The Data-Driven Fasting 30-Day-Challenge will guide you to optimise your eating routine to align with your unique metabolism, preferences and goals. We will show you how to manage your blood glucose, optimise your health and burn body fat! The Data-Driven Fasting 30-Day-Challenge will guide you through the following phases. Baselining Your current foods & meals …
When we hear about cholesterol, it’s usually bad news. Over the past 70 years or so, we’ve been told how high blood cholesterol is correlated with: We’ve also heard that the cholesterol you eat ends up in your bloodstream. But does a really equal b? Plant-based diet proponents believe that avoiding cholesterol, a nutrient found …
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You wake up and check your blood sugar, only to find… that your blood sugar is high? But you spent the last eight hours in bed, and it’s been twelve hours without food! How can this be? What you might be witnessing is likely something known as the dawn phenomenon. The dawn phenomenon is a …
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Continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) can provide powerful insight into how you respond to food. The data from your CGM can help you make better food choices and fuel your activity. However, more data is not always better. Too much data often leads to confusion and overwhelm. As you will see, if misinterpreted, CGM data can …
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Ultra-processed foods are catching a lot of attention these days for their role in the ever-growing obesity and diabetes epidemics. To help you navigate the wild nutritional landscape, this article examines: A Brief History of Ultra-Processed Foods Food processing is nothing new; we’ve just become better at it lately! According to anthropologist Richard Wrangham, humans …
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Background Your appetite is fascinating, complex, and multifactorial. Whether you realise it or not—and it may even seem like a nuisance—your appetite is optimised to keep you alive by motivating you to seek out the energy and nutrients you need at any given time. If you’ve been following our research and analysis, you’ll be …
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Did you know YOU have your own unique nutritional prescription? Yes, that’s right: there is a perfect diet, just for YOU? But… Here’s a hint… You won’t find it in the latest best-selling diet book. It’s not in the latest X pill or magic supplement that influencer Y is paid to promote. Your nutritionist or doctor doesn’t even know …
Looking for information on vitamin K2? Optimising Nutrition has everything you need to know, what it is and what it does and how to get it from your food.
Chromium (Cr) is a critical micromineral that we require in trace amounts. Although chromium has some significant roles and functions within the human body, we don’t have that much information. Databases do not regularly measure chromium in foods, meaning we don’t have much satiety data on it, either. This article will help you understand the …
Molybdenum wears atomic number 42 on the periodic and is essential for humans in small amounts. As you will see, it has many roles. It also might have the most complicated name to pronounce of any other element we consume via diet! Despite its importance, we are still learning about the roles of molybdenum and …