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 is a space where runners can explore, embrace, and get better from setbacks through inspiring podcasts, videos, and blog posts, and most importantly, sharing thoughts and experiences. Running can really hurt, but we don’t have to go through it alone.

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 practical information for health practitioners to use with their clients.

He currently delivers courses in biochemistry, physiology, and pathophysiology as an Instructor at Maryland University of Integrated Health.

In addition, he serves as the Co-Director of Education at Biogenetix, a cutting-edge nutraceutical company, where he formulates products, creates educational modules, and presents to clinicians throughout the U.S.

He is a licensed, board-certified Naturopathic Doctor and has been seeing patients throughout the U.S. for the past decade.

Outside of his professional endeavors, you can find him spending time and having incredible amounts of fun with his wife and five children.

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 exercise plays in physique.

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 understanding. Alexa has a passion for helping people reach their goals of optimal health through teaching them the importance of eating real food and how easy and delicious these changes can be. Alexa is also passionate about shedding light on many of the myths and misunderstandings that are perpetuated in the world of wellness, through her award winning podcast, Simple Roots Radio, taking once complicated nutrition issues and simplifying them. She enjoys helping her readers sift through the nonsense and teaches them to start eating to support health for life using real foods. Helping them eat to live.

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 and nutrition to areas as diverse and specific as psychoneuroendocrinology.

His investigation has yielded many great, practical insights and simple tips on how regular people can make substantial improvements in their health – for the purpose of both improving or eliminating specific health problems and preventing some of the most common ailments in the modern world. Most of his research has drawn him towards metabolic rate and how many basic functions (digestion, reproduction, aging, immunity, inflammation, sleep) perform better when metabolic rate is optimized.

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 disorders community on and offline, and is a member of a number of organizations for eating disorder professionals, including the Academy for Eating Disorders and the Eating Disorders Association of Canada, and volunteers for the National Initiative for Eating Disorders in Canada.

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 speaks with great wisdom, sensitivity, and authority about what it takes to live as a well-fed woman in the modern world. She has traveled across the United States and internationally speaking and teaching to sold-out gatherings of women on how they too can find ease and fulfillment in their lives simply by honoring their own hungers.

Rachel holds a Masters Degree in Holistic Health Education and is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach. More information can be found about her at www.rachelwcole.com

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).