Tag: Health

  • Nutritionist Sally Norton

    Can you harm yourself by eating too much spinach? Should those baby leaves we know and love as a “superfood” come with a health warning? And what about almonds? Both […]

  • Dr Fayne Frey: The Skincare Hoax

    How to keep your skin at its healthy best on this episode of The Big Middle, the podcast exploring longer, healthy midlife by design, learning from the sharpest thinkers around. […]

  • My Skin Cancer latest

    A skin cancer update for you now if you’re a regular listener or viewer of The Big Middle – a mix of the personal and the general. Eighteen months after […]

  • Jayne Buxton

    Don’t Shoot the Messenger – an admonition I’m invoking right off the top of this episode of The Big Middle. The messenger is my guest Jayne Buxton – journalist-author of […]

  • Catherine Foot

    Health is wealth and expect the unexpected – surely the two most apt truisms of these crazy days on so many fronts. Both ring truer than usual for guest Catherine […]

  • Neuroscientist Dr Andrew Hill

    Oh our frazzled brains. Help clearing that fog, curbing that anxiety, finding your focus – and that elusive word – in this fascinating episode with neuroscientist Dr Andrew Hill. He’s one […]

  • Poet Donna Ashworth

    It’s as if she’s got a hotline to your head. She gets inside your mind, rummages round all those piles of messy-feely thoughts, even the ones in the darkest corners, […]

  • Bruce Hiland + Ted Kaufman on how not to fail at retirement

      They call themselves retirement recidivists. My guests Bruce Hiland and Ted Kaufman tried but failed several times to call time on busy, high-status careers. They’re the authors of the […]

  • Deb Gale + Rich Eisenberg on UNretirement

    I’ve always given the notion of retirement shortest shrift on The Big Middle. What does it even mean in 2022? We don’t retire these days, we shift gears, we make […]

  • Sam Evans

    She’s been called Queen of Orgasms and The Lube Queen. On the socials, she goes by SamTalksSex. Sam Evans is a  sexual health and pleasure expert who’s exasperated that frank […]

  • Bradley Schurman

    We in The Big Middle years could easily drown in the ocean of information and advice sloshing around about how we should be – how we should reflect, recalibrate, repackage […]

  • Perspectives on resilience + finding joy from three postmenopausal widows

    I had to scale back my intentions with this one. I wanted to bring you the testimonies of at least a  dozen post-60s women. But I wasn’t prepared for the […]

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