Mikkipedia
Mikkipedia is a health and nutrition podcast where host Mikki Williden interviews scientists, doctors, and practitioners. The show explores topics like fitness, food, and well-being, translating complex science into practical tips. Listeners can expect deep conversations that offer actionable advice for everyday life.
Episodes
Brandon DaCruz - Protein Masterclass: How Much You Need for Muscle, Fat Loss and Ageing
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Up Two Kilos After a Big Weekend? Why Most of It Isn't Fat
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New Zealand Blackcurrant, Fat Oxidation and Recovery with Dr Matthew Cook
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Live Blood Analysis, Skin Scanners and IgG Tests: What They Actually Measure
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GLP-1 Medications in Practice: A New Zealand View with Dr Lara Courtenay
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Three Studies, Three Different Answers on Supplements and the Brain
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Carbohydrate Per Hour in Ultra Running: 90 vs 120 Grams with Paul Booth
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What 99% Accurate Really Means on a Body Composition Scale
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No Healthy Dose of Alcohol, But Is There a Safe One? With Cliff Harvey
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I Was Wrong About Why Carbs at Dinner Help You Sleep
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Brandon DaCruz returns: Refeeds and Diet Breaks: What the Research Shows and How to Use Them
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Fasting Claims, Collagen for Cellulite, and Who to Trust in Women's Health
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Dr Robert Kushner on GLP-1s, appetite biology and coming off the drug
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A Normal HbA1c Can Hide a Decade of Insulin Resistance
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What Are Trainers For in the GLP-1 Era? with Dr Eric Helms
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Is It Emotional Eating, or Are You Just Under-Fuelled?
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Why Fat Loss Gets Harder in Menopause with Dr. Bill Campbell
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Mini Mikkipedia - Why More Fibre Isn’t Fixing Your Constipation Still Constipated? Here’s What You Might Be Missing
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Carbs, Fat Oxidation and Finding Your Fueling Sweet Spot with Prof. Paul Laursen
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Mini Mikkipedia - Where Did the Crunch Go? Fat Loss-Friendly Fixes
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Iron, Infants and the First 1,000 Days - with Gina Ulrich
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Mini Mikkipedia - Is Tracking Your Food Really Obsessive?
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Rapid Fat Loss: When Faster Can Be Smarter - with Brandon DaCruz
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Mini Mikkipedia - Why Men and Women Store Fat Differently
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Medical Astrology: An Ancestral Lens on Health with Kira Sutherland
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Mini Mikkipedia - Food Noise, Hunger and Cravings: Know the Difference
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Mobility, Strength and Staying Capable as You Age with Darren Ellis
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Mini Mikkipedia - Why Perfectionism Sabotages Your Fat Loss Progress
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HRT, Tirzepatide and Weight Loss After Menopause with Professor Daniela Hurtado and Dr Regina Castaneda
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Mini Mikkipedia - When GLP-1 Weight Loss Dims Motivation
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Fueled or Fooled? Rethinking Ultra-High Carbohydrate Fuelling with Dr Dan Plews
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Mini Mikkipedia - Why Diets Fall Apart After Week Three
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Brandon Da Cruz - The Truth About Body Recomposition
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Mini Mikkipedia - Lipoedema: When Fat Loss Isn’t the Issue
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Choose Your Hard: Grant Schofield on Human Potential
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Mini Mikkipedia - How to Spot a Fad Diet Fast
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Metabolism, Menopause and Midlife Body Composition with Hannah Cabre, PhD
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Mini Mikkipedia - Tracking Food Without Losing Your Mind
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Michelle Matangi - Why Fat Loss Is More Than Food
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Mini Mikkipedia - GLP-1s and the ADHD Brain
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Metabolic Psychiatry: Rethinking Mental Health - Dr Matt Bernstein
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Mini Mikkipedia - What Really Supports Immunity in Winter
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Brad Currier discusses Urolithin A and Resistance Training Guidelines
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Mini Mikkipedia - Omega-3 Benefits Beyond Heart and Brain
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Understanding Hypermobility and EDS with Dr. Melissa Koehl
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Mini Mikkipedia - Can Multivitamins Slow Brain Ageing?
