Ep 80. What's Real Food? Where do you begin? with Steph Lowe, The Natural Nutritionist

The Monica Kade Podcast: Health, Mindset, Career & Lifestyle

"I'm all for someone having a goal around performance or fat loss or whatever it might be that they come to see me for in the first place, but we have nothing without quality of life. There's no point being old if you're very unwell and on a whole suite of medications, at least in my opinion. That's not my idea of quality of life."

- Steph Lowe, Ep80. The Monica Kade podcast

In Episode 80 of The Monica Kade podcast I got to chat to the founder of The Natural Nutritionist, Steph Lowe. Steph started the The Natural Nutritionist as a way of celebrating the importance of real food—and she’s done an incredible job so far. And, if you didn’t know, aside from being a sports nutritionist, she’s a triathlete and author of The Real Food Athlete and most recently Low Carb, Healthy Fat Nutrition—today’s book giveaway.

What I love about Steph is her no-nonsense approach to food. I love how knowledgeable she is on her industry and how she talks about health and nutrition in an easy to digest way.

I think if we weren’t at the mercy of Melbourne’s blackout cutting Steph’s power short, we probably could’ve chat until sundown on all things health and lifestyle.

She’s got an insane passion for spreading a positive message about real food and the incredible affect it has on performance—which is actually how I discovered her myself—and I have no doubt your ears will prick up the moment you hear our conversation.

>>>Take a listen above and be sure to leave a review on iTunes sharing what you loved<<<

INSIGHTS INTO STEPH LOWE: AN INTRO TO REAL FOOD & WHERE TO BEGIN + BOOK GIVEAWAY!

Learn About:

- When did she first realise her love for health and wellness?
- How her own health battle supported her to make a change?
- Some truths about gluten
- How the Australian Dietetics Association has skewed what type of food we should be eating
- What does the ‘real food’ pyramid look like?
- How you can shift from the SAD diet (Standard Australian Diet) to LCHF (low carb, high fat)
- Signs or symptoms that you have poor blood sugar control
- Does eating low carb and healthy fat nutrition affect our mental health and mindset?
- Why what’s happening in your gut matters
- Leaky gut equals leaky brain
- Steph’s thoughts around medications and prescription pills
- Intuitive eating and how you can foster it

We get personal with our signature questions:

- Sunset or sunrise? Why?
- If you could attempt another carer what would it be?

Enter the Book Giveaway!

Steph has been kind enough to giveaway a copy of Low Carb, Healthy Fat Nutrition (Valued $39.99)

1. All you have to do is open the podcast app on your smartphone. Find the Monica Kade Podcast and leave a review on iTunes telling us what was the biggest take away for you from our conversation.
2. Then send a screenshot to podcast[@]monicakade.com so we can contact you if you win.

The giveaway will be drawn on March 6th, 2019 AEST 7pm