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Full Episode: Men's Health Week Ambassador Kent Johns, Dr Kevin Glucina, Max Whitehead, Piyara Perera

On this weeks episode of The House of Wellness thanks to our friends at Urox we welcome back Dr Kevin Glucina to discuss the growing popularity of NAD and NAD+ supplements. What exactly are they Do they live up to the hype And what role could NAD+ play in brain health and healthy ageing Dr Glucina …

Kent Johns: 'I slept rough for one night - here's what I learned'

A different kind of episode this week. Host Kent recently slept rough for one night at the Big Sleepout. He bedded down on cardboard at the AUT campus, part of a group of 70 community leaders raising funds and awareness for people experiencing homelessness in Auckland. One night. Terrible sleep. Bu…

Jason Blyth: The boy who had to advocate for himself at nine years old

Jason Blyth was nine years old when he asked his psychiatrist a question no child should have to ask: why was he the one being brought in for treatment, when his mother was the one abusing him? Between the ages of two and fifteen, Jason saw around 20 different clinicians. He begged, repeatedly, to …

Eman Ghandour: On being not Kiwi enough, not Arab enough

"You don't feel Kiwi enough for the Kiwis, but you don't feel Arab enough for the Arabs." Eman Ghandour was 10 when her family moved from Jordan to Dunedin. Growing up, she tried to get her "ratio" to 50/50 Kiwi and Arab, and it kept landing at 80/20. While at Otago Uni she lived as a Kiwi with her…

"Do you ever feel like there might be more?" Jemarl Paerata did

For nearly 20 years as a firefighter, Jemarl Paerata pushed the trauma to the back and drank to keep it there. But one day, after a cardiac arrest callout, he asked the boys in the truck, "Do you ever feel like there might be a little bit more?" The reckoning saw Jemarl give up heavy drinking, leav…

Mia Simcock: The bipolar diagnosis she didn't want anyone to know about

Mia Simcock didn’t know what a psychotic episode was until she had one. She was 19 and studying at Otago when she went five days without sleep and lost touch with reality. A second episode a few years later brought a bipolar 1 diagnosis, and her first instinct was to tell her parents they couldn’t …

Nic Russell: How do you keep living after your child dies?

Nic Russell has been through more than most — breast cancer, a heart transplant and Parkinson’s. None of it comes close to 2005, when her three-year-old daughter Kenzie died of bone cancer. Even when she could no longer walk, Kenzie wanted to be alive. Nic has carried that with her ever since. It d…

What 53 days as National Party leader cost Todd Muller

With the election on 7 November, we’re re-releasing two conversations that have nothing to do with how you vote, and everything to do with what politics asks of the people in it (Grant Robertson’s episode is back in your feed today too). In May 2020, Todd Muller was elected leader of the National P…

Why Grant Robertson said no to being Prime Minister

Election day is 7 November and politics is everywhere right now... but here’s a different kind of perspective on it.  We’re re-releasing our conversation with Grant Robertson about what the job costs the people doing it — whichever way you vote (Todd Muller’s episode is back in your feed today too)…

What's the difference between failing and quitting? Ask Stefan Ozich

Three people lost to suicide in three years. The last was his brother, Jerome.So endurance athlete Stefan Ozich picked a challenge that genuinely scared him — running Te Araroa end to end and back again, something no one had ever done. He called it The Long Path, after what the trail’s name means, …