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Rethinking Protein and Plant-Based Health with Dr Matt Nagra
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Mini Mikkipedia - Metabolic Memory: Why Your Body Remembers Everything
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Prof. Don Layman: Protein, Policy and the Future of Dietary Guidelines
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Mini Mikkipedia - High Protein Diets: What the Evidence Actually Shows
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Rachel Arthur: Micronutrients Beyond the Basics: What Really Matters
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Mini. Mikkipedia - What’s a Healthy Body Fat Percentage?
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Muscle, Ageing, and the Hidden Cost of Weight Loss - with Prof. David Scott
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Mini Mikkipedia - Vigorous Exercise Wins, But Moderate Still Matters
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Energy Deficit, Muscle Adaptation, and the Truth About Low Energy Availability with José Areta
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Mini Mikkipedia - Cortisol, Stress & Why You Feel Wired and Tired
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Maintenance, Metabolism & Supplements: No-Nonsense Fat Loss Talk with Brandon DaCruz
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Mini Mikkipedia - Visceral vs Stubborn Fat: What Actually Works
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The Truth About Bone and Joint Health for Women - Dr Jocelyn Wittstein
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Mini Mikkipedia - Menopause, Metabolism, and the Truth About Slowdown
Sign up to my fatloss in the festive season webinar here. https://www.mikkiwilliden.com/fatloss-in-the-festive-season-2026In this Mini Mikkipedia episode, Mikki breaks down a newly published narrative review examining whether menopause truly slows metabolism. While the common narrative suggests an inevitable metabolic decline, the reality is far more nuanced. Mikki walks through the evide
Justin Keogh- Strength Training: The Missing Key to Healthy Aging
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Mini Mikkipedia - Short Eating Windows: Why Less Time Isn’t Less Food
Sign up to my fatloss in the festive season webinar here. https://www.mikkiwilliden.com/fatloss-in-the-festive-season-2026In this Mini Mikkipedia episode, Mikki breaks down why short eating windows and time-restricted eating (TRE) don’t always deliver the fat loss results people expect—especially for active women. Drawing on key research, including the TREAT trial and Sutton’s early time-
Play Your Way to Better Health and Fitness - with Darryl Edwards
Sign up to my fatloss in the festive season webinar here. https://www.mikkiwilliden.com/fatloss-in-the-festive-season-2026Save 20% on all Nuzest Products WORLDWIDE with the code MIKKIPEDIA at www.nuzest.co.nz, www.nuzest.com.au or www.nuzest.comThis week on the podcast, Mikki speaks to Darryl Edwards, movement coach and founder of the Primal Play Method, about rethinking exercise through
Mini Mikkipedia - Why You’re Starving at Night (And What to Do)
Sign up to my fatloss in the festive season webinar here. https://www.mikkiwilliden.com/fatloss-in-the-festive-season-2026If you feel in control all day but lose it at night, this episode explains why—and it’s not a discipline problem. Mikki breaks down the physiology behind evening hunger, showing how under-eating earlier in the day, low protein intake, and unstable blood glucose create
Philip Prins - Rethinking Carbohydrates and Endurance Perfomance
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Mini Mikkipedia - Weight Loss Injections: Science, Expectations, Side Effects
Sign up to my fatloss in the festive season webinar here. https://www.mikkiwilliden.com/fatloss-in-the-festive-season-2026In this Mini Mikkipedia episode, Mikki breaks down the rapidly growing world of obesity pharmacotherapy, focusing on GLP-1 receptor agonists like semaglutide and the newer dual GLP-1/GIP drugs such as tirzepatide. With more people beginning these medications, understan
Beyond Calories: The Biology of Weight Regulation with Prof Eric Ravussin
