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This blog unpacks the key themes, lessons, and lightbulb moments from my podcast conversations with world-class leaders on The Mind Your Body Show, alongside my own ongoing research into high performance. These reflections are for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of what drives excellence—on the field, in the gym, and in life.
Over time, eating junk food can make you sick. The trans fats, sugars and preservatives added to food builds up and your body can’t function properly. But the other stuff in foods that can make you si...
Fasting has been a part of religious practice for thousands of years. But in the past five years, it received mainstream popularity on the back of animal studies showing that skipping meals had health...
We spend so much time, energy and money on food, shouldn’t we be enjoying it? Mindful eating is a strategy to be fully present with your senses during the process of eating in order to improve your re...
Pudding is synonymous with Christmas. But it is traditionally unhealthy and can unwrap your health goals quicker than my 4 kids opening presents from Santa on Christmas morning.Â
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Work Christmas parties can be a time of much over-indulgence. You’ve been training hard, watching what you eat, and seeing results. You’re loving your new body and your new lifestyle. You don’t want t...
It’s that time of year when, despite the best of intentions and steely grit to get fit again, you start to feel yourself slipping. The 5-mornings-a-week exercise regime and Sunday arvo food prepping a...
When you think of spiders, you probably don’t think of milk. But it turns out that some of these tiny little 8-legged arachnids are full of some pretty good stuff.
When I first came across the concep...
Running is one of the best forms of exercise. So why don’t more people do it? Many people say they don’t like running and I believe this is because they simply don’t know “how to run”. So let me show ...
Meditation has been around for thousands of years and there are many different types of meditation. From mindfulness meditation to progressive muscle relaxation, to zen meditation and transcendental m...
The ability to exert self-control is considered a fundamental trait of people who are successful. It has been a long held view since Walter Mischel’s marshmallow experiments of the 1960s that people w...
Article written by visiting blogger Dr. Nikola Djordjevic
Over the past few decades, the trend of excluding gluten from diets has become extremely popular with millions of people around the world ado...
Finding foods that actually fill you up, give you energy, and most importantly, taste good, is essential when starting your path to ultimate health.
I clearly remember a time when my stomach would be...
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