What exactly is Ketosis?
Your brain is the most selfish and demanding organ in the body when it comes to energy. It will pull rank on any other organ in order to have the energy to meet its needs. It makes up approximately 2% … Read More
From Fat Storer to Fat Burner
For effective fat burning and weight loss, you need the right combination of glucose and fat. While you can burn glucose without fat, you cannot burn fat without glucose. So, if blood glucose is too high, you use glucose for … Read More
How to Stay Right on Track
You cannot hit a target if you are not aiming directly at it. By this I mean that any weight loss or health goal will become much, much harder and fruitless if you don’t even have a target – so … Read More
Don’t Be Bullied into Giving Up Your Goals For 2019
When you set a goal there’s a specific process within your brain that determines how or even if you achieve it. The principles of the Placebo Diet are as much about learning how your brain works as teaching you what … Read More
How to Avoid Extreme January Dieting!
The New Year is soon upon us and many people are feeling the effects of weeks of excessive consumption of food and booze, and during the month of January extreme dieting and detoxes are abound, usually fuelled by a heavy … Read More
Eat Good, Feel Great this Christmas – My Top Tips!
In last week’s blog I talked about how emotion and thought can lead us to behave in a predetermined way, hence why we eat a large slice of cake when we are not at all hungry, or we dig into … Read More
Don’t Let Your Buttons Be Pushed This Festive Season!
We know that any thought accepted with emotion while you are in a trance-like state will create associations that literally hardwire you to behave or respond to stimuli in a certain way, every time you are in that situation. Have … Read More
Debunking the Top 3 Diet Myths
Research around dieting and nutritional impact on the body is constantly being carried out and much or it over the last few years is compelling and for some people shocking. It has essentially debunked some of the most common dietary … Read More
Take Care of Your Microbes for Optimal Weight Loss
What exactly are microbes? They are tiny “creatures” that can take compounds and change them into something else. They are minute pharmaceutical geniuses that do things human pharmacists can only dream about. They do this all day every day, as … Read More
Why Do We Need Yet Another Diet?
For our hunter gatherer ancestors, the need to lose weight was not an issue, for them the main challenge was getting more fats, carbs and even sugar into their diet. Their priority was to consume enough energy to survive, and … Read More