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FOM 2023 Keynote Speaker & Dates.
The Future of Medicine conference is a rare and unique opportunity for healthcare professionals and thought leaders to immerse themselves in a mix of scientific and practical talks that challenge the status quo and inspire a new view of medicine. The conference...
Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Prevention
Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Prevention. I recall during my early years of general practice asking my mentor “What do we actually do?” The answer was a good one, “We intervene in our patients lives, a little bit in each consultation”. A second experience was...
Ice Baths: The Benefits of Cold Water Immersion
Ice Baths: The Benefits of a Cold Water Immersion If you're an athlete or fitness enthusiast, you may have heard about the benefits of ice baths. Soaking in a bath filled with ice-cold water may sound intimidating, but the benefits are well worth it! One of the main...
Louise Schofield, CEO of social enterprise and educational provider PREKURE, shares her top trends in healthcare for 2023 and beyond.
What do you see as the biggest trends likely to hit the healthcare sector in 2023? 1. The model in which healthcare operates is changing, this is an emerging trend in2023 and beyond. We are moving away from a reactive dynamic of care,whereby an illness must occur...
Career Transition from Surgical Technician to Health Coach: A Case Study
Career Transition from Surgical Technician to Health Coach: A Case Study Maryann Cliffe's journey in becoming a PREKURE certified Health Coach has certainly been unique. However, it is not simply a frustration with the healthcare system that makes her story different,...
Why Most New Year’s Resolutions Fail
Why most New Year's resolutions fail If you're anything like me, you're wondering how on earth is it the end of December already. Yes, despite the previous 365 days , only now has this revelation occurred. Of course everything is busier than ever and our schedule is a...
Building a Confident Mindset
Building a Confident Mindset A long while back when I was a junior Intensive care nurse (ICU) I had the mindset of ‘I could never…’ ‘I could never coordinate the intensive care unit’, ‘I could never educate people ’, ‘I could never jump from a helicopter into the...
How much Does a Health Coach Earn?
Now the fact that you’ve clicked on this blog means you're probably wondering how much a health coach earns. So let's get straight to the point and not beat around the bush. Payscale deems the median health coach salary to be $55,000, however, averages don’t really...
Self Limitation & How to Break Free
Self Limitation & How to Break Free “Completely overwhelmed, daunted and intimidated”. These are the words Kent Johns used to describe his initial feelings around some of the more administrative aspects of owning a business. Owning a business and being your own...
Confidence is Attractive
Confidence is Attractive Confidence is attractive. Yes this might apply to someone you're attracted to but it also applies to your business. When someone speaks with confidence we feel a greater sense of trust and security in what they are saying. This works...
Health Coaching in Motion
To my fellow PREKURE coaches & students: I lay before you a challenge. You can of course accept, ignore, or modify this challenge. I challenge you to book a health coaching client in the next fortnight and undertake that coaching session whilst walking through...
Strengthening Your Reflective Practice
Strengthening Your Reflective Practice At the heart of gaining growth and talent as a health coach, is reflective practice. Reflection has been widely emphasised in disciplines that require an integration of academic study or science and practical application (Lane...
An Exploration of Motivational Interviewing Approaches
The historical underpinnings of Motivational Interviewing (MI) come from the treatment and support of patients with substance use disorders. MI was originally developed in part by William Miller and Steph Rollnick in the 1980’s. Since then it has been widely evidenced...
Student Testimonial – Leina Fofoa
Head Health Coach and Registered Nurse, Sonya English, sits down with recent graduate, Leina Fofoa, to discuss her experience and journey to become a PREKURE Certified Health Coach. Leina, thank you so much for talking to me today about the Health Coach...
Student Testimonial – Anna Fatai
Head Health Coach and Registered Nurse, Sonya English, sits down with recent graduate, Anna Fatai, to discuss her experience and journey to become a PREKURE Certified Health Coach. So Anna, you are one of our PMA Health Coach Certificate graduates. We're so...
Client Goal Seeking & Focus Session Outcome
As health coaches our success is in the joy of seeing our clients navigate their own health behaviour change confidently. We see ourselves as helping clients to explore their values and clarify their intentions. We work alongside them, holding steady the process and...
Tapping Into Your ‘Intuition Muscle’
‘Intuition is not like the waves on the surface, it is more the tide beneath the waves’ (Dodgson & Marshall, 2018). It is the process of accessing and trusting one’s inner knowing. It is direct knowing, unencumbered by the thinking mind. The origins of the term...
