Real Health Radio

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. It’s another guest interview episode and this week I sat down with Miriam Greaves. Miriam is a hypnobirthing teacher and mother of two. After working for years in the theatre industry in London and New York, she became passionate about every woman having a positive birth experience after her own positive birth. Miriam trained with KG Hypnobirthing, and now works...

I can't believe it, but we have hit episode 100! As part of this show I decided to answer questions that listeners have about me and my life. I cover my early life in Sydney and moving to the UK, struggling with insecurities in my teenage years and 20s, my thoughts on religion and psychedelics, my eating habits and relationship with food, my ways for coping with stress and lots more. This is by fa...

It’s another instalment of Real Health Radio and on this week’s show I’m talking about my new health app called Tummy. I cover how the app came to be and why it’s different to what else is out there. I explain everything it does and why it can be so helpful. I go through where we’d like to take it and what the vision Tummy is. And I also going to give you a chance to try it out for free for a limi...

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. On this week’s show we’re looking at how you can be more organised and prepare healthy snacks and meals, even when time is limited. We look at what constitutes healthy food, meal timing and frequency. We chat about how habits and environmental factors can impact on what you eat. And I provide suggestions on shopping, batching cooking, quick meal ideas, snack sugg...

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. On this week’s show I’m sitting down with another guest and it’s Brian St. Pierre. Brian is the Director of Performance Nutrition at Precision Nutrition, working with a host of fitness professionals and professional sports teams including the San Antonio Spurs, Cleveland Browns, and more. Prior to his work with Precision Nutrition, Brian worked for three years at...

Welcome back to another installment of Real Health Radio. This week I discuss Hashimoto’s Disease and the ways that it can impact health. I explain what Hashimoto’s is, the role of the immune system in the disease and ways to test for it if you suspect it is an issue for you. I also discuss the possible role of food sensitivities, common medications used to treat Hashimoto’s and offer resources to...

Welcome back to another installment of Real Health Radio. This week I look at context in health and the need to account for it when looking to improve your health. Rather than certain foods or habits being “healthy” or “unhealthy” in a binary way, things happen on a continuum and this continuum is context specific. I give examples from my experience with clients and provide a general way of using...

Welcome to another episode of Real Health Radio. Today is another guest show and I’m chatting with Charlotte Goodall. Charlotte is a distance runner and coach. Originally from Ireland, she now lives in Oxford, U.K. She has been running competitively for eight years, and in 2016 was the winner of the White Peak Race and the Ridgeway Run. She is also a keen road cyclist and dressage rider. Her inter...

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. It’s another guest interview episode of Real Health Radio and this week I’m speaking with Pip Black. Pip Black is the Co-Founder of Frame. As a child and in her early 20s she played top-level sport before going on to study Business Management. In 2008 she set up Frame with the goal of making fitness fun, sociable and flexible. Since then the business has grown to...

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. It’s another guest interview episode of Real Health Radio and this week I’m speaking with Tina Muir. Tina Muir is a 2:36 marathoner and Great Britain runner who recently shocked the running world by taking a hiatus to focus on starting a family and overcoming amenorrhea. Tina created the Running for Real Community to foster a healthy mindset around running. This...

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...

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. It’s another guest interview episode of Real Health Radio and this week I’m speaking with Alexa Schirm. Alexa Schirm is a busy mom of three girls and the author behind the site Simple Roots Wellness. She received her bachelor’s degree in Nutrition and has taken a holistic approach in teaching people how the body functions and makes recommendations through this un...

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. It’s another guest interview episode of Real Health Radio and this week I’m speaking with Matt Stone. Matt Stone is an independent health researcher and author of more than 10 books on various health-related topics. He launched an independent investigation into health in 2005, and has since been exploring a wide range of health fields – from general physiology an...

Welcome back to another installment of Real Health Radio. This week we are looking at energy flux and understanding what that means in the context of your life. I explain what it is, why it’s important and what the major factors of your daily life are that have an influence over energy flux.

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...

Welcome back to another instalment of Real Health Radio. This week we are looking at the Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) study. It uncovers how trauma as a child can impact on someone’s health and behaviours in later life. And despite the study being nearly 20 years old, too few people know about considering its importance.

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. It’s another guest interview episode of Real Health Radio and this week I’m speaking with Rachel W. Cole. Rachel Cole is a certified life coach, celebrated teacher, and women’s empowerment expert. She has spent ten years guiding women to identify, understand and feed their truest hungers – at and away from the table. As an eating disorder survivor herself, Rachel...

Welcome to another installment of Real Health Radio. In this episode we take another look at how environmental factors like glassware size, restaurant environment, dining companions and mood can affect food choice and consumption. This episode is specifically looking at how this impacts on adults (part one addressed the affect of environment on children).

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. It’s another guest interview episode of Real Health Radio and this week I’m speaking with Mel Noakes, The Self Care Coach. Mel specialises in working with women to balance their professional success with their personal health and happiness. She helps her clients slow down, embrace their uniqueness and respect their bodies so that they can thrive. She teaches wome...

Welcome to another instalment of Real Health Radio. In this episode we delve into how environmental factors like carton characters, cereal bowl sizes, Elmo stickers, or the colours on a plate can affect food choice and consumption. This episode is specifically looking at how this impacts on children (but there will be a part two that addresses this stuff in adults).

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. Today I’m bringing back a previous guest for a round two, and that guest is 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 alterna...

Welcome back to Real Health Radio. This week’s show is all about hormesis. I explain what it is, some of the mechanisms for how it works in the body and what are things you can be doing to stimulate it.

It’s another guest interview episode of Real Health Radio and this week I’m speaking with Chris Masterjohn. 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 College. In the fall of...

It’s another episode of Real Health Radio. This episode is all about supporting your immune system and staying healthy in the winter time.