Nobody is telling you this about Ozempic.

1 in 5 women who come off Ozempic regain all the weight within a year. And when it comes back, it comes back about four times faster than if you'd lost it through diet and training.

I sat down with Jay Feldman (he's basically a walking encyclopaedia on this stuff) to go through what these drugs are actually doing in the body. Not the marketing version. The mechanism.

They don't fix your metabolism. They shut down the reward centre in your brain so food stops feeling good, the same pathway recreational drugs hit. That's why the weight comes off. It's also why 60 to 70% of people are off these drugs within a year, and why a big chunk of what's lost isn't fat, it's muscle and bone.

We also got into the "food noise" conversation, and Jay makes a pretty compelling case that it's a term the drug companies invented, not a diagnosis.

This isn't an anti GLP-1 rant. There's a real conversation in here about when they might actually make sense too...

This week's episode is one of the hardest, most honest conversations I've had on the podcast.

My guest Vanessa's daughter Millie was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumour at 10 years old. The surgery saved her life but it damaged her hypothalamus, and she lost the ability to ever feel full. 

Within weeks she went from an emaciated 17kg to obese. Vanessa ended up putting locks on the kitchen cupboards, just to keep her daughter safe from herself.

Every piece of standard nutrition advice they were given made things worse. What actually turned it around went against everything Vanessa, a qualified clinical nutritionist had ever been taught.

Ten years on, Millie is 20, manages her own nutrition day to day, and Vanessa now works as a pro-metabolic nutritionist herself.

This one will stay with you.

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Part two with @leilalutz.

If you missed part part comment POD396 and I’ll DM you the link to listen to part 1.

This one goes somewhere different.

We get into why perimenopause has become the industry's new favourite thing to sell you. 

Why "you're not a unicorn, you're just under-resourced" might be the most useful sentence in this whole conversation. 

Why insulin resistance almost never means your hormones are just failing you out of nowhere, it means chronic stress has cortisol and adrenaline running the show, blocking insulin from doing its job.

Why muscle matters so much, because it acts like a sink for glucose and improves your insulin sensitivity. 

And then we get real. 

Leila told me she had to make an actual appointment with herself to go to the gym because somewhere along the way she'd decided she didn't deserve to.

If you've ever felt guilty for resting, for eating, for taking up space, this one's for you.

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My friend Leila never called herself an athlete. Never called it exercise. She just called it "clean living."

It was slowly wrecking her thyroid.

She's been a nutrition coach and personal trainer for 25 years. Had Hashimoto's her whole adult life. Trained clients all day, every day. Carried her own gym gear in and out of her car between sessions, then trained herself on top of that.

One day she logged her food out of curiosity and found she'd eaten 1500 calories of fat in a single day. Looked at it, thought "that can't be right," and moved on with her life.

We sat down and went right through her actual food and training history from back then. What was really happening in her body while she believed she was doing everything right. Why the number on the scale lied to her for years.

Why a doctor once held her pulse and told her "your thyroid is screaming for help, you need to put weight on" and she said no, I'm fine, my bloods are fine.

This one's a big episode so we've split it...

A few weeks ago, I interviewed @petajean on the podcast. 

I just love her and her perspective. We yapped for so bloody long that I split it into two, so this is part two of the episode.

Something came up at the end of this podcast with Peta that I think a lot of women need to hear.

Someone in my community had bought her book and left a comment saying, doesn't Peta believe in just eating intuitively? Isn't that what she teaches? Why would she join a structured programme?

I love this question because it gets to the heart of something we get wrong about intuitive eating all the time.

Intuitive eating is the goal. Genuinely. Once you understand your body, once you have built the foundation of knowing what you actually need, you should be eating in a way that feels natural and effortless.

But you can not intuitively eat if you have no idea what your body needs. 

And a lot of women who think they are eating intuitively are just undereating and calling it intuition.

Peta joined our...

I came across Peta years ago when we were both in Isagenix. 

We then crossed paths again when she started using Saturée skincare and I sent her some of our new Methlyne Blue serum to try. 

She even did a block of coaching with Nyssa in our 16 week WinAtLife Accelerator program because she wanted a challenge.  

I just love her and her perspective on things so I invited her to come onto the podcast for a chin wag!

I've been sitting with something she said in this week's podcast and I can't get it out of my head.

She talked about having all the gear. The sauna. The biomat. The oxygen machine that was still sitting in the box she never opened. The whole house water filter. Years of studying health science and metabolism.

And she was more anxious, more controlled, and less free than she'd ever been.

It wasn't until she spent time in Italy watching the nonnas just eat, no protocols, no biohacking, no stress about it, that she realised something had quietly gone wrong.

The more you...

Most women think perimenopause just happened to them.

It didn't.

Your 30s were the set up. The skipped meals, the 12-hour days, the normalised stress, the sleep you pushed through. Your body was compensating the whole time.

Perimenopause just removed the buffer.

The good news is you didn't break anything. You depleted your resources. And you can absolutely build them back.

I did a deep dive on this with my friend Kitty Martone @healthygutgirlofficial on episode 393 of the podcast. She is one of the sharpest minds on progesterone and hormonal health, and we got into exactly why the foundations have to come first before anything else will work. We also talked about her incredible new book, Balance Matters: Rethinking Estrogen, Reclaiming Progesterone, Restoring Hormonal Stability.

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Katie came on the podcast this week and said something I haven't stopped thinking about.

"If you think investing in your health is expensive, get cancer. When you're lying in a hospital bed, you don't care about money. You would pay anything."

She's 42. Diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia in 2024. Medically induced coma. 10 weeks in hospital. Learned to walk and write her name again from scratch.

The chemo put her into menopause at 39. Overnight.

She came out the other side completely hormonally wrecked and like so many of you, found herself drowning in conflicting information about what to do with her body.

What moved the needle wasn't restriction. Wasn't fasting. Wasn't the 1500 calories and six days of training she used to do.

It was eating more. More carbs specifically. Lifting three days a week. And having someone help her drown out the noise.

Today she's stronger than before cancer. Better body composition. Blood work improving every check.

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Part 2 is here and this one might be the most important podcast I've ever put out.

If you missed Part 1, go back and listen to POD390 first. This episode picks up where we left off and goes deep on the hormonal side of things.

@ash.healthcoach, @nyssa_bovenkamp and @natashabwellness and I cover 

→ Why HRT is not fixing the root cause 

→ What's actually happening with estrogen and progesterone in perimenopause 

→ Why estrogen dominance is driving your symptoms (even if your bloods say it's "low") 

→ The clients who came off HRT and felt better 

→ What supports healthy detoxification and why it matters more than you think 

→ The nutrition approach that actually moves the needle

→ Why supplements don't work if the basics aren't in place first

Natasha's breakdown of how the body's inflammatory mediators all connect is worth the listen alone.

This is the conversation women deserve to have.

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Three of our NuStrength Aussie coaches. One unfiltered conversation. Zero holding back.

In Part 1 of this two-part series, @ash.healthcoach, @nyssa_bovenkamp and @natashabwellness break down what it actually takes to transform your body after 40, the stuff most coaches won't tell you.

We're talking: 

→ Why your metabolism is more underactive than you think 

→ The difference between weight loss and fat loss (and why it matters) 

→ Why every woman needs more muscle, no exceptions 

→ What to do with cardio (hint: less is usually more) 

→ Why stress is affecting your progress

→ The mum guilt, the excuses, and the mindset shift that changes everything

Between us, we've coached over 20,000 women. This is what we've learned.

Part 2 drops next week and goes deep on hormones and HRT.

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