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The prescription of antidepressants, such as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, have grown exponentially since their launch in the 1990s. Today, one in seven Australian adults take an antidepressant. Medicine and culture’s current default mode is that a person who is distressed, or sad, has a chemical imbalance in their brain and this can be managed with medication. 

But do depressed individuals really have a chemical imbal...

It's well known that eating carbohydrates causes your blood glucose to rise and there is almost frenzied interest about how this can be unhealthy and lead to diabetes, weight gain, reactive low blood sugar, mood swings and more. Many people are mindful of their carbohydrate consumption, and the latest trend is healthy individuals using continuous glucose monitor devices to ensure near perfect blood glucose stability. 

Our bodies,...

We often hear statistics that every year thousands of new synthetic chemicals are introduced into our everyday environments. We also often hear how many of these chemicals do not break down and accumulate in our bodies. Environmental chemicals can be seen like the dark side of the force from the Star Wars franchise - ubiquitous evil matter flowing through all of us, causing uncontrollable and irreversible destruction.

Environmental...

The microbiome has generated a lot of interest and subsequently a lot of hope and hype. Claims are plentiful that it's the gut microbiome that is driving your mood, memories, food choices, metabolism, weight and immunity, just to name a few. 

Just like the Game of Thrones, the cast in the Game of Microbes is wide and varied. Also like the famous George RR Martin series, the characters are complicated, you can seldom categorically...

Vitamin D is a popular nutritional supplement. There are numerous claims of its health benefits and hundreds of studies show that low serum level vitamin D is linked to all manner of diseases. But, there appears to be a paradox - clinical trials often show that restoring low serum vitamin D with supplementation provides little, if any, benefit.

Whats going on here? 

In this episode we are going to explore if vitamin D supplementat...