The Healthy Post Natal Body Podcast

Send us Fan Mail This week I am joined by the wonderful Alicia Patterson. Alicia is a pelvic floor specialist and somatic counselor. With over 14 years of training, she is one of those fascinating expert health-care providers who truly believes in a holistic approach when it comes to pelvic floor recovery and pelvic health. We discuss many things including; What is somatic healing? The nervous sys...

Send us Fan Mail This week I am delighted to be joined by Sheila Carroll MD Dr. Sheila Carroll is a board-certified pediatrican and obesity medicine physician who is dedicated to helping children achieve their best health.  She does this by working exclusively with  parents who are willing to focus on modifying their own behaviors to ultimately improve their child's health. I absolutely LOVE...

Send us Fan Mail As my neighbour is a jackass who doesn't tell me when he's going to be hammering all weekend, I had to pull an episode "from the vault". It's an oldie but a goodie! This week I'm talking about stupid things people do to heal their diastasis recti. From bellybinders and Peloton bikes to doing Instagram workouts and asking your GP for surgery on the NHS...

Send us Fan Mail This week I talk about the importance of doing plank exercises if you're working on your postpartum recovery Too often do I hear "Planks are dangerous to do post-partum" or "avoid doing planks or you'll make your diastasis worse". This is complete nonsense. Planks are your friend post-partum but you kind of have to know what you're doing and why...

Send us Fan Mail After last weeks, admittedly terrible, episode I am back on track! This week I discuss whether it is better to use big weights or smaller weights if you're post-partum. There tends to be a lot of discussion around this and I'm not 100% sure why that is as the answer is fairly clear. I also, briefly, discuss the role of a personal trainer. As one of my new clients brought...

Send us Fan Mail This week I have the pleasure to be joined by Dr Kristal Lau in a bumper, an epic, 2 HOUR LONG!!, interview talking about the benefits of "confinement practices", but with a twist, to aid your post-partum recovery. Regular listeners will have heard me talk about "zuo yue zi" or "Sitting the month" before as I strongly believe that some of the practice...

Send us Fan Mail This week I talk about one of the questions that comes up regularly in the day-to-day life of any personal trainer and dietitian. "I am doing everything right, why am I not losing weight?". Fundamentally the answer is always "It's because you're not doing everything right", and this is what most personal trainers and dietitians will tell you, but that...

Send us Fan Mail In another "From the vault" episode I'm revisiting the interview I did with Danielle Sullivan about raising Neurodivergent children. She's a neurodiversity life coach, autism and disability advocate, autistic mother and host of the Neurodiverging podcast . We had a tremendous chat about various things to do with either being diagnosed as neurodivergent yourself...

Send us Fan Mail  In this week's episode I go through the Why, Who, What, When, the Where and the How of post-partum exercise. Back to basics this week with me talking about the best way to plan your physical post-partum recovery. Can you prevent diastasis recti by doing the "right things" during your pregnancy? The quickest way for your body to recover post-partum. Should you do ca...

Send us Fan Mail In this week's episode I am joined by Personal trainer, gym owner, podcast host and all-round good guy Brad Williams. California based Brad specialises in working with men and women over 40 and we talk about the differences that he sees in how someone over 40 should eat and train compared to someone in their 20s. Some of the things we touch on are; Life is different for the o...

Send us Fan Mail  In this week's episode I answer some of the questions that have come up this week. I talk about above navel diastasis and how the approach to recovery is slightly different from below navel, or completely open, DR. It's remarkably straightforward but still important to note the difference. I'm also talking about whether you should wash your baby with soap every day...

Send us Fan Mail I've been wanting to do an episode on this subject for a VERY long time  so I am delighted to be talking sustainability with John Pabon. We are all interested in sustainability and the environment but, for many of us, the message around these subjects are confusing, complicated and overall just massively disheartening. "The world is doomed", "there is no point...

Send us Fan Mail In this week's episode I answer some of the questions regarding supplementation that I've recieved over the past month or so. Are vitamins worth the money? Do women need to take different vitamins than men? Here is the pubmed bit I refer to What about other supplements, protein, quercetin, turmeric etc? Is a probiotic worth the money, what is a probiotic and how can you...

