What the Health?!

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Get ready to crush your health goals with What the Health?! This show keeps it real when it comes to all things beauty, health, fitness, and wellness. We're diving into everything from the latest diet crazes to workout trends and the truth behind those fitness influencers. Each week, celebrity experts will spill the tea on what actually works - and what’s just hype. Whether you’re looking for advice, motivation, or just a straight-up reality check on your health journey, What the Health?! has got you covered. Let’s get fit, have fun, and keep it 100% authentic!

  1. Jun 10

    The Teenage Big Wave Surfer Who Went Viral - Plus Why Your Protein Obsession Might Be Making You Fatter

    This week on What the Health?!, host Claira Hermet sits down with Malakai Hagley, a 19 year old professional surfer from Devon who is quietly becoming one of the most talked about names in big wave surfing. After a video of him taking on one of Mullaghmore's biggest ever waves went viral, the messages came flooding in from some of the most famous athletes on the planet - including Kelly Slater himself. Trained by Andrew Cotty, Britain's leading big wave expert, Malakai talks about what it actually feels like to ride a wave at that size and speed, how he trains himself not to panic when everything goes wrong underwater, what a tow-in actually is and what happens when it doesn't go to plan. He also opens up about his ambitions for the World Surf League adult tour and the Olympics, and the very real funding challenges facing the next generation of big wave surfers in the UK. Then Claira is joined by Jo Travers, Harley Street nutritionist, dietician and author, known as The London Nutritionist. Jo is here to cut through the noise around the protein craze that has taken over social media and what she has to say might surprise you. From protein maxxing and the 200g a day trend, to why protein consumed at the wrong time can actually cause weight gain, to the risks of the carnivore and keto diets, Jo breaks it all down in a way that finally makes sense. She also gets into the protein supplement industry and why she doesn't recommend bars and shakes, what leucine is and why it matters so much after 50, and what a genuinely healthy breakfast actually looks like.

    55 min
  2. Jun 3

    Grief, Barbells and a Stadium Workout: The Two Women Redefining What Fitness Actually Looks Like

    This week on What the Health?! with Claira Hermet, we have two guests and two stories that prove fitness is about so much more than how you look. First, Claira is joined by Ifende Ozuko, known to her community as MsFitQueen, a four time bodybuilding champion, fitness coach and someone whose relationship with fitness began in one of the darkest moments imaginable. In 2013, Ifende lost her sister and became a full time carer for her three children overnight. While most people might have crumbled, Ifende picked up a barbell. What followed was four bodybuilding championships, a thriving community of real women with real lives and a coaching practice that goes far beyond sets and reps. She opens up about grief, what it actually takes mentally and physically to step on a bodybuilding stage, why she eventually walked away from competing, and what strength means to her now compared to the day she first walked into a gym. Then Claira is joined by Gina Obeng, founder of Beats and Bands, the fitness movement that started as a simple lockdown idea and has grown into one of the most exciting things happening in UK fitness right now. Gina's question was simple: what if working out actually felt like a night out? Six years on, she's found her answer and on the 7th of June she's taking it to a football stadium. Gina talks about building a community rather than a client base, why live music does something to a workout that a playlist simply cannot, and what happens when someone who has always believed fitness isn't for them walks into a Beats and Bands event for the first time.

    55 min
  3. May 13

    Bounce Back Culture, Broken Pelvic Floors and Postnatal Mental Health

    Kat Suchet is a women's health physiotherapist, former competitive CrossFit athlete, founder of Hatch Athletic and mum of two. She has spent her career sitting at the intersection of intense training and female physiology. Which is exactly what makes her story so important. Because despite all of that knowledge, all of that training and all of that expertise, the postnatal period still brought her to one of the darkest places of her life. With it being Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week, Kat joins host Claira Hermet to talk honestly about what that darkness actually looked like, why maternal mental health doesn't discriminate between those who should know better and those who don't, and what she wants every woman who is quietly struggling right now to hear. She also gets into the culture of bouncing back, why the pressure on women to be fine, to be fit and to be grateful is actively making the maternal mental health crisis worse, and why she built Hatch Athletic to fill the gap that nobody else was filling. But that's only half the conversation. Kat also unpacks everything the fitness industry consistently gets wrong about women: from training through pregnancy to the pelvic floor issues millions of women are whispering about instead of fixing, to why losing your period should never be brushed off, to how your menstrual cycle should be influencing the way you train every single month. She also gets into what women in their late thirties should be doing right now to protect themselves ahead of perimenopause and the most common thing women believe about their bodies that simply isn't true.

