Testosterone! For years we'v heard people say that testosterone makes men aggressive and more violent. Yet, if this was the case then why do the plummeting levels of male testosterone in the modern man not result in less physical violence? Testosterone for men is what defines us, it helps us to handle stress better, it keeps us more level headed and is the biggest factor that controls our emotional state. With the rise in male suicide in western countries like Australia, isn’t it time we...

Did you know that some of the biggest factors that block a protective protein that repairs our brain cells are things like sugar, stress and isolation. Separation from other people has such a negative impact on our biochemistry that it is has been used as punishment for centuries for prisoners. Even one of the most significant factors that has come out of this pandemic is that as human beings we crave human connection. Take our connections to our loved ones and our community away and you'll...

Vegan, Plant Based & Carnivore diets are rocketing into public acceptance as some of the most popular and useful nutritional outlines recently. We need to sit back and ask ourselves why is this? Is it purely ethical? Is it ancestral? Or is it because unknowingly our bodies are being forced into it without us really realising it. Dave believes it is more likely the latter. In this podcast Dave outlines how certain issues related to your gut can be causing you to interact with certain...

We have all heard it many times ‘you have to boost your immune system!’, but do we really understand what it is? The reality is that this should be drilled into us from a very early age at school. Then we wouldn’t be sitting there scratching our heads trying to understand how we can improve it during something like a pandemic. Did you know that the gut is one of the biggest players when it comes to your innate immune system? Yet, it’s not something you commonly hear. This episode breaks...

As soon as you say ice bath it either provokes excitement, fear or scepticism! Whatever your stance might be, cold therapy takes you so far out of your comfort zone that initially any excuse will do, even for the most hardened of physiques, and Dave's heard it all before. Fortunately, Cold therapy is here to stay and as we uncover more and more through testing and research, scientists beginning to report that it may be one of the simplest and best health tools at our disposal. This...

It’s a terminology that gets thrown around often, and in most instances completely dismissed in the medical world, yet could be one of the most fundamental health issues we are facing in modern society. To understand that the gut lining is the most protective physical barrier in the human body and when its structure deteriorates it creates a whole cascade of negative reactions. So if you thought the tissue in your gut was indestructible then think again! It’s just type 1 collagen and just...