Jul 14
The Daily Habits That Protect Your Brain At Any Age: The New Science Of Dementia Prevention with Dr David Perlmutter #674
Most of us assume that memory loss and cognitive decline are just part of getting older. In this episode, a world-leading neurologist says that’s simply not true. That, far from being inevitable, Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases result from decades of metabolic da ... Show More
1h 50m
Jul 9
BITESIZE | What You Need To Know About Strength, Menopause & Healthy Ageing | Dr Stacy Sims #673
As we get older, have you ever wondered why the exercise advice we’ve been given doesn’t seem to work as well as it once did? As we move into our 40s and beyond, our physiology changes in ways that can often feel confusing and frustrating. But what if we could harness those chang ... Show More
29m 36s
Jul 7
How To Finally Fix Your Sleep, Wake Up Rested & Transform Your Life with Dr Michael Breus #672
“Sleep is a lot like love: the less you look for it, the more it shows up.” So says my guest on this episode, one of the world's leading sleep doctors, who’s here to reveal the five common traps that are stopping us getting the rest we need. Dr Michael Breus is a clinical psychol ... Show More
1h 57m
Sep 2025
Overdiagnosed — How Our Obsession with Medical Testing and Labels Is Making Us Sicker
Modern medicine has given us incredible tools to peer inside the body and spot disease earlier than ever before. But with that power comes a problem: the more we look, the more we find — and not everything we find needs fixing.My guest today, neurologist Dr. Suzanne O'Sullivan, a ... Show More
59m 58s
Mar 2025
153. We’re Not Getting Sicker — We’re Overdiagnosed
<p>Suzanne O'Sullivan is a neurologist who sees many patients with psychosomatic disorders. Their symptoms may be psychological in origin, but their pain is real and physical — and the way we practice medicine, she argues, is making those and other health problems worse.</p><p> < ... Show More
1h 3m
Mar 2025
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)
Suzanne O’Sullivan (The Age of Diagnosis: How Our Obsession with Medical Labels Is Making Us Sicker) is a neurologist, clinical neuropsychologist, and award-winning writer. Suzanne joins the Armchair Expert to discuss why epilepsy is a very neglected area of medicine, that we can ... Show More
2h 6m
Oct 2024
Is The Healthcare System Failing You? Why Taking Medicine Isn’t Always The Best Solution and How Holistic Medicine Can Improve Your Health
Can we trust the healthcare system? In this solo episode, I’m getting real about something I think a lot of us feel—how modern medicine sometimes leaves us disconnected from our bodies, relying on quick fixes and pills that don’t always get to the heart of things. I’ll be sharing ... Show More
23m 39s
Nov 2022
310 SelfWork: Maybe It's Depression. But Maybe It's Not.
We’re going to talk about labels today - and how the mental health world, its science, its leaders, and its language might be influencing us to over-pathologize what’s normal. Meaning that you can come to believe something is sick or wrong or abnormal when actually it IS normal w ... Show More
29m 42s
Could our healthcare system be making us sicker rather than healthier? In the UK, autism diagnoses have increased by a staggering 787% between 1998 and 2018, and one in five people now has some form of mental health disorder. But what if some of our health struggles aren't diseases to be cured, but normal human experiences being medicalised?
This week, I' ... Show More
