Real Health Radio

Welcome back to another episode of Real Health Radio. This week I have my first returning guest and it is Ari Whitten. Ari is the bestselling author of the book Forever Fat Loss and The Low Carb Myth. He is a fat loss and metabolism specialist who focuses on hormonal rejuvenation and enhancement as a path to effortless body transformation. Ari has a Bachelor’s of Science from San Diego State Unive...

Welcome to this week’s episode of Real Health Radio. In 2004, Dan Buettner teamed up with National Geographic and the world’s best longevity researchers to identify pockets around the world where people live measurably longer lives. As part of the research they identified 9 different principles that all these areas had in common that supported their long lives. As part of today’s podcast I go thro...

On this week’s episode of Real Health Radio I’m doing something a little different. I was recently interviewed by Alice Bradshaw from Solgar and I wanted to share the interview with you. It is largely about how I got set up as a practitioner and that process but we also look at the state of nutrition and where I see things heading and we discuss a couple of books I’ve written, how they came about...

On this week’s episode of Real Health Radio I’m interviewing another guest and my guest is Krista Scott-Dixon. Krista is a former university professor who turned a hobby of farting around on the internet answering health and fitness questions into a second career. She’s now the Director of Curriculum at Precision Nutrition. She’s run the women’s weight training website Stumptuous.com for 20 years....

Welcome to another instalment of Real Health Radio. This week I’m sitting down with two of my clients (one past, one current) to discuss what it’s been like working together. We cover why they came to see me, what we’ve worked on and where they are now at with their health, body image and relationship with food.

For this week’s instalment of Real Health Radio I’m interviewing Anne-Sophie Reinhardt. Anne-Sophie serves entrepreneurs, coaches and highly ambitious women who want OUT of their destructive relationship with food and their bodies by helping them to respect their body wholeheartedly. She is a certified Martha Beck Life Coach and Eating Psychology Coach, founder of the award-winning blog and podcas...

Today’s episode of Real Health Radio is all about the female menstrual cycle. It’s something that most woman have a poor understanding of, so I cover the different hormones, organs and physiological changes that occur across the cycle.

Today’s episode of Real Health Radio is all about protein. First I cover what protein is used for in the body. And then we look at other issues relating to protein like bioavailability of different sources, how much protein you need and how to roughly work this out, animal sources versus vegetarian sources, inflammatory amino acids and whole lot more.

Welcome to another instalment of Real Health Radio, this week I’m interviewing Sarah Vance. Sarah is a body image and disordered eating coach who helps others find peace and freedom around their body, food, and self-care. She helps women reconnect with their inner radiant self, and start living the life they truly deserve. As a former bikini competitor and fitness model, she is familiar with extre...

On this week’s episode of Real Health Radio I’ll be discussing The Minnesota Starvation Experiment. This fascinating experiment has had a huge impact on me as practitioner so I want to share some insights about it with you. I explain the background of the experiment and why it happened, what took place as part of it, and what the results were. As I go through I also explain why I think this inform...

On this week’s episode of Real Health Radio I have the Zoe Nicholson as my guest. Zoe is the director and senior dietitian at Figureate Consulting, a busy full time practice operating from three locations in Melbourne, Australia. Zoe uses the Non-Diet Approach to teach people how to eating intuitively and help heal their relationship with food and their bodies in order to manage their health witho...

At the end of January I set myself a challenge. Every day, for a period of 12 weeks, I was going to eat a minimum of 3,200 calories per day. If was had room, I could eat more…and on some days I’d see just how high I could take it. (My highest day turned out to be just under 5,000 calories). According to online calculators I need 2,800 calories per day to maintain my weight, so eating 3,200 as a mi...

On this week’s episode of Real Health Radio I have the Jamie Mendell as my guest. Jamie is a lifestyle coach, specializing in helping women master their lives by taking exceptional care of themselves. For 10 years, Jamie struggled with food, binge / emotional eating and her weight. After hitting her head against a wall for way too long, she finally transformed her relationship with food through in...

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...

On this week’s episode of Real Health Radio I am looking at setting up and running a successful practice. I share what I think has been most helpful for me and some of the pitfalls. I go through my story and journey from start to where I am today to provide context for some of the suggestions but to also give a real life example of what it’s like.

Welcome to another episode of Real Health Radio, this week I’m interviewing Jodie is the director of Healthy Balance Fitness a multi-award winning group fitness business based in Melbourne, Australia, and the co-founder of The Moderation Movement. Jodie is spreading the word that quitting foods you enjoy, and forcing yourself to do exercise you hate, is not the way to a healthier, happier life.  A...

On this week’s episode of Real Health Radio I explore the topic of what it means to be happy. I cover some of the misconceptions around “being happy” and how this idea can be better viewed. I then look at ways to cultivate more happiness or positive emotions (and experiences) in your life.

Welcome to another episode of Real Health Radio, this week I’m joined by Scott Kustes. Scott is a former Crossfit and Paleo evangelist who after many years realized the diet as was following wasn’t helping his health. He is the author of a series of books called Kill Your Diet and co-hosts his own podcast called Evil Sugar Radio. Gone are the days of focusing on extreme diets and restrictive regim...

This week’s episode of Real Health Radio is all about carbohydrates. Carbohydrates seem to have taken a real bashing for the past decade or so. While in the 80s and 90s fat was enemy number one, carbohydrates seemed to take over this mantle in the early 2000s with the proliferation of the Atkins diet. Since then further diets like paleo have largely flown the low carb flag. As part of the show I t...

Welcome to another episode of Real Health Radio, this week I’m chatting with Mike Weeks. Mike is a trainer and change agent. He works with individuals and business helping to create transformations. He works with people who have allegedly unsolvable/impossible problems and helps to get through them, normally in just one session.

On this week’s show it’s a solo episode with me talking about cholesterol. Just hearing the word for most people makes them think of cardiovascular disease or has negative connotations. But this is a very narrow understanding what cholesterol is really about. On today’s show I cover what cholesterol is, what it does In the body, what HDL and LDL are, the connection between cholesterol and cardiova...

On this week’s show I interview James Krieger. James has been involved in the exercise and nutrition field for over 15 years.  He has a Master’s degree in Nutrition from the University of Florida and a second Master’s degree in Exercise Science from Washington State University.  He has authored or co-authored a number of exercise- and nutrition-related research publications in various scientific j...

This week’s episode is all about Intuitive Eating. Intuitive Eating is the name of a book written by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch that was first published back in 1995, so just over two decades ago. On the show I go over the central tenants of intuitive eating and what it’s really about.

On this week’s episode of Real Health Radio I have Andea Owen as my guest. Andrea is a Life coach. Mom. Author. Roller Derby Rebel. Hellraiser. Andrea Owen is passionate about empowering women to value themselves and fiercely love who they are. She helps women get what they want by letting go of perfectionism, control, and isolation and choosing to practice courage instead. You can learn more at w...

This week’s episode of Real Health Radio is all about detoxification. Doing a “detox” seems to a fairly common thing these days but are they as helpful as they are cracked up to be? It’s a topic that has huge amounts of myths and incorrect information surrounding it and on the show I want to set the record straight. I look at how detoxification works, the different organs that are involved, why mo...