WellBeing

WellBeing is the World’s leading journal of natural health and living.  A refreshingly intelligent reading experience, WellBeing offers inspiration for a way of life that is authentic and soulful.  Reportage reviews the latest developments (or revived ancient practices) in natural living, and in-depth articles both challenge and inspire pragmatic action in the real-world balance of work, life, family and community.  WellBeing reaches an increasingly sophisticated audience of citizens of the global village.  Purchase includes the Digital Edition and News Service. Please stay in touch via our Facebook Page.

The Neanderthal Lesson

From the editor

The spoonful • Thoughts for sipping

The Pulse • Medical findings for a healthier body

Life Lines • Interesting slices of life

Green Beat • All the latest in environmental issues

Onions • Onions might not be one of the trendiest foods, but they are a tasty and healthy powerhouse.

Glucomannan • This soluble fibre helps with everything from weight loss to blood sugar control.

Halt The Salt • Salt enhances food flavour, but it also has some negative health effects. The good news is that there are some tasty, yet healthy alternatives to give your foods some zing.

Nourishing the brain • WellBeing reader Lexi Crouch developed anorexia as a teenager and remembers how quickly a “healthy” diet became a starving brain. Here she explains why recovery began not with mindset, but with food.

Life interrupted again • WellBeing reader Teisha Rose was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at 22 and stage 4 breast cancer in 2022. Here she reflects on how living well with one illness prepared her to respond to the next.

Why women need their own longevity playbook • Until recently, nearly 90 per cent of medical research was conducted on men or male mice. The strategies that keep a man lean at 45 can leave a woman in perimenopause anxious, inflamed and exhausted. It’s time women had a longevity plan built for their own biology.

THE MELANOMA MAN • When Jay Allen was 32, a gym tan turned into stage 3 melanoma. Jay went on to campaign solariums out of Australia, found the Australian Skin Cancer Foundation, and put skin check trucks on rural roads. We sit down with the two-time cancer survivor known as the Melanoma Man.

The new age of skin longevity • Forget turning back the clock. The future of skin health is about extending your skinspan: preserving the function, resilience and vitality of the skin you live in for a lifetime.

The other half of the fertility story • Male factors contribute to infertility in up to half of couples who struggle to conceive, yet the man usually sits unexamined while the woman is tested first.

Yes you can travel with IBS • Up to 14 per cent of people live with irritable bowel syndrome, and women are affected far more than men. For many, travel is one of the first things given up. A better understanding of the gut-brain connection is changing that, and specialists say symptoms on the road are not inevitable.

Cutting out the middlefish • In the Northern Rivers, a team of scientists and engineers is cultivating microscopic algae with the potential to fill one of the biggest nutritional gaps in the modern diet, and doing it in a way that might change how we think about where our food comes from.

WHY YOU CAN’T STOP BUYING THINGS YOU DON’T NEED • At 19, Breana Davidson was $20,000 in debt. It wasn’t one big decision, it was hundreds of small ones, each made in a moment that felt justified. What finally changed her spending had nothing to do with willpower.

BEAUTY AWARDS 2026 WINNERS • For the first time, expert judges shaped the selection of winners. Kate Holland from WellBeing, fitness educator Belinda Norton,...