Health Unwrapped

Welcome to the seventh episode of Health Unwrapped, shared with you during lockdown in the UK, despite being recorded before we went into it. So the conversation has changed somewhat as at the time of recording, Deborah was hoping to be running the London Marathon in April, which we know at the time of publishing has been postponed until Sunday 4th October. Deborah also talks about Race for Life which are currently being moved to later in the year, so if you were planning on doing one - we'd suggest keep an eye on their socials and website.

What we discuss: 

• How Deborah always ran, in fact she was a National gymnast as a girl - very impressive!
• The importance of exercise for your mental health - how exercise supports her mind  and the dark side that cancer brings 
• What her running entails including  the daily battle she has 
• The biggest challenge  - Deborah talks about the rollercoaster of cancer treatment 
• The operations she has had to date, including lung and bowel resections 
• How she overcomes the time spent recovering from operations and builds up her strength again 
• The Mental and Physical preparation including how she fuels her body and how she manages the side effect of her cancer treatment
• The resources she uses such as the NHS 'Couch to 5k' app
• Her involvement as an Ambassador for Race for Life and how saying yes to a challenge is such a powerful of the milestone 
• Supplements she uses for recovery - including Potassium and magnesium 
• What is 'party pace'  - How being a slow runner doesn’t matter. 

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Welcome to episode six of Health Unwrapped where we catch up once again with Dr Zoe Williams. This episode is being shared whilst many of us are still in lockdown due to COVID-19 and our shopping habits have changed significantly. Some of us are used to eating out regularly rather than cooking or being a bit too reliant on takeaways. Our current situation may have found you reunited with your kitchen and having to cook, others might be on a limited budget  - more so now than before. Or it may just be you aren't able to get to the shops due to work, health or childcare and therefore can't get the items we're used to. So this conversation about 'diets' with Dr Zoe Williams is going to be really useful and hopefully get you thinking about some practical changes you could make.

What we discuss: 

• Why Zoe has an issue with the word 'diet' and how you should view it as a lifestyle. How to get a better diet - what do ditch and what to keep 
• How 1/3 of our population are overweight and 1/3 are obese and the numbers are accelerating
• Why  we never ask why has someone reached the stage of not just being overweight but obese
• How to identify something you are already doing, such as drinking Kefir and explaining that lots of people are doing this as it has health benefits 
• How to get more movement into your day to day and how to get motivated
• How 'Motivational Interviewing' can help conversations along
• How we have to get away from the idea that the answer to obesity is to eat less and move more, that it requires an all systems approach 
• How a cheap lifestyle intervention can achieve such amazing results 
• What types of fat you have in your body and how we all have different capacity of what we can carry safely - subcutaneous fat, visceral fat & ectopic, what it is and what it can do to your body 
• What is a TOFI - thin outside, fat on the inside
• Which diets that you should be wary of eg. Keto
• The benefits of low carb diet and intermittent fasting eg. time restricted eating 

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Welcome to episode five of Health Unwrapped, a somewhat timely episode after the bank holiday weekend as we join fitness guru Chloe Madeley, to talk about training. With most of us currently in lockdown due to COVID-19 Chloe also offers some useful tips on working out at home as well as talking about her gym routine, so be sure to bookmark this episode to listen to again, once we are all able to go back to the gym. 

Chloe has published three books, her latest one is called 'Transform your body with weights' and we talked about the stigma around women and weight training and what she thinks about it. She is currently writing her 4th book  and I wanted to talk to her about her introduction to training. Chloe explained how she hated sport as a kid which is hard to believe when you consider what incredible shape she is in. She also spoke about how much of an impact her training regime has had on her mental health. 

What we discussed: 

• How Chloe started running in her late 20’s to help with anxiety (she hated running)  
• How she learnt to Olympic lift and the impact it had on her self esteem
• Different types of training you can do when weight lifting 
• What is a physique athlete 
• What you can do in 10 minutes and the impact of if on your metabolic rate
• How to get started at the gym
• Who to ask for advice and what you should expect
• How to manage the pressure of maintaining looking a certain way 
• What is homeostasis - and how your body tries to get back to it 

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Welcome to episode four of Health Unwrapped, where we are speaking to Rosie Millen aka Miss Nutritionist about her experience of burnout, which she experienced six years ago after collapsing in a park. Rosie explains how the World Health Organisation legitimised burnout in May 2019 and how it had such a huge impact on her life, she had to stay in bed for three years to recover. 

You can imagine how challenging that must have been, now more than ever as we are all currently going through our own lockdown and dealing with the frustrations it brings. However, what will be interesting is listening to this episode in the contact of being forced to slow down and taking stock to think about what Rosie explains as contributing factors to causing burnout. Maybe this current lockdown came at just the right time for you.

