Episodes

  • Vanessa Spina - from ketogenic girl to optimizing protein

    Vanessa Spina - from ketogenic girl to optimizing protein
    Jul 30 2024

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    This week on the podcast Mikki speaks to Ketogenic Girl (and Optimal Protein podcast host) Vanessa Spina. They discuss how Vanessa the evolution of Vanessa’s dietary recommendations from the ketogenic diet to focusing on protein, what she has learned from 100s of episodes interviewing experts in the diet space, how becoming a mother has changed her own habits, and how she balances all aspects of her life and business.


    Vanessa Spina a Sport Nutrition Specialist (SNS) and the Best Selling author of Keto Essentials. She is an international speaker and the host of the popular Optimal Protein Podcast, which has over 400,000 downloads/month and has been nominated twice as a top 3 Best Podcast at the Metabolic Health Summit. Vanessa recently completed a two year Biomedical Science program at the University of Toronto to deepen her comprehension of biochemistry and physiology.


    Vanessa founded Ketogenic Girl in 2015 with online social media following of over half a million and several thousand people have done her popular KetogenicGirl Challenge program which serves to optimize metabolic health with nutrient dense real food nutrition. She has been featured as a nutrition expert in articles published in the Orlando Sentinel, Eat This, Parade, Reader’s Digest and more.


    Vanessa has recently created two innovative products, the Tone device which measures breath acetone, the ketone detected on the breath. She most recently the brand new Tone LUX red light therapy line and Tone protein powder.


    Can find Vanessa and her products here: https://ketogenicgirl.com/pages/about-us

    https://www.instagram.com/ketogenicgirl/?hl=en


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    58 mins
  • Mini Mikkipedia - Time Restricted Eating: Reviewing the research

    Mini Mikkipedia - Time Restricted Eating: Reviewing the research
    Jul 28 2024

    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38639542/

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10144293/


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    18 mins
  • Bridging Research and Real-World Practice with Dr. Mike Ormsbee: Exercise, Nutrition, and Collagen Insights

    Bridging Research and Real-World Practice with Dr. Mike Ormsbee: Exercise, Nutrition, and Collagen Insights
    Jul 23 2024

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    This week on the podcast Mikki speaks to Dr Mike Ormsbee about integrating research and the real world, with many of his projects in the exercise physiology and nutrition space beginning in the ‘real world’ and then over time (as funding permits) being refined and more controlled. We talk about the value of having the initial research versus being in a very controlled setting. In the conversation there are some great take homes, specifically about pre sleep protein, the controversies of how useful collagen is, and his project on collagen for middle aged active people.


    Michael J. Ormsbee is a Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Nutrition & Integrative Physiology, the Director of the Institute of Sports Sciences & Medicine at Florida State University, and an honorary research fellow at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.


    He is also a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine, and the International Society of Sports Nutrition and is a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist through the National Strength & Conditioning Association. His research expertise involves the interaction of exercise training, nutrition, and supplementation to improve metabolism and achieve optimal body composition, human performance, and health in both athletic and clinical populations.


    Dr. Ormsbee was honored as the 2014 FSU Teacher of the Year, 2017 Nutrition Researcher of the Year (NSCA), 2018 FSU Graduate Student Mentor of the Year, 2020 FSU Distinguished Teacher of the Year, and the 2020 Sport Scientist of the Year (NSCA). His course, “Changing Body Composition Through Diet and Exercise” is available through The Great Courses, and his textbook, “Exercise Physiology for Health, Fitness, and Performance, 6th edition” is available online.


    • IG/Twitter: @mikeormsbee
    • Online course “Changing Body Composition through Diet and Exercise” (https://www.wondrium.com/changing-body-composition-through-diet-and-exercise)
    • Textbook: 6th ed of Exercise Physiology for Health, Fitness, and Performance by Smith, Plowman, & Ormsbee (https://shop.lww.com/Exercise-Physiology-for-Health–Fitness–and-Performance/p/9781975179557)



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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • Mini Mikkippedia - Nutritional recommendations beyond the reproductive years

    Mini Mikkippedia - Nutritional recommendations beyond the reproductive years
    Jul 21 2024
    20 mins
  • The Metabolic Origin of Cancer: Insights from Professor Thomas Seyfried

    The Metabolic Origin of Cancer: Insights from Professor Thomas Seyfried
    Jul 16 2024

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    This week on the podcast Mikki speaks to Professor Thomas Seyfried about the metabolic origin of cancer. Professor Seyfried discusses why metabolic dysfunction is the major driver of cancer, , how his pulse/push therapy that he has been working on with a number of top researchers in the field can go alongside conventional treatment for cancer, and lifestyle/nutrition strategies for cancer prevention.


    Dr. Thomas Seyfried is an American professor of biology, genetics, and biochemistry at Boston College. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1976 and did his postdoctoral fellowship at the Yale University School of Medicine.


