Luke Benedictus

1 week ago | afr.com | Luke Benedictus

Skip to navigationSkip to contentSkip to footerHelp using this website - Accessibility statementAs a clinical nutritionist, Sarah Di Lorenzo helps people to lose weight. Yet when assessing new clients, her first area of focus isn’t the width of their waistline but the state of their liver. “The liver does all these amazing things – it’s a detoxification pathway, it manages our digestive system, it tackles filtration,” she says.

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Luke Benedictus

Skip to navigationSkip to contentSkip to footerHelp using this website - Accessibility statementFifteen years ago, Trent Scanlen was struggling with persistent back pain. As an active 34-year-old, he assumed it was collateral damage from all the jujitsu and Muay Thai kickboxing he was doing. But as the pain worsened over a number of months, Scanlen got an MRI to check it out. What the scan discovered was horrifying. At the base of his spine was a tumour the size of a golf ball.

3 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Luke Benedictus

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. This story is part of the June 7 edition of Good Weekend.See all 14 stories. Tamsin Johnson is perched on a white sofa, sipping ginger and lemongrass tea beneath a 19th-century French crystal chandelier in her Darling Point home in Sydney’s east. Before her, roses nestle in a vase on a marble coffee table next to a pair of oak armchairs by Frank Lloyd Wright.

3 weeks ago | afr.com | Luke Benedictus

Jun 6, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? You’ve keenly anticipated your holiday for months. But when it finally arrives, those 14 days seem to vanish in double-quick time. Yet once you’re reimmersed into the daily grind, it somehow feels like you’d been away for ages.

1 month ago | afr.com | Luke Benedictus

May 27, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? It’s 3am and, once again, I’m lying wide awake in bed unable to go back to sleep. Instead, my mind is whirring down a familiar doom spiral, barbed with the usual worries about money, work and my receding hairline.