The Healthy Shift Worker

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The Healthy Shift Worker episodes

August 08, 2017 HSW 41: Social Media, Blue Light and Sleep.
This week’s episode is all about things that can disrupt our sleep which is not great when you’re already running on a deficit thanks to a sleep-disrupted lifestyle, and include social media and blue-light. Whilst as a Nutritionist, a lot of my clinical focus when working with my patients is around food, nutrition and supplementation, Listen In
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18 min
July 25, 2017 HSW 40: Shift Work and Your Immune System.
It’s currently winter here in Australia, and many of my clients are showing signs of being struck down by various things like colds and flu so today’s episode is going to be all about that – your immune system, and how shift work, or more specifically sleep deprivation impairs its ability to function as it Listen In
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19 min
July 25, 2017 HSW 40: Shift Work and Your Immune System.
It’s currently winter here in Australia, and many of my clients are showing signs of being struck down by various things like colds and flu so today’s episode is going to be all about that – your immune system, and how shift work, or more specifically sleep deprivation impairs its ability to function as it Listen In
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19 min
July 11, 2017 HSW 39: Weight Gain, Food Timing and Chrononutrition.
This week I chat about my all time favourite topic – Food Timing, or the more fancier, scientific way to describe it is Chrononutrition. Chrononutrition involves the study of how nutrition impacts on our metabolism, via our internal body clock, which includes meal regularity (or in the case of a shift worker, meal irregularity), frequency Listen In
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20 min
July 11, 2017 HSW 39: Weight Gain, Food Timing and Chrononutrition.
This week I chat about my all time favourite topic – Food Timing, or the more fancier, scientific way to describe it is Chrononutrition. Chrononutrition involves the study of how nutrition impacts on our metabolism, via our internal body clock, which includes meal regularity (or in the case of a shift worker, meal irregularity), frequency Listen In
20 min
June 27, 2017 HSW 38: Sugar Cravings and Sleep Deprivation
One of the most common struggles I hear from my shift working clients is this ongoing, relentless craving for sugar! But why is that? Why are shift workers notorious for craving (and eating) all of the sweet stuff – the highly refined carbohydrates that are neither good for our insides or our waistline?! Well it Listen In
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18 min
June 27, 2017 HSW 38: Sugar Cravings and Sleep Deprivation
One of the most common struggles I hear from my shift working clients is this ongoing, relentless craving for sugar! But why is that? Why are shift workers notorious for craving (and eating) all of the sweet stuff – the highly refined carbohydrates that are neither good for our insides or our waistline?! Well it Listen In
18 min
June 13, 2017 HSW 37: Sleep Disruption in our Homes with Nicole Bijlsma
As shift workers, we certainly understand how working irregular hours causes havoc on our sleep, but something most of us don’t even think about, is how our home environment may be disrupting our sleep. In this episode I chat with Nicole Bijlsma, a Naturopath, Acupuncturist, Building Biologist and author of the bestselling book – Healthy Listen In
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34 min
June 13, 2017 HSW 37: Sleep Disruption in our Homes with Nicole Bijlsma
As shift workers, we certainly understand how working irregular hours causes havoc on our sleep, but something most of us don’t even think about, is how our home environment may be disrupting our sleep. In this episode I chat with Nicole Bijlsma, a Naturopath, Acupuncturist, Building Biologist and author of the bestselling book – Healthy Listen In
34 min
May 30, 2017 HSW 36: Nutritional Skype Consultations for Shift Workers with Audra Starkey
Are you struggling to maintain your health and well-being whilst working 24/7? Are you looking for some one-on-one guidance, but have been unable to find someone who really “gets you” and understands exactly what it’s like to work shift work? Well if you answered ‘yes’ to either of those questions, then stay tuned for this Listen In
15 min

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Join Clinical Nutritionist, Metabolic Balance and Circadian Health Practitioner Audra Starkey as she uncovers the truth about what’s really going on with our health whilst working 24/7 and some of the…