Now I think most of my audience and followers know Kitty Blomfield.  She’s my no BS metabolic bestie who rants on and on about getting off the restrictive diet hamster wheel, so you can build a body you love.  Well, Kitty and her super duper business partner and life partner, Craigh McDonald, have coached hundreds of people through their win at life program.  

Now if you listened to my interview with nutritionist, Kira Sutherland and how to apply nutrition research into practice, you will know that most research studies are done for only 6 weeks and for us practitioners who have worked with clients over long periods of time and poured over months of food logs, we would argue that the data we have collected on sustainable weight loss is definitively more relative.

Craigh and Kitty have coached hundreds of women through their program.  Hundreds of women have put in their weekly data of food and subjective measures, not just weight loss, but health measures and they have achieved phenomenal weight loss transformations.  And so I had to have Kitty and Craig on the show to get the low down on healthy sustainable weight loss and what it takes to get off the diet merry go round and build a body you love.

Now, Kitty and Craig have their next break free challenge coming up and enrolments close 27th of September.  So if you would like to have the amazing experience of working with them on your food and exercise for four weeks, so that you can break free from restrictive diets and build a body you love, please click here to join the waitlist.

https://www.nustrength.com.au/bfc-waitlist

And if you got something out of this episode, please let us know.  Share your thoughts on instagram and tag me at @leilalutz as well as @kittyblomfield and @iamcraigmcdonald.

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Josh Rubin’s interview on episode one, was one of the most popular in the series, so I gather most of you know him well.  Honestly, I just love working with him anyways, so whether you guys liked him or not, he was coming back.

Josh is a CHEK Level 4, Certified Nutritionist and is about to complete his studies in Osteopathic Medicine. If you don’t know Josh yet, I highly recommend you listen to his first interview on Metabolism and look him up as @realfoodganstas on Instagram.  Josh has been helping people heal, using nutritional foundations, from metabolic issues such as thyroid disease and various fatigue syndromes for many years. 

Adrenal Fatigue is a term coined by the functional medicine practice.  It has been helpful in many ways in recognising that there is such a thing as physiological burnout.  We need to make space for that or we will never heal.  But Josh and I really share the view that the blanket diagnosis and protocol skims the surface and may limit you in terms of recovery.

Today we would like to discuss the adrenals and what they do and if they really can get fatigued or not.  We also talk about what we need to do to get out of this syndrome that allows you to return to a fully nourished and energetic state, enjoying life.

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I highly recommend Josh’s program, the RTN Method. He and his wife Jeanne are available for one on one and group sessions and you can find them at www.eastwesthealing.com and on instagram as @realfoodgangstas.

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What happens when you go to the doctor and your bloods all look normal, but you are still feeling suboptimal?  I have clients who feel chronically ill, fatigued and hormonal, yet at a glance, they can appear normal on standard blood tests.  So what then?

Well, this is one of the reasons I started The Body Never Lies because there just are too many people coming to me with this story and I am sure that is the same for my guest Keith Littlewood.

You might remember Keith, aka Tommo from the last series.  He has a masters in endocrinology and is currently embarking on his PhD in endocrinology.  If you’d like to donate to his much needed research project, please scroll down for the link

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You can find Keith Littlewood on instagram as @tommolittlewood and at www.balancedbodymind.com 

I highly recommend his Functional Endocrinology course if you are a practitioner and he also has a great course for the general population wanting to increase their knowledge and understanding of health.

If you would like to contribute to Tommo’s independent PhD study in endocrinology, please make a donation at: https://www.gofundme.com/f/independent-science-and-phd-research?utm_campaign=p_lico%20share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer

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It is so confusing as a consumer, to know which nutrition protocol is right for you.  The market is oversaturated with different diets and protocols and with the rise of social media, it is saturated with all types of practitioners and influences.  How do you know what to do?

Well, I think as a consumer, you have to get smarter and filter out the BS.  I have had clients come to me telling me the most outrageous things they have been advised to do, from doctors, from dieticians, from health coaches, you name it.  The qualification does not make the practitioner great.  It is the application of the practice.

There are, I believe, some fundamentals that need to be the absolute baseline for getting a result with nutrition and today’s episode is all about that.  I hope at the end of this, you can be more discerning about what you do and who you work with and if you’re a practitioner go that extra mile for your clients.