What we will be discussing: 

• How our adrenal glands are responsible for the stress response  - the release of cortisol and adrenaline 
• What causes Burnout - when your plate is already full but you keep adding to it 
• What are the signs - such as dragging yourself through the day, you can’t even brush your teeth, lose your drive, low blood pressure, feel dizzy, dark circles under the eyes, grey skin, fatigue after exercise 
• Why you need to make sure you are eating enough food eg. protein at every meal   
• How to avoid foods that zap energy 
• How to talk to work about feeling burnt out 
• The importance of Sleep and Sleep Hygiene - Rosie refers to "Why we sleep by Mathew Walker"
• The stresses you need to remove  -  such as toxic relationships and the impact of emotional stress
• What supplements can help - such as Magnesium
• How to get good at prioritising things 
• How Mindfulness can help
• What is GABA  (Gamma Aminobutyric acid)  and how it can make us feel calm 
• How to have more fun offline 
• Why Burnout is more prominent in women
• How Rosie is 'Burnout proof' from what she has learnt 

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Welcome to episode three of Health Unwrapped where we speak to Nutritionist and food blogger Emma Hanton about the importance of eating healthily. Emma has a beautiful Instagram feed where she shares a wide range of recipe ideas and in this conversation, she gives some key tips on how to make your diet even healthier, without it being too difficult or expensive. We talk about how nutrition is at the core of so much of our health and how it doesn't have to be too hard to get our heads around.

What we will be discussing:

• Where best to get your protein from you eg. lean meats such as chicken, turkey, fish, eggs, plant proteins such as chickpea, lentil and tofu
• How there is a positivity movement on instagram about food but there is still a lot of people promoting 'restriction' when they might not realise it 
• What annoys Emma about Detox - such as charcoal products, claims on products that are natural or organic aren’t always healthy. 
• How sugar is in more than we realise eg, salad dressing, sauces, ketchup but you can make a reduction by buying alternatives. 
• How honey, maple syrup and agave still have sugar in them, which means they aren’t automatically healthier than white sugar and how we don’t have research on sweeteners,  so best to reduce as best as you can 
• How to get more fibre in your diet through wholegrains and pulses and lots of fruit and vegetables. 
• How Inulin which is from chicory route is an additional way to take on some fibre.
• When it comes to planning a weeks food, one way is to think of five meals on a Sunday that you would like for the week ahead and buy in the bits but you can chop and change rather than having it all mapped out. 

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Welcome to episode two of Health Unwrapped, where our host Natalie Silverman chats to Deborah James about living with Bowel Cancer. Deborah who is currently cancer-free talks about how it had a major impact on her health, despite on paper being the type of person, least at risk. Deborah had a bowel resection, so half her bowel was removed. Day to day, she has to actively think about the type of foods she puts in her body as it either comes through too quickly or doesn’t come through or makes her sick.  Therefore Deborah has to eat a high fibre diet eats a variety of fruit and vegetables and she talks through where she gets her fibre from. 

We will be discussing: 

• How Bowel Cancer can be caused by a variety of different things and 50% of it is are lifestyle factors. 
• How we all need more fibre as we know that 30% of bowel cancer is linked to a lack of fibre in the diet. Most of us don’t eat enough a day.
• How looking after our gut is key.
• The connection between a happy gut and a healthy mind.
• Easy ways to get more fibre into your diet.
• How you can supplement fibre into your diet.
• Why we need to understand our microbiome which is the climate in which our gut exists and we have to keep it as healthy as possible. 
• The responsibility of parents to teach our children about food and help them understand healthy food choices. Deborah talks through 'pooh check' fun with her children, helping them understand more about their stools, by making plasticine poohs.
• Not every case of bowel cancer is linked to diet but it’s important to be aware of it.

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Welcome to the first episode of Health Unwrapped, where our host Natalie Silverman talks to Dr Zoe Willams about how best we can look after ourselves whilst we are having to   self isolate. There’s never been a time when it’s been so significant to think about your own immune system and what you can do to boost your immune health .  Dr Zoe talks about how a lot of us are going to get Coronavirus and how most of us will be fine and recover

What we will be discussing is:

• The importance of having a diet high in fruit and vegetables, whole grains, healthy sources of omega 3 - oily fish and dairy ( if you’re not vegan or vegetarian ) to make the cells and chemicals it needs to help your body function. 
• If you can't access fresh fruit and vegetables then take a multivitamin
• How daily regular movement will boost your immunity.
• The importance of good sleep.
• How important it is for asthma sufferers to use inhalers properly. Use them how they are prescribed. 
• How stress can have a really negative impact on your immune system. 
• How having a glass of wine a week isn’t going to have an impact but drinking large amounts will. 
• Why now is a better time than ever to stop smoking as for those of us who will get  Coronavirus and progress to getting complications, having quit smoking will help. 
• Immunity is affected by genetics.

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