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Sign up to my fatloss in the festive season webinar here.  https://www.mikkiwilliden.com/fatloss-in-the-festive-season-2026 Episode Summary In this solo Monday episode, Mikki tackles a question she gets constantly from clients and on social media: why the scales can jump two kilos after a big weekend when that much fat gain seems impossible. She traces the familiar rule that a kilo of fat is worth...

Save 20% on all Nuzest Products WORLDWIDE with the code MIKKIPEDIA at www.nuzest.co.nz , www.nuzest.com.au or www.nuzest.com Curranz Supplement: Use code MIKKIPEDIA to get 20% off your first order - go to www.curranz.co.nz   or www.curranz.co.uk to order yours NZ listeners - save 10% off Calocurb by using the code Mikkipedia10 at www.calocurb.co.nz Episode Summary Dr Matthew Cook is a Senior Lectu...

Episode Summary In this episode, Mikki looks at three tests clients keep bringing to her that sound scientific but don't deliver what they promise: live and dry blood analysis, skin carotenoid scanners and IgG food intolerance panels. For each one she explains what the test actually measures, what it is sold as measuring, and why the gap between the two matters when people end up on a raft of supp...

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Episode Summary A friend sent Mikki a link in a WhatsApp group — an NZ Herald article, originally published in the Washington Post, under the headline that popular supplements could harm the ageing brain. It named three: vitamin D, omega-3 and glucosamine. In this solo episode Mikki goes back to the three separate studies behind that single article and works through what each one actually found. A...

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Episode Summary A client sent Mikki a link to a very flash Withings bioelectrical impedance scale — NZ$819, marketed as 99% as accurate as a DEXA scan — and asked the obvious question: is it worth the money? In this solo episode Mikki goes and reads the validation document behind that claim, and finds the problem isn't really the scale at all. It's a statistical sleight of hand that turns up const...

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Episode Summary Mikki has said many times — on this podcast, on other podcasts, and repeatedly on Instagram — that eating carbohydrate at dinner helps calm the nervous system, and that this is why people who feel wired at night sleep better when they add some back in. In this episode she corrects herself. Not on the advice, which she still gives and still sees work, but on the mechanism she has be...

Save 20% on all Nuzest Products WORLDWIDE with the code MIKKIPEDIA at www.nuzest.co.nz , www.nuzest.com.au or www.nuzest.com Episode Summary In the latest episode of our collaboration with the Chasing Clarity Health and Fitness Podcast, Mikki is joined again by online nutrition and physique coach Brandon DaCruz to talk refeeds and diet breaks. These tools have been used in bodybuilding and physiqu...

Episode Summary A solo Mini-Mikkipedia. Mikki is often asked how to tell whether someone in the women's health space is worth following, and in this episode she answers it by working through two examples of what she thinks has gone wrong: practitioners who build large audiences on free information and then, in her view, monetise their followers' insecurities. The first half is physiology. Mikki ta...

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Episode Summary HbA1c turns up on almost every routine blood panel, and in this Monday mini episode Mikki looks at how much it can genuinely tell you. She starts with the physiology — haemoglobin picks up glucose non-enzymatically, red cells live 100 to 120 days, and the result is a weighted average of glucose exposure that leans heavily on the most recent month. That matters more than it first ap...

Save 20% on all Nuzest Products WORLDWIDE with the code MIKKIPEDIA at www.nuzest.co.nz , www.nuzest.com.au or www.nuzest.com Episode Summary Dr Eric Helms returns to Mikkipedia for an unscripted conversation about GLP-1 medications and what they mean for anyone working in nutrition and fitness. Eric is a coach, athlete, author and educator, part of the 3DMJ coaching team, co-founder of the MASS re...

Episode Summary This is a solo Mini Mikkipedia on emotional eating, prompted by a practitioner who asked Mikki how to help a client who describes herself as a lifelong emotional eater — someone who eats when she is stressed, eats when the day has been long and she finally sits down, and has tried everything she has read about without anything sticking. Rather than going straight to coping strategi...

