After Hours with Dr Vincent

About After Hours with Dr Vincent

🎙️ After Hours: Where science gets personal. From health and habits to parenting, addiction, beauty, and more — this is not a lecture, it’s real talk. Expect surprising insights, relatable stories, and sometimes controversial conversations. Honest, funny, and always human, this is science you can actually use. www.askdrvincent.com (https://www.askdrvincent.com/s/after-hours?utm_medium=podcast)

Publisher

Where science gets personal

Category

news · science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

29 Aug 2025

Latest episode

8 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

43 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   8 Oct 2026

   The science of friendship - After Hours #45

   We spend so much time talking about food, exercise, sleep and stress when we talk about living a healthier life, but we rarely talk about friendship. In this episode of After Hours, Stephen and I explore what science can tell us about why friendship matters, from research linking stronger social relationships with better survival outcomes to the surprising amount of time it can take to turn an acquaintance into a genuinely close friend. We also get into the very human side of it: why making friends as an adult can feel harder, the difference between being alone and being lonely, the “liking gap” when meeting new people, and why friendship deserves to be treated as a serious relationship rather than something that simply happens in the background of our lives. What struck me most is that friendship is not simply emotional. Supportive relationships can help buffer our response to stress, give us a sense of safety and connection, and help us recover through difficult periods. But good friendship also requires something less scientific and much more practical: time, vulnerability, effort and the willingness to keep showing up. Some friends are with us for a season, some survive years and kilometres apart, and some become the people we know we can call when life gets difficult. The point isn’t to collect as many friends as possible. It is to recognise that the relationships we choose to nurture may be doing far more for our health, happiness and resilience than we realise. After Hours is where science gets personal. Hosted by Dr Vincent, your friendly neighbourhood scientist and Stephen! 🔔 Subscribe so you never miss an episode📩 Weekly newsletter every Sunday at AskDrVincent.com📺 Full video episodes every Thursday after 5pmLet’s be mates! (https://linktr.ee/AskDrVincent) Get full access to Ask Dr Vincent at www.askdrvincent.com/subscribe (https://www.askdrvincent.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4)

2. 

   1 Oct 2026

   Microplastics: Little Things Add Up

   I came into this episode physically exhausted but incredibly happy. After months of work, a whirlwind trip to the US and a meeting with Walmart that once felt almost impossible, Stephen and I started talking about the danger of constantly chasing the next milestone without stopping to appreciate the one you have just reached. For me, the most meaningful moments are often the smallest ones: a customer telling me we have helped them, a little bit of trust built with someone I work with, or simply remembering why I started doing this in the first place. Big dreams are ultimately made from thousands of tiny moments, and I never want to become so focused on the next destination that I forget to celebrate them. That idea gave us a rather perfect transition into something else very small: microplastics. We unpack what they are, how larger plastics break down into tiny particles, where we encounter them in everyday life and why completely avoiding plastic is far more complicated than simply telling people to make better choices. Plastic has brought enormous convenience and genuine benefits, but our reliance on it has also created a problem that is now extraordinarily difficult to undo. My takeaway isn’t that we should panic or somehow eliminate every piece of plastic from our lives. It is much simpler: now that we know more, we should try to do better. Reduce unnecessary plastic where we can, reuse what makes sense, ask better questions about the things we buy and, most importantly, stop adding to a problem simply because its consequences feel far away. Thanks to Hello Fresh for supporting Dr Vincent with healthy and easy meals and for giving our listeners up to $80 off their first box! Because who doesn’t love delicious, easy meals at home for less. After Hours is where science gets personal. Hosted by Dr Vincent, your friendly neighbourhood scientist and Stephen! 🔔 Subscribe so you never miss an episode📩 Weekly newsletter every Sunday at AskDrVincent.com📺 Full video episodes every Thursday after 5pmLet’s be mates! (https://linktr.ee/AskDrVincent) Get full access to Ask Dr Vincent at www.askdrvincent.com/subscribe (https://www.askdrvincent.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4)

3. 

   3 Sept 2026

   The Pursuit of Happiness: Are We Looking in the Wrong Place? After Hours #041

   I’ve been thinking a lot about happiness lately, not the Instagram version of happiness, where everything looks perfect, but the kind you actually feel when you sit quietly with your own life. I can be tired, nervous about what is coming next, dealing with problems at work and still genuinely say that I am happy. For me, happiness is not the absence of difficulty; it is the feeling that I am where I am supposed to be, doing something that matters, and living in a way that leaves as little room for regret as possible. Money, health, achievement and comfort absolutely contribute to our wellbeing, and I don’t believe we should pretend otherwise. But they are not happiness by themselves. One idea from this conversation stayed with me: success is having what you want, while happiness is wanting what you have. Perhaps the real pursuit of happiness begins when we stop treating happiness as the prize waiting for us after the next achievement and start seeing it as something we can choose and cultivate along the way. So what actually helps? Stephen and I came back to five remarkably simple things: connect, be active, take notice, keep learning and give. Connection is not about collecting followers; it is about feeling known and valued, and sometimes it can be as simple as messaging someone you haven’t spoken to in years. Being active doesn’t mean becoming an athlete—it can mean moving your body or keeping your mind curious. Taking notice means slowing down long enough to actually smell the coffee, look at the night sky or appreciate the tiny moments we normally rush past. Keep learning, because curiosity keeps life expanding. And finally, give—not necessarily money, but your time, experience, support or even a few thoughtful words. I think we spend so much of life waiting for the big moment that will finally make us happy that we risk missing hundreds of small happiness moments happening right in front of us. Maybe happiness is not something we eventually find. Maybe it is something we practise. After Hours is where science gets personal. Hosted by Dr Vincent, your friendly neighbourhood scientist and Stephen! 🔔 Subscribe so you never miss an episode📩 Weekly newsletter every Sunday at AskDrVincent.com📺 Full video episodes every Thursday after 5pmLet’s be mates! (https://linktr.ee/AskDrVincent) Get full access to Ask Dr Vincent at www.askdrvincent.com/subscribe (https://www.askdrvincent.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4)

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