\u201cAs much as you might be tuning into the biohackers who are all in their IV drips and out there on $157,000 a day of supplements and on their NAD+ infusions and all the rest of it, there\u2019s no evidence for any of that crap, that any of it works,\u201d Mansberg says.<\/p>\n
People not knowing what\u2019s good and bad for them isn\u2019t the problem, according to Mansberg. She believes the real challenge lies in the ideal version of healthy living feeling incompatible with real life.<\/p>\n
Long days at work, running kids to activities, caring for ageing parents \u2013 the regular responsibilities of everyday life can make even preparing a healthy dinner feel ambitious.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you think at the end of the day you\u2019re going to come home and open your fridge to a vibrant array of colourful, fresh vegetables waiting to be effortlessly chopped and put into a lovely raw salad, I mean, good for you,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
Dr Ginni Mansberg is a bestselling author and women’s health expert.<\/p>\n
Mansberg\u2019s advice is to stop treating health as an all-or-nothing project.<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t choose the thing that you hate the most, that is going to be the biggest punish, because that\u2019s a guaranteed fail,\u201d Mansberg says.<\/p>\n
\u201cGo for the low-hanging fruit. Go for the things that are actually achievable in your life.\u201d<\/p>\n
That might mean making one healthier choice within an otherwise imperfect day.<\/p>\n
\u201cHave your pizza, but have a cucumber and have an apple,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverything that you do for your body that\u2019s good is good. And everything that you don\u2019t do for your body that\u2019s bad, that\u2019s also good.\u201d<\/p>\n
The aim is not perfection.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re just moving in a generally good direction, as opposed to doing a life transplant, which is not really that feasible.\u201d<\/p>\n
Listen to the full episode of The Little Things<\/a> for more with Dr Ginni Mansberg on:<\/p>\n Why full-body scans may create more problems than they solve.The wider health benefits emerging around GLP-1 drugs.What your diet could be doing to your gut microbiome.<\/p>\n The Little Things is available on iHeartRadio<\/a>, Apple Podcasts<\/a>, Spotify<\/a> or wherever you get your podcasts. The series is hosted by broadcaster Francesca Rudkin and health researcher Louise Ayrey. New episodes are available every second Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAs much as you might be tuning into the biohackers who are all in their IV drips and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10791,5263,262193,10712,93307,1952,1601,262191,134,6093,262192,111,139,69,90,3383,6115,312,9095,223,6035,61,11418,6436,102],"class_list":["post-531248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-ageing","tag-all","tag-bombardment","tag-claiming","tag-constant","tag-dr","tag-expert","tag-ginni","tag-health","tag-little","tag-mansberg","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-products","tag-real","tag-says","tag-secret","tag-the","tag-things","tag-to","tag-trends","tag-well","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}