If you’re a woman and you haven’t read this book, I highly recommend you read it.

Prior to finding Dr Ray Peat's work, Emma Sgourakis (my now business partner) and Craig I suffered with painful and irregular periods, PMS, I had a miscarriage, a D&C, polyps as well pre-cancerous cells removed from my cervix.

If you’ve followed me for a while you’ll also know I cycled through low calorie diets, excessive exercising and I was a big binge drinker for 17 years of my life. I also took the pill for many years and I had no idea what hormonal contraception was doing to my body.

The book is easy to read and contains invaluable information on taking charge of your menstrual cycle and how menstrual cycle health really is the fifth vital sign for women. It also has fantastic information on the pill, IUD's, Depo-Provera and the implant and the effect they have on the female body.

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There’s so much good information in this one! Dr. Peat offers up a lot of clarity when it comes to the great vitamin D debate. So, should you supplement vitamin D? Should you not? What else should you know when it comes to vitamin D and your metabolic health?

As a reminder Vitamin D has many names

The three most mentioned in this podcast are

Cholecalciferol also known as D3 (what is in food or supplements)

"Stored D" also know as calcidiol / 25OHD /hydroxycholecalciferol

"Active D" also know as calcitriol / 1,25D

Dr. Peat uses the references of 25OHD /hydroxycholecalciferol (stored) and 1,25D (active)

In this episode we talk about...

➡️ The purpose of Vitamin D

➡️ How is vitamin D metabolised and stored

➡️ How much D is too much?

➡️ ...

I remember back in my crazy diet days I cut all sugar, fruit and dairy from my diet and had green veggies at every single meal. I also made my own almond milk, ate a lot of nut butters and mainly consumed polyunsaturated fats. I always felt I was doing the right thing eating what I thought was 'clean' and healthy but I was bloated and constipated, I rarely slept through the night, I had painful and irregular periods, I was tired all the time and my hair was falling out.

So I thought I’d sit down with Keith and look at the impact these so called health foods have our on digestion, hormones and thyroid health.

Keith and I also talk about:

➡️Consuming foods in their ...

In this podcast episode, we talk about:

👉Repercussions of not having a menstrual cycle

👉Why having a real period and ovulating is important

👉Importance of progesterone throughout the body

👉Protective functions of progesterone

👉The temperature, ovulation, and progesterone connection

👉Menopause and progesterone

👉How to support the body to make more progesterone and improve estrogen detoxification

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So I decided to sit down with Craig (my partner in business and in life), fondly known as Coach Sausage in our program. One night on a round table I called him sausage and the name has stuck with him ever since. 🤣

Prior to meeting Craig I was stuck on the merry go round of restrictive diets and training two hours per day fasted. I was desperately trying to maintain a certain body weight and lower level of body fat. I fell head over heels with lifting as well as head over heels for Craig and I ended up competing in powerlifting for a few years. Now I just lift because I love it.

When it comes to training context is important. I think the better questions to ask yourself would be:

1️⃣ What is my goal?

2️⃣ What is my current state of metabolic health. So when I talk about metabolic health markers I mean resting temps ...

And her story is so fascinating! I’m sure many women can relate. She spent a large majority of her life spinning her wheels in the wrong directions. Diagnosed with PCOS when she was younger, she was told all the garbage advice like to cut dairy and eat more leafy greens.

Anna says that her health journey even started before her PCOS diagnosis. She believes that her pursuit to be as skinny as possible likely contributed to her eventual diagnosis.

She then went on to try Weight Watchers, low calorie diets, keto, and more. She was also told her PCOS symptoms would likely get worse over time.

But today (after being in our program since July 2020), Anna has said that her most recent blood tests came back with all optimal numbers. Her anxiety has fully disappeared and the physical symptoms have gone away.

She shares what she eats, how she trains and the changes she had to make in he...

A few weeks ago the three of us sat down and discussed the unrealistic expectations the fitness/diet industry sets around weight and body fat for women.

We talk about:

➡️Restrictive dieting and why it always leads to binge eating

➡️Our experiences with disordered eating and dieting, as well as what led each of us to pro-metabolic eating

➡️The unrealistic expectations some women set for themselves when it comes to body fat levels and weight goals

➡️What are realistic and healthy body fat levels for a woman

➡️The importance of having a support system throughout the healing process

➡️How you can achieve healthy and sustainable fat loss

➡️Why you should focus on taking imperfect action rather than trying to be perfect on your journey

➡️And more!

Happy listening I hope you find this podcast helpful...

One of the biggest things I see in our Winatlife program is women's inability to say NO. Women are conditioned from birth to say yes to please others. If this is something you struggle with you are not alone. Many women feel they can't put their energy, time and bodies first. When you say yes to things you don’t have time to do, what you don’t see is all the things you are saying no too.

In this episode I sit down with Carol Nedov, client and psychotherapist and we discuss why women have such a hard time saying no to things they don't want to do. Why it's so important to learn how to say no confidently and no feel guilty about it. Carol also talks about her upbringing and how it impacted her ability to say no and how you can start prioritizing yourself and start saying no with confidence.

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