Function Health

08/11/2025

Next up in our series “Why the 🤬 am I not losing weight?”

Because you’re focussing all your energy on the gym and not enough on the frypan. 🍳

The weight loss gurus will have you believe that if you “eat less and move more” the weight will just fall off.

It’s not true.
And you know it’s not true because you’ve tried it over and over again.

Sure, you starve yourself and drop a couple of kilos, but like clockwork it always comes back. And you blame yourself for “falling off the wagon”.

In reality though, you just went back to doing what you’d always done. You never really changed anything.

You need to eat real, single ingredient food which balances your hormones and keeps your body in a continuous state of using fat as fuel.

Stop starving yourself.

Stop throwing money away on pre-workout (spoiler alert - you’re being scammed 🤦🏻‍♂️)

Stop skipping meals in favour of bu****it protein shakes.

Stop snacking on granola bars which are chock full of seed oils, preservatives and inflammatory garbage. I don’t care if the wrapper says it has 20g of Protein… it’s junk food.

And stop finishing at the gym and going out for beers and a shnitty to reward yourself for a great workout.

If you keep doing what you’ve always done, you’ll keep getting what you’ve always got.

Your body exists in one of two states -
fat burning mode, or fat storage mode.
No amount of tricep curls will cause your body to make the switch.

It’s the food you eat which activates the hormone signalling. And it’s correct hormone signalling that is going to get the weight off - and keep it off.

That’s it.
Thats the secret that none of the gurus or gym bros are telling you.

If it has one ingredient - steak, egg, carrot, apple - then eat it.

If it has multiple ingredients that you don’t recognise - don’t eat it.

Here endeth the lesson.

Get your butt off the treadmill and into the kitchen.

You’ll see results like magic.

05/11/2025

So, lets kick off our series “Why the 🤬 am I not losing weight”?…

We’ll start with the issue that is probably the culprit for 80% of you guys, and yet you’re unlikely to have ever been told about it.

INSULIN RESISTANCE

If doctors mention it at all, they will most likely say that insulin resistance is just about blood sugar.

But here’s what they don’t tell you:

- Essentially, insulin is your fat storage hormone. If it’s always high, your body can’t access your fat stores to use as fuel.

- It also lowers progesterone, which means worse PMS, irregular cycles, and even infertility.

- It slows your thyroid conversion (T4 → T3), leaving you tired, cold, and struggling to lose weight even if your blood tests look “normal.”

- It blocks critical nutrients like magnesium, chromium, zinc, and B vitamins that you need for ovulation, energy, and blood sugar control.

- It disrupts sleep and cortisol, causing those frustrating 2–3 AM wake-ups. When cortisol is elevated, fat burning stops 🛑. No “ifs”, “ands” or “buts”.
Read this ⬆️ twice.
3 times if you need to.

- It fuels inflammation that shows up as joint pain, brain fog, and skin issues.

This is why so many people (especially women) feel like they’re doing everything right (dieting, exercising, cutting calories) and STILL can’t lose weight, balance hormones, or feel like themselves again.

Insulin resistance can be reversed. With the right labs, nutrition, and strategy, your body will finally respond.

Most people today are unknowingly Insulin resistant. And the effects go far beyond stopping weight loss.

It silently disrupts nearly every organ system in the body.

But here’s what few realize: insulin resistance is now one of the most common hidden causes of bad skin: acne, skin tags, dullness, premature aging.

When insulin levels stay high, it drives inflammation, excess oil production, and collagen breakdown. Your skin is literally showing you what’s happening inside your cells.

So anyway - with today’s focus being weight loss, what can you do about insulin resistance?

Here’s where to start.

- Eat real food. Cut out the processed junk.

- Reduce your eating window. Don’t eat before the sun comes up and don’t eat after the sun goes down.

- Cut out snacking. Eat until you’re full during your main meal times. Let your digestion system rest (and your insulin drop) in between these times.

- More protein and fat on your plate, less carbs and sugar. The less sugar your body has to deal with, the lower the insulin spike.

- Prioritise sleep - quality & quantity. Sleep allows you body to heal and repair.

If you take positive steps towards addressing insulin resistance, you’ll not only start stripping the kg, you’ll improve a stack of other health markers at the same time 💪

02/11/2025

If you have weight to lose, then it’s common to think that just eating less and going to the gym will fix everything.

If only it were that simple..

The reason you make short term gains and then the weight always seems to come back is that you haven’t addressed the root cause.

