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How Nutritional Optimisation made Jeff “feel better than ever”

Meet 57-year-old Jeff who is a paramedic on the Sunshine Coast, north of Brisbane, Australia. With plenty of stressful shift work, feeling and performing at his best is critical and enables him to think clearly and help people when they need it. Over the years, Jeff has worked hard at his diet and fitness. […]

What the hell does Camilla eat to stay on top of the Optimal Nutrition Score Leaderboard?

It’s been satisfying to see people use the tools we have created to their fullest extent and go on to achieve amazing results! One spectacular example of this is fun-loving and cheeky and 36-year-old retail seafood specialist Camilla Caton who topped the Nutrient Optimiser Leaderboard for the second time in our 6 Week Nutritional Optimisation […]

Did you see the latest keto vs vegan plant-based diet study from Kevin Hall?

A critical review of Kevin Hall’s latest study “A plant-based, low-fat diet decreases ad libitum energy intake compared to an animal-based, ketogenic diet: An inpatient randomized controlled trial” through the lense of nutritional optimisation.

Congratulations to the 6 Week Nutritional Optimisation Masterclass (May 2020) Graduates!

Check out the amazing results from the May 2020 Nutritional Optimisation Masterclass in terms of weight loss, fat loss, lean muscle gain and improvements in nutrient density.

Nutrient-dense foods on a budget… optimised for YOUR goal

With both a viral pandemic and an international financial crisis unfolding, identifying nutrient-dense foods to support healthy immune function with limited funds is a hot topic. While we received lots of interest and positive feedback on our recent article looking at cost-effective nutrient-dense foods, several people asked, “what about keto/low carb?”, “what about fat loss?”, […]

How to optimise your insulin

There are many misconceptions and incorrect beliefs about the role of insulin in your body and how to optimise it. Many believe that the best way to reduce insulin is to simply avoid carbohydrates and even protein (which tend to raise insulin levels the most over the short term). While your insulin levels do increase […]

Nutrient Density on a Budget

A friend recently commented that many of the most nutritious foods are unaffordable for a lot of the people who need them the most to optimise their health and support healthy immune function. Sadly, mainstream nutritional advice largely focuses on what we shouldn’t eat. For example, the “nutrition advice” for COVID-19 given by the World […]

What is Nutritional Optimisation?

Nutritional Optimisation is the process of optimising your food choices to align with your goals and by giving your body what it needs. Unfortunately, most “nutritional advice” revolves around avoiding “bad foods” and other “bad things” in the food we eat (e.g. calories, fat, saturated fat, carbs, cholesterol, plants, animal, etc.). Even in the […]

What the most popular COVID-19 pandemic prep foods are doing to our immune system

COVID-19 is generating so much data! While fascinating, it can also be depressing and stressful. With many of us in lockdown, we feel helpless watching the numbers of confirmed cases and deaths mounting every day. But rather than trying to predict the future and debate things we can’t control, I thought it might be interesting […]

COVID-19: What we do and don’t (yet) know and how to reduce your risk

The COVID-19 pandemic is a monumental example of the limitations of sound-bite driven media. Although there is a constant stream of hype, paranoia, political positioning and finger-pointing over the past weeks, there has not been a lot of discussion about what we can do to move forward in a balanced manner. We all have a […]

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