Championing Your Client
Championing Your Client: Their Journey Towards Self-Efficacy Just like children, adults need support. Growth is solidified for all of us when we are genuinely championed. You may be familiar with the World Health Organisation (WHO) definition of health promotion:‘It...
Science In A Minute – Study Shows: Excess Weight May Accelerate Brain Aging
Hello and welcome to PREKURE's weekly snippet of science, where on a weekly basis we share emergent research related to extending the human healthspan. The obesity pandemic has been raging on for a few decades now. There are many theories about why this is...
Staying True To Your Clients Agenda
Have you ever found yourself desperately trying to create meaning for your client? You are: trying too hard to get some momentum when there is no clear focus, stuck knee-deep in a client's dissonance or all you can hear is your internal alarm sounding in your ears....
Science In A Minute – Making & Breaking Habits
Hello and welcome to PREKURE's weekly snippet of science, where on a weekly basis we share emergent research related to extending the human healthspan. MAKING & BREAKING HABITS The excitement of a new year seems to have worn off a little and we are now into...
Building Your Health Coaching Business
Remember to balance hustle with patience! Understand what business phase you are in. In general terms there are four phases that any business goes through: 1. I'm just starting – customer discovery (no paying clients) 2. I'm working out if I have a product market fit...
What is a Health Coach?
What exactly is a Health Coach? Health coaching is an emerging field and a fast-growing market1,2,3. A Health Coach is someone who works in primary care or in the community in their own practice. A Health Coach provides clarity, they provide inspiration, but most...
The PREKURE top 15 reads to kick start your 2022
One thing our PREKURE community has in common, is our shared love of learning. And what better time to dive into a new read, and learn something new, than over the summer break. Our top 15 must reads to kick start your 2022 from the PREKURE Faculty and team:The Better...
Top tips for making successful New Year’s resolutions
It’s estimated that more than half of all New Year's resolutions fail, but that doesn’t have to be the case for you this time. Here’s how to identify the right resolution for you; how to create a plan and how to reach it. Dream big and enjoy the journey There’s...
COVID Science Update
It's been a massive week in the science surrounding COVID-19 with important studies published in both the Lancet and the British Medical Journal. PreKure's Chief Science Officer Prof Grant Schofield translates the latest studies and what they mean for you and your...
How to be the driver of your own health journey
PreKure's Lead Coach, Sonya English, used to work at the bottom of the cliff in acute care medicine. Some days she feels guilt for leaving the healthcare system, but she has a strong belief that helping people find the knowledge and confidence to be the author or...
How do you coach yourself or your family?
Coaching yourself is really hard. The reason is that we are so involved in our own lives, in our own emotions, and it’s difficult to be objective enough to coach yourself. You can think of it in a scenario where you can see clearly what someone else should do to be...
Start a weekly exercise plan
Exercise. Some of us thrive when we hear that word. Some of us cringe. It’s not strange that some of us are scared of it, because it's often got associated with visions of really intense and tough experiences, with people sweating heavily, struggling and grimacing....
PreKure’s thoughts on the Covid vaccine
On the delicate subject of vaccines….. I’ve resisted writing anything about COVID vaccines for a long time now. The main reasons are: 1. That any medical procedure is a personal decision weighed up on how the benefits to you and others weigh up to the harms to you and...
Is Health Coaching the key to the future of healthcare?
PreKure Faculty member and New Zealand Primary Health Care GP of the Year, Dr Glen Davies has, at the time of writing, reversed 124 cases of type 2 diabetes and pre-diabetes. Health coaching is at the centre of helping and supporting people in changing their behaviour, alongside good nutrition, he says.
Together, we are changing the world – 81 new PreKure graduates
Congratulations to all 81 PREKURE students who graduated at a ceremony held at PreKure's headquarters in Takapuna, Auckland. It was a social and inspirational evening, where students, graduates, friends, family and the PreKure Faculty and staff got to...
Health Coach of the week – Ree George
Ree George is a PreKure Certified Health Coach specialising in burnout, anxiety and addictive behaviours. By Ree George I work with clients who are experiencing disordered eating, have been diagnosed with anxiety or depression, or have a curiosity about the role...
A win for the future of health
It was a big night for PreKure, and the future of health, at the 2021 NZ Primary Health Care Awards! PreKure Faculty members, Dr Lily Fraser and Dr Glen Davies, were the two finalists for the GP of the year award. So we already knew we were winning! GP of the...