Send us Fan Mail In an episode "From the vault" we're answering your post-partum diet questions, with a very special guest; Spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics; Libby Mills (MS, RDN, LDN, FAND). She's giving you expert answers to the questions you sent in. Some of the questions you put to her are; Is the KETO diet safe to do when you're breastfeeding? C...

Send us Fan Mail This week I answer some more of your questions and comment on some things that cropped up on my radar recently. First, Does KETO burn more fat? And, if it does, then why does it not matter that it does? Second, Just doing cardio isn't sufficient for healthy living and post-partum recovery. Third, How "Just doing something different" can help you get through a platea...

Send us Fan Mail  In a first I'm going "back to the vault" this week! I've had a lot of questions about going back to running post-partum and that made me decide to do the "unthinkable!" and let you guys enjoy the interview I did with  Runpainfreenow.com's Jessica Marie Rose Leggio. This was one of the most enjoyable interviews I've done over the past 3 year...

Send us Fan Mail This week I'm answering some more of your questions and emails, Will using a bodypillow during pregnancy really lead to greater diastasis recti and hip problems? Why learning to breathe properly is the single most important thing you can do for your post-partum recovery. I'm also talking about "doming" again And finally, why Gisele Bündchen is NOT the person yo...

Send us Fan Mail This week I have the pleasure of talking to Rebecca Washuta. Rebecca is a Licensed Dietitian Nutritionist and Health Coach specializing in weight loss and habit formation. She has been featured in a tonne of magazines and news segments and is a great person to talk to about how to take practical steps towards a healthier diet. We discuss many, many things including; What the Big 3...

Send us Fan Mail This week I'm answering some more of your questions and emails, covering a rather wide variety of subjects. What are my top 3 tips for a successful, and fast, post-partum recovery? Why resistance training for your upperbody is key if you want to recover post-partum. (And why there is a lot of it in the HPNB program) The importance of "dynamic training" rather than t...

Send us Fan Mail This week it's the 200th episode and I'm  over the moon to be joined by Dr Kat Kaeni. Dr. Kaeni is a perinatal psychologist in California where she provides perinatal mental health and perinatal mood & anxiety disorder counseling to people who are trying to be pregnant, are pregnant, had a loss of pregnancy or are dealing with a difficult birth or postpartum adjustme...

Send us Fan Mail This week I'm delighted to be joined by Dr Heather Hausenblas Heather has a PhD in the science of health psychology. She is a health psychology expert, international award-winning scientist, public speaker, and best-selling author. Her research focuses on how our health habits effect our well-being. In particular, how our diet, exercise, sleep, and supplementation effects our...

Send us Fan Mail This week I'm delighted to be joined by Daniel Sih. Daniel is an award winning author and productivity expert and has written a tremendous book called "Raising Tech-Healthy Humans". It's a practical handbook to help parents reset their children's tech-habits and give them a great start to life. If you're concerned about your kid's social media/ph...

Send us Fan Mail This week I am delighted to be joined by Beth DuPriest PhD Vaginal health expert Dr. Beth DuPriest, is the Chief Science Officer at Vaginal Biome Science Dr. DuPriest is a former Professor of Biology and Division Dean and has been involved in research related to developmental origins of health and disease for over twenty years.  Her PhD in Integrated Biomedical Sciences through th...

Send us Fan Mail This week I take the time to respond to your questions. We've had some great podcast guests on this month and you've sent in a few emails on the back of it which I will answer. So what am I talking about; Is diastasis an adaptation and can we just ignore it until you feel there is an issue? Is muscle activation something that you should focus on at all? Why I use differe...

Send us Fan Mail This week I have the pleasure of being joined by David Jeter who is an awesome physical therapist. We're talking post-partum back-pain and the benefits of physical therapy and exercise generally. We discuss many, many things including; What is post-partum back pain and what causes it? Is surgery THE solution? Why is post-partum backpain soo often ignored by both the medical c...