    Dr. Seyfried has over 150 peer-reviewed publications, and his research focuses primarily on the mechanisms driving cancer, epilepsy, and neurodegenerative diseases and calorie-restricted ketogenic diets in their prevention and treatment. He is the author of Cancer as a Metabolic Disease


    You can find more at www.tomseyfried.com


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    1 hr and 29 mins
  • Mini Mikkipedia - The athlete immune

    Mini Mikkipedia - The athlete immune
    Jul 14 2024
    24 mins
  • Beyond Medicine: Dr. David Unwin's Approach to Type 2 Diabetes

    Beyond Medicine: Dr. David Unwin's Approach to Type 2 Diabetes
    Jul 9 2024

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    This week on the podcast I speak to Dr David Unwin about his phenomenal work in the medical space with reversing type 2 diabetes. He works at the Norwood NHS Surgery in Southport near Liverpool, UK where he has cared for the same population since 1986 as a family doctor. Along the way he has received both criticism for his approach and accolades for it, being the winner of prestigious awards for his effectiveness. Mikki and Dr Unwin chat about his approach and its success on today’s podcast.

    Dr David Unwin is an internationally renowned family doctor at the Norwood NHS Surgery in Southport near Liverpool, UK, for using a carbohydrate-reduction approach with his patients with prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes.
    For the past few years, David has been a UK Royal College of General Practitioners expert clinical advisor on diabetes. As a result of his interests in both better communication with patients and Type 2 diabetes he was made Royal College of General Practice National Champion for Collaborative Care and Support Planning in Obesity & Diabetes in 2015. In 2016 he was the proud UK National winner of the NHS Innovator of The Year Award for published research into lifestyle changes; working with patients’ personal health goals as an alternative to drug therapy in type 2 diabetes –so that his GP practice spends £68,000 per year less than expected on drugs for diabetes.

    David Unwin
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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • Mini Mikkipedia - on my mind this week

    Mini Mikkipedia - on my mind this week
    Jul 7 2024
    People say that age is just a number. And I agree - it's how you live your life that determines how young or old you are. Part of that is of course what you eat. How you eat. How much you eat. And how you feel. On that note, in celebration of my 47th birthday, I'm giving you 47% OFF my subscription plans until end of play Monday.Use the code MIKKI47 for this awesome deal on my FLOW (fat loss plan for women), my Man Plan (fat loss plan for, you guessed it, men), my real food plan and my athlete plan. Find these options here and use the code MIKKI47 (it IS case sensitive)Also - because I like to share what's on my mind... here's 47 things I've been thinking about.Eating: is always ‘opportunity cost’ Most people need to eat more proteinSome women are afraid to eat meat for fear of gaining weightThere are good and bad foods, and eating them doesn’t make you a good or bad personIt’s not enough to eat one of those steam locked bags of vegetables at dinner and call it ‘good’Weetbix shouldn’t be a meal. Neither should toastSometimes ‘good enough’ isn’t actually good enough - to reach your goals you have to do betterYou can’t get everything you need from foodThe people that take notice of the ‘eat less red meat’ messages are those that need to eat it the mostMost people could do with eating less carbs20g of protein in a meal is not a high protein mealMost people under-report the amount of alcohol they drinkFor most people, they don’t need to be perfect, they just need to be consistentDon’t rely on one source of truth for your nutrition adviceGetting your nutrition advice from someone whose course was a week long is fine, until something goes wrong.Why call it a ‘cheat meal’ if you’re only ‘cheating’ yourselfIf you have toast for breakfast and a sandwich for lunch, you need to rethink your nutrition strategyThose small tins of tuna/salmon are not a high protein optionMost people have an opinion on nutrition because they eat. You can’t be healthy at any size if you don’t exerciseThose snack choices on a short haul flight are unnecessary and you don’t need to be eating a cookieIf you care about your cholesterol, cut down on your carbohydrate intakeNot everyone needs to lower their saturated fat intakeIn nutrition, there are people and organisations who have an agenda that isn’t related to your healthRed meat isn’t high in saturated fat, actuallyMost processed food doesn’t contain saturated fat as it’s quite expensiveIf you don’t exercise, you aren’t healthy, even if you are leanYou don’t need to be entertained by every single mealFamily history is a big predictor in a lot of disease-states, however your genes are not your destinyIt’s never too late to changeBe wary of anyone who speaks in black and white, and won’t change their opinion in the face of new informationCardio is really important for your heart and long term health and it’s wise to do that alongside your resistance trainingMuesli bars/granola bars aren’t a good snack choiceIf you live in NZ you need to take a vitamin D supplement and you need more than the dose that we are allowed to sellMost people don’t need to snack, but athletes could do with that fourth eating opportunityThe iron supplement you get from your doctor is not the only choice for ironWhy are there ‘kids menus’ at restaurants?Your high blood pressure is as likely linked to a high carbohydrate load as it is your salt intakeSome women train just fine fastedFor some people, intermittent fasting is the best approach, even if they are womenFruit isn’t a health food for some peopleButter trumps margarineYour cholesterol level is less important than what your doctor thinks it isMost people need a magnesium supplement Keto for fat loss is not a high fat dietYou can’t get fit by eating differently. You have to exercise‘Everything in moderation’ isn’t true for everyone Contact Mikki:https://mikkiwilliden.com/https://www.facebook.com/mikkiwillidennutritionhttps://www.instagram.com/mikkiwilliden/https://linktr.ee/mikkiwillidenSave 20% on all Nuzest Products WORLDWIDE with the code MIKKI at www.nuzest.co.nz, www.nuzest.com.au or www.nuzest.comCurranz supplement: MIKKI saves you 25% at www.curranz.co.nz or www.curranz.co.uk off your first order
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    19 mins