Why sleep is important to your health
Sleep. It’s amazing how this non-functional state, where we're out to the world and we're open to predation, or at least historically we have been, is so important. In fact, not going to sleep will harm your health quicker than anything else. Staying awake for the...
Why do you want to become a Health Coach?
What is your reason for becoming a Health Coach? Because you are passionate about inspiring and helping people become the best they can be? Because a relative or friend is suffering from a chronic disease and you want to help? Because you want to add a whole-person...
Health Coach of the week – Tracy Steuart
Health Coach and Registered Nurse, Tracy Steuart, has been helping patients in primary care make healthy lifestyle changes for nearly 6 years. She’s now seeing her own patients in the practice. How did you originally become interested in health and lifestyle...
Health Coach of the week – Gay Rutherford
By Heart Health Coach, Gay Rutherford Healthy ageing, not diseased. Dying of contentment, not illness. Keeping active in my family to enjoy my grandchildren’s children. By the time I got to my sixties I assumed, like my friends, that I was reasonably healthy. I was...
What is the coaching relationship & why is it important?
PREKURE Certified Health Coach Vania Dunn talks about what health coaching is and what the coaching relationship - the strong relationship between coach and client - means to her. By Vania Dunn When I had not long started coaching, one of my friends sent me a message...
Health Coach of the week – Telesia Fa Macnamara
Telesia Fa Macnamara has combined health coaching with her personal training job - what a combo! She's really walking the talk, by making her own lifestyle changes and now helping others do the same. How did you originally become interested in health and lifestyle...
Health Coach of the week – Bec Withnall
Bec Withnall’s passion for health and wellness is all about helping others find their light and letting them shine. Her company, Stones Throw, focuses on leadership and team building. “Leaders need to be making their mental health and wellbeing a priority,” she says....
Weight loss – if you make a mistake, don’t give up!
Today I want to talk to you about motivation and mistakes, because mistakes are inevitable, especially if you're on a weight loss journey. We are all going to make them. Whether it was yesterday, whether it's today, tomorrow or in the future, we're going to make...
Health Coach of the week – Bridget Judd
Bridget and her colleague Nikki run a women’s wellness haven, Nourishing You, offering one-on-one coaching, workshops, and women’s wellness. Their focus is all about helping and guiding women towards reaching their health goals for themselves and their families....
Health Coach of the week – Jenny Malcolm
This week, we have the amazing Jenny Malcolm, as our PreKure Graduate of the Week! Jenny's passion lies in behaviour change and empowering her clients! She used her coaching skills from her extensive toolbox to help people understand what makes them tick. And as she...
Health Coach of the week – Amy Mayhill
The amazing Amy Mayhill is our PreKure Grad of the week! Amy, based in Sydney, has recently started a new program, aimed at empowering young woman. We can't wait to see where this takes you Amy, and how much you will change the lives of many young women. See more...
Health Coach of the week – Louise Walker
Dr Louise Walker is a GP with a passion for lifestyle medicine. Louise is a PreKure Certified Health Coach and she has also completed further nutrition studies with us here at PreKure, as well as completed two of our health challenges with amazing results. By...
Health Coach of the week – Kent Johns
From breakfast radio announcer to Health Coach - Kent’s own lifestyle changes sparked his interest in health and helping other people see their way out of the maze they've been in. How did you originally become interested in health and lifestyle medicine? I started...
Health Coach of the week – Susan Harbers (Melbourne)
Susan Harbers left the corporate world to begin her career in health and wellbeing. In the middle of Melbourne lockdown, she is launching her new health coaching business. How did you originally become interested in health and lifestyle medicine? From a young...
Health Coach of the week – Jaz Williams
Jaz Williams was a promising cricket player when he got diagnosed with chronic fatigue. With his sports career over, alcohol became his buffer. But his life took a positive turn when he changed his diet and gave up alcohol. Today, Jaz works as a physio, with private...
Health Coach of the week – Kirsten Rose
Kirsten is a Physiotherapist, Crossfit Coach, Health Coach and mum of two. She has a passion for helping clients who feel like they are "starting from scratch", whether that be after an injury, illness or life event. She truly believes that it's the simple things that...
Health Coach of the week – Darren Cash
Thank you, Darren, you’ve given me back my man! It is feedback like this from the wives and partners of his clients, or the clients themselves, that gets Darren Cash up in the morning! Darren is both a Certified Health Coach and Consultant Civil Engineer. Putting...
