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How much salt do you need?

Are you getting enough (or too much) salt? And do you know what is optimal anyway? This article looks at the latest research and some novel insights about optimal sodium. While we’re at it, we’ll look at some other essential minerals that you are likely missing out on. Why is sodium important? […]

Systematising Satiety – Low Carb Down Under Presentation

It has been a real honour to have the opportunity over the years to present at Low Carb Down Under and have them shared on their YouTube channel! Without further ado, here’s my latest presentation on satiety from the last meeting on the Gold Coast in Australia. Satiety is a fascinating and multi-factorial parameter of […]

Escaping our infinite autumn

How to adjust your diet to lose fat (spring) rather than constantly gaining fat (autumn) in preparation for a winter that never comes!

A hundred people used Nutrient Optimiser for six weeks. Can you guess what happened to their weight?

It was so exciting to see how well people did in the Nutrient Optimiser Challenge which was held to celebrate the launch of the Nutrient Optimiser platform. The results of the challenge demonstrate the positive benefits of quantitatively optimising nutrient density and satiety and potential benefits of the Nutrient Optimiser to create sustainable improvements […]

Systematising satiety: How to optimise your diet to manage hunger

How to optimise your diet to manage hunger for weight loss without deprivation

Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper

A popular adage suggests we should “eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper”. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] We interrogated more than half a million days of food diaries to see whether it is actually helpful. Breakfast The chart below shows the proportion daily calories consumed at breakfast […]

Don’t Eat for Winter!

Modern processed food uses the same formula that Mother Nature uses to provide hyper-palatable food in autumn to help us eat more, store fat, and prepare for winter. In our modern food environment “comfort foods” are designed to be delicious and allow us to consume more of them. We are instinctively drawn to foods that […]

How to optimise your protein, fat and carbohydrates to minimise hunger

In the How much protein do you need to optimise satiety article we looked at the critical role of protein in managing hunger. The analysis of half a million days of MyFitnessPal data showed that your body is satisfied with less energy when you give it adequate protein. So, with protein locked in, this article looks at how fat, […]

how much protein do you need to reduce hunger for weight loss?

There is a lot of discussion and confusion on the interwebs around protein. Will too much protein raise my blood sugars? Will protein ‘kick me out of ketosis’? Won’t too much protein it hurt my kidneys? Will protein raise mTOR and give me cancer? Isn’t protein is a poor energy source? But I don’t want … How much protein do you need to optimise satiety? →

micros > macros?

Most of the time, when it comes to nutrition, we like to think in terms of macronutrients. Carbs. Fat. Protein. Fibre. Simple! But maybe too simple? In the good old days, before your food was grown in nutrient depleted soil and the creation of nutrient-poor processed frankenfood, we just ate food. We didn’t have to […]