Spirit Levels
by Jenny Valentish and Frank Magree
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<p>In this weekly show, Frank Magree and Jenny Valentish explore wellness claims. With the help of experts and enthusiasts, the pair road-test disciplines and experiences such as cuddle clubs, facilitated breath repatterning, tantra, motivational techniques, extreme weight cutting, saunas, fasting, colonics, and radical couples therapy, to see if they can extract practical benefits from the more out-there concepts. Now meet your hosts.</p><br><p><br></p><p>Journalist Jenny Valentish considers herself to have a healthy sense of scepticism. She’s a former amateur bodybuilder and amateur Muay Thai fighter (a professional amateur, if you will), with a tendency to treat her body mean to keep it keen. Her book <em>Everything Harder Than Everyone Else</em> delves into what drives athletes who push their bodies to extremes, while her Walkley-nominated memoir <em>Woman of Substances</em> examines a bigger picture about addictive behaviour and gender, crunching 300 studies and interviewing 30 ex