Health Coach of the week – Michelle Bishop
I've been interested in nutrition, neurology and positive psychology for 25 years, driven by my own personal ups and downs through various health challenges. PreKure's NZQA Level 5 certificate, along with my four years experience as a community support worker,...
Lockdown help and support
If you are living in Auckland or if you're in Melbourne, we're back in lockdown. How are you feeling about it? I was back to emotional eating. I've got to tell you that I got a bit stressed when we went back into lockdown. I was back to emotional eating....
Health Coach of the week – Carey Giddens
Carey Giddens has studied Remedial Massage Therapy, Organisational Psychology and Exercise Rehabilitation; he has run a sports nutrition store, and he's a former top-level athlete! Carey now uses his knowledge from Health Coaching to run physio clinics in New Zealand...
Health Coach of the week – Jared Cannons
Jared has made a big change in his community teaching keto/LCHF cooking classes for whānau at Turuki Health. Now working as a Health Coach, Jared continues to help whānau make positive health and wellbeing choices. How did you originally become interested in health...
5 ways successful coaches use social media
How to use social media to grow your business? Stephanie Moran, PreKure's IT platforms Manager, shares her top 5 tips. 1. Share your story – build a following There are hundreds of thousands of coaches online. How do you stand out? Focus on your unique story...
Health Coach of the week – Shelley Smith
Health Coach graduate Shelley Smith left the corporate world to focus on health, wellness and waking up with purpose and energy - and how to help others achieve the same! In my 20's my mantra was "I'll sleep when I'm dead". I worked in the fast-paced world of...
Health coaching – be ‘Healthy You’ today!
Often in health coaching, ‘health’ is an end destination for people. It's to get somewhere. To counterbalance that, I encourage my clients to be healthy Bex’ or ‘healthy Lisa’ today. And what does that look like today? Let go of the expectation of a future need or a...
Health Coach of the week – Anya Bell
PreKure Health Coach graduate Anya Bell is doing some big things for the health of young Kiwis and their families. How did you originally become interested in health and lifestyle medicine? My family has always been interested in following a holistic lifestyle...
Build your health coaching business
Build relationships PREKURE's Customer Care Advisor, Paula Ross, shares her top-5 tips for building great relationships, that will build your health coaching business. 1. Be genuine Allow your authentic self to do the talking. Be honest Be genuine Be you People...
Why is it so hard to lose weight?
Clinical Nutritionist Ben Warren talks about what's working against us when trying to lose weight. Why is it so hard to lose weight? There's a number of reasons for this. One of the first reasons is that calories are incredibly important for our survival. Through...
Weight Management Top Tips
Clinical nutritionist Cliff Harvey shares his best tips for weight management. What are the key things we can do to be the healthiest and the happiest we can be, over the long term? Get strong This is one of the most important and under-appreciated points for managing...
What does a Health Coach do?
What is a Health Coach and what do they do? PREKURE CEO Louise Schofield explains.PREKURE was established two years ago by a group of health and medical professionals, who really wanted to put prevention to the forefront of health care. We want a change from what is...
How to be your own weight loss coach
Weight loss is not just a destination, says Dr Carlo Bellini. It's what you do today that's going to empower you and get you there. How can we coach ourselves to lose weight? This is a challenging problem for so many people. Let me share with you my personal struggles...
Why do we gain weight and why is it so hard to lose it?
Dr Glen Davies (GP) explains the mechanisms behind weight gain. What actually happens in the body? How can we lose weight, and keep it off? Keen to lose some weight? Join PreKureME Weight Loss Edition. Working with the PreKure Faculty, we use the latest...
The three levers of weight loss
How can we stay in good shape, asks Prof Grant Schofield. Or, if you've put on a few kilos, how to get back to your fighting prime? For most of us, that's a daily struggle. Dr Peter Attia has an interesting framework around this, which I think is a great way of...
Do stress and sleep affect weight loss?
We put 10 of the most common nutrition questions to Prof Grant Schofield and Dr Caryn Zinn. Here’s question 7: Do stress and sleep affect what and how we eat? Undoubtedly, these are two of the most untalked about, unrecognised behaviours in having a...
Amount of perceived control drives behaviour
I saw this headline on CNN news - "New Zealand has come out of lockdown and gone to McDonald's." Let's deconstruct that. The first part that I want to share is, I have a bit of a penchant for Kentucky Fried Chicken. I think it's delicious. There are times in my life...
