Healthy or Hoax
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Hormone Diets: Clickbait or the key to weightloss?
26 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Forget all the others, hormone diets claim to be the secret to fast, easy weight loss. But are they really just preying on our insecurities? Healthy o...
Functional Fungi: Mushroom marvel or Money pit?
19 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Love them or hate them, could mushrooms be the key to good health. Stacey Morrison focuses on functional fungi in the latest episode of Healthy or Hoa...
Light therapy: Does red mean GO for getting rid of wrinkles?
12 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Stacey Morrison puts the spotlight on light therapy for anti-aging and acne in the episode of Healthy or Hoax.Healthy or Hoax host Stacey Morrison put...
Sleep syncing & mouth taping: The solution to sleeplessness and snoring?
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dreaming of taping a snorer's mouth shut? Struggling to snooze? Stacey Morrison finds out if mouth taping, sleep syncing and the latest apps and techn...
Retro Walking: Fitness Find or Fad?
29 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Sound Healing: Restorative or ringing alarm bells?
22 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
To kick Season 4 of Healthy or Hoax off with a bang - or a gong - Stacey Morrison heads off for some sound healing. Can sound really fix what ails you...
Healthy or Hoax is back for Season 4
14 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Stacey Morrison takes a look at current health and wellbeing trends and finds out if they're really good for you. In season four Stacey asks the exper...
Collagen: Can pins or pills improve your health?
05 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Stacey Morrison find out the best way to increase our collagen and keep our skin looking healthy and radiant.There's no doubt collagen plays a ke...
Gastric Banding: Surgical vs Virtual
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Stacey Morrison discovers whether a virtual gastric band is as good as the actual physical one.Imagine if imagining weight loss could make it happen.V...
DNA: Will a DNA-based diet help you fit your jeans?
22 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Stacey Morrison finds out just how reliable home-based DNA tests for health and fitness really are.You can buy just about anything online these days, ...
Cold Immersion Therapy: Will freezing free you up?
15 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In a classic case of 'what doesn't kill you makes you stronger...' Stacey Morrison confronts her serious aversion to the cold and enters a cryotherapy...
CBD & Hemp: Can these contentious plants improve our skin?
08 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
CBD beauty products are being hailed as a 'beauty game-changer' overseas, but they're still illegal here. Stacey Morrison finds out if we're missing a...
Waist trainers: Do they really work?
01 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kim Kardashian made waist trainers popular and the recent Bridgerton Netflix series saw a bump in corset sales. Stacey Morrison discovers if squeezing...
Healthy or Hoax: Season 3 is on its way
15 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The new season of Healthy or Hoax is on its way. Stacey Morrison not only hosts the show, but also faces her fears to trial some of the latest health ...
Fermented Foods: For or Against?
31 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Fermented foods have been around for longer than refrigeration, but recently they have developed a reputation for having numerous health benefits. We ...
Essential Oils: Can we live with or without them?
24 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Can something make us feel better just by smelling nice? And if it can do that, could we get even more benefits from rubbing it on our skin or even ea...
Turmeric: Too Good to Be True?
17 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Turmeric is supposed to help a range of ailments from arthritis to Alzheimer's. But is this spice the real deal or just fool's gold? By Liz GartonIf y...
Shakti Mats: Pain or Gain?
10 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Shakti Mats made a big splash when they arrived in New Zealand a few years ago. But does lying on thousands of tiny spikes improve our health or is it...
Fasting: The Quick Way to Better Health?
03 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Studies show fasting could improve outcomes for a huge range of medical conditions... in mice. Do those benefits cross over to humans too? By Liz Gart...
Charcoal: Black gold?
27 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Charcoal is credited with getting rid of gas, bloating, hangovers and generally helping us cleanse and detox. Healthy or Hoax finds out if the claims ...
Coolsculpting: Can you really freeze your fat away?
20 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Stacey Morrison puts her body on the line to find out if coolsculpting - a non-surgical fat removal technique - can help you get the perfect figure. B...
Introducing: Healthy or Hoax Season 2
12 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It's been a long time coming, but the long-awaited second season of Healthy or Hoax is on its way with new host Stacey Morrison.Go to this episode on ...
Is raw food better than cooked?
05 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Would you be better off eating food raw, rather than cooking it. I mean, who needs fire? By Kate Pereyra-GarciaRaw food advocates say food not heated ...
Can you float your troubles away?
28 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Carol Hirschfeld gives flotation pods a try to see whether they could be an answer for those looking to de-stress. By Kate Pereyra-GarciaWatch a video...
Getting milk out of an almond
21 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
A raft of new dairy substitutes are turning up on supermarket shelves, but in part four of Healthy or Hoax we ask: can they really be called milk? By ...
What's really in your smoothie?
15 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Greens powders are firmly entrenched as part of the smoothie craze, but in episode three of Healthy or Hoax we find out there's one ingredient in ther...
Is high-intensity exercise too much of a good thing?
07 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Carol Hirschfeld hits the gym for some High Intensity Interval Training and finds it can take you up a notch... If you fit the bill. So is HIIT right ...
Coconut oil - miracle cure or marketing hype?
31 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Kate Pereyra Garcia documents her three weeks eating coconut oil in part one of Healthy or Hoax, a new podcast series looking at the facts behind curr...
Introducing: Healthy or Hoax?
30 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Healthy or Hoax is a new podcast series from RNZ that looks at the new-fangled fads and tempting new trends and asks if they're really up to much. In ...