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Community leader and former boxer Dave Letele tells Guyon his thoughts on the new Government's crackdown on gangs, whether bootcamps really work, and if he'll ever get into the political ring himself.

Could walking backwards be the key to taking your fitness forwards? In this episode of Healthy or Hoax, Stacey Morrison laces up her sneakers to find out. Video, Audio

Just six months after he nearly died during an accident when cutting a tree, a Dannevirke man will walk more than 200 kilometres to Wellington.  Audio

What happens to our muscles as we age? Claire Concannon finds out why muscles get weaker as we get older, and speaks with a researcher investigating why Olympic athletes live up to three years longer… Audio

The idea that walking 10,000 steps a day was the optimal amount for health is widely known but until now hasn't been proven.  Now a new study has confirmed this amount of walking is ideal… Audio

Innovator and Stabicraft co-founder Paul Adams is paying it forward after getting a life saving kidney transplant. He's donated one of the iconic boats for a Trade Me dollar auction, with all proceeds… Video, Audio

How can kicking off your shoes and going barefoot improve your health? Advocate for the barefoot lifestyle, founder of The Barefoot Movement and qualified podiatrist Paul Thompson says it's possible… Audio

A new podcast series called How To Be Concussed explores the issue of concussion with host Timothy Giles who has first-hand experience with brain injury. Timothy joins Jesse for an honest conversation… Audio

Last year provided plenty of food for thought.

The world-wide gaming industry is big. It's really big. Just ten years ago it generated over 25 billion dollars of income a year in the US alone. Last year it took in 135 billion dollars. Taking in… Audio

New research from the University of Copenhagen has found that men in jobs with hard physical work have a 55% higher risk of developing dementia compared to those doing sedentary work. Associate… Audio

Globally, falls are the second leading cause of accidental or unintentional deaths worldwide after traffic accidents. And modern lifestyles are making our balance worse, leaving us more vulnerable to… Audio

Sir John Kirwan is one of the faces of mental health awareness in this country, so it's fitting that we catch up with him on the eve of Mental Health Awareness Week. JK joins the show to share some of… Audio

When neuroscientist Lisa Mosconi first started researching Alzheimer's risk and women's brains almost 20 years ago, she discovered two big misconceptions – that Alzheimer's is a disease of old age and… Video, Audio

After an overwhelming response to Professor Maurice Curtis' last appearance on the programme, he joins Kathryn Ryan again to talk about all the difficult questions about leaving your body to science… Audio

Could we be on the cusp of a new way of living, a major shift in how we build our cities and where we live and whether we can stop global warming? Bernard Hickey literally puts his life on the line to… Audio

What is going on in the brain when we are doing crosswords? David Astle is somewhat of a dictionary expert, he is also Melbourne-based writer and a full-on word nerd - somewhat of a walking… Audio

If you know how to mutter 'Ka Mate' under your breath ahead of an All Blacks game then the next logical step is to learn a waiata. Living in Aotearoa New Zealand means that sometime in your life you… Video, Audio

That's the thrust of some intriguing research looking into the relative lengths of your ring finger and your index finger... the second, pointy one. Audio

Retired police crisis negotiator Lance Burdett speaks frankly about the mental stress he suffered after witnessing traumatic events during his 22 years in the police force. He is calling for more to… Audio

The Life 101 course was first designed for school-leavers. Now it's helping prisoners at Auckland Prison at Paremoremo to prepare for life on the outside. Audio