Where to now – Macca’s?
Prof Grant Schofield talks about coming out of lockdown and what the next steps are. Should we still be trying to eliminate an endemic virus? And why are we not talking about metabolic health? If we go back six weeks, we learnt that Covid-19 had spread outside of...
What are we seeking to optimise for?
We are in a rapidly changing landscape. Dynamic would be an understatement. I think that the phrase, ‘In some decades we only move weeks, but in some weeks we move decades’, is absolutely appropriate for what we're seeing with the Covid-19 pandemic. Let's look at what...
Life after isolation – What are you going to change?
It is Easter and this has got me thinking about a few things. Some people are getting cabin fever, they're feeling restricted and unsure about their emotions. Whether you are Christian, Muslim, Hindu or not religious at all, Easter is a cultural celebration in many...
Kids’ Lockdown Cooking Challenge!
Join PreKureME Lockdown Edition for some immune-boosting self-improvement in self-isolation. Libby Jenkinson from Ditch the Carbs brings us a kids' cooking challenge (works just as well for adults too). Check out these chaffle recipes, and a free chaffle...
How deadly is COVID-19?
We need broader and more accurate testing, says Grant Schofield. I've been following the recent news with interest, particularly around the numbers of Covid-19 cases in different countries. In New Zealand, as most of you know, we’re in lockdown for four weeks, with a...
Free challenge: PreKureME Lockdown Edition
PreKure is launching a free 3-week challenge - PreKureME Lockdown Edition. This is a new take on PreKure's free behaviour-change programme PreKureME. Now more than ever, you’ll want to be focusing on prevention and your health. PreKureME Lockdown Edition is a 21-day...
COVID-19: Wellness Guide for Health Professionals
Top tips to maintaining wellness for healthcare professionals. Your personal wellbeing is really important. The public of New Zealand needs YOU! Download your copy here.
COVID-19: The ‘new normal’ needs to better than the old
Each day for the foreseeable future we here at PreKure are coming to you live at 8PM New Zealand-time on Facebook to talk about issues regarding COVID-19. Visit us on Facebook. We've got time now to slow down. We've got time to spend with our families and our...
COVID-19: How can we thrive in lockdown?
Each day for the foreseeable future we here at PreKure are coming to you live at 8PM New Zealand-time on Facebook to talk about issues regarding COVID-19. Visit us on Facebook. In this video clip, Dr Carlo Bellini talks about the importance of leadership and...
COVID-19: What is the denominator?
That is the question that I think we should all be thinking very carefully about when we're thinking about COVID-19 and what it means for us. Exactly how dangerous is this thing? What does it mean for us? What should we do with the data we're receiving and should we...
What new things have we learnt about COVID-19?
Each day for the foreseeable future we here at PreKure are coming to you live at 8PM New Zealand-time on Facebook to talk about issues regarding COVID-19. Go to our Facebook page here. In this video clip, Prof Grant Schofield talks about the latest findings...
COVID-19: How to boost your immune system
Each day for the foreseeable future we here at PreKure are coming to you live at 8PM New Zealand-time on Facebook to talk about issues regarding COVID-19. Go to our Facebook page here. Dr Catherine Crofts has been a pharmacist for over 20 years. Read her blog...
Act as if you have the virus
Each day for the foreseeable future we here at PreKure are coming to you live at 8PM New Zealand-time on Facebook to talk about issues regarding COVID-19. Go to our Facebook page here. "The best advice I've heard is to act as if you have the virus. You then can...
COVID-19: We will adapt to this
The reality of the world we lived in doesn't exist anymore. It's going to be different. It may not be better, it might not be worse, it's just different. We humans are massively resilient and adaptable to this, and we will adapt, and we will do well in this, but we're...
COVID-19: Suppression is the only strategy
- because it's the only tool we've got. Suppressing the spread of COVID-19 will give us much more capability in our hospitals to deal with sick people. And most importantly, it will buy us time to develop antivirals that work, or vaccines that work. Watch this video...
COVID-19: Update from an Australian and NZ perspective
Each day for the foreseeable future we here at PreKure are coming to you live at 8PM New Zealand-time on Facebook to talk about issues regarding COVID-19. Go to our Facebook page here. If you've been following the news, you'll have seen that globally there is...
COVID-19: How to talk to your kids about it
Each day for the foreseeable future we here at PreKure are coming to you live at 8PM New Zealand-time on Facebook to talk about issues regarding COVID-19. Go to our Facebook page here. Dr. Desiree Dickerson, PreKure’s clinical psychologist, is living in Spain...
