The Health Review

Why are so many more adults — and particularly women — discovering that they may be autistic or have ADHD later in life? This week on The Health Review, I’m joined by clinical psychologist Dr Emma Offord, founder of Divergent Life, for a fascinating conversation about what neurodivergence can actually feel like beyond the stereotypes. We talk about why traditional ideas of ADHD and autism have lef...

What does it actually mean to have a “regulated” nervous system — and how do you know when yours is struggling? In this special episode of The Health Review, I’m bringing together three conversations to explore the nervous system from three different angles: what chronic stress does to the body, how we can understand what our nervous system is telling us, and some of the practical tools that may h...

How much should we really be worrying about the products, plastics and chemicals we’re exposed to every day — and which changes are actually worth making? In this episode of The Health Review, I’m joined by Registered Nutritionist Sophie Bertrand for a practical conversation about lower-tox living, nutrition and how to make healthier choices without becoming overwhelmed or striving for perfection....

Our phones are rarely more than a few feet away from us. We wake up to notifications, spend much of the day moving between screens and increasingly turn to AI not only for information, but for advice, decisions and even emotional support. So what is all of this actually doing to our brains? In this special episode of The Health Review, I’m bringing together three conversations exploring how modern...

What if improving your health isn’t always about adding another supplement, protocol or wellness habit — but removing some of the things getting in the way? In this episode of The Health Review , I’m joined by Adam Parker, detox and restorative health expert, host of The Ideal Day Podcast and author of The Detox Reset , for a conversation about what detoxification actually means in a world where w...

What can ancient wisdom teach us about living well in the modern world? For this special episode of The Health Review, I’m bringing together three conversations that explore what we may have lost as life has become faster, more connected and more technologically driven — and what older traditions and ways of living might still have to teach us. Dr Ash Kapoor looks at the importance of community, n...

What if feeling better isn’t always about adding more — but about slowing down, paying attention and getting to know yourself again? In this episode of The Health Review, I’m joined by Anita Kaushal, co-founder of MAULI RITUALS, for a conversation about Ayurveda, self-compassion, grief, ritual and what it means to live in a way that actually suits you. Anita shares how Ayurveda has been part of he...

What can therapy teach us about the patterns we keep repeating, the way we speak to ourselves and what happens when old wounds show up in our relationships? For this special episode of The Health Review, I’m bringing together three of my favourite conversations with psychotherapists and psychologists from the show. Psychotherapist Toby Ingham explains emotional regulation, why our thoughts can spi...

What if your digestive issues, hormonal symptoms, skin problems, brain fog and persistent fatigue are not separate problems — but part of a much bigger picture? In this episode of The Health Review, I sit down with Yalda Alaoui — naturopathic nutritionist, gut health and inflammation expert, and founder of Eat Burn Sleep — to talk about chronic inflammation, SIBO, IBS, gut health, hormones, cortis...

Former Headspace meditation teacher Eve Lewis joins The Health Review to explain what meditation really is — and why so many of us think we are doing it wrong. If you have ever used Headspace, listened to Radio Headspace, or fallen asleep to the Headspace Guide to Sleep on Netflix, there is a good chance you have heard Eve’s voice. As one of Headspace’s original meditation teachers and former Dire...

Most of us know that movement matters. But between the conflicting advice, the gym intimidation, the endless content telling us to do more, lift heavier and optimise everything — it's become hard to know what our bodies actually need and how to build something that sticks. In this episode of The Health Review I sit down with Tara Riley — founder of the Tara Riley Method, winner of Best Fitness Ins...

The aesthetics industry has spent decades selling us the idea that ageing is something to be fixed. But what if the most important thing you can do for your face is about understanding what's actually happening to it? In this episode of The Health Review I sit down with Dr Maude Calveley — aesthetic doctor at Ouronyx, one of London's most distinctive and thoughtful facial aesthetics clinics. Ouron...

