The newsletter and blog are where I unpack what I’m reading, noticing and rethinking, from health and human behaviour to prevention, performance and the science that sits underneath it.
GLP-1 weight loss drugs – friend or foe? The real question is whether these drugs leave you better or worse off long term (say, over 5 years). The best answer comes from looking at all the trials on weight loss using GLP-1s versus solid behavioural approaches. A major new systematic review just out in the BMJ sums up 37 studies
New years and back to work philosophy post Pretty much true for me on everything, except I could probably not read a book in a single sitting – I’m just too slow, and I lost my beautiful Border collie Bluey a couple of months back (#14} Real Luxuries in Life 1. Living 10 minutes from work 2. Living 5 minutes
Well, I never… Nothing changes for decades, and then all of a sudden it does. Now it's time for New Zealand and Australia to get on board with the new US dietary guidelines. The ADA and Diabetes NZ have been vocally opposed to the actual evidence for a very long time. Here's the specific advice for chronic disease in the
Big news are the new “real food” US dietary guidelines. These are a huge change in the right direction from the debacle, that has been the low fat ultra processed food oriented guidelines of the last 50 years. Finally we are heading in a more sensible direction, one we have writing researching and advocating for most of the last two
Our paper is out today: real-world, multi-practice pre-diabetes and T2D care in primary care in NZ using whole-food carbohydrate-reduction, health coaching, and community support. Great work, team! What a combination of health coaching and behaviour change focus does when combined with power of carb restriction in diabetes and pre-diabetes = reversal Adds to the evidence this is the standard of
I’ve always been a bit jealous of builders. You finish your day’s work and there’s something solid to show for it. At the end of the week, the month, the year, you can drive around town and point: “I built that. And that one too.” For a lot of us now it’s different. The quiet question in the back of
6:30 AM. Sunday, Tairua Beach: 12 young blokes, 2 young women, 1 older bloke (me) and one not-quite-as-old woman (Louise) stood on the sand staring out at the surf. We were about to swim 1.9 km through the break, ride 90 km (Tairua to Pauanui and back, then out to Hikuai (and back), and finish with two laps of town
WHAT A NIGHT! Congratulations all 265 graduates and everyone and a heartfelt thank you to the whānau, friends, and supporters who helped make last Thursday such a special evening. We’re genuinely privileged to be part of a passionate community of like-minded professionals who are out there changing lives through prevention-led coaching. Thank you for being part of the mission, Prevention
Creatine, once the go-to supplement for bodybuilders and elite athletes has quietly gone mainstream. Once a gym-bro secret, it’s now one of the most studied and surprisingly effective compounds for everyone interested in better performance, better sleep, and better brain health. So, what’s hype and what’s actually happening inside your body?
I need your help. We eat too much ultra-processed food (UPF). It's high in sugar and fat, which is a bad combination. It’s formulated to be highly palatable (read addictive). It's cheap and it's everywhere. Our health is worse for eating this way. The question for you to help me with is – how we get a suitable balance of
Hi there, “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago…the second best time is now” We’ve all heard about the magical power of compounding interest. Well this is compounding health. Choosing to do hard things early in life is like investing in Apple stock in 1995 when it was $0.24 per share. Just a
Message from Professor Obvious – exercise is good for your health. But a more complex question is the relative health value of harder vs easier exercise. Or more scientifically, is 1 min of vigorous exercise really worth much more than easier stuff like walking (moderate) and even lighter things like gardening and cleaning (light)? Conventional wisdom – double the vigorous
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