The House of Wellness NZ Podcast • 8 June 2025

Full Episode: Journalist, Political Editor, Broadcaster And Kiwi Icon Paddy Gower, Nutritionist, Author, Speaker, and Health Expert Claire Turnbull, The House of Wellness Magazine Editor Vanessa Marshall, And Our Resident Pharmacist Piyara Perera

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Chats about a healthy relationship with food, how to reduce high blood pressure, and the journey to sobriety is all part of this weeks episode of The House of Wellness on The Breeze thanks to our friends at Omron. This week on the show Mel is joined by The House of Wellness magazine editor Vanessa Marshall, nutritionist, author, speaker and educator Claire Turnbull, our Resident Pharmacist Piyara Perera and Broadcaster, Journalist and overall kiwi icon and the latest cover of the mag Paddy Gower.

Vanessa Marshall chats to Mel about the latest issue of The House of Wellness Magazine. From Paddy Gower on the cover, to our guy Tom Robinson talking his health journey, and even how the young men in lives can make sure they're wearing their cologne not the cologne is wearing them.

Claire Turnbull joins Mel for the second time on The House of Wellness to chat about her new book that is out now "End your fight with food". Claire goes in depth about what effects our relationship with food, small steps we can take to make it better, and how stress, anxiety, and tiredness are closely connected to how we eat and just letting you know they're closer than you think. You can find Claire's new book right here: https://www.claireturnbull.co.nz/

Broadcaster, Journalist, kiwi icon and the latest cover of The House of Wellness Magazine the Paddy Gower joins for an in depth chat about his life and wellness journey. Paddy talks losing a public facing job and how to come back from that, his journey to sobriety of the past few years, mental health and how he makes sure that his wellness is on point.

And finally our Resident pharmacist Piyara chats about blood pressure. Every answer you ever needed about blood pressure Piyara has got it. How much you should check your blood pressure, what does it effect, and things we can do to bring high blood pressure down.