The History of Wellness and Wellbeing | The Early Years | 1

E112 - The History of Wellness and Wellbeing | The Early Years | 1

Published: January 15, 2026

Duration: 38:07

New Year, new you — but where did the idea of “wellness” actually come from? Peter and Afua travel back 10,000 years to hunter-gatherers, early medicine, ancient diets, and the surprising origins of how humans learned to be “healthy”.


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