Holistic Health and Performance optimising hormones stress reduction

The key to health is understanding your biology

Are you sick of diets that bring short-term results? Are you constantly guessing your next steps to wellbeing? How much time and energy do you waste looking for the next best thing? Achieving peak health isn't simply a case of training harder or going on a diet, it's about investigating your current health and being educated on your unique biology. It is becoming very difficult to follow a set path as we are being pulled in different directions by social media. What this crea

Resilience starts in the gut - 7 ways to improve gut health

How would you define resilience? The dictionary definition states: 1. The power or ability to return to the original form, position, etc., after being bent, compressed, or stretched; elasticity. 2. Ability to recover readily from illness, depression, adversity, or the like; buoyancy. Resilience in principle is built around this idea of “bouncing back”. In the business world, it’s becoming more important to be resilient. Demanding jobs, tight deadlines, busy schedules and ba

STRESSED PEOPLE MAKE BAD DECISIONS

How many times have you made a decision and then a regretted it a short time later? This could be during a meeting, writing an email or a heated debate with a colleague. Why does this happen? How can your brain go from being in high performance to shut down within a blink of an eye? The reason is stress, but don’t worry it's not your fault, blame your cave man brain. YOU ARE RUNNING ON AN ANCIENT OPERATING SYSTEM: Modern day life creates moments of acute stress. This can be

LOOKING FOR A FREE PERFORMANCE UPGRADE?

If I had to think of one thing that I could say to clients to give them the ultimate edge and overall upgrade to how they look, perform and feel it would be sleep. If you get your sleep right, it has so many benefits that you can’t afford to miss and its FREE! According to the 2016 national UK survey, 63.1% of people are unhappy with the amount of sleep they get, and only a staggering 8% of people wake up feeling refreshed. A survey conducted by the Royal Society for publ

TIRED AND WIRED – ARE YOU IN A STATE OF PERFORMANCE OVERDRIVE?

Are you: · Driven · Top of your game · Feel great · Look great · Perform well and believe you are as healthy as you can be. · All it takes is a strong cup of coffee in the morning, and you can kill it all day? · Hit the gym and have a great workout · Nothing gets in your way Sound like you? If so would you say you had plenty of grit? Call it whatever you want, determination, drive, willpower, it all leads to the same thing – an individual that performs well, but at what long-

A common digestive issue and 7 ways to improve it

Consider this... You eat all the right healthy foods. You get your lunch from a healthy food chain that seems pretty balanced. You track your calories, steps and workouts on a cool watch or app on your phone. You always eat a variety of foods and would consider yourself to have a "healthy" diet. You avoid fast foods, sugars, sweet snacks and treats and never eat those office doughnuts. You have the occasional alcoholic drink, but you drink in moderation and make up for it by

STOP GUESSING – START TESTING - OPTIMISE PERFORMANCE

In the I.T world, we are constantly getting feedback from systems, via dashboards, emails, or apps and these provide us with vital information on how to optimise to perform better. As human beings, this can be slightly more tricky. Yes, we can have watches and apps that tell us how many calories we have burnt and how many steps we have taken and even how well we have slept, but is that really giving us any insight into our real health? As a coach one of the number one issues

Is it just about calories in and calories out?

How many times have you heard this when it comes to weight loss? “It’s just about calories in and calories out”. Some people that follow this get great results whilst others don't. Hearing the words “it’s easy to lose weight, you just need to get into a calorie deficit” are like nails on a chalkboard to me as I have seen from personal experience and with clients the damage it can cause to your health. It is something that is pushed by the media and is an easy response to a mu