Our immune system can be seen as a sixth sense, affecting our mood and energy levels, as well as a vital weapon against infection and the body’s repair mechanism. What is it and how can we help it do what it does best?

The idea that we have two minds isn’t new, yin-yang, horse and rider, Jekyll and Hyde, the Ego and Id. To these we can now add Fast and Slow thinking, an understanding of which sheds light on our cognitive biases.

It may not always seem like it, but the human brain has evolved to organise information. Studies have shown how we can tap into this inbuilt tendency to mentally tidy up, so that even in the era of Too Much Information we can manage our time better and make better decisions.

Most of us know how we move. We’re a skeleton wrapped in muscles which move everything about, right? Making those muscles stronger must make our movements stronger too. Only quite recently are we seeing that this view is incomplete. There is another ‘system’ at work - an elastic, fluid, all-encompassing network that gives us grace, stability and power…but also, if we ignore it, pain!