The Real Weight Loss Coach

The eyes often roll into the back of the head when someone says the term ‘self-love’ and I can relate to that as I certainly felt the same way for a significant portion of my life. However, when you start to understand that you are suffering on a daily basis as a result of the story that you are writing for yourself you feel this little niggle in your mind that leads to entertaining the idea that...

Do you have trouble getting the kids to eat the good stuff?...you know the colourful vegetables and the healthy animal products that they need to grow big and strong. “Trying to feed kids vegetables is like pulling teeth from a shark” is what a parent told me one time and so I asked her, ``Do you eat healthy yourself?'' to which she replied, “who has the time?”. I think this brief discussi...

Talk about going down a wormhole… the journey that is shared by today’s amazing guest is one hell of an awakening roller coaster ride. Let me start by asking you this - do you know someone that has had a disease or ailment for a very long period of time, taken pills and surgery, and still suffers with that same problem… If the answer is yes, then maybe a paradigm shift is needed and this episode c...

Trauma… the old T-word. Sometimes the more we learn about it the more we feel like a helpless tumbleweed blowing through the wind of life! However, fortunately, there are many amazing humans out there like today’s guest who works with these complex issues of trauma, depression, and anxiety in unique ways that create a space for healing and transformation utilising the tools you already have on and...

Fibromyalgia is a diagnosis… and that’s about where the buck stops! Unfortunately, it’s a term used to describe widespread bodily pain of unknown origin, there is very little known about it, what the causes are, what the treatments are, and how to transform out of it entirely is near impossible. However there are ways to ease the symptoms and begin exploring through the possible causative factors...

It is an inevitable part of the womanhood journey - perimenopause and menopause. Crazily this is often labelled as a medical condition but it is in fact a very normal transition that all women experience as they transform from their fertile years across to being the wisdom keeper. Unfortunately though women and maybe you too have been indoctrinated about the process and particularly with old dieti...

Fats - we know they’re starting to be seen as healthy (finally) but did you know that this healthy fat movement actually began in the 60s!? Crazy to think about that since back then they were also trying their best to prove that fats were devastating for our health. Today’s guest shares his 6 decades of work, research and experience of the healthy fats we MUST be consuming to live a healthy life a...

If you’ve been on the journey of health discovery and realised ‘Something's gotta give’, then you’re in the right place. Sugar addiction is a chronic worldwide problem that doesn’t discriminate race, age, gender, sexual orientation.. If you’re human then you’re highly susceptible. In this episode, we talk with a sugar addiction expert about the things that might pop up along the journey and so...

It’s arguably a controversial conversation these days, being direct, intense and strong with people. These days our culture encourages us towards comfort in every possible moment of our existence and the instant something is uncomfortable we’re conditioned to seek comfort instantly. Coupling this fear of discomfort and pain with a society that dwells on the past and you have the ultimate cocktail...

We all love the concept of detoxing, right? I’m sure you've thought about it before - getting all the bullshit out of your body that you’ve consumed and inhaled over the years makes for a logical idea but, how much crap is really in there and how do we get it out? Shockingly or maybe not shockingly, it isn’t just the beers and pizza that have caused damage to our body but some far less obvious...

Did you know that one of the most important factors for fat loss is how well you sleep? Here’s another one.. Did you know the major contributing factor for likelihood that you’ll get up and have a car crash is your sleep? One of the most underappreciated parts of the human experiences is our sleep. It contributes to almost every variable of healthy human function and performance and the opposite i...

It’s that time of year - New Year’s Resolutions are a thing and the data seems to suggest that the most common resolution, the world over, is weight loss. My initial thought was that I want to put an episode together that means you aren’t looking for the same thing next year because it is usually the same people that make the same resolutions and get the same disappointing and disappearing results...