Save 20% on all Nuzest Products WORLDWIDE with the code MIKKIPEDIA at www.nuzest.co.nz , www.nuzest.com.au or www.nuzest.com Curranz Supplement: Use code MIKKIPEDIA to get 20% off your first order - go to www.curranz.co.nz   or www.curranz.co.uk to order yours NZ listeners - save 10% off Calocurb by using the code Mikkipedia10 at www.calocurb.co.nz In this episode of Mikkipedia, Mikki speaks with...

Constipation is often met with the same advice: eat more fibre, drink more water and move more. But what if you’re already doing all of that and still struggling? In this Mini Mikkipedia episode, Mikki explores why constipation isn’t one single problem — and why piling on more fibre can sometimes make things worse. She breaks down the differences between slow-transit constipation, IBS-related symp...

Save 20% on all Nuzest Products WORLDWIDE with the code MIKKIPEDIA at www.nuzest.co.nz , www.nuzest.com.au or www.nuzest.com This week on the podcast, Mikki speaks with Paul Laursen about the science of training, nutrition, and what it really means to take a personalised approach to athletic performance. Paul and Mikki explore metabolic flexibility, fat oxidation, carbohydrate availability, and ho...

When you’re focused on fat loss, sometimes it isn’t more food you’re craving — it’s texture . In this Mini Mikkipedia episode, Mikki tackles one of the most common complaints she hears: where did all the crunch go? She shares 27 low-calorie ways to add crunch, freshness and satisfaction back into meals without relying on calorie-dense extras that can quickly eat into your budget. From cabbage, rad...

Save 20% on all Nuzest Products WORLDWIDE with the code MIKKIPEDIA at www.nuzest.co.nz , www.nuzest.com.au or www.nuzest.com Curranz Supplement: Use code MIKKIPEDIA to get 20% off your first order - go to www.curranz.co.nz   or www.curranz.co.uk to order yours NZ listeners - save 10% off Calocurb by using the code Mikkipedia10 at www.calocurb.co.nz This week on the podcast Mikki speaks to Gina Url...

Food tracking, weighing portions and stepping on the scales are increasingly framed as obsessive behaviours—but are the tools themselves really the problem? In this Mini Mikkipedia episode, Mikki explores what the research actually says about self-monitoring for weight loss and maintenance. She looks at evidence showing that regular weighing and food tracking can improve awareness, support behavio...

Save 20% on all Nuzest Products WORLDWIDE with the code MIKKIPEDIA at www.nuzest.co.nz , www.nuzest.com.au or www.nuzest.com This week on Mikkipedia Mikki is joined by Brandon DaCruz, host of the Chasing Clarity podcast, for the first episode in a new collaborative series bringing together their perspectives on nutrition, fat loss and body composition. They kick things off with a deep dive into ra...

wo people can have the same body weight and BMI yet face very different metabolic risks. In this episode, Mikki explores the biological reasons men and women store fat differently and why location matters more than the number on the scale. She explains how oestrogen directs fat towards the hips and thighs before menopause, why declining oestrogen can shift fat towards the abdomen, and how immune s...

Save 20% on all Nuzest Products WORLDWIDE with the code MIKKIPEDIA at www.nuzest.co.nz , www.nuzest.com.au or www.nuzest.com Curranz Supplement: Use code MIKKIPEDIA to get 20% off your first order - go to www.curranz.co.nz   or www.curranz.co.uk to order yours NZ listeners - save 10% off Calocurb by using the code Mikkipedia10 at www.calocurb.co.nz In this episode, Kira joins Mikki to explore medi...

Food noise, hunger and cravings are often treated as interchangeable, but they arise from different biological and psychological systems. In this episode, Mikki explains how physiological hunger develops gradually in response to the body’s energy needs, while cravings are shorter, cue-driven urges for specific foods. Food noise is different again: a persistent background hum of food-related though...