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 every packe...

What Is Maltodextrin? Understanding This Common Additive

Maltodextrin is a highly processed carbohydrate derived from starches such as corn, wheat, rice, or potato. Frequently found in processed foods, maltodextrin serves as a thickener, filler, and preservative in products like sauces, salad dress...

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 we feed our famil...

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, right?

We...

This is one of my favourite analogies. In my past life as a yo-yo dieter, I was like an out-of-control driver veering from one side of the road to the other. Driving steadfast to one side, then spinning the steering wheel, overcorrecting and hurtling to the other side. Nearly crashing before overcor...

3 Super Simple Tips For Healthy Eating While Sheltering At Home

Health is our greatest asset.

Recently, the Australian federal health minister Greg Hunt and AMA president Dr Tony Bartone told us that now, more than ever, we must focus on managing our chronic disease conditions.  

The last t...

Surely everyone wants you to lose weight and reclaim your health...Right?

Wrong!

There are people out there who have a vested interested in you failing and making the wrong choices.

Some of these groups are Big Food Companies.

Now the obvious ones are the junk food companies and fast...

Real Food...

Low Carb, Real Food (LCRF)...

Is one of the linchpins to long term sustainable weight loss. 

Highly processed "diet foods and diet shakes" do not work. They hijack your satiety (fullness) and leave you hungry, tired and overweight. 

They wreak havoc on your body, leaving it inflamed...