Helena Popovic - Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery
Medical doctor, leading authority on improving brain function and best-selling author
About Me
Overview
Dr Helena Popovic MBBS is a medical doctor, leading authority on improving brain function, international speaker and best-selling author. She is also a sought-after media commentator and regularly appears on TV and radio.
Her mission is to educate rather than to medicate. Her passion is empowering people to live longer, stronger, healthier and happier.
Dr Helena teaches people how to:
1. Boost their brain
2. Turn stress into success
3. Come alive and thrive
She graduated from the University of Sydney and she believes in slow ageing despite fast living. Dr Helena was a Sydney TEDx Fast Ideas finalist and her book NeuroSlimming won Bronze medal in the international Living Now Awards for books that contribute to positive global change.
She shared her mother’s journey with lung cancer and her father’s adventure with dementia. She speaks from both a personal and professional perspective.
Dr Helena Popovic’s Most Popular Speaking Topics
1. Boost Your Brain
2. Turn Stress into Success
3. Come Alive and Thrive
4. Peak Health for Peak Performance
5. The X Factor for Xcellence
6. The 7 Habits of Highly Healthy People
7. The Gut Brain Revolution
8. Fifty Shades of Sugar
9. What the Fat is going on?
10. Master Your Mind and You’ll Master Your Life
Qualifications
Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery
What I Do
Medical doctor, leading authority on improving brain function and best-selling author
Favourite Quote
Favourite Quote
Vibrant health and peak performance are not a distant destination—they are a daily choice.
What are your clients saying about you?
When I think 'Dr Helena Popovic' I think ENERGIZING, ENTERTAINING, EMPOWERING. Dr Helena stands apart as an extraordinary speaker and educator who moves individuals and organisations to take positive action and achieve extraordinary results. Few can compare with her unique ability to combine strong intellect with humour and passion. I highly recommend her for the difference she makes. DR GLORIA S WRIGHT PHD Founder and Director of Learning Solutions
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Helena Popovic wrote a new blog entry: 10 July 2019 at 12:10 AM
Ebor is a small town in northern NSW with a population of 166 people. It has one café, one hotel and one waterfall. I stopped there for lunch during my 5 hour drive home from Armidale where I had given two talks.
I ordered a vegetable lasagne and ...
Not long ago, I asked my father for his most important life advice. My first question was: ‘What’s the key to a lasting happy relationship?’
He answered: ‘Find someone you can laugh with and cry with, whom you love and respect, an...
Deborah Fairfull
A truly beautiful article so in line with my philosophy that nothing is more important than kindness. Thankyou for sharing your beautiful reflections Helena in relation to your dear father.
Jun 27
Helena Popovic wrote a new blog entry: 25 June 2019 at 07:24 AM
Dr James Levine, Director of the Mayo Clinic at Arizona State University, found that sitting at a desk for 5 or more hours in a day is the health equivalent of smoking a pack and a quarter of cigarettes in terms of the expected reduction in life expectanc...
Sally Obermeder and Ryan Phelan from Channel 7’s The Daily Edition asked Dr Helena to provide some answers. Here is a transcript of their conversation.
1. Why do we eat in response to stress?
When we’re stressed our adren...
Following my recent Health-e-Byte, many people have asked how they can best help their children and grandchildren avoid comfort eating. Here are some practical suggestions.
Make mealtimes as relaxed and stress-free as possible. I know this can be a cha...
The average person extracts 6 Calories from eating a medium-sized piece of raw celery. If you cook that same piece of celery, you begin to break down the cellulose (indigestible fibre) and end up extracting 5 times more Calories—about 30. And depend...
Whenever I feel disappointed or encounter a painful or difficult situation, I play the Game of Gripes to Gifts. I ask myself: Even though I’m not feeling positive about this, what could be the GIFT in it? In other words:
What does this remind me to...
Even though eating the recommended amount of fibre helps prevent diabetes, if you have long-standing diabetes (usually over 10 years), your stomach can become less effective at emptying due to a condition known as ‘gastroparesis’. This occurs ...
A study published in the Journal of Neuroscience in May 2018 found that differences in size and structure of specific regions of the brain’s prefrontal cortex predicted a person’s ability to resist temptation and to make healthy food choices. ...
Did you experience stress or arguments at the dinner table when you were growing up?
Did your parents offer you your favourite foods when you were hurt or upset?
These are two major factors contributing to comfort eating as an adult. How?
Processe...
Blisspot
Yes feeling your feelings is the key rather than eating to distract yourself from them. This can be uncomfortable however a much healthier, happier option in the longer term.
