Real Health Radio

This week's episode is an interview with somatic nutrition therapist/dietitian, Tracy Brown. We spend most of the conversation chatting about the autonomic nervous system and Polyvagal Theory - how this can impact sensations of hunger and fullness, or someone’s ability to decide what they want to eat.

This week's episode is a wide-ranging conversation with future PhD, Kaila Tova. We chat about brand and personal branding, entrepreneurship and the hyperbole and exaggerations being made about how easy it is to run your own business and to make money online. We also cover what it’s like to have an identity online that you realise you now no longer believe in.

Seven Health is hiring for a nutrition practitioner and today's podcast is all about the position - what it entails, who would be a good fit, and how to apply.

Welcome to another instalment of Real Health Radio. Today I’m joined by Nicola Rinaldi. Nicola has a PhD in computational biology from MIT. After graduating she worked for a biotechnology company while pursuing her dreams of a family, which were thwarted by a diagnosis of hypothalamic amenorrhea (no periods). Eighteen months of trying to conceive followed. She spent hours on research, using the kn...

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. It’s another guest interview episode of Real Health Radio and this week I’m speaking with Andrea LaMarre. Andrea LaMarre is a PhD candidate and Vanier Doctoral Scholar at the University of Guelph in Canada. Her dissertation research is focused on the experiences of people in recovery and their supporters. She is a blogger and activist engaged in the eating disord...

This week I chat with sports and eating disorder specialist dietitian, Renee McGregor. We cover RED-S, Hypothalamic Amenorrhea, and orthorexia. We also dive into Renee's history with an eating disorder, which she hasn't discussed publicly before now.

In this interview, I chat with therapist and eating disorder specialist Jennifer Rolling. We chat about Jennifer's history with an eating disorder as well as navigating personal relationships and intimacy in recovery, getting stuck in partial recovery, and exercises to help with body image.

In this episode of Real Health Radio I interview Isabel Foxen Duke. Isabel is a Certified Health Coach and Emotional Eating Expert. She helps women make peace with their bodies, so they can stop obsessing about food and get back to living awesome lives. After years of trying to overcome emotional eating through “traditional” and alternative approaches, Isabel discovered some radical new ways to ge...

Today's show is a 2nd edition of one of my most popular episodes - all about food logs. I cover what to track, how to analyse it, and the benefits of using them. I also discuss ways my thinking has changed over the years in terms of what and how I track certain things.

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. It’s another guest interview episode of Real Health Radio and this week I’m speaking with Dr. Bryan Walsh. Dr. Bryan Walsh has been studying human physiology and nutrition for over 25 years and has been educating others in health for 20 of those years. When he isn’t teaching, he spends his time pouring over the latest research and synthesizing his findings into p...

This episode is the 2nd edition of a podcast I did a while back on the menstrual cycle. I review the stages of the cycle, what causes menstruation, what happens if conception occurs, and update you with some new information we've learned since the last episode came out.

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. This week I sit down with my former client Claudette and we chat about her history with dieting and weight loss. We chat about what it was like working together, examining her beliefs about herself and her weight and how that changed how she felt.

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. Today's episode has been in the works for over a year. I'm diving into the topic of the complexity of health. I cover the myriad factors that contribute to someone's health status, what we get wrong about it as a society, and the problem with dealing with health at a population level.

In this interview, I chat with dietitian and eating disorder specialist Julie Duffy DIllon. Our conversation primarily centers around PCOS - how it overlaps with eating disorders, how it's diagnosed, and how the current medical advice to deal with it needs work.

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. On this week's episode, I sit down with my former client Lauri to talk about what it was like working with me. We discussed what prompted her to get in touch, the details of her relationship with food and body image, and what improvements she's noticed since working together.

Welcome back to another episode of Real Health Radio. Today's guest is Charlotte Gibbs. Charlotte is an ultra-distance runner whose relationship with the sport has not always been healthy. After suffering from a succession of stress fractures and amenorrhea, she was diagnosed with RED-S in January 2019. Since then she’s been trying to learn as much as possible about RED-S in order to discover a be...

A few weeks ago, I released an updated podcast on carbohydrates. I reviewed how they’re used by the body, different sources, and which types work for most people. I got some great feedback, so I wanted to do a follow-up episode answering questions and responding to comments. In this week’s show, I expand on my thoughts on the carnivore diet, talk about the nocebo effect, and explain the law of dim...

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. Today’s guest interview is with Vania Phitidis. Vania is a certified Intuitive Eating Counsellor, a certified MB-EAT teacher (Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness Training) and a qualified Self Esteem mentor with the More to Life Programme. She has been coaching and mentoring people to become more of their authentic selves for over 25 years. She works with a Health...

Today's guest interview is with Rebecca Scritchfield. Rebecca Scritchfield is a registered dietitian nutritionist, certified exercise physiologist, author of the book Body Kindness, and host of the Body Kindness podcast. Through her weight-inclusive, Health at Every Size counseling practice, she helps people make peace with food, find the joy in exercise, and create a better life with workable goa...

This week on the show I'm interviewing Chris Masterjohn. We chat about leaving academia, vitamin K2, oxidants and antioxidants. Chris earned my PhD in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Connecticut in the summer of 2012. He then served as a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Illinois. And then served as Assistant Professor of Health and Nutrition Sciences at Brooklyn Col...

This week’s episode of Real Health Radio is all about carbohydrates. I actually re-recorded an episode I did several years ago on the topic, giving it a bit of an overhaul. Carbohydrates continue to be demonised in the media and wellness industry, so I thought I’d dive back into the subject to clear up some of the confusion. As part of the show, I talk about what carbohydrates are used for in the...

Welcome to another episode of Real Health Radio. This is another guest interview and today’s guest is Rachel Foy. Rachel is known as “The Food Freedom Coach”, and is regarded as a top authority on emotional eating, binge eating and diet obsession for women. She has a background in clinical and cognitive hypnotherapy, Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), Eating Psychology, nutritional therapy and EF...

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. Today’s guest interview is with Stephanie Dankelson. Stephanie Dankelson is a writer, podcast host, and certified Body and Self Acceptance Coach. She is passionate about helping people end the battle with themselves & their bodies so they can uncover what it means to live the life they deeply desire. From the age of 14, Stephanie struggled with disordered eating,...

Welcome to another instalment of Real Health Radio, today I’m chatting with Kaila Prins. Kaila is a drag queen trapped in a woman’s body—a body positive burlesque and pole dancer, and a performing woman performing “woman.” She is also a body positive wellness and recovery coach, feminist writer and speaker, and the host of the Finding Our Hunger podcast, using intersectional feminism, health at ev...

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. This week I return for a third life update to fill you on what’s been going on in my life over the last 10 months. I’m sharing what I’ve been up to, how we’re doing as a family, and why we’ve decided to do no screen time around my young son.