Inflammation can affect the brain, just like any other part of the body. The brain does have its own distinct immune system and protective mechanisms. However, when it comes to brain inflammation, it is your body’s way of protecting your brain from h

The universal pursuit of beauty across the globe has given rise to a fascinating array of natural beauty methods that are as diverse as the cultures from which they originate. Often using pure and potent resources found in local environments, alongsi

Many informed observers consider jail a blunt instrument that doesn’t work particularly well for most prisoners, while also a necessary evil for managing crime. In their view, spending more money on keeping more people locked up is not a solution. On

Don’t get caught up on it, both octopuses and octopi are acceptable plurals of octopus, we are just using octopuses here because it is more grammatically manageable. Think of octopuses and the first thing you think of will be their eight legs, as the

The wackier the workout, the more I’m keen to try it. So when I saw a group “bouncing” class on my Instagram feed, it piqued my interest. I would normally shy away from bouncing up and down, but the class looked jolly enough to persuade me. Jumping h

A “data centre” is a physical location housing computing systems and their associated hardware. These data centres typically operate at temperatures between 20 and 25°C. To achieve these temperatures, the centres are cooled via “free-cooling” using a

Moringa is a favourite in Indian food and medicine. It is a drought-resistant, fast-growing deciduous tree that grows in tropical and subtropical climates. The seed pods and leaves are traditionally eaten daily as a vegetable and it is so well known

A common way to approaching health and wellbeing is focusing on a health concern after the symptoms have appeared, rather than looking at your being holistically. This is the key principle to natural medicine — looking at the person as a whole, not a

I am fortunate to have two living grandparents. My grandpa Don, who is my mother’s dad, lives in a small country town in Victoria and is 85 years old. His mind is very sharp, he has a huge, sensitive heart and he’s very wise. He’s always looked at li

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The Hittites were a group of people living in what we now call Türkiye and Syria. Their civilisation began around 1600 BCE, reaching a height around 1300 BCE and then splintering from approximately 1180 BCE onwards. The Hittites were famed for their

Joseph Abboud shares his take on modern Middle Eastern food at Rumi, his restaurant in Melbourne’s inner northern suburbs. In his cookbook, titled the same name, you’ll find food that has been cooked with an egalitarian ethos and soul. Regulars of Ab

One Sunday evening, our family all landed at home, hungry but without the energy or desire to cook. What happened next was shocking but beautiful. We don’t always do this but, on that day, we looked at each other and, almost simultaneously, there was

Vegetables Asian greens (buk choy, choy sum, gai lan, wombok), beans (butter, green and snake), beetroot, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, capsicum, carrot, celery, chilli, cucumber, daikon, eggplant, leek, lettuce, field mushrooms, okra, olives,

For generations, adults have corrected children’s posture. “Don’t slouch!” parents have scolded. “Sit up straight!” teachers have cried. Even when I was young, before we had smartphones to exacerbate our slumped shoulders, it was drummed into us to h

Traditionally, mental health has been approached through therapeutic interventions or pharmaceutical treatments. But contemporary research illuminates an altogether more straightforward and accessible path to improving your mood — nutritional psychia

One of the most common family members, there’s a pet in almost 70 per cent of households. According to the 2022 Pets in Australia: A National Survey of Pets and People report, dogs are our most popular choice. Forty-eight per cent of us have one pooc

A 68-year-old male presented to the clinic with severe back pain radiating down his side. He had been to his doctor with similar symptoms previously and had been diagnosed with kidney stones. The doctor had treated him and he had been symptom free fo

Salvia miltiorrhiza (a member of the Lamiaceae family) is also known as red sage, redroot sage and danshen. It is a perennial sage, highly valued for its roots in Chinese and Japanese medicine. Native to these countries, it grows in grassy places in

The snooze button, allowing you a few extra minutes of sleep, has been a feature on alarm clocks and phones for decades now. It has been thought that the snooze feature has negative effects on the brain’s ability to sleep and wake up. To test this, r