Zen Fitness and Brain Coaching

19/07/2025

Celebrating my 12th year on Facebook. Thank you for your continuing support. I could never have made it without you. 🙏🤗🎉.

19/07/2025

Celebrating my 12th year on Facebook. Thank you for your continuing support. I could never have made it without you. 🙏🤗🎉

20/04/2025

This book will get you where you need to be.

Available at: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F5M7JQL9

16/03/2025

Trouble losing weight and keeping weight off? Science shows a memory of obesity is encoded in the DNA of your fat cells.
It may make it harder to keep the weight off and could explain why many people experience a repeated cycle of weight loss and regain.
This new research reveals that obesity triggers epigenetic changes, chemical modifications to DNA that alter gene activity, within fat cells.
These changes persist even after weight loss, influencing how fat cells function and potentially driving the body to return to a state of obesity. The study found distinct differences in gene activity between the fat cells of individuals who had experienced obesity and those who had never been obese. In those with a history of obesity, certain genes involved in inflammation and the formation of scar-like tissue were more active, while genes responsible for normal fat cell function were less active. Remarkably, these altered gene activity patterns remained even after individuals underwent weight-loss surgery, suggesting that fat cells retain a cellular memory of their previous obese state. Experiments with mice further supported these findings. Mice that had previously been obese gained significantly more weight when re-exposed to a high-fat diet compared to mice that had never been obese.
This suggests that the epigenetic changes in fat cells not only remember obesity but may actively contribute to weight regain. By understanding how fat cells remember obesity, scientists could develop targeted interventions, such as drugs that reverse these cellular changes or personalized weight-loss programs tailored to individual needs.

15/02/2025

What are your challenges both physically and psychologically for 2025?

17/10/2022

Eating meat, the benefits in the context of longevity.

Should we stop eating meat to live longer? NO..

There are a couple of aminos in meat, tryptophan and methionine which raises Mtor, which is pro ageing but also pro regeneration and important to build muscle.

Increasing Mtor all the time might increase cancer. When you don't have enough Mtor , enough protein or are a vegan, you're not going to have enough muscle .

The solution;

1. Intermittent fasting.

2. Consuming collagen or glycine changes the ratio of tryptophan and methionine to glycine.

Here are three benefits of eating real meat:

1. It contains bioavailable vitamins and minerals: The vitamins and minerals in meat are very bioavailable, which means your body can absorb and use them.

2. It contains high-quality protein: Just like the vitamins and minerals in real meat, the protein in meat is much more bioavailable than the protein found in plant foods

3. It contains healthy fats: The saturated fats found in grass-fed beef keep your cell membranes.

02/06/2022

The modern mistakes of nutrition

1. Blaming salt for what sugar did.
2. Blaming fat for what refined carbs did.
3. Blaming butter for what margarine did.
4. Blaming ‘lack of will power to not eat’ for what ultra-processed foods did.
5. Blaming cholesterol for what inflammation/insulin did.
6. Blaming eggs for what toast did.
7. Blaming bacon for what cereal did.

09/05/2022

12/04/2022

Sometimes less is more.

Less junk food = more nutrition
- Nutrients aren’t being wasted to metabolize empty calories
- The intestine isn’t being damaged so nutrient absorption from diet is better
- Insulin is lower, so less minerals are lost in the urine (Ca/Mg)

For simple weight loss
✅ Dial UP the protein 🥩 🥚 🐟
✅ Dial DOWN the carbs 🍞 🥖 🥯

Cardio is important!…but it shouldn’t be the focus for fat loss or building a physique.

That’s where resistance training, weights and body weight exercises come in.

Build muscle to burn fat! 💪

11/03/2022