Most of us reach a point where we realise we've been so busy taking care of everything and everyone else that somewhere along the way we lost ourselves. Our health suffered, our identity shifted - and the old version of us that once felt strong, vital and purposeful became someone we could barely remember. In this episode of The Health Review I sit down with Rajni Singh — qualified nutritionist, w...

How many times have you left a GP appointment without the answers you went in for? Been told your pain is normal, your symptoms are just stress, or that losing weight will sort it out? For millions of women, that experience is not unfamiliar. In this episode of The Health Review I sit down with Dr Reem Al-Shaikh — GP with over 20 years of experience, British Menopause Society specialist and co-fou...

Women's health has come a long way in recent years. We're talking more openly about perimenopause, hormones and fertility, yet there is one area that remains surprisingly under-discussed that affects millions of women every single day and sits at the intersection of intimate health, the microbiome, fertility and long-term wellbeing. The vaginal microbiome. In this episode of The Health Review I si...

More babies than ever are being born through assisted reproduction. Women are having children later, environmental factors are increasingly affecting fertility, and the world of egg freezing, IVF and embryology is changing faster than most of us realise. But what actually happens inside the lab — and what does every woman need to know before she makes any decisions about her fertility? In this epi...

This one is a little different. No guest, just me — with some updates I've been wanting to share for a while and a look ahead at what's coming on The Health Review this summer. This is a solo episode and a personal one. I talk about completing my six-month coaching diploma with Andy Ramage at Coach Business School — what coaching actually is, why it surprised me so much, and how I'm now working wi...

We're spending billions on supplements, gut health, longevity tracking and biological age testing. And yet one of the most powerful windows into our overall health — one that's been right there the whole time — is something most of us think about for a few minutes a day. The mouth. In this episode of The Health Review I sit down with Dr Daniel Sutcliffe — founder of The Bespoke Dentist, one of Lon...

Most of us approach our health the same way. We get a symptom, we find a treatment, we manage the condition. What we rarely ask is why — why is the body doing this, what is it trying to tell us, and what would it mean to actually heal rather than just cope? In this episode of The Health Review I sit down with Lauren Vaknine — holistic health expert, author and chronic illness advocate whose own he...

We've all heard of the super agers — centenarians living well into their hundreds in the villages of Sardinia, the islands of Okinawa, regions of the world where reaching 100 in great health is almost the norm. Increasingly, longevity scientists believe that kind of lifespan could be within reach for many more of us — if we can fend off the age-related diseases that currently cut lives short. Near...

When did you last feel totally safe in your body? When did you last connect with yourself on a deep level? For most of us, those questions sound almost foreign — and that, according to today's guest, is precisely the problem. In this episode of The Health Review I sit down with Suzy Reading — chartered psychologist, yoga teacher, coach and author of ten books, including her latest How to Be Selfis...

One in four adults in England is living with anxiety or depression. That's not a statistic from a bad year — it's the finding of the most rigorous long-term mental health survey in the world, and the trajectory has been heading in one direction for three decades. We are, by any measure, in a mental health crisis. And the treatments we have been relying on — antidepressants, talking therapies with...

Technology is doing something to us. Not just to our productivity or our sleep — but to our relationships, our identity, our capacity for genuine human connection. And most of us are only just beginning to understand the scale of it. In this episode of The Health Review I sit down with Dr Elaine Kasket — chartered counselling psychologist, cyberpsychologist, author of Reset: Rethinking Your Digita...

So many of us think we can't meditate. We've tried it, lasted forty seconds before the to-do list arrived in our mind, decided we were doing it wrong and never went back. But according to today's guest, that experience doesn't mean you failed at meditation. It means nobody taught you how to actually do it. In this episode of The Health Review I sit down with Jillian Lavender — one of the UK's lead...

Most of us are incredibly busy, but busyness and productivity are not the same thing...and somewhere in the hampster wheel of accumulating more, achieving more and doing more, a lot of us have lost the thread back to ourselves. In this episode of The Health Review I sit down with Simon Alexander Ong — life coach, keynote speaker and bestselling author of Energize, published by Penguin and winner o...