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A Letter To Someone Just Diagnosed With A Chronic Disease

I’m writing this letter to you because I know how you feel. You may have just been diagnosed with one or more of the chronic diseases sweeping the world in what has been called an epidemic – heart disease, cancer, diabetes or an autoimmune disease like multiple sclerosis. Maybe you’ve suffered all your life with … Read full article »

Why Stress Is Surprisingly Good for You

My heart was pounding and the butterflies in my stomach were more like tap dancing elephants. I was at the Sydney premiere of The Connection about to stand up in front of seven hundred people and introduce a film that had taken me three years to make – a film I had given my heart … Read full article »

Is your microbiome the key to staying healthy?

When I was in the US last year for the tour of my film The Connection, people kept talking about the microbiome. It seemed to be a buzzword. In fact, Fortune Magazine declared 2015 “The Year of the Microbiome.” But before I started sculling kombucha, popping probiotics and fixating on a ‘microbiome diet’, I wanted … Read full article »
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