Blog and Recipes
This week on cooking, coaching & conversations, Dr Lucy Burns is showing us how to make pulled beef two ways!
SLOW COOKER VERSION
Ingredients
- topside beef roast (approx. 2kgs)
- onions, chopped (we used frozen)
- mushrooms, sliced
- 1 jar of passata
- vegetable stock paste
- Mingle Seasoning...
There are 3 ways to lower insulin.
- A Low Carb Lifestyle.
Reducing the amount of carbohydrate your pancreas has to process is a wonderful way off giving it a rest.
2. Add it in with intermittent fasting.
Fasting, if you have high insulin, is really hard because you literally...
At Real Life Medicine we help everybody, but in particular, our passion is women who have tried everything, who have done every diet known to (wo)man, who are almost ready to give up on themselves. They're our people. They're our tribe, and we help them by understanding the physiology and the...
The cause of obesity is multifactorial and still poorly understood. It is not a simple as an excess of calories. It would be so easy if it was.
Calories in, Calories out-the backbone of the diet industry does not work.
Obesity is a disease of deranged metabolic hormones....
Is Sanitarium™ Up & Go™ a healthy brekky?
Is Up and Go good for kids?
We get asked this question all-the-time!
This product is marketed to the busy person who not only doesn’t have time to make breakfast, but they don't have time to eat it!
This in...
Let's talk about comfort eating...
Emotional eating is the number one reason women fall off the wagon...
and our favourite roadblock to conquer!
You know what though?
Emotional Eating is NOT your fault
Eating is a comfort. It is known physiologically that eating causes the release of...
Today is World Heart Day
Cardiovascular Disease is the number one cause of death in the world.
In 2016 15.2 million deaths were attributed to Stroke and Heart Disease.
In Australia, Cardiovascular disease (CVD) was the underlying cause of death in 41,800 deaths in 2018 (26% of all...
At Real Life Medicine, we advocate a Low Carb Real Food Diet. Part of this includes eating healthy, natural (delicious) fats. Not all fats are healthy. In this blog, we discuss how industrial seed oils are neither healthy nor natural.
Seed oils are everywhere! They lurk in virtually...
This week we are excited to introduce a guest article from Alison at Broth of Life. Alison is very passionate about consuming bone broth for good health and produces organic dehydrated bone broth that could not be more convenient or delicious!
Filled with vitamins and minerals as well...
Hi Lovely,
Dr Lucy here.
I recently went down the rabbit hole of food labelling. I did a presentation called The Doctor’s Guide to Reading Nutritional Labels”.
Do you know you what?
It is frightening to see the products out there. Everyday products that we are eating. Products...
Hello, Wonderful Humans
At Real Life Medicine, our mission is to empower you to make the changes necessary for good health so you can live a happy and fulfilled life.
Sounds simple right?
We know, like many things, it’s not that simple.
If it was, you would have already done it,...
Is fat free?
In some pockets of the low carb community, there is the message that we should be eating high fat all the time, no matter what; fat is free, fat is fine, you can’t overdo fat. It is true that fat does not stimulate your insulin. However, extra added fat is not a great idea if...