Kira Sutherland is a Naturopath and Sports Nutritionist with more than 25 years in clinical practice.  Her focus in performance nutrition led her to be the first Naturopath in Australia to undertake the International Olympic Committees diploma in sports nutrition. She is also the 2019 winner of the BioCeuticals Integrative Medicine Award for Excellence in practice (Nutrition/Dietetics).  And she is someone I look up to for a few reasons.  She harps on about the basics to both her students and patients, she’s a stickler for food logs and measuring physiology and performance and she is amazing in what she does for female athletes as “women are not small men”.

Kira divides her time between clinical practice, lecturing at the undergraduate level, and mentoring practitioners of complementary medicine in the application of holistic sports nutrition. I hope you enjoy this episode with Kira Sutherland.

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Kira practices clinically in Sydney, lectures in undergraduate studies, mentors nutritionists and also is a keynote speaker.  You can find her on instagram @uberhealth and on her website:

https://www.kirasutherland.com.au

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Suzi Nevell, physiotherapist and CHEK faculty, is my dear friend and has been my greatest mentor for working with the physical body and so I have invited her here today, to talk about Holistic Health.

Suzi has an amazing professional career as a physiotherapist spanning more than 27 years. After some years touring the world with a variety of high performance athletes and sports teams, and becoming New Zealand’s Women’s Trampoline Champion, Suzi moved to the United States.

While there, she was invited by Paul Chek to join the CHEK Institute’s senior teaching staff in San Diego. Over the course of the next 16 years, she absorbed Paul’s teachings on blending physical, nutritional, mental, emotional and spiritual coaching into a coaching model for health.

Today, Suzi brings all her experience, professional expertise and philosophies on life, health and wellbeing, for the benefit of her clinic and gym, Sweet7 back in her hometown, Auckland, New Zealand.

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You can find Suzi Nevell at https://www.sweet7.co.nz/physio-in-auckland/

She is available in Auckland for physiotherapy appointments and online for practitioner mentoring and presentations.  I highly recommend you get in touch with Suzi if you are a practitioner wanting to expand your practice.

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I have been teaching women, and my male students and mentees, that a woman’s period is a report card for her health for years, so you can imagine my excitement when I found Lara Briden who is an expert in all things the female cycle and how to be a detective in your own health journey. 

Lara Briden is a naturopathic doctor and the period revolutionary—leading the change to better periods. 

Informed by a strong science background and more than twenty years with patients, Lara is a passionate communicator about women’s health and alternatives to hormonal birth control.  Her book Period Repair Manual is a manifesto of natural treatment for better hormones and better periods and provides practical solutions using nutrition, supplements, and natural hormones.  Now in its second edition, the book has been an underground sensation and has worked to quietly change the lives of tens of thousands of women.

Lara has helped thousands of women find relief for period problems such as PCOS, PMS, endometriosis, and perimenopause and currently has consulting rooms in Christchurch, New Zealand.

In this episode, we talk about:

I highly recommend signing up to Lara’s newsletter on her website.

https://www.larabriden.com

And her book Period Repair Manual is a must for all women and all men working with women.

https://www.larabriden.com/period-repair-manual/

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Sarah Sproule is an occupational therapist with a masters in sexuality studies and host of the fabulous podcast, “Sitting in a Car” where she helps parents stay connected with their kids while having conversations about puberty, bodies and sex.

I don’t really think that we can truly get in tune with our body, to understand how it never lies, until we can get comfortable with talking about it.  All the parts of our body, relay messages to us about the state of our physiology.  Our nervous system, our digestive system, our musculoskeletal system AND so does our reproductive system.  For instance a man might have problems with erections or ejaculation because of a spinal disc injury or nerve compression or because of inadequate calories or glucose dysregulation, thyroid hormone conversion or emotional and financial stress.  A woman’s vaginal mucus and it’s changes, can tell her if she has adequate progesterone which is an anti anxiety, anti inflammatory, immune enhancing, recovery hormone.  And as a coach, I can use all this information to know whether my exercise and nutrition program is enhancing or decreasing physiology for performance.

So, how do we get comfortable with talking about these parts of our body.  How do we get comfortable with seeing them as more than the cultural labels and functional labels of sex and how do we move past the connotations behind that?

Well, I love Sarah’s work because she is an influencer and an experienced practitioner in this space of changing our thoughts, our programming our beliefs and getting in touch with why it is so important to have these conversations about our bodies, not only with our kids, but ourselves.

