Healing with Dr Helena

00:43:34

Visualise to actualise your healing (EP22)

Healing with Dr Helena ·

2026/10/04

Today’s Brain Booster is: Visualise to actualise your healing.Have you ever imagined something so vividly that your body responded as if it were real?You imagine your child falling off their bike, and your heart skips a beat.You picture success, and your posture lifts.You visualise biting into a lemon, and your lips pucker.Nothing has happened, but your brain activates the same neural circuits that it does when you’re having the experience in real life. Brain scans show that your motor cortex,

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00:45:58

Pain can be modified by your mind (EP21)

Healing with Dr Helena ·

2026/09/27

Today’s Brain Booster is: Calm your fear, and pain will disappear.Last week I did a deep dive into pain, and the key points were that there are two types of pain, classified by their cause:Physical pain — caused by being punched in the nose (or some other kind of injury).Neuroplastic pain — caused by an over-protective brain circuit. There’s no physical damage, no broken nose, and no pulled muscle, but your brain generates pain because it thinks you’re under some kind of threat.Following on from

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00:42:59

Retrain your brain to release chronic pain (EP20)

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2026/09/20

Today’s Brain Booster is: Retrain your brain to release chronic pain.Since starting my podcast I’ve received a lot of questions about how to manage chronic pain, including back, neck and shoulder pain, migraines, fibromyalgia and RSI (repetitive strain injury).This is not surprising because chronic pain is one of the biggest public health challenges globally. Worldwide, 1 in 5 adults live with chronic pain. In Australia, 5.5 million adults have chronic pain, and in the US, it’s 50 million

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00:43:37

Can the shingles vaccine lower the risk of dementia?

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2026/09/13

Today’s Brain Booster was prompted by a whether question from Maya: My doctor said that the shingles vaccine can reduce the risk of dementia. I’d like to know whether this is true, and if so, why?Yes — there is strong and growing real-world evidence from major epidemiological studies showing that the shingles vaccine is linked to a significant reduction in dementia risk. Shingles is a painful, blistering viral infection caused by re-activation of the chicken pox virus. That means you can only get

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00:54:42

Your Mind Can Mend Your Maladies (EP18)

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2026/09/06

Today’s Brain Booster is Elevate your expectations!Last week I spoke about how our beliefs become our biology — especially how negative ageist stereotypes actually drive how we age. Today we’re going to build on that and discover how our mind can mend our maladies.When you let go of limiting labels and assumptions about symptoms, pain and disease, you boost your brain’s ability to activate healing. And the most direct way to do that is to elevate your expectations.In every situation you find

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00:58:39

Our beliefs become our biology (EP17)

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2026/08/30

Today’s Brain Booster is Think bolder, not older — because our beliefs influence our biology.In fact, our beliefs BECOME our biology.In the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging, people holding negative beliefs about ageing demonstrated significantly worse memory performance after 38 years than those subscribing to less negative age stereotypes — and this was after adjusting for education, depression, chronic illness, and other variables that could affect a person’s powers of recall. The decline in

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00:51:24

Your Brain has the Power to Heal (EP16)

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2026/08/23

Today’s Brain Booster is: Yearn to learn.In order to powerfully boost your brain through learning, look for something that fulfils the following criteria:It’s something you genuinely love doing, it keeps you intrinsically motivated, and it makes you lose track of time.It requires effort, and pushes you to learn new rules, acquire new skills, or continuously stretch your abilities.It takes you to new environments — whether that’s a natural wilderness, historical site, art gallery, museum,

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00:31:23

Are you medicines messing with your microbes? (EP15...

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2026/08/16

Last week I finished with the question: what drugs, other than antibiotics, disrupt our gut microbiota — the trillions of micro-organisms that live in our digestive tract?An obvious contender is antacids — also known as heartburn medications — which are drugs that reduce stomach acid production to treat reflux. Decades of research have established a strong link between acid suppression, gastrointestinal changes, and depression — especially in relation to the class of drugs known as proton pump

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00:43:16

Microbes mess with our genes! (EP15)

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2026/08/09

Today’s Health Headline is: Microbes mess with our genes!(The Brain Booster will come later.)Did you know that you have a gene called ‘The Guardian Gene?’ It’s official name is TP53, and it encodes a protein called p53. The reason for its colloquial name is that this protein protects our DNA, spots damage in our cells, and stops mutations in their tracks. These processes help to shield us from cancer and autoimmune diseases including type 1 diabetes. And it turns out that our microbes interact with

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00:32:42

Your bacterial print is as unique as your...

