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Struggling to reach your health or weight loss goals despite doing ALL the right things? Mistaking thirst for hunger can sabotage your best attempts.

Clear up the confusion around caffeine - do women really need to cut their intake when pregnant or trying to conceive?

A must-read for the pregnant woman - seeking clarity through the confusion and controversy surrounding exercise during pregnancy.

What do we need to be happy? Do you really need to complete a bucket list in order to achieve happiness? How much does it take to get contentment in life? According to the American psychologist Abraham Maslow, there is a direct correlation between happiness and human needs. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is a theory is psychology that argues that there are 5 stages of human needs that actually motivate the way that we behave. He proposed this theory way back in 1943, but really, its still very relevant to us today.

The key to improving your movement function, reducing pain, and improving your game on the court is to understand the causes of tennis-related injuries. Tennis is a very popular sport in Australia, there are about 1 million players aged 15 years and over. But unfortunately, the forceful twists and turns of this game puts players at high risk of getting injured.

The debate around supplementation continues and never ceases, not only throughout the Fitness and Sporting worlds but from day to day living. Questions I often get asked from family, friends, and rushcutters health members are, who should be taking them? When should you be taking them? What type should I take?

There are two main ways to improve your endurance performance and fitness as a whole. You could focus on increasing your aerobic system (ability to use oxygen), or you could improve your anaerobic system, and with it, the ability to tolerate and clear lactate. The problem most endurance athletes face is that they have focused largely on building a huge aerobic engine, building a very solid “base” of training, yet their ability to clear hydrogen ions and lactic acid remains limited due to their training methodologies. In this blog, I will teach you what you need to know about functional threshold power and how it can benefit you in your next adventure, whatever that might be.

The A.I. Diet is an algorithm that tells you how to eat to live a longer and healthier life. As you know, an algorithm is a process or set of rules followed by a computer used in calculations or problem-solving, so the A.I diet is all based on science. Cardiologist, Dr Eric Topol participated in a 2-week experiment using a smartphone app tracking: all consumption (food, drink and medication), sleep and exercise. A sensor monitoring blood-glucose levels was added and a stool sample was sent in for an assessment of his gut microbiome. His data was amassed with similar input from 1000+ others and analysed by AI to create a personalised diet algorithm. The final verdict showed unexpected results: In the sweets category: Cheesecake was given an A grade, but whole-wheat fig bars were given a C grade. In fruits: Strawberries were an A+ for him, but grapefruit a C. For legumes: Mixed nuts were an A+, but veggie burgers a C.

Bad sleeping habit like staying up late and then waking early, or even binge sleeping on the weekends are probably not ideal, but this is the norm for many of us. With so many things to do during the day, we often want time for ourselves at night, and so we end up sacrificing sleep time. But what we fail to realise is that a good night’s sleep is crucial for high performance. Optimising sleep leads to more energy, increased output, and improved work efficiency that eventually leads to more free time. Which leads us to the question: how do we optimise sleep?

Your gut has a huge impact on how healthily you age. It is vital we support healthy gut function and microbiome to help prevent age related disease.

These foods help target the underlying causes of skin ageing to slow down wrinkle progression and keep you looking younger for longer.

These 5 foods are affordable and pack a huge anti-ageing punch and are easily incorporated into your everyday diet.