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You can find Sarah Sproule’s website https://sarahsproule.com

Her podcast “Sitting in a Car” is on your favourite podcast app

https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/sitting-in-a-car/id1498980106

https://open.spotify.com/show/1vTpCxZkG18O7fdLEGQHCG?si=_z8S8lZ2QDKapw9O83j3sA

And her youtube channel - “Sitting in a Car”

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2WU7DnczQPPAEzq47jDwFA

And her favourite place to hang out with her tribe is instagram

https://www.instagram.com/iamsarahsproule/

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Well, this is a pretty special episode to me, because I got an overwhelming response from my audience to hear how Shaun Reynolds, my amazing fiance and I, do life together to achieve health for ourselves, each other and our family.  I can’t tell you how much I loved recording it with him too.  Shaun is a really private person.  He does not do social media, he does not work in health, but is a corporate lawyer, working in Mergers and Acquisitions, so we couldn't have more different careers. And even though his colleagues listen to my podcast he was really supportive of my mission and agreeable to the interview.  What a guy!

Now, Shaun and I are in no way perfect, but we do share that too.  What we do have, I know for sure, is a real team effort and collaborative process that ensures health in our family.  From cooking, shopping, housework, finances, time management, careers and parenting.  We are 100% a team and that flows over to health and happiness in all areas of our life.  

We do not always agree and hit a huge bump in the road and did some couples therapy last year, but we talk about that too.  We also have no idea what we are doing as parents, so we regularly seek help and advice for that too.

This is our relationship.  Yours will be different and unique to you and your personalities, values and goals, but I hope this inspires you to create a healthy life together, no matter what that looks like for you.  And to my single listeners, when I was single, I would spend lots of time hanging out with couples who I wanted to have certain aspects of their relationship in my future relationship.  So, I hope this inspires you too, to find a partner who supports you and creates with you.  I LOVED recording this with Shaun, so I hope you love and enjoy it too.

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I do mention a couple of podcast episodes that you might like to listen to.

Mindful Money with Canna Campbell

https://www.leilalutz.com/podcast/episode/23d26f90/mindful-money-with-canna-campbell

Raising Independent Children with Ferne Van Zyl

https://www.leilalutz.com/podcast/episode/223d5d46/raising-independent-children-with-ferne-van-zyl

Our relationships therapist - Suzi Tuckwell

https://susietuckwell.com.au

You can find Canna’s episode where she talks about how to set up your accounts in a partnership and my interview with her on how to save money on food, here:

https://sugarmamma.tv/podcast/

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Canna Campbell is the founder and director of SASS Financial Services, a boutique financial planning firm. She is Channel 9’s exclusive ‘money expert’ here in Australia, founder of the global financial media platform SugarMamma.TV and best selling author of The $1000 Project & Mindful Money.  She is also more recently host of the podcast, SugarMama's Fireplay.  She is passionate about educating, inspiring and empowering every individual to create financial harmony, freedom and independence in their lives. On her digital platforms, she shares bite-sized tips on how to get out of debt, save money, achieve financial goals and build long-term passive income. Her media business, SugarMamma.TV is a powerful movement making money and finance more approachable, energetic and enlightening

In this episode we cover:

Canna’s Book “Mindful Money”
https://www.bookdepository.com/Mindful-Money-Canna-Campbell/9780143794325

Sugar Mama TV
https://sugarmamma.tv

Sass Financial
https://www.sassfinancial.com.au

Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/sugarmammatv/

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Now for those of you who are on my mailing list or follow me on social media, you will know that I had the very unfortunate experience of becoming ill due to exposure to mould in a house that we were living in.  So many of my followers have been asking me, can you please share more about your journey and recovery from mould illness and so I had to start with giving you guys and understanding just how toxic your home can be and have Building Biologist Joachim Herrman on the show.

While studying Biology with an emphasis on Ecology at the University of Hamburg, Joachim Herrman became fascinated with sustainable and healthy building methods and since then has been gathering information on electro pollution, toxins, mould, earth lines and Feng Shui.

Joachim started his practice in Australia in 1993, pioneering Building Biology in Australia and has since then, has been performing home consultations and solutions for people with chronic diseases.

Joachim consults with students all over the world and clients all over Australia, helping them overcome complex health issues by ensuring a healthy home.  He also works with Integrative Medicine Practitioners to support patients with environmental diseases in a holistic way and has a huge passion in working with architects and builders to get the foundations of a home right to ensure lifelong health and sustainability for his clients.

In this episode, we talk about:

Please find Joachim on his website 
www.buildingbiologyservices.com

On Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/buildingbiologyservices/

“Health at Home” book by Joachim Herrmann
https://www.amazon.com.au/Health-Home-Sustainable-Healthy-Building-ebook/dp/B082VLFC5C

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