Sign up to my fatloss in the festive season webinar here. https://www.mikkiwilliden.com/fatloss-in-the-festive-season-2026Save 20% on all Nuzest Products WORLDWIDE with the code MIKKIPEDIA at www.nuzest.co.nz, www.nuzest.com.au or www.nuzest.comThis week on the podcast, Mikki speaks to Dr. Eric Ravussin, one of the world’s leading researchers in human metabolism, obesity, and energy balan
Mini Mikkipedia - Beyond Creatine: 4 Supplements Athletes Overlook
Dr Libby Weaver - Fixing Iron First: The Missing Women’s Health Piece
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Mini Mikkipedia - Breakfast and Fat Loss: What the Evidence Really Says
Sign up to my fatloss in the festive season webinar here. https://www.mikkiwilliden.com/fatloss-in-the-festive-season-2026Is breakfast really the key to weight loss—or is that just a decades-old narrative we’ve never properly questioned?In this Mini Mikkipedia episode, Mikki unpacks what the highest-quality research actually says about breakfast and fat loss. While observational data sugg
Nutrition Trends 2026: GLP-1s, Dietary Guidelines, and Real-World Practice with Dr. Cliff Harvey
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Mini Mikkipedia - Aspartame, Insulin & Weight Loss: What Science Shows
Sign up to my fatloss in the festive season webinar here. https://www.mikkiwilliden.com/fatloss-in-the-festive-season-2026Artificial sweeteners—especially aspartame—have become one of the most controversial topics in nutrition. Does aspartame spike insulin? Trigger hunger? Disrupt metabolism? Increase diabetes risk?In this Mini Mikkipedia episode, Mikki breaks down a comprehensive meta-an
Calocurb: Can Bitter Hops Replace GLP-1 Meds? with Sarah Kennedy
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Mini Mikkipedia - Binge Eating: Why “Just Eat Less” Backfires
Sign up to my fatloss in the festive season webinar here. https://www.mikkiwilliden.com/fatloss-in-the-festive-season-2026On this episode of Mikkipedia, Mikki tackles binge eating behaviours and why the traditional “just eat less” approach often fails. She clarifies the difference between occasional overeating and true binge episodes, including the defining feature of loss of control, and
Fitness Fundamentals: Standards, Strength, and Staying Power with Ashley Borden
Sign up to my fatloss in the festive season webinar here. https://www.mikkiwilliden.com/fatloss-in-the-festive-season-2026Save 20% on all Nuzest Products WORLDWIDE with the code MIKKIPEDIA at www.nuzest.co.nz, www.nuzest.com.au or www.nuzest.comThis week on the podcast, Mikki speaks with Ashley Borden, an award-winning personal trainer and long-time fitness industry leader with decades of
Mini Mikkipedia - The Most Dangerous Phase of Fat Loss
Sign up to my fatloss in the festive season webinar here. https://www.mikkiwilliden.com/fatloss-in-the-festive-season-2026Most people don’t quit fat loss at the start, when motivation is high, or at the end, when results are obvious. They quit in the middle. In this Mini Micropedia episode, Mikki unpacks why the middle phase of fat loss feels so uncomfortable, confusing, and tempting to a
Energy Healing Meets Business: Intuition That Pays with Molly Hamill
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Mini Mikkipedia: Calories vs Insulin: The Fat Gain False Dichotomy
Sign up to my fatloss in the festive season webinar here. https://www.mikkiwilliden.com/fatloss-in-the-festive-season-2026Is body fat gain simply “calories in, calories out”—or is insulin the real puppet master? In this Mini Micropedia episode, Mikki unpacks the loudest argument in nutrition science and explains why both camps are touching real physiology… but neither tells the full story
Ancestral Rehab for Modern Pain - with Matt Stewart
Sign up to my fatloss in the festive season webinar here. https://www.mikkiwilliden.com/fatloss-in-the-festive-season-2026Save 20% on all Nuzest Products WORLDWIDE with the code MIKKIPEDIA at www.nuzest.co.nz, www.nuzest.com.au or www.nuzest.comThis week on the podcast, Mikki speaks to osteopath and running enthusiast Matt Stewart for a wide-ranging, evidence-informed conversation that be
Mini Mikkipedia - Why Eating Better Often Means Eating More
Sign up to my fatloss in the festive season webinar here. https://www.mikkiwilliden.com/fatloss-in-the-festive-season-2026This week on Mini Mikkipedia, Mikki unpacks one of the most counter-intuitive truths in fat loss: eating better often means eating more food, not less. Many people equate weight loss with shrinking portions and constant restriction, yet this approach usually backfires.
