Stories

• Fasting and longevity: a conversation with Peter Bowes

  What can we learn from a group of people in Ecuador with a rare genetic mutation that affects their growth, but also makes them less susceptible to age-related diseases like cancer and diabetes?

  17 April 2016

  • Health, Genetics

• Charles Fernyhough on hearing voices

  In a talk for 5x15, Charles Fernyhough explores what he has learned in over a decade of study on auditory hallucinations - people who hear voices.

  13 April 2016

  • Mind, Mental health
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  The experimental diet that mimics a rare genetic mutation

  Peter Bowes has been on a new diet that claims to guard against disease and slow ageing. Then he met a group with a mutation that lets them eat what they want while enjoying the same protection.

  12 April 2016

  • Health, Genetics

• The neuroscience of adult anorexia: a conversation with Carrie Arnold

  What have we learned over the past several decades about this illness? We hear from author Carrie Arnold.

  07 April 2016

  • Mind, Mental health

• Alexander Masters on billionaires, greed and drugs for rare cancers

  In a talk for 5x15, Alexander Masters describes his personal journey setting up an unlikely ‘dating agency’ to match neglected research for desperately needed drugs for rare cancers with the mega rich that might just fund it.

  06 April 2016

  • Society, Ethics

• Smoothfood: dinner, but not as you know it

  A film about meals that look, smell and taste just like they should, but that are much easier to eat than regular food.

  05 April 2016

  • Health, Disease
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  Australia’s other ‘flying doctors’

  Is there a place for traditional spiritual healers in Australia’s healthcare system? Georgina Kenyon reports.

  05 April 2016

  • Health, Healthcare

• Jo Marchant on the mind, the body and how to train your immune system

  In this talk for 5x15, author Jo Marchant discusses the connections between the mind and the immune system.

  30 March 2016

  • Mind, Neuroscience
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  A grown-up approach to treating anorexia

  Adults with anorexia often have distinctive traits that lock them into a destructive relationship with food. Carrie Arnold discovers how those same traits could help them escape it.

  29 March 2016

  • Mind, Mental health
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  How I manage my eating disorder

  Carrie Arnold shares her experience of more than 15 years of anorexia.

  28 March 2016

  • Mind, Mental health

• Roger Highfield on consciousness and coma

  Roger Highfield discusses consciousness, brain scanning and permanent vegetative state.

  24 March 2016

  • Mind, Neuroscience

• Making sense of miscarriage. A conversation with Holly Cave

  Miscarriage is an often under-reported and poorly understood subject that can be extremely traumatising for women and families. Hear from writer Holly Cave about how she made sense of her miscarriage.

  23 March 2016

  • Health, Body

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