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2026/08/02

Last week’s Brain Booster was Go with your gut — a deep dive into all things gut health. It was another very long segment so I ended it after the Health Headline. That means if you haven’t watched or listened to last week’s episode, I strongly recommend you do so before you listen to this one because last week I explained the rationale for what I’m talking about today.When it comes to gut health, What’s Missing from Modern Medicine is a nuanced, personalised approach. No two people have the same

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00:44:38

Go with your gut! (EP14)

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2026/07/26

Today’s Brain Booster is: Go with your Gut.Is your gut sensitive, irritable, leaky or inflamed? Are you into:PrebioticsProbiotics Postbiotics Synbiotics Psychobiotics PharmabioticsAntibioticsPenbiotics Or Panbiotics?!(I will explain all those terms over the next few episodes.)Why does it matter? For most of modern medicine, the brain and gut were treated as separate organs, with separate problems. If you had indigestion, you saw a gastroenterologist. If you had memory loss, you saw a neurologist

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01:05:12

Turn down the pressure (EP13)

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2026/07/19

Today’s podcast episode was prompted by a Whether question. So I’ll give you the question first, and then I’ll answer it in the context of a Brain Booster, Health Headline, and What’s Missing from Modern Medicine? "Can you tell me WHETHER it’s better to tackle high blood pressure with western medicine or alternative medicine? I have never smoked, do not drink alcohol, I weigh 73kg at height of 1.78cm (so not obese) and I exercise six out of seven days a week, for a minimum of one hour per day with

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00:23:33

Turn up the heat! (EP12 - Part 2)

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2026/07/12

Last week’s Brain Booster was Turn up the heat! — a deep dive into how using a sauna more than 4 times a week can reduce the risk of dementia by over 60%! Given that this is a very bold claim, I spoke for longer than I’d anticipated, in order to explain the mechanisms by which heat exposure brings about health benefits. So I decided to end the episode after the Health Headline because the feedback I’ve received from you is that you prefer my episodes to be under one hour long. That means if you

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00:44:21

Turn up the heat! (EP12)

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2026/07/05

Today’s Brain Booster is: Turn up the heat! For thousands of years, humans have deliberately exposed themselves to heat: Roman baths, Turkish hammans, Finnish saunas, indigenous sweat lodges, and Japanese onsen (natural hot springs). And it turns out that sweating it out in a sauna on a regular basis:Lowers blood pressureImproves overall heart health and blood vessel functionReduces the risk of a heart attack, stroke and dementiaHelps with blood sugar regulation Brings down inflammation Decreases

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01:29:11

Deep dive into dementia (EP11)

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2026/06/28

For today’s episode, I’m sharing an interview I had with the dynamic and inspiring Sarah Rusbatch on her podcast Stronger Bolder Wiser.Sarah is an accredited Grey Area Drinking Coach and the author of the best-selling book Beyond Booze — How to create a life you love, alcohol-free.Sarah and I immediately clicked because her approach to alcohol is the same as my approach to healthy eating in my book NeuroSlimming. Sarah’s philosophy is that ‘the goal isn’t to be sober; the goal is to love yourself so

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01:21:39

Give thanks for your life — and you’ll live a longer...

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2026/06/21

Today’s Brain Booster is: Appreciate to elevate your thinking, and recognise that gratitude is more than a platitude. It’s really unfortunate that in today’s hashtag world, the notion of practising gratitude, and appreciating our blessings, has become hackneyed and superficial. Yet behind the cliches, appreciation and gratitude boost our brain in profound and distinct ways.So today’s episode will be a fascinating exploration of the difference between appreciation and gratitude, and how they can help

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00:38:20

Purge yourself of Plastic (EP9)

Healing with Dr Helena ·

2026/06/14

Welcome to my podcast, ‘Healing with Dr Helena’, where I challenge the limiting way we currently view disease, and offer a new paradigm for vibrant health and true healing. If modern medicine isn’t providing you with enough answers, and you want to come alive and thrive, rather than merely survive, this podcast is for you.It’s also for people who want to boost their brain to perform at their peak, avoid Alzheimer’s and other dementias, and live longer, stronger, healthier and happier.Each episode

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01:01:30

Feeling is healing (EP8)

Healing with Dr Helena ·

2026/06/07

Welcome to my podcast, ‘Healing with Dr Helena’, where I challenge the limiting way we currently view disease, and offer a new paradigm for vibrant health and true healing. If modern medicine isn’t providing you with enough answers, and you want to come alive and thrive, rather than merely survive, this podcast is for you.It’s also for people who want to boost their brain to perform at their peak, avoid Alzheimer’s and other dementias, and live longer, stronger, healthier and happier. Each episode

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00:59:40

People are more powerful than pills (EP7)

Healing with Dr Helena ·

2026/06/03

Welcome to my podcast, ‘Healing with Dr Helena’, where I challenge the limiting way we currently view disease, and offer a new paradigm for vibrant health and true healing. If modern medicine isn’t providing you with enough answers, and you want to come alive and thrive, rather than merely survive, this podcast is for you.It’s also for people who want to boost their brain to perform at their peak, avoid Alzheimer’s, and live longer, stronger, healthier and happier.Here’s a glimpse of episode 7. * *

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01:18:36

Every soft drink is a bullet to your brain! (EP6)

Healing with Dr Helena ·

2026/05/24

Welcome to my podcast, ‘Healing with Dr Helena’, where I challenge the limiting way we currently view disease, and offer a new paradigm for vibrant health and true healing. If modern medicine isn’t providing you with enough answers, and you want to come alive and thrive, rather than merely survive, this podcast is for you.Here’s a glimpse of episode 6. * * * * *Today’s Brain Booster is: Skip the sugary sip — because every soft drink is a bullet to your brain!A landmark study found that people who

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