Author: healthprofessionalradio

Guest: Susie Burrell
Presenter: Patrick Reyes
Guest Bio: Susie Burrell is one of Australia’s leading dietitians, with 2 Honours degrees in Nutrition & Dietetics and Psychology. Susie is especially known for her practical, easy to understand approach to diet, nutrition and wellbeing.
In 2004 she started representing the Dietitians Association of Australia as a media spokesperson and regularly began appearing in both print and television media commenting on all areas of diet, weight loss and nutrition. Since then, she has been the resident nutritionist on Mornings with Kerri-Anne, Fresh TV and for Dolly magazine, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph Body and Soul, Cosmopolitan, ALPHA and GQ.
Susie is currently the resident dietitian on Channel’s 7’s SUNRISE and has a weekly radio segment on the top rating 2GB Afternoon Program with Chris Smith. Susie currently contributes regularly to smh.com.au, Australian Women’s Fitness, CLEO and Woman’s Day magazines and she is the consultant dietitian at Sydney University Sport, Body Science International, Go Natural Foods, Peppercorn Food Company and SIMPLE skincare.

Segment overview: In today’s Health Supplier Segment, we welcome leading dietitian and nutrition expert Susie Burrell here to share the outcome of the The Wraps Unwrapped Report a report completed by a team of researchers led by Professor Clare Collins at the University of Newcastle in September and October 2016. The report was commissioned by Quality Bakers, part of the Goodman Fielder Group, the manufacturer of Helga’s and Wonder White branded products. The report also provides analysis of publicly available nutrition information of Australia’s leading wraps brands. It was conducted to understand the nutritional differences between the leading wraps brands to help make informed choices, with a focus on salt and artificial preservatives. Susie shares her thoughts on why eating too much salt is not good for you and what to look out for on food labels to choose a lower salt wrap.

Guest: Andrew Ritter
Presenter: Neal Howard
Guest Bio: Andrew Ritter’s story is that of a biotechnology founder with an impassioned and unique drug discovery story that involves testing drug candidates on himself at an early age and Andrew has now been free of any lactose issues for 17 years. He actually began drug discovery research in middle school.

Segment overview: In this Health Supplier Segment, Andrew Ritter of LA-based Ritter Pharmaceuticals, discusses how the company just completed enrollment of their RP-G28 in Phase 2b/3 trials and hopes to have results later this year.

Guest: Brendan Gaughrah
Presenter: Neal Howard
Guest Bio: Known as ‘The Liver Medic’, Brendan conducts nutrition lectures and promotes a line of liver and gut health supplements to clean and protect the body.
His health expertise goes beyond this scope, too, as he has spent nearly 20 years in healthcare, formulated hundreds of products, and worked for major pharmaceutical and medical device companies in addition to running nutraceutical companies.

Segment overview: Brendan Gaughran, molecular biologist, and known as ‘The Liver Medic’ discusses his holistic approach to health.

Guest: Brendan Gaughrah
Presenter: Neal Howard
Guest Bio: Known as ‘The Liver Medic’, Brendan conducts nutrition lectures and promotes a line of liver and gut health supplements to clean and protect the body.
His health expertise goes beyond this scope, too, as he has spent nearly 20 years in healthcare, formulated hundreds of products, and worked for major pharmaceutical and medical device companies in addition to running nutraceutical companies.

Segment overview: Brendan Gaughran, molecular biologist, and known as ‘The Liver Medic’, talks about the greatest source of toxins that make it into our bodies, and why GMO technology is dangerous.

Guest: Brendan Gaughrah
Presenter: Neal Howard
Guest Bio: Known as ‘The Liver Medic’, Brendan conducts nutrition lectures and promotes a line of liver and gut health supplements to clean and protect the body.
His health expertise goes beyond this scope, too, as he has spent nearly 20 years in healthcare, formulated hundreds of products, and worked for major pharmaceutical and medical device companies in addition to running nutraceutical companies.

Segment overview: Brendan Gaughran, molecular biologist, and known as ‘The Liver Medic’, discusses what the latest science has to say about food, fat, sugar and weight gain.

Guest: Jane Wiggers de Vries
Presenter: Henry Acosta
Guest Bio: Jane Wiggers de Vries is a 25-year-old nurse at St Vincent’s Private Hospital. She was diagnosed with fast growing triple negative breast cancer at age 24, an extremely rare diagnosis for someone so young. Jane has the BRCA1 gene, which dramatically increase her chances of both breast and ovarian cancer. Since her diagnosis, Jane has undergone chemotherapy, radiation and a double mastectomy.

Segment overview: In today’s Health Supplier Segment, we welcome breast cancer survivor Jane Wiggers de Vries here to share her story and offer a message of hope, encourage people to get a check up and to spread awareness about the ways anyone can give back to the cause.

Guest: Dr. Samantha Oakes
Presenter: Patrick Reyes
Guest Bio: Samantha Oakes received her PhD in Medical Science from the Garvan/St Vincent’s Clinical School, University of New South Wales in 2007, with funding from a NHMRC Dora Lush scholarship. The focus of her PhD was on understanding the role of prolactin receptor and its downstream targets during mammary gland development and cancer. She received the Garvan Institute of Medical Research thesis prize for this work. In 2012, Samantha returned to Garvan to continue her work into understanding the cues that regulate cell survival in the mammary gland and in breast cancer. In 2013, Samantha received a National Breast Cancer Foundation Early Career Fellowship and has been appointed as Group Leader. Samantha now leads a small team focused on Cell Survival in the larger Cancer Biology laboratory headed by Professor Christopher Ormandy.

Segment overview: In today’s Health Supplier Segment, we are joined by Dr. Samantha Oakes of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research to talk about cancer research specifically the DreamLab technology in relation with this year’s celebration of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. DreamLab, an app created by Garvan and Vodafone Foundation that is helping to solve cancer while smartphone users are asleep. This app has allowed Australia’s android smartphones to complete over 30% of the first vital cancer research project, slashing a massive nine months off cancer research time. Australians are encouraged to download and donate the data and processing power of their idle Smartphones, to help complete their first research project.