An Evening of Abnormal Eating, Pretend Drinking and Smelling Wee

If you conform to the decisions, choices and ways that most people think about food then you might fit in, but both your health and waist line will suffer. Instead, to live longer and healthier lives, Eric believes that we need to radically change our mindset and start behaving more ‘abnormally’.
This tour of the scientific study of psychology, food and body weight will reveal key insights into why behaving ‘normally’ just isn’t compatible with leading a healthy life and in what ways we need to start behaving ‘abnormally’ in order to have a healthy body weight and live longer.

We are all familiar with the effect that alcohol has on us, but how much of it is in the mind? Learn about how placebo effects influence us in everyday life from energy free energy drinks to living a long life, and of course how they underpin some “Medicines” (*cough* homeopathy *cough*).
We will then look at how placebo effects are influencing everyone in the room, and the extent to which believing you have consumed alcohol can make you dizzy and impair your thoughts. Maybe this talk will show you how to cut your alcohol consumption without stopping drinking!

I'm not taking the p*ss when I say that urine has been used in diagnosis of medical conditions since the medieval ages. Find out how a natural body waste can actually hold lots of valuable information - some might even call it liquid gold. From diabetes, pregnancy tests, the famous Asparagus-wee smell, Black Bone Disease and dogs sniffing out cancer.
An overview of urine from life’s first cry to final breath, explaining the smell and colour of urine and promising to bring people right up-to-date with some of the recent and current research occurring at the University of Liverpool.