Funky Fat Podcast

Louisa Bakker, founder of Funky Fat Foods , tells us everything about the beginning of her journey. From when she was misdiagnosed, how she learned about PCOS, who inspired her to change her lifestyle, and how, by eating keto and low-carb, she recovered her period and reversed the symptoms of PCOS. Learn more about other similar stories from many women on our blog . Other inspirational accounts ar...

Holidays are upon us and in this episode, we wanted to focus on several topics with regard to health and fitness. Louisa and I have both been subject to the social pressure of having to look a certain way and believe holidays give way to much criticism, destructive ideologies, and sometimes even self-hate. What I mean by this is that when trying to be healthy and stay fit we might try to go to ext...

For some time now, people have been looking at the word diet through a negative looking glass. The reason for this is that the word in the past decades has been associated directly with weight loss diets and how society has put pressure on many of us to look a certain way. However, the reality of it is that diet is simply the way we eat, our eating lifestyle for that matter. In this podcast, Noor...

Nanneke Schreurs is de eigenaresse en oprichtster van Optimal Health Studio, een personal training en yogastudio in Mijdrecht. We wilden haar graag interviewen omdat ze de voordelen van yoga combineert met haar eigen Healthbar, waar je allerlei verschillende gezonde, biologische maaltijden, sappen, thee en koffie kunt vinden. Alle producten zijn plantaardig en duurzaam. In deze podcast praten we o...

Leefstijlziektes is een term die je steeds vaker hoort. Louisette, de oprichtster van het Ketogeen Instituut, probeert dit de wereld uit helpen met het effectieve Ketogene dieet. Op haar website vind je van alles over Ketogene voeding en de leefstijl. Voor professionals bieden ze meerdere opleidingen die zich specialiseren in voeding, therapie en leefstijl op het gebied van Keto. Daarnaast kun je...

Eduard Wilde is a father, husband, athlete, consultant, biohacker, entrepreneur, and amateur chef who has been interested in health for years. He got his Bulletproof certification back in 2016 and founded Livehelfi and Noordcode. Livehelfi is a webshop for nootropics, supplements, food, and accessories that help to improve your mental and physical performance. Noordcode is a store of carefully sou...

Andy Pujol is a yoga teacher and a keto and low-carb recipe creator. We met Andy through Instagram about 2 years ago and have been collaborating ever since. Andy had recently started keto for the same reason Louisa did, they both have PCOS or polycystic ovarian syndrome. This meant they shared a lot in common, one of those things is being passionate about healthy keto foods and specifically, choco...

Energy is an underestimated topic by many. People believe energy levels associate with age and while part of that is true, it doesn’t mean we have to accept it but instead, work towards biohacking our way out. Yes! We can continue to have the vibrance and vigor we used to have. Nutritional therapist, Eleanor Thrupp and Funky Fat Foods founder, Louisa Mesquita Bakker discuss the effect different li...

Dr. Folusha is a practising NHS General Practitioner, with a Bachelor of Science in Sport and Exercise Medicine and a Level 3 Qualified Personal Trainer. She takes a unique, holistic approach to health and fitness by combining her medical background with exercise medicine to create the best content on fitness tips, advice, and motivation as well as the HIIT workout programs on her website. During...

Dr. Heather McKee is Europe’s leading lifestyle behaviour change specialist. With over 10 years in academia, her work has been published in world-leading research journals as well as over 300 media articles such as Vogue, Time magazine, and The Times. In this episode, we talk about how habits are made, how they can be changed, and the difference between willpower and skill power. We also uncover s...

Funky Fat Podcast introduces another series into the mix called the Funky Family hosting the Funky Fat Foods team, Louisa, founder and CEO, Clemens, Sales Director, and Amanda, Brand Manager. Featuring in-depth, personal conversations about health, wellness, and fitness we discover daily on articles, podcasts, and more. There is strength and power in sharing our diverse experiences, and that’s wha...

Pauline Cox is a functional nutritionist and the co-founder of Sow and Arrow, a convenient healthy food cafe and store. And we’re proud to say that they were the first resellers of Funky Fat Chocs in the UK. Pauline has a passion for teaching and understanding the latest news, information, and research on any and all areas of health and wellbeing. And in this call, we dive into how our bodies use...

Dr. Nicole Huffman is a naturopathic doctor with a passion for finding the root cause of her patients’ dis-ease. She is not interested in masking symptoms with medication but in understanding what’s going on underneath the issue and imbalance in the body. In this episode we talk about how stress works, how it affects our bodies and mind, and, by extent, both men’s and women’s fertility

The word diet has almost always been linked with restricting or limiting foods that most of the time “prevent” people from reaching their health goals. Short-time solutions call for short-time efforts, and that’s what diet culture has shown us for years. In this episode, Bella, a nutritional therapist with a special interest in the role of metabolism, gut health, and dietary choices, teaches us ab...

Danielle Hamilton is a blood sugar specialist focused on helping sugar cravers regain their energy, lose fat mass & balance their hormones without struggling. During this podcast she joins us to talk about all the benefits that come with stabilizing your blood sugar levels, short and long-term side effects of insulin spikes, the misconceptions about fats, and several tips to start stabilizing your...

From mood and fitness to sexual function and reproduction, hormones affect every woman from the moment we enter our reproductive age. In this episode, Dr. Stephanie Estima tells us about the Estima Diet, the importance of balancing our hormones, and how to optimize our bodies by understanding how our bodies work at the different stages of our menstrual cycle & menopausal stage.

Cynthia Thurlow is a nurse practitioner, intermittent fasting and nutrition expert, two-time TEDx speaker, and author of the ”Intermittent Fasting Transformation”. In this podcast, we dive into the different benefits of intermittent fasting: from stabilising your blood sugar levels and improving mental clarity to losing that stubborn fat mass that’s so hard to get rid of. Cynthia’s Podcast - Every...

Hannah Sutter talks about the differences between clean keto and dirty keto while Hannah tells us about her keto journey, and how it led her to create her brand and run a medical business for epilepsy, called Keto Care Foods, that supplies the national health service in the UK. She tells us her top tips for starting Keto and shares that following this lifestyle rather than a diet, has brought her...

Dr. Nicole Huffman is a naturopathic doctor with a passion for finding the root cause of her patients’ dis-ease. Since she was a little girl she remembers always rushing to the emergency room whether it was because of her allergies or some other health issue. Her interest in understanding health had been rooted in her for years. So, she then went into medical school and later on started her own co...

At Funky Fat Foods we are on a neverending quest to find the best ways to optimize our health, wellness, and fitness. We believe that with the right knowledge, anyone can achieve their health goals. When it comes to followaing a healthy lifestyle, there is no one right answer, but there is a solution for each individual. With the help of top experts and professionals in different sectors, we explo...