It’s official, Damian and Marcus are taking a select group of 10-30 people to the Greek Island of Ikaria for a 7day 8-night retreat to experience the world’s longest living people. This small island of only 8000 people suffer 80% less dementia, 50% less heart...
Dementia is getting ugly in the western world. Now referred to as diabetes if the brain, dementia is quickly becoming the most burdensome chronic disease in the modern world. If you asked most people what chronic disease they would LEAST like to die from the most...
Whilst most of us aware that the processing of food has undergone a major overhaul in the last 50 years, very few of us are actually quite sure what it means, how it affects us, and what we can do about it. In the second instalment of our interview with...
High cholesterol is something over 6 million Aussies have to their name – but what does it mean? Is it a normal part of ageing? And are there risks outside of heart disease for having high cholesterol? We ask Up For a Chat co-host and world-leading nutritionist...
This episode of 100 Not Out is inspired by a woman named Bronnie Ware. Bronnie was working in a job which gave her no satisfaction whatsoever … and so she began to look for work with more meaning, more heart. So Bronnie decided to work in palliative care, where she...
If the thought of getting old scares you and you feel like the ageing population is going to be (or already is) a burden on society then Patricia Edgar is just about to flip it all upside down. Patricia is an author, television producer, educator, sociologist the...
December is by far the most emotionally stressful month for most people. In this final instalment on stress, Damian and Marcus discuss the emotional and hormonal cascade that is so prevalent particularly in December. They also explore stress and it’s impact on...
This second instalment of 100 Not Out’s series on Stress breaks down a number of the major stressors we all face on a regular basis. Damian & Marcus look at chemical and physical stressors ranging from deodorants, environmental toxins, poor food, sitting, poor...
This episode forms the platform of a 3-part series Marcus & Damian are doing on Stress! The Christmas “silly season” is by far the most stressful time of the year for most people, and if there’s a way to speed up the ageing process, constantly stressing is it!...
Doing what you love and loving what you do is a common theme with anyone who is ageing well. In our recent interview with 93-year-old retired dentist, Dr Charles Eugster, he believed working was the most important ingredient into the recipe longevity. On the eve of...
The great Damian Kristof turns 40 tomorrow and what better time to pick his brain on the wisdom he has accrued after living for 40 years. The lessons, the mistakes, the victories. Marcus and Damian go through the well-known list of 45 things by Regina Brett (it’s...
Wikipedia lists almost 90 diets that have been created under the guise of helping people either lose weight or gain health. But which ones work and which ones are just plain ridiculous. Marcus gets the lowdown from Damian on what he believes is the ideal way to eat...