The Healthy Post Natal Body Podcast
With Post-natal expert Peter Lap. Peter waffles on about everything related to Post-Natal health and exercise. I answer any question listeners send in and regularly have great, expert, guests on. From exercise, diet and mindset all the way down to the smaller things (such as congratulating you for not yet having thrown your tantrum throwing toddler out of a window) Not suitable for kids :)
Episodes
310 episodes
Back Pain and Diastasis: Too many people still don't see the connection!
This week I am returning to the age old subject of diastasis and backpain.I saw a post on Threads this week from a VERY knowledgeable neurosurgeon that I follow, where she posted that she was surprised that after having had di...
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Some housekeeping; Bloating during the period, the FODMAP diet and deadlifting postpartum
I'm changing things around a bit at the podcast so a bit of housekeeping to start the episode withThis week I'm answering some great questions that I've had.You might have heard me talk about bloating and the impact on diastasis ...
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C-Section Stigma and Diastasis Recti: What Every Mother Needs to Know
This week it's just little old me again as I talk about the weird, frankly insane, stigma surrounding c-sections.A lot of chat on my social media feed was about c-section this week so I thought I'd spend a bit of time going over the ...
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Mental Health Prep: The Missing Piece in Pregnancy Preparation with Kayce Hodos
This week I am delighted to be joined by Kayce Hodos as we're discussing perinatal mental health and why it's soo often overlooked as a natural part of pregnancy preparations.Kayce is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor and Perin...
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"Adolescence"...Raising Tech-Healthy Humans interview with Daniel Sih
I'm tying in with the wonderful "Adolescence" program on Netflix this week as I did an interview that I think a lot of people will love on a subject that the program touches on.A couple of years ago I had the pleasure of talki...
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Homeschooling isn't what you think it is, and it might actually be better. With Linsey Knerl
Every now and again I am lucky enough to talk to someone who educates me about a subject I know very little, or have preconceived ideas about.This is one of those times. I am very lucky to be joined by Linsey Knerl this week ...
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Open Adoption: The Good, The Unexpected and The Wonderful
Although in the UK Open Adoption is the norm that is not the case everywhere.This week I have the pleasure of talking to Ayo Haynes an, open adoption advocate, about the benefits and process of open adoption.What exactly is it?
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Understanding Attachment Theory: How Childhood Bonds Shape Our Adult Lives with Bev Mitelman M.A.
This week I am delighted to be joined by Bev Mitelman M.A. as we discuss "Attachment Theory",As I say several times throughout this podcast, this was an eye opening conversation for me.Prior to becoming a Certified Attachment Prac...
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How Traditional Chinese Medicine can aid your postpartum recovery
This week I'm delighted to be joined by Brehan Crawford from Crawford Wellness as we discuss Traditional Chinese Medicine and the role it can play in your postpartum recovery. Note; We...
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Don't focus TOO MUCH on the rehab part of postpartum exercise
This week I am waffling through another episode all by myself as I try to get the point across that a very narrow approach to postpartum recovery training will actually hurt you more than it will help.Basically I am saying tha...
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Understanding and Preventing Pediatric Eating Disorders: Expert Insights with Jessica Setnick
This week I have the absolute pleasure of being joined by pediatric eating expert Jessica Setnick ( MS,RD, CEDRD-S).Jessica is one of my favourite guests to have had on the show.We are talking everything to do with eating disorder...
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More than Kegels, Postpartum urinary health. Interview with Dr Nigel Brayer
This week I have the pleasure of talking to Dr Nigel Brayer DC, Ph.C., FIAMA about urinary health.Very often we hear stories from women, either postpartum or not, who complain about bladder weakness and leakage.There are a lot of su...
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Navigating the Scope of Practice: Personal Trainers, Physios, Dieticians, Doctors..What can a personal trainer do?
One of the ongoing discussions people in the health space (I'll include everyone in that; Doctors, Physios, Dieticians, Nutritionists, Personal trainers etc) keep having is about "scope of practice".For instance; Someone who is not a re...
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Why you're not losing weight even though you think you are doing everthing right
This week we're going back a few years when I talked about one of the questions that comes up regularly in the day-to-day life of any personal trainer and dietitian."I am doing everything right, why am I not losing weight?".Fund...
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Diastasis recti a life long condition? Postpartum backpain is common but it ain't right.
One of the most heard statements people post online, and that I get asked about a lot, is; Diastasis Recti is a lifelong condition that you will always need to manage.So in this episode I talk about why this is clearly ridiculous.Al...
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How to set goals in 2025 and why "SMART goals" won't cut it
This week I talk about "setting goals" and why I don't particularly care for the "SMART goal" thing.I would argue that most people really don't need to set specific goals and that the specificity of the goal is actually one of the reason...
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Does "good form" really matter, and what does it actually mean?
This week I am talking about "good form". You know the kinds of things you hear "When squatting your knees shouldn't go past your toes", "When doing a deadlift your back should never be rounding", "When doing a core exercise push your l...
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Are NMN and NAD+ really magic supplements that YOU should be taking?
After last week's part 1 where I covered Protein, creatine etc...
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Are health and lifestyle supplements worth the money? Part 1; Protein, Creatine, vitamins and Bladder supplements
In a 2 part episode I am discussing some of the supplements that you might have seen promoted online. Next week I'll cover NMN, NAD, CBD etc but this week I'm focusing on supplements much more common in the health and fitness world;
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How will you know when your diastasis recti is healed?
I had a wonderful email from someone in Mexico asking me the, seemingly straightforward, "When will I know my diastasis is healed?" so in this episode I spend 30 minutes answering that very question.The issue with this question is that ...
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Insights with Dr. Jessie Hehmeyer on Functional Medicine and Lifestyle Transformation
This week I am joined by Dr Jessie Hehmeyer.She is a functional medicine practitioner and the founder of Well Empowered.We are talking everything Functional Medicine;
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Essential Strategies for Navigating Postpartum with Dr. Emilie Wilson
In this week's episode I have the pleasure of being joined by Dr Emilie Wilson.Emilie is a Naturopathic doctor and, more importantly, she's also the author of
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Irregular menstrual cycles, energy availability and RED-S with Allison Yamamoto
Did you know that overtraining/undereating and and the exercise/food balance can impact your menstrual cycle, bone health, and mental health?Especially for women who's body has just gone through an intense, and often traumatic, ex...
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Exercise for postpartum back pain. W David Jeter
You keep asking about postpartum backpain so we keep talking about it :)This week I have the pleasure of being joined by David Jeter who is an awesome physical therapist. We're talking post-partum back-pain and the benefits of physical ...
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Stop commercialising postpartum care and "pelvic floor or diastasis recti"?
Wouldn't it be nice if postpartum recovery was included in the NHS services, as they should be? Rather than NHS GPs making Instagram commercials for private, and expensive, postpartum recovery programs we should ALWAYS be pushing f...
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