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Talking with Petteri Lahtela, creator of the OURAring

Those of you who are familiar with my content will know I’m a big fan of my OURARing. So, you can imagine how thrilled I was to sit down with the company’s CEO and co-founder, Petteri Lahtela. From this conversation, I was able to draw many parallels between his company’s […]

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The Importance of Connectedness for Health

Today I want to talk about the importance of connectedness for health. Many of you will already know I’m a huge fan of Lynbreck Croft and the two farmers who run it, Lynn and Sandra. Lynbreck Croft is a regenerative farm located in the Cairngorms National Park in the Highlands

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Autonomy & Health Ownership

Following on from our previous blog post, I want to discuss autonomy. Autonomy is a crucial part of health ownership, which is what this month is all about. It simply means being in a state of self-governing; being able to act upon your own values and interests. And having this

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Thrive In Five: Preventative Health Testing

This Week’s Thrive in Five is all about preventative health testing and things you can do to extend your healthspan. Healthspan is really what Bodyshot (certainly it’s one of our key philosophies) is all about. It’s about putting the priority on healthspan, not life span. What we mean by that

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Help! I’m over 40 and can’t shift this weight – is it my age?

Are you over 40 and you’ve got stubborn fat that just won’t remove itself, you just can’t shed it? It’s definitely not your age – that’s one thing I will say. Of course, our metabolism slows down as we get older, but getting older is not an excuse to gain

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Why a one-size-fits-all approach doesn’t work

The old adage, one size does not fit all has never been truer. We now know that there are so many things that affect our body composition and it wouldn’t be wise to follow the same advice for example, at work, for my mum or my friend or the person

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Sleep, DNA and your health – how are they linked?

Did you know that sleep deprivation profoundly affects your genes, and your gene expression? Let me explain how a recent study was conducted amongst a group of healthy doctors, and they noticed that in those doctors who worked the night shift – so their sleep pattern was very disrupted and

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The importance of body composition

This week’s blog is all about body composition; the ratio of bone to muscle to fat and water that you have in your body. We like to remove the guesswork in everything that we do at Bodyshot, and DNA testing is a key part of how we do that.  Many

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Why the one-size-fits-all approach to dieting won’t help you lose weight

Ask 20 people to eat the same diet for 10 weeks and you’ll get 20 different results, despite everyone being under the same controlled conditions. This shouldn’t really be surprising. If we put 20 people in an environment where they are all taught to play a musical instrument, we wouldn’t

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What is gut health and the microbiome and how can I look after it?

There is much talk of the gut and the microbiome, with many claiming it’s the next frontier in health and wellbeing. In my recent podcast episode with Dr Becca Moore, it was even suggested that some scientists and doctors refer to the gut as the first brain (formerly known as

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