Welcome back to Real Health Radio. This week we’re looking at how thinking can affect health. We discuss cognitive dietary restraint (aka dieting) and negative body image, and see if they can impact our physical health as a whole. We review several studies that have been done in this area and we chat about the importance of changing our mindsets around this issue.

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 with parents to build their confidence and give them the tools to not only make a difference to their experience of birth but to give their baby the best possible start in life.

Miriam is also The Positive Birth Movement’s Regional Coordinator for the South East of England – free to attend support groups connecting mothers and pregnant women to share stories, expertise and positivity about childbirth and parenting.

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 far the most open I’ve been about me and my life, so I hope you enjoy it.

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 limited time.

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 suggestions, and much more.

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 Cressey Sports Performance as the head Sports Nutritionist and as a Strength and Conditioning Coach, working with hundreds of athletes and recreational exercisers of all types.

He’s the author of the High Performance Handbook Nutrition Guide, the Show and Go Nutrition Guide, and Ultimate Hockey Nutrition. Brian is a Registered Dietitian with a Masters degree in Food Science and Human Nutrition. He’s also a Certified Sports Nutritionist as well as a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist.

As part of the Precision Nutrition mission, he helps to deliver life-changing, research-driven nutrition coaching for everyone.

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 seek out if you are looking to learn more.

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 context so that you can begin to think about how to use it in your pursuit of health and wellbeing.

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 interests include sports nutrition, athletic performance, body image and exercise physiology, and specifically the psychology of exercise compulsion and over training. She blogs at www.impossiblehighway.wordpress.com, and is always keen to hear from other people who want to get help with finding a way to achieve performance goals without compromising their health or happiness.

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 many locations around the UK and Pip has been featured in the Guardian, BBC News, Sunday Times Style, and received a Marie Claire ‘Women At The Top’ Accolade.