Herald Sun (Victoria), The Sunday Mail (Queensland), Sunday Mail (SA) and Sunday Tasmanian (Tasmania). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The sudden death of cricket star Shane Warne from a likely heart attack after he finished a "ridiculous diet" where he drank only "black and green juices" for two weeks begs the question: how dangerous are these for our heart? Heart Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow and Senior Lecturer at the Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney, Dr Jessica Orchard talks all things heart health.   WANT MORE FROM JESSICA? To hear today's full interview, where Jessica discusses the lifestyle factors that lead to heart disease...search for Extra Healthy-ish wherever you get your pods. For more heart health tips, see The Heart Foundation, here, or for Jessica’s research, click here. You can read a nutritionist's take on restrictive diets at bodyandsoul.com.au.   WANT MORE BODY + SOUL?  Online: Head to bodyandsoul.com.au for your daily digital dose of health and wellness. On social: Via Instagram at @bodyandsoul_au or Facebook. Got an idea for an episode? DM host Felicity Harley on Instagram @felicityharley.  On YouTube: Watch Body + Soul TV, here. In print: Each Sunday, grab Body+Soul inside The Sunday Telegraph (NSW), the Sunday Herald Sun (Victoria), The Sunday Mail (Queensland), Sunday Mail (SA) and Sunday Tasmanian (Tasmania). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Each Friday, host Felicity Harley and Body + Soul's digital director, Ali Izzo chat through three stories that made them spit-out - or guzzle - their green juices. Or wine. This week, they chat about the TGA’s new guidelines for wellness influencers (see story, here); the mental health benefits of harder workouts (see study, here); Kim K’s “mostly” vegan diet (see story, here).    WANT MORE BODY + SOUL?  Online: Head to bodyandsoul.com.au for your daily digital dose of health and wellness. On social: Via Instagram at @bodyandsoul_au or Facebook. Got an idea for an episode? DM host Felicity Harley on Instagram @felicityharley.  In print: Each Sunday, grab Body+Soul inside The Sunday Telegraph (NSW), the Sunday Herald Sun (Victoria), The Sunday Mail (Queensland), Sunday Mail (SA) and Sunday Tasmanian (Tasmania). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.