#8 Grab Life by the Beans: Coffee, Cups & Coromandel Chats

What if the hardest part of cancer isn't the chemotherapy, surgery or radiation, but what happens when treatment ends? In this episode of Forkin' Good, Simon Gault and Kate Fenwick sit down with Katherine Froggatt, breast cancer survivor, health coach and founder of Breast Wise, for an honest and deeply personal conversation about life after cancer. Diagnosed with breast cancer at just 39, with two young children and family living overseas, Katherine shares the fear, guilt and uncertainty t...

Simon Gault has absolutely NO IDEA what's coming! In this very special episode of Forkin' Good, Kate Fenwick has organised a mystery guest for Simon, and he's determined to figure out who it is. Before the big reveal, Kate and Simon settle in for one of their usual hilarious catch-ups, covering everything from Simon's recent skin cancer surgery and Kate's weight loss journey to teenage children, overflowing wardrobes, supporting local butchers, cooking the perfect steak and their favourite ...

Menopause can affect sleep, mood, memory, weight, relationships, sex and how women feel in their own bodies. So why is there still so much confusion about it? In this episode of Forkin' Good, Simon Gault and Kate Fenwick sit down with author and health journalist Niki Bezzant for a refreshingly straightforward conversation about menopause and perimenopause. Niki helps separate good science from the enormous amount of menopause misinformation online and talks about HRT, sleep, alcohol, weigh...

A product can have blinded trials, published papers, and strong safety data and still be treated like it’s dangerous simply because it works. That’s the knot we pull apart with Professor Julia Rucklidge as we look at how Medsafe regulates supplements and why therapeutic micronutrients keep getting squeezed into rules designed for pharmaceuticals, not prevention. We talk about Daily Essential Nutrients and the broader evidence on micronutrients for mental health and wellbeing, including...

Can what we eat really affect how we think, feel and behave? In this episode of Forkin’ Good, Simon Gault and Kate Fenwick sit down with Professor Julia Rucklidge, clinical psychologist and Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Canterbury, whose research has focused extensively on nutrition, micronutrients and mental health. Julia explains what micronutrients actually are, why vitamins and minerals are essential for the brain, and what her research has found when micronutrie...