Dr Joe Unplugged

Dr Joe Unplugged is your home for open commentary on health, wellbeing and life in the broadest sense. We will explore diet, exercise, sleep and stress amongst other health matters as well as issues that may impact you and your wellbeing in direct or indirect ways....

It’s Christmas!

If Christmas did not exist it would need to be invented. Perfectly timed at the end of the year, it allows for many people worldwide to celebrate in some way, shape or form. This may be the formal religious celebration or simply a catch up with friends and family....

We Need Our Sleep

Human beings spend more time being asleep than anything else. It is estimated that at the turn of the twentieth century the average American slept nine hours each night. By the turn of the twenty first century this figure has dropped to under eight hours. Lack of...
Music It May Be More Important Than You Think

Music It May Be More Important Than You Think

Most of us remember the 1966 hit by the Beach Boys, “Good Vibrations”. One of the lines in the lyrics is “I’m pickin’ up good vibrations”. What are these vibrations referring to? Dr. John Demartini likes to say, “We are all vibrators”. This double entendre is open to...

Be Offensive

Be Offensive

Commentator Brendan O’Neill made an interesting point in a recent column in the Weekend Australian suggesting that being “offensive” is a key part of human progress. He noted that Copernicus “offended” the Christian authorities of his day by claiming the earth were...

Pokémon Go – Something To Celebrate

Pokémon Go – Something To Celebrate

It is fascinating to see how the world turns. A lament of many over the last decade or so has been that teenagers and children do not get outside to play and spend too much time on screens. This was initially TV and video games and more recently phones. So it is great...

What Is Missing In Your Life

What Is Missing In Your Life

Do you feel as if there is something missing in your life? Are you wondering or questioning whether there is more to life? Would you like to have far greater motivation, energy, fulfilment and happiness in your life? The people who are happiest and most fulfilled in...

Understanding Insulin

Understanding Insulin

Hormones play a central role in our metabolism. In this video Tom and I talk about the role of insulin especially in weight management. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n2eNFtEsso   Tom Shiyoya is a personal trainer with over 16 years experience. He owns two Plus...

Growth Hacking Your Life

Growth Hacking Your Life

To borrow a term relegated to the engineered marketing world called “growth hacking”, I will begin this article. In that realm, growth hackers use the best means necessary (and at the lowest possible cost) to ensure growth of their business entity. Instead of using...

This Is Getting Repetitive

This Is Getting Repetitive

Another week, with another useless study, which gets lots of media airplay. This time though it might not fade away because the findings have been used a basis to change guidelines on treating high blood pressure. For a long time the “official” cut off for high blood...

Get In The Groove

Get In The Groove

Some years ago I did a course in trading the stock market based on the work of W.D.Gann. He was a highly successful Wall Street trader in the 1920’s. His theories were based on the idea that everything has a cycle. The planets revolve, the crops have a growing cycle...

Easy Delicious Meatballs

Easy Delicious Meatballs

You need: 1 cup brown lentils, cooked 1/2 pound Italian sausage 2 cloves garlic, minced 2 teaspoons dried basil 1/2 teaspoon sea salt To prepare: Heat oven to 200°C Put all ingredients into a food processor and pulse until mixed together Form into meatballs and put on...