My brand-new podcast, Pioneers of Ageing, is LIVE! It is the podcast that celebrates a generation that is reinventing what it means to age. I co-host the podcast with a very dear friend Rebecca Rhodes who I´ve known since we were teenagers. The first episode is…
I often talk about the three Cs : confusion, contradict and compromise and to just through the confusion means taking it back to basics. So, I’m going to do a short series on the core foundations of what we find in food ie the macronutrients. There are three…
September is World Alzheimer’s month with Tuesday 21st being World Alzheimer’s awareness day. The UK Alzheimer’s Society promotes the awareness month because they want people to come together to demonstrate how we can overcome these issues. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia. More…
Here in Mallorca, like most of the Mediterranean, we are in a heatwave. It is seriously hot and when I step outside it feels like I’m in a sauna. Even walking my dog in the evening after the sun goes down is sweaty work. What…
Part of my mission for the Food for Thought community is to help people understand their body and brain. As some of you may know, I created and edited the book “Case Studies in Personalised Nutrition”. One of the key takeouts for practitioners is that helping…
New Month. New Topic. Fermented Foods. Future proofing your brain through what and how you eat is fundamental to my Food for Thought programme with fermented food being one of the topics we cover. The current group on my Premier Live programme had an animated discussion about…
When is a salad un-healthy? This week in my “pimping” series I thought I would cover salads. But salads are always “healthy” aren’t they? Yes. And no! Let me explain… For a meal to be healthy it needs to give your body and brain what…
This week we are continuing the pimping theme and turning our attention to pasta. In my 20s I ate far too much of it. It was a simple and cheap way to fuel up. Did I really enjoy it? Or did it just fill the gap?…
Can Easter exist without chocolate? And how on earth do I find a healthy angle about the heaps of chocolate laden Easter goodies? A few years ago, I organised an Easter Egg hunt for children at the polo club where I kept my horses. I…