How has the sugar consumption been going for you this year? If you’re like most people.. Or me, then you know it’s been going through the ROOF. Stress eating, ordering food in lots more often than usual and of course feeding the kids whatever they want because you’re just DONE! And hey look, no one is pointing the finger, it’s been a shit year but here we are on the podcast starting from ground ze...

Despite not having a single shred of Christmas anything in my apartment this is in fact the Christmas episode. Last year’s Christmas episode was about how to optimise gut health and not feel like a walrus, episode 56 - check it out. After the year we have had I decided this episode needed to be more about managing our emotions and how we feel about the experiences that we are going to have over th...

Although it feels like last Christmas was about 5 years ago we are in fact gearing up for another one. With the lockdowns leading to excessive consumption of unideal food, loads more Uber Eats and a forced sedentary lifestyle, I wanted to get someone onto this episode to talk about how to make Christmas a littler healthier than usual. No, we aren’t just making it a Kale Smoothie Krissie… but there...

Is the world happening for you or is it happening to you? It’s a deep question and one that may take some time to answer but whilst you’re dwelling on that today’s episode might be worth a listen as we talk about the relationship between stress and disease and how emotional trauma that you have experienced in your life is essentially the software that is running your life. The great thing is that...

Do you think of eczema as “just” a skin rash and that it isn’t that bad? It’s a common viewpoint given the skin doesn’t do what many deem a crucial function each day in the way your bicep might or your knee might, or even your brain might. However, the skin is the body's largest organ and it does in fact serve a crucial function, in fact many, and it is intrinsically connected to everything of...

Are you moving all of the time? Me neither. Especially in 2020, desk bound is everyone.. As if that wasn’t an issue before hand with so many people chained to their sedentary work and lifestyles but now this health problem has just about 10x itself. So on this episode of the show Ben shares some stories and information to help you change your mindset around competitiveness, working out, getting ol...

Does everyone have trauma? What constitutes trauma? It’s a complex topic and arguably one that pulls on the heart strings of all of us given that we’ve mostly been either victim to someone else's or tragically experienced our own and the impact runs deep. However, it’s often something we mistakenly think happens in a world of its own without being connected to our body or the lifestyle we choo...

Is there a proper way to move? Walk, run, jump, sit? Ergonomics would suggest that there is a perfect position to be in at all times and that if we all did that we’d be totally safe. However, injuries happen every single day to all types of humans: athletes, children, elderly… the lot! So if there is a perfect way to move why aren’t we all doing it? Well that is exactly what today’s guest dives in...

Do you ever wonder, ‘Exactly what is this inflammation that all these health experts keep talking about? Where is it? What does it look like?’... The unfortunate reality is that for the most part the inflammation we should be most concerned about is low grade, chronic inflammation. Low grade makes it sound not so bad but think of it as the difference between a pipe that bursts that causes you to h...

The current state of healthcare, intermittent fasting, the magic medicine and projections for the future of health care - there is some deep stuff in this episode… and It’s your fault! You are the reason we are here at episode 100. Thank you so much for helping to achieve this milestone! In this unique episode we have 2 wonderful humans hosting and me, Matty, being interviewed… thought we’d change...

The problem with conventional medicine and nutrition is that it treats the individual as a machine, like a car taken to the mechanics which as you’re likely aware is not the case. Simply take the placebo effect… which the very vast majority of clinical trials that use a placebo control, show it is in fact mindset and belief that creates the desired outcome. Treating humans like machines would be f...

Mental illness is a very grey topic and a vague area because as much as we do know about it, our most predominant medical structure that exists, in the western world at least, is fixated on the physical reality of things and because we have a seeming lack of knowledge in relation to the physicality of what happens in our brain, or wherever our thoughts and feelings happen it result we can find our...

Which type of emotions come up for you when you hear “meat” or “cows”... Many people have an emotional response for a list of reasons. Unfortunately there seems to be this romantic delusion of how life and death happens in nature, often by city based dwellers, or those entirely removed from the process of how food is obtained, processed and created, or simply how nature behaves when left to its ow...