COVID-19: Living in Spain in total lockdown
"We need to consider the greater good here. This is a social justice issue" PreKure's clinical psychologist, Dr Desiree Dickerson shares her very real experience from a locked-down Spain. Each day for the foreseeable future we here at PreKure are coming...
COVID-19 – Our opportunity to squash exponential growth
Each day for the foreseeable future we here at PreKure are coming to you live at 8PM New Zealand-time on Facebook to talk about issues regarding COVID-19. Go to our Facebook page here. Prof Grant Schofield talks to PreKure's Registered Nurse, Sonya English,...
Behaviour change: Start with the ‘why’
I like to start with the 'why'. Simon Sinek is quite big in the business world, and he talks about if you started a new business or venture, actually – before you go very far – understand what the purpose is and why you want to do it. Sometimes when we talk about...
Coaching technique: How to ask power questions
A power question is a question that is thought-provoking, and that gives power to conversations. We all have friends and acquaintances that, whenever you meet them, they just talk about themselves and you feel like you can't get a word in the conversation. Then there...
Weight loss and obesity – we’ve been giving people the wrong advice
If people tell us that, 'look I've been following all the guidelines and I'm still gaining weight', what we do is we assume that they are lying. Isn't that just...? Doh! You know, as the doctor, we assume that they are lying. We blame the patient. You know, didn't we...
Nutrition and Health Coaching Tip
If you're just getting started in nutrition or health coaching, here is a great tip from Dr Caryn Zinn - practice and hone your consulting skills with friends or family to build you confidence. Start doing mock interviews! Watch the clip below from one of the...
How is sleep affected by electricity and wifi?
Catherine Crofts went ‘off-grid’ to explore if and how her sleep changed when disconnected from the modern world. Find out what happened in her N=1 sleep study. We often hear the phrase “I’ll sleep when I am dead”, especially from people who are considered leaders....
Flippin Health Episode 13: Dr David Ludwig
Scientists – leave your ego at the door! “We have epidemics of diet-related disease that are threatening life expectancy, that are going to bankrupt the healthcare system. We need to get out of this egotistical debate about who’s right and who’s wrong, and try to work...
Flippin Health Episode 12: Dr Richard Babor
How Not to Get Cancer Richard Babor is an upper gastrointestinal and bariatric surgeon at Counties Manukau District Health Board. In his clinic, the question of how not to get cancer, or ‘why did I get cancer’ comes up a lot. Nobody is to blame for getting cancer. But...
Flippin Health Episode 11: Dr Robert Szabo
Want to Save the Planet? Don’t Blame the Cows. Dr Robert Szabo, a Melbourne-based GP, started low carb clinic four years ago, helping patients who are looking to reverse insulin resistance and adopt a low carb diet to improve their health. He is also a well-researched...
Flippin Health Episode 10: Dr Carlo Bellini
The Future of Health “I think there is a massive opportunity for leaders within health to really open their minds about how we can do things differently.” Dr Carlo Bellini, PreKure’s Lead Coach, takes us on a journey from Perth to Oxford, from medical studies to...
The Impact of Menopause on Women’s Health
Guest Blog Post by PreKure Health Coach Certificate Student: Michelle Bishop wellhealthyyou.nz My name is Michelle Bishop and I am a Certified Nutrition Coach and Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach based on the Hibiscus Coast north of Auckland. Ilove learning...
Season 1, Episode 8: The Fat Ginger Nerd
Brendan Reid: The Fat Ginger Nerd Brendan Reid isn't shy about starting the conversation on nutrition and lifestyle by sharing his life story. When he was born in 1978, he admits he was a big baby of nine pounds and six ounces. In the 80s he was one of the fat kids in...
Dream Sleep vs Deep Sleep
By Professor Grant Schofield What happens when we sleep? Let’s have a look at the sleep cycles, particularly dream sleep vs deep sleep (or Rapid Eye Movement and non-REM) in humans and other animals. At the start of the night, you're in a light sleep. You're...
Season 1, Episode 5: Riding the Wave of Change
Welcome to the fifth episode of Flippin Health podcast! For this episode, we're joined by Dietitian Dr Caryn Zinn. Registered dietitian in New Zealand, a senior lecturer, and a clinical practitioner. She is also an author, alongside Professor Grant Schofield and Chef...