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A woman doing a Pilates exercise8wp week 8

Food freedom: your midlife body, your muscles, and making it stick

Where the 6–9 teaspoon ceiling comes from, why muscle and protein matter more in midlife, and how to handle a big sugary...

17 Oct 202614 min
A homemade chicken curry served with naan bread8wp week 7

The long game: what seven weeks of real food has to do with your brain

Why the habits you've built are worth keeping after Week 8: what the research says about blood sugar, ultra-processed food, movement, sleep...

17 Oct 202613 min
A pile of fresh blueberries8wp week 6

Why berries come back first: colour, polyphenols and your gut

Why berries, kiwi fruit and citrus come back first, why the goodness in colourful plants depends on your gut bacteria, and what...

17 Oct 202614 min
A steak dinner served with roasted vegetables8wp week 5

Your liver, and eating out in the real world

What your liver does with fructose and alcohol, why fatty liver is common and usually silent, and a practical guide to ordering,...

17 Oct 202614 min
Rainbow quinoa nori rolls filled with fresh vegetables8wp week 4

Feeding the gut you've got: what Clean Week is doing for you

What fibre, plant variety and fermented foods do for your gut bacteria, what the evidence really shows, and why gluten, coffee and...

17 Oct 202613 min
Mushroom, chilli and spinach pasta8wp week 3

Where is all this sugar coming from?

Why sugar turns up in most packaged food, savoury included, how to read a label in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, the...

17 Oct 202613 min
Sweet potato fritters topped with smashed avocado and salmon8wp week 2

Why Week 2 is so hard, and how cravings pass

Why cravings peak in Week 2, how sleep, stress and habit cues drive them, what the research really says about sugar addiction...

17 Oct 202614 min
A cup of coffee on a desk in soft afternoon light8wp week 1

The 3pm slump: what's really going on with your blood sugar

Weekend Read, Week 1. Why the afternoon dip happens, why the sugar rush is a myth, and why the program starts with...

17 Oct 202610 min
Calm blue abstract — nervous system and blood sugar feature imageblood sugar

The cortisol–blood-sugar loop: why your nervous system is downstream of your fork

Blood sugar and the stress system share machinery. A 13-minute, peer-reviewed read on the HPA axis, the vagus nerve, and the food...

21 May 202620 min
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Sugar and inflammation: what the science actually says

Peer-reviewed research consistently links high sugar intake — particularly from sugar-sweetened beverages — with raised inflammatory markers. A 12-minute, fully-cited read on...

15 May 202614 min

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