You need to look at things like;
- Insulin resistance
- Hormone imbalances
- Vitamin & mineral deficiencies
- Autoimmune diseases

None of these issues will be solved by going to the gym, doing a HIIT class or getting up at 4am to walk before work.

Let me be clear - getting stuck into exercise is a great decision and you should be applauded for it 👏
It’s a great complimentary tool for improving your overall health, but it’s a small piece of the overall puzzle.

If you want to get off the weight loss/ weight gain roundabout - you need to find out why your body is storing fat.

Oh, and by the way - weight loss doesnt necessarily equal health. Plenty of people starve themselves or flog themselves at the gym - and manage to lose some weight, but still have low energy, gut problems, aches & pains, and a range of other issues.

We’ll spend this week discussing how you can identify the root cause of your problem and actually fix it so that it never comes back.

Focussing on weight loss won’t necessarily fix your health, but focussing on health will defintely result in weight loss. 💪

29/10/2025

You’ve heard of industries being “disrupted”?
Smart people come along with new ideas and ways of doing things better.

Well, the medical profession is next on the list.

I’m critical of doctors because they have one solution to pretty much any medical issue - to put you on drugs.
They do this because it’s what they’re taught in medical school - nothing about prevention, nothing about cure.

And while they’ve been in charge of looking after us we’ve become fatter, sicker, and living shorter lives than we ever have.

It’s time for a change.

Doctors like Peter Attia are only interested in prevention and cure. Treating disease and keeping it away by looking at exercise and nutrition.
These great doctors are all around if you’re looking to actually improve your health, not just put band aids on.

I’ve said it before - if your doctor only talks about treatment and not cure, reversal and prevention - then you don’t have a doctor, you have a drug dealer. 💊 💊

22/10/2025

If you’re on Cholesterol medication (Statins) and you haven’t been told any of the following, your doctor has let you down.

- People with “high” LDL cholesterol actually live longer

- There is a dangerous form of LDL, called “VLDL” but doctors rarely test for it. They put you on drugs “just in case”.

- Statins have side effects such as muscle pain, Liver & Kidney damage, cQ10 deficiency, plus many more - and have been linked to Dementia and Alzheimers.

and the most ironic side effect of all…

- Statins increase your chance of getting Type 2 Diabetes by up to 46%

That’s right, they INCREASE the chances of you having a heart attack or stroke.- the very thing they claim to protect you from. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Hard to believe, I know. I’ll put links in the comments. Make sure you’re sitting down.

Don’t believe me?
Good. 👍
I WANT you to look into this (and anything else on this page) and decide for yourself.
That’s what your doctor should be doing - giving you ALL the info so you can make an informed choice.

Nobody is going to look after your health like you can.

17/10/2025

Let’s talk Salt. 🧂

Bad for you, right?
Wrong.

Salt is one of the most maligned minerals in history, and pretty much everything you’ve been told about it is wrong.

Lets dig in 🪏

Here’s a few of the furphies you’ve probably heard about salt.

- It causes high blood pressure.
- It causes dehydration
- It increases your risk of heart disease

I’ll summerise these ⬆️ ⬆️ quickly so we can move on.

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Now, let’s talk about the many benefits of salt.

How about this one - low salt levels can result in anything from muscle cramps, to headaches, to a complete system shutdown, coma and death.

That’s obviously extreme, but there are many reasons you need sufficient salt intake.

- Salt is essential to the removal of excess acidity from the cells, particularly the brain cells.

- Salt helps to balance blood sugar.

- Salt is needed for the absorption of food particles in your intestines.

- Chloride from salt is needed to make Hydrochloric Acid (stomach acid) so that you can digest food properly. Low salt is a big reason people get reflux.

- Salt plays an important role in fluid balance, helping the body maintain water and keep hydrated. If you’re lost in the bush for a week and they take you to hospital - what’s the first thing they do?? Put you on a saline drip - concentrated salt being pumped straight into your body.

- Salt is an essential mineral which is needed for nerve impulse transmission and muscle contraction.

- Around 27% of the body’s salt is in your bones. Lack of salt is a major cause of osteoporosis.

Scroll back through this page and you’ll see posts about why salt doesn’t cause high blood pressure, and and how it can magically cure chronic headaches.

Ironically, salt will help lower your blood pressure and keep it regulated.

I had to read this twice, but apparently it’s true. More than 35% of Australians over the age of 18 are on blood pressure medication, and we spend over $1.2 BILLION annually on this stuff. No wonder they don’t want people learning the real cause…

It’s the sugar folks.
High blood pressure, Gout, Reflux, Inflamamtion, the list goes on.

