In this week’s blog I’d like to share with you a Scandinavian word you might or might not have heard of before – Arbejdsglaede. And what does it mean? Happiness at work. It’s a Scandinavian concept and no other country has a word for this, which I find quite interesting. […]
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I’ve been talking recently about neurotransmitters, specifically Dopamine, Oxytocin, Serotonin, and Endorphins (DOSE). The neurotransmitters that make us feel good, that interact with pain receptors, and that help stabilise our mood. So, what can create positive amounts of dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin or endorphins? The one thing that all of those
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This week’s blog is about the neurotransmitters that are significant for wellbeing, and there are four of them. The acronym is DOSE – like a dose of happiness and a dose of wellbeing. D is dopamine O is oxytocin S is serotoninE is endorphins There’s lots of different ways that
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This week’s blog is about another underappreciated aspect of wellbeing… variety. What I’ve been thinking about, as you’ll know if you’ve been watching my recent videos or listening to my recent podcasts on the Remove the Guesswork show (which you can find on iTunes and our website), is what are
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Introduction At Bodyshot we use a unique blend of science, technology and nature to help improve the health and wellbeing of individuals. With most of us in the team having worked in the corporate environment before, we understand the difficult challenge’s businesses are faced with. One of our main goals
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This week’s blog is about caffeine. I get asked quite a lot how long do the benefits of caffeine last in the blood stream, and that leads to a separate issue which is in some respects, how quickly can you eradicate caffeine from the bloodstream because we know it already
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This week’s Thrive in Five is inspired by an incident that my partner had in the doctor’s a couple of weeks ago. She went down there to have a standard test done, and she recently turned 47, and the nurse said to her, “Wow, it’s amazing that you’re not on
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The convergent pressures of work and home may have squeezed out the bandwidth a busy senior leader has for their health and wellbeing and certainly time will be a very valuable asset. Most leaders do not have the time to research, prioritise and execute on their health and wellbeing. The
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This week’s blog is all about vitamin D. Vitamin D is actually a steroid hormone; it’s not a vitamin at all. And we synthesise it as humans through exposure to the sun. For most of us, we’re office-based so don’t always get the exposure which means you’ll probably have low
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According to data by XPertHR, the average UK employee takes 5.6 days of sick leave per annum. In a survey conducted by the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (CIPD), 86% of respondents said they noticed incidents of presenteeism in the last 12 months. (For clarity, presenteeism is when an
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