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Jan 02

The ultimate energy challenge – how one 60-year-old conquers it!

What are your plans for your 60th birthday, if you haven’t had it yet? How does running 7 marathons on 7 continents in 7 days appeal, as an idea? Well, that’s exactly what Dr Pushpa Chandra is doing – starting at the end of January, 2018. She’s taking part in the World Marathon Challenge, which […]

Mar 14

How losing a single hour of sleep can tamper with your internal clock

By Dr Pushpa Chandra

For many of us, the annual changing of the clocks in March—‘spring forward’—seems like just a minor annoyance and simply results in us losing a Sunday morning lie-in. At least, that’s what we think. However, tampering with the clock has been shown to cause far more disruption than that, and the recorded costs to society […]