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09/09/2026

After earthquakes. After floods. The research kept pointing to the same thing. 🧠
Prof. Julia Rucklidge and her team discovered that when people are well nourished after a traumatic event, their recovery looks dramatically different. Why? Because the fight or flight response is metabolically hungry. It depletes your body of nutrients fast. So giving people additional nutrients when they need it most actually moves the needle.

But Julia kept going. Because at the core of everything she does is the people out there who are suffering. That is why she became a clinical psychologist. And then she realised she could have a greater impact doing something else entirely, and ended up in the nutrition and mental health space almost by chance.
Being in the right place at the right time. Hearing the right story. Deciding to put science to the test.

That is what it looks like to be the critic and conscience of society that academics are supposed to be. 💚

Link to full episode in first comment 👇

Prof Grant Schofield

07/09/2026

Psychologists feel comfortable talking about coffee and alcohol with their clients. So why is sugar off limits? 🤔
Prof. Julia Rucklidge makes a point that is hard to argue with. Blood sugar spikes and crashes affect your mood. Poor sleep affects your mental health. These are not controversial statements. They are science.
And yet many psychologists are afraid to bring nutrition into their practice because they fear stepping outside their scope and getting hauled over the coals for it.

That needs to change. 💚

Julia is now on the psychology board in New Zealand and is passionate about giving psychologists the confidence to have these conversations. But the real shift needs to happen earlier, inside clinical psychology training programs, where food and mood is barely touched on.

The science is there. The regulations just need to catch up.

Link to full episode in the first comment 👇

01/09/2026

Why can psychologists in Australia get reported to their board for talking about nutrition? 🤔

Prof. Julia Rucklidge breaks down one of the most frustrating disconnects in modern healthcare. The fact that mental health professionals are being discouraged from having conversations about food, one of the most powerful tools we have for mental wellbeing.
Julia spends a huge amount of time educating psychologists in New Zealand around feeling comfortable talking about nutrition with their clients. And her advice is beautifully simple.
Try not to eat foods that have ingredients you would not find in your own kitchen. 🍳

That is it. It does not have to be complicated. Bloggers have made it complicated.
At the heart of everything Julia does is the consumer. The person who is miserable and deserves a better shot at feeling well. That is what drives her every single day. 💚

Full podcast episode linked in the first comment below 👇

25/08/2026

The first chemotherapy was mustard gas, it was discovered by accident in World War II when American researchers noticed that mustard gas accidentally released on allied ships in Naples was destroying tumour samples.

Prof. Grant Schofield breaks down one of the most confronting realities in modern medicine.

The problem with cancer treatment has never been that we cannot kill the cancer. It is that we cannot kill the cancer without killing everything else around it.

Full conversation on the Prevention is Cure podcast. 🎙️
👉 https://hubs.ly/Q04rWFX60

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23/08/2026

Do you have a pull to help people but are not quite sure how to turn that into a career? 💚
Maybe this is your sign. 👀

Join us at PREKURE's Online Open Week and learn everything you need to know about becoming a health coach. Study pathways, what to expect, and how 900+ people just like you have already made the change.

FREE live webinar on Zoom with Dr. Louise Schofield 🎙️

📅 August 31st at 7pm
📅 September 1st at 7pm

Come along, ask your questions and see if health coaching could be your next chapter. 🌿

👉 https://hubs.ly/Q04tPwcy0

20/08/2026

Are artificial sweeteners actually safe? 🤔

Prof. Grant Schofield explains why drinking a lot of them may not be as harmless as we're lead to believe.
The main concern is what they do to your gut. Artificial sweeteners can loosen what are called tight junctions, the barriers that control what passes from your gut into your bloodstream. When those loosen, things that should not be in your blood start getting through, including highly inflammatory compounds called lipopolysaccharides.
And because the brain is the most metabolically active organ in the body, it is often the first to feel the impact. 🧠
Still want a caffeine hit? Grant suggests keeping it under two strong cups of coffee a day, and being especially cautious if you are young.
Worth thinking about next time you reach for a sugar free drink. 👀

18/08/2026

Getting stung by an invisible organism in open water for two hours straight. 😅
Endurance swimmer Jono Ridler shares one of those moments where everything in your body is telling you to stop but every decision leading up to that moment has already made the choice for you.
Whether you feel like it or not is not completely the point.
So he kept swimming. Got stung. Shouted into the air to let it all out. And kept going.
And then the sun came up. The stinging stopped. The water went calm. And the last two hours were everything. 🌅
That is what commitment actually looks like on the hard days. 💚

15/08/2026

This tape measure gave me a bit of a fright. 😳

If the average Kiwi bloke lives to 83, how much have you already used, and what are you going to do with what's left?

Dr Louise Schofield certainly got me thinking about mine.

Next stop, Queenstown, 22 September for The Future of Medicine.

And the Air New Zealand plug? Not sponsored. Just a Kiwi giving our national carrier a shout-out. 🇳🇿

I reckon I'm making 84. 😂

14/08/2026

Could zinc be the missing piece in your weight loss puzzle? 🧬

Prof. Grant Schofield breaks down a small but powerful study:

40 people. All obese. All insulin resistant. Both groups reduced calories by 300 a day. The only difference? One group took 30mg of zinc daily.

After 15 weeks the zinc group lost 4.8kg on average. The non-zinc group lost 1.5kg. Same food. Same calorie deficit. Three times more weight lost. 👀

The reason? Zinc acts as an insulin sensitizer. When you are insulin resistant, the exact same meal pushes your blood sugar and insulin higher for longer, impairing your ability to burn fat. Give the body zinc and that metabolic response changes entirely.

Want to hear the full breakdown? Listen to Prevention is Cure "Episode 46" now. 🎙️
👉 https://hubs.ly/Q04rMqHP0

12/08/2026

Our biology was built for a world that no longer exists. 🧬

Prof. Grant Schofield connects the dots between chronic disease, GLP-1 drugs, seed oils, energy drinks and what is coming next with AI and robotics.

Our physiology and psychology were designed to minimise danger and maximise reward in a world where whole food was the only option. That world is gone. And the mismatch between our ancient biology and the modern environment is exactly why we are so far off course.

The Industrial Revolution changed everything. The Information Age accelerated it. But the AI and robotics age? We are completely unprepared.

Chinese robots. Tesla Optimus. Hugely intelligent AI that can now interact with the physical world like a human.
The question is whether there is a good ending to this story. Grant thinks there might be. 👀

Full episode "Prevention is Cure Podcast" out now 🎙️
👉 https://hubs.ly/Q04pHY3S0

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