Time to Talk

It is great to welcome back Chris to the studio. Chris cofounded the Cambridge ADHD and Autism Centre with Dr Anna Conway Morris having recognised a real need locally. He is passionate about recognising and treating ADHD and autism and has created a real team of experts. ADHD is an area I am asked a lot about. The waiting times are extensive in the NHS but often the cost of private assessments and...

This week I am excited to bring Dr Hussain back to Time to Talk. Hussain and I last connected at the Boston Marathon where his calling out of the Nike slogan that “walkers are tolerated” led to Nike taking down the poster and rethinking their campaign. Hussain is passionate about the benefits of movement for everyone. He is an amazing athlete but he celebrates all movement and works tirelessly to...

I am really excited to have Julia come and join me this week. Julia owns and manages Cambridge’s leading hair and beauty salon, Elaje. With around 30 members of staff Julia has created a culture that feels more like a family than a staff group. She values each member and is constantly thinking about how to look after them, the complete opposite to a lot of corporate wellbeing strategies. I’m looki...

Hot off the back of another great year for Cambridge University Boat Club at the Boat Race I am excited to talk to Matilda who is the assistant women’s coach at CUBC and an ex Olympian herself. I am hopeful we can explore some of the issues we see in our rowers that translates across to females in sport. How this field has changed and how sometimes it’s the basics that make the difference. We will...

Time to meet another one of our amazing team, Caroline Child. Caroline is a nutritionist and health coach and we are going to discuss a topic that can be a little controversial, supplements. We are always asked what should we take and there is a mine field out there in terms of advice. Who can we trust? Hoping we can provide a voice of reas

This week we celebrated International Women’s Day and I was really keen to talk to Christina about her role as an executive coach supporting women within leadership roles. I was hoping we could look at that landscape and how that is changing. If we can learn something from her experience about the conversations she is having with women and how they can be effective within their roles. I hope you c...

Dr Susana has recently joined the Gillvray Health team and is running monthly educational sessions for some of our patients. Her session last week on fatigue and why we feel tired resonated a lot so today we are going to talk about the topic and explore how lifestyle medicine can help us to have strategies to manage the fatigue a lot of us experience in every day life.

Who are we and what do we do? An opportunity to hear about how Lucy and myself founded Gillvray Health. Why we do what we do. Who we are seeing in our clinics and how we can help you. It’s been a while since we have had the conversation and a lot has happened!

The first in our new series of video podcasts. We are excited to bring back James Roast, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist to talk Child Mental Health for Child Mental Health week. We have 15 minutes to explore this really important area. Topics I hope that we can think about are social media and the debate around phone usage, as well as how we can best support our young people with their menta...

Who are we and what do we do? An opportunity to hear about how Lucy and myself founded Gillvray Health. Why we do what we do. Who we are seeing in our clinics and how we can help you. It’s been a while since we have had the conversation and a lot has happened!

This week is Children's Mental Health Week. 1 in 6 5 to 16-year olds have a diagnosable mental health disorder, with 6 in 10 young people saying they are experiencing mental health difficulties such as anxiety, low mood, eating disorders, and self-harming behaviours. Yet only a third are able to access any effective treatment.   I'm really grateful to James for coming back on to Time to Talk...

Nicola has been a health and fitness coach for over ten years. She has a particular interest in working with women specialising in pre and post natal care since 2008. Since 2018 she has been specialising in working with peri and post menopausal women. and she runs a weekly fitness group for women over 40 alongside her Buggy Bootcamp sessions, Cross fit and strength based classes for women.  &...

This is my weekly interval run session. My virtual run club! These sessions are for any level of runner as you can make the high intensity interval session as fast as you need it to be to make the session work for you. I suggest using these sessions once a week to help improve cardiac fitness and speed. The sessions are also designed to help you feel strong in your mind, body and breath. Do not ru...

This is my weekly interval run session. My virtual run club! These sessions are for any level of runner as you can make the high intensity interval session as fast as you need it to be to make the session work for you. I suggest using these sessions once a week to help improve cardiac fitness and speed. The sessions are also designed to help you feel strong in your mind, body and breath. Do not ru...

This is my weekly interval run session. My virtual run club! These sessions are for any level of runner as you can make the high intensity interval session as fast as you need it to be to make the session work for you. I suggest using these sessions once a week to help improve cardiac fitness and speed. The sessions are also designed to help you feel strong in your mind, body and breath. Do not ru...

I am so pleased to welcome my good friend Louise on to Time to Talk.  In this episode we cover how we diagnose perimenopause and the key medical information you need to know.  Louise qualified from Bristol University in 2003. She completed 4 years as an Obstetrics and Gynaecology specialist trainee before changing career path to become a GP.  She has maintained her interest and pass...

This is the second of my weekly run sessions.  The CST virtual run club.  These sessions are for any level of runner as you can make the high intensity interval session as fast as you need it to be to make the session work for you. I suggest using these sessions once a week to help improve cardiac fitness and speed. The sessions are also designed to help you feel strong in your mind, bod...

This is the first of my weekly interval run sessions.  My virtual run club!  These sessions are for any level of runner as you can make the high intensity interval session as fast as you need it to be to make the session work for you.  I suggest using these sessions once a week to help improve cardiac fitness and speed.  The sessions are also designed to help you feel strong in...

TRIGGER WARNING - SUICIDE    This was a special episode recorded for #suicidepreventionday It is a hard topic and triggering for some people.  James had severe depression and intrusive suicidal thoughts and came forward to talk about his experience.   This is a very open, honest conversation about the first hand experience of men's mental ill health.  It may be hard to hea...

This year saw the first 8 stage Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, an event that excited female cyclists everywhere. If we see female cycle racing then it gives young women something to aspire to and work towards. Cycling is a great sport and it is wonderful to see it turning up on our screens and on social media more and more. Becky is a NHS and private physio in Cambridge but she is also a massiv...

Eating Disorders are often missed in certain people. The non white, overweight or athlete to mention a few groups. Often they can be linked with exercise, either the exercise is secondary to the eating disorder being used to drive weight down, or it is the primary factor leading to issues around eating. When we know exercise is so good for our mental health it is difficult to know how to manage it...

This month is Menopause awareness month and I am so excited to bring on Lesley @wildcountrywomanhealthcoach   Lesley and I connected around 10 years ago when we were living in Bristol and I have watched her health coaching business develop and her knowledge in the field of perimenopause expand.   She is so passionate about helping women be "wildly well" during this transition. She s...

This is a cyclist's special episode as I share my conversation with Ashleigh Moolman Pasio recorded this summer just after the Tour de France Femmes.  Ashleigh is a professional cyclist who needs little introduction. Her list of titles is expanding but includes 2 x Olympian, 2022 winner of the inaugural Tour de Romandie Feminin, 2020 UCI cycling e -sports world champion, Commonwealth Games Medalis...

Dr Tommy Wood is a paediatric neuroscientist from University of Washington. In this episode he shares his research, teaches us how to keep our brains healthy and explains how cognitive function need not decline with age.