Real Health Radio

I recently saw a meme created by Dr Mark Hyman that said “sugar is 8 times more addictive than cocaine”. It made me remember a scene from the documentary Food Matters. One of the interviewees was talking about how addictive sugar is. She made a comment along the lines of “giving kids sugar is like rolling up their sleeve and injecting them with heroin”. This way of talking about food, particularly...

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. Today’s guest interview is with Amber Karnes. Amber is the founder of Body Positive Yoga. She’s a ruckus maker, yoga asana teacher (E-RYT 200), social justice advocate, and a lifelong student of her body. Her commitment to accessible, adaptive yoga practice empowers thousands of diverse practitioners around the globe. She is the creator of the Body Positive Clubh...

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. Today’s guest interview is with Jes Baker. Jes is a positive, progressive, and magnificently irreverent force to be reckoned with in the realm of self-love advocacy and mental health. She is internationally known for preaching the importance of body liberation, hard conversations, strong coffee, and even stronger language. Jes burst onto the body positivity scene...

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. Today’s guest interview is with Ollie Aplin. Ollie is designer with over 10 years experience, working for clients like Jamie Oliver, the BBC and Channel 4 amongst others. He’s also an ambassador for men’s mental health. He spent the first 18 years of his life dealing with his mother’s mental health issues. And this was followed by his own mental breakdown in his...

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. Today's guest interview is with Tabitha Farrar. Tabitha grew up in Wiltshire, England, in an idyllic (yet rainy) village. Despite being a robust and confident teenager, she developed an eating disorder at age 17 and this devastating illness took pole position in her life until, at 25, she finally started my recovery journey. She successfully recovered from Anorex...

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. Today’s guest interview is with Marya Hornbacher. Marya is an award-winning journalist and bestselling author. She is the recipient of a host of awards for her books, journalism, essays, and poetry. Shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize for her first book, Marya has spent a prolific twenty-odd years writing and teaching across genres. She was recently honored with t...

Welcome back to another installment of Real Health Radio. This week I look at exercise and fitness and their role in health. I explain what exercise and fitness are, how they benefit us, the role of hormesis in this and the major factors that determine how beneficial exercise is for you. I also discuss signs of overtraining, the type of movement that is the most supportive of health and the role e...

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. This week it’s a solo episode, and I’m reviewing “The Fiji Study”. This study looks at teenager’s beliefs and behaviours around body image and dieting in 1995 when television was first introduced and then in 1998, three years later. I go over the findings, what some of the possible reasons are, and talk about what I think we can take away from it.

It’s another instalment of Real Health Radio and this week I’m looking at the topic of fluid intake and urination. We’ve all heard that we need to drink 1.5L or 2L or 8 cups of water a day, but how true is this? How often should you be urinating and what colour should it be? Does coffee and tea count towards your fluid intake? We cover all of this and much more as part of the show.

On today’s episode I’m talking all about stools. We look at what are stools made up of and their function in the body. We cover how often you should be going, what the consistency should be, and other characteristics of good stool health. And then I also look at other ideas that are related to gut health, like stress, reproductive hormones, fibre, probiotics, squatting, and much more.

When looking at creating health, the importance of sleep is one aspect that people often neglect. You can have a fantastic diet, exercise regularly and manage your stress well, but if you are not sleeping properly it will start to take its toll on your body. This week’s episode of Real Health Radio is all about how to improve your sleep. I go through lots of suggestions on how you can getting bett...

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. This week it’s a solo episode, and I’m exploring the topic of life expectancy. As part of this show, I dig into the current life expectancy rates for the U.S. and the U.K., and explore several possibilities and ideas for why we’re seeing trends go in this direction.

Welcome to another installment of Real Health Radio. This week I’m sitting down one of my past clients, Alex, to talk about what it’s been like working together. Alex had been dieting for almost 20 years when we started working together, and we chat about what inspired her to work with me, what we worked on, and the changes she’s seen in her life.

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. This week is another solo episode and we’re revisiting something I’ve covered in the past – how thinking can affect health. We discuss cognitive dietary restraint (aka dieting) and and see if it can impact our physical health and brain power. We review several studies that have been done in this area and chat about what we can take from these scientific papers an...

Welcome to another installment of Real Health Radio. This week I’m sitting down one of my past clients, Rachel, to talk about what it’s been like working together. We cover why she came to see me, what we’ve worked on and where she is now at with their health, body image, and relationship with food.

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. Today’s guest interview is with Emma Louise Pudge. Emma is an eating disorders researcher and activist and Masters student at University College London (UCL) in Health Humanities. Emma researches eating disorders from a feminist, sociocultural and social-justice oriented perspective, and she is particularly interested in exploring how biological, psychological, e...

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. Today’s guest interview is with Laura Hearn. Laura is the founder of the globally recognised online platform, ‘Jiggsy’ which uses it’s unique creative tool ‘The Jiggsaw’ to connect people affected by an eating disorder and mental ill health. Alongside this, Laura shares her experience of recovery from anorexia and how she learnt to heal from the inside, after spe...

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. My guest today is Chevy Rough. Chevy is a high performance coach, with a focus on performance breathing, stress management, executive coaching, running and mental health. But it’s been quite a journey to get here. At age 17 Chevy began working in the city, confused and lacking direction. This lead to 16 years of depression, drink and drugs as he tried to grow fro...

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. This week I return for a second life update to fill you on what’s been going on in my life over the last 6 months. I’m sharing what I’ve been up to, some challenges we’ve been facing as a family, and how we’ve been approaching the weaning process with my son.

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. My guest today is Elyse Resch. Elyse Resch, MS, RDN, CEDRD, Fiaedp, FADA, FAND, is a nutrition therapist in private practice in Beverly Hills with over thirty-six years of experience, specializing in eating disorders, Intuitive Eating, and Health at Every Size. She is the co-author of Intuitive Eating and The Intuitive Eating Workbook, is the author of the upcomi...

Today’s episode of Real Health Radio is all about disordered eating and eating disorders. Clients with issues around food make up a large part of my practice and they are something I’ve been helping women deal with for a number of years. As part of the show we look at the difference between an eating disorder versus disordered eating, why they happen (and it’s not always about managing someone’s w...

Welcome to another episode of Real Health Radio. This is another guest interview and today’s guest is Evelyn Tribole. Evelyn is an award-winning registered dietitian, specializing in eating disorders and Intuitive Eating, with a private practice in Newport Beach, California. She has written seven books including the bestseller Intuitive Eating, which she co-authored with Elyse Resch. Evelyn was th...

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. This week it’s a solo episode, and I’m digging into The Replication Crisis. This episode has been a long time in the making and I’m super excited to finally be able to share it with you. In this episode, I talk about what the replication crisis is, why this problem is occurring, the larger implications of it, and some suggested solutions.

Welcome to another instalment of Real Health Radio. Kamal is a nutrition researcher with an MPH and MBA from Johns Hopkins University, and is on hiatus from a PhD in nutrition, in which he researched the link between diet and chronic pain. He has published peer-reviewed articles on vitamin D and calcium as well as a variety of clinical research topics. Kamal is the director of Examine.com, which i...

Welcome to this week’s episode of Real Health Radio, where I interview Summer Innanen. Summer is a Certified Nutritional Practitioner and Body Image Coach. She helps women all over the world to ditch their diet demons, amp up their confidence, and break free of chronic dieting and guilt through her private and group coaching at summerinnanen.com. She is the creator of the 21 Step Body Image Remix,...