We keep blaming salt for what the sugar did. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Good quality sea salts such as Celtic salt, Redmond salt, Baha Gold and Lake Deborah salt from right here in Australia (shout out to the locals 📣) contain 70-plus essential minerals including potassium and magnesium - which many people are deficient in.

Trust me - your life will be much less salty if you’re getting enough salt 😉

05/10/2025

Ever feel like we’re doomed?
Hopefully for convenience it will be in the same isle as the 50 packs of potato chips and the 10 litre vegetable oil. 🤦🏻‍♂️

03/10/2025

We hear these stories every day ❤️

Jeffrey dropped HbA1c from 7.2 → 5.6, lost 13 kg, trimmed 20 cm off his waist, and reclaimed his health — all through low-carb + real food.

If he can turn it around in his 70s, so can you. 💪

🔗 https://www.defeatdiabetes.com.au/success-stories/jeffrey-i/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=defeatdiabetes&utm_content=successstories

02/10/2025

There’s a lot of stuff being questioned in the media and online recently, from vaccines to pharmaceuticals - and of course nutrition.

When I scroll through the comments (even though I tell myself not to…) I’m amazed at people’s reluctance to even question the status quo - especially when it’s obviously not working.
Umm, looking at you Food Pyramid 👀

Over and over people are reluctant to even entertain the idea that we’ve been doing things wrong and there might be a better way if we spend some time and resources exploring such things.

People’s ideas get shut down and they are told to “trust the science”.
They get called “Cookers”.
They’re accused of wearing tinfoil hats.

Well, as far as trusting the nutrition science of the last 50 years - someone pass me the Alfoil, I’m about to get cooked.

We talk a lot on this page about bad advice that has it’s origins with either Big Food or Big Pharma companies. It’s everywhere you look.

And with that in mind, allow me to point you to the auspicious Tufts University School of Nutrition.

They’ve been hard at work researching which foods are best for us to eat. They’ve even gone to the trouble of giving us some comparisons to make our shopping easier.

Here’s one that took my fancy.
According to these esteemed scientists, Lucky Charms breakfast cereal is healthier than beef. 😧

Take a minute and let that one sink in…

Now this wonderful research would not have been possible without generous donations for their corporate partners.
Around 60 of them.
Some names you might recognise.

- PepsiCo
- Nestle
- Campbells
- Kraft Heinz
- Norvo Nordisk (makers of Ozempic)
And of course General Mills - the makers of Lucky Charms. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Still want to just blindly trust the science?
No problems, you do you.

I’ll be over here in Cookers corner with my tin foil hat on - asking questions and exposing hidden agendas and corruption wherever I find it.

26/09/2025

Always here for you with useful advice 😉

14/09/2025

Talking with my wife about how much we now know about health & nutrition, compared to even a decade ago.

But even with all the new information, scientific study and breadth of information available - it seems increasingly clear that 95% of people will continue to do what they’ve always done.

Unfortunately, 95% of people believe that:

- Feeling lousy after you hit 40 is just part of getting older. It’s not.

- Heart disease is genetic. It’s not.

- Conditions such as Diabetes, Fibromyalgia, Dementia and Heart disease are not reversible. They are.

- The only way to treat sickness or disease is with drugs. It’s not (despite what your doctor has said).

My question to you is..

Are you in the 95% - or the 5%?

The 5% who now know that eating the right stuff, moving your body and getting outside are more powerful medicines than any drug on the market.

The 5% who have taken control of their health and are feeling better in their 50’s, 60’s & 70’s than they did in their 40’s.

The 5% who were told they were stuck with a “chronic” disease, but have become informed and proved their doctor wrong.

It can be hard to “unlearn” what we’ve been told for decades.
But in the words of Dr Phil - “How’s that working for you?”

We’re sicker, more overweight, taking more pills and living shorter lives than any time in human history.

I’d say the advice we’ve been adhering to is not working at all.

So what do we do?

Simple. Get curious. Start asking questions and looking for better solutions that you’ve been offered before.

There’s a ton of info out there to point you in the right direction.
This whole page is basically an encyclopaedia of stuff you’ve been misinformed about.

But to truly take control of your health, you first have to look in the mirror and decide if you’re happy to keep doing what the 95% have always done, or whether you want to more for yourself and your loved ones.

Which group are you in?