Expert advice, science-backed tips, and holistic approaches to living a high-performance life.
29 October 2024 • Brad
Functional Self announce the arrival of H2 Elite, a molecular hydrogen tablet which can be easily added to pure drinking water, providing powerful anti-inflammatory and antioxidant...
29 October 2024 • Brad
Losing weight is an overwhelmingly popular goal for people looking to improve health and wellbeing. Maintaining a healthy weight lowers your risk of serious issues including diabet...
29 October 2024 • Brad
Having good energy throughout the day has an impact on everything you do. This includes your cognitive focus, your interactions with people and your ability to train well. Our work...
29 October 2024 • Brad
Why eating fat is good for you Despite decades of mainstream advice to avoid high fat foods, there is overwhelming evidence that shows that fats and oils are an essential part of a...
29 October 2024 • Brad
Eating a low carbohydrate high fat or “ketogenic” diet is a complete paradigm shift from the fat-phobic dietary advice we’ve been given in the past thirty years. The use of ketogen...
29 October 2024 • Brad
An autoimmune disease is an illness where the immune system mistakenly attacks healthy cells in the body. This might be in a particular area of the body, for example in coeliac dis...
29 October 2024 • Brad
All living things need water to survive. Water is a critical nutrient that we require to regulate body temperature, aid digestion, support the transfer of nutrients to cells, promo...
29 October 2024 • Brad
Our modern lives contain many threats to a healthy gut including antibiotics, environmental toxins, alcohol and chronic stress. As covered in our earlier blog post , when the micr...
29 October 2024 • Brad
Injuries often happen when you’re just starting to get to peak fitness and then you’re put back a few weeks or a month. Or maybe it’s not an injury – just a bit of stiffness and de...