    55 min
  4. May 6

    Told She'd Never Walk Again at 18 - Now She's Running the Entire Length of the UK

    At just 18 years old, on the cusp of a professional dance career, Esmee Gummer was told she would never walk again. This week on What the Health?! with Claira Hermet, she joins us in the studio to talk about everything that came after that moment - the dark days, the mental battle that was harder than any physical challenge, the resentment and jealousy nobody talks about when everyone else's life carries on without you, and the moment fitness stopped being something she had lost and became the thing that was putting her back together. She also talks about SAS: Who Dares Wins, where she completed every single challenge, and what that experience taught her about what she's actually made of. But the reason you really need to hear this episode right now is what's coming this summer. Esmée is about to run the entire length of the UK (roughly 5,000 kilometres across 77 cities in just 99 days) and in every single city she stops in, she's hosting a free 5K event open to absolutely everyone. No entry fee. No fitness level required. Just people moving together. Her mission is to get one million people moving, and the way she's doing it is as extraordinary as the story that got her here. She also gets refreshingly honest about the specific challenges of taking on something this monumental as a woman - periods, mental load, physical differences - and why she refused to just quietly get on with it and pretend those things don't exist. The Nation's 5K kicks off on 27 June. Find your city, show up, and be part of it.

    55 min
  5. Apr 29

    Medically Gaslit for 13 Years - Plus the Woman Told She Had Six Months to Live Who Just Ran a Half Marathon

    This week on What the Health?! with Claira Hermet, we have two guests and two stories that will make you angry, move you to tears and leave you feeling genuinely inspired. First, Amy Peckham-Driver joins Claira to talk about an infuriating and heart-breaking example of medical dismissal. At just 14 years old, Amy was passing out from period pain so severe she could barely function. She asked her doctor if it could be endometriosis. She was told she was too young and given the pill. For the next 13 years, she was told it was anxiety. It was IBS. It was in her head. It wasn't. When she was finally diagnosed at 27, after paying privately for surgery because NHS waiting lists had become impossible, her surgeon told her her pelvis looked like a bomb had gone off inside. By then, the damage to her fertility was already done. Amy talks candidly about being medically gaslit, what it feels like to be told your very real pain isn't real, the moment she was rejected for IVF because of damage that an earlier diagnosis could have prevented, and why she's now on a mission to make sure other women don't spend over a decade fighting to be believed. Then Claira is joined by Holly Dyson, a woman who was told by doctors that she had just six months to live due to her alcoholism. Holly opens up about what daily life looked like at the depths of her alcohol addiction, why hitting rock bottom didn't immediately lead to change, and what finally pushed her toward recovery. Nearly three years sober, Holly has completely rebuilt her life and her body and has just crossed the finish line of the London Landmarks Half Marathon in 2 hours 49 minutes, raising awareness for Alcohol Change UK. She also challenges the stereotype of what an alcoholic looks like, explains why that stereotype is actively dangerous, and shares what she wishes someone had told her when she was at her lowest.

    55 min

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Get ready to crush your health goals with What the Health?! This show keeps it real when it comes to all things beauty, health, fitness, and wellness. We're diving into everything from the latest diet crazes to workout trends and the truth behind those fitness influencers. Each week, celebrity experts will spill the tea on what actually works - and what’s just hype. Whether you’re looking for advice, motivation, or just a straight-up reality check on your health journey, What the Health?! has got you covered. Let’s get fit, have fun, and keep it 100% authentic!

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