The Wellness Scoop

Welcome to The Wellness Scoop! Join Ella Mills, founder of Deliciously Ella, and Registered Nutritionist and founder of Rhitrition, Rhiannon Lambert every Monday and Thursday for your weekly health inspiration.

Each episode delivers the latest wellness news, expert advice, and personal recommendations from Ella and Rhiannon—simple swaps, easy ideas, and realistic tips to help you live healthier, no matter how busy life gets.

Tune in to start your week feeling informed, inspired, and armed with tools to build a healthier, happier life!

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Feb 14, 2022 · 56 min
How to Change Our Relationship With Stress
We’re joined by Jenna Hope, a Registered Nutritionist, to talk about stress and how it impacts our bodies and our digestive systems, and how it interacts with our diets. We discuss: <ul><li>What stress is on a physiological level</li><li>How stress affects our overall health</li><li>What chronic stress is, and why it’s detrimental to our health and wellbeing</li><li>How what we eat contributes to physiological stress</li><li>The relationship b
Feb 9, 2022 · 15 min
Bite-Sized: How Your Diet Affects Sleep
We’re joined by Guy Meadows, physiologist and leading sleep expert, to discuss why what we eat and drink has a profound impact on the quality of our sleep, and which aspects of our diet to focus on to support better sleep. Here’s a short recap:<ul><li>The connection between diet and sleep</li><li>Why a healthy diet supports better sleep</li><li>The impact of caffeine, sugar, and alcohol on sleep</li><li>Why when we eat affects sle
Feb 7, 2022 · 46 min
How to Improve Your Mental Health Everyday
We’re joined by Dr. Julie Smith, a Clinical Psychologist, to talk about the simple, practical tools we can all use to improve our mental wellbeing.  We discuss:<ul><li>How emotions work</li><li>The importance of self-awareness</li><li>The power of self-compassion and how to cultivate it</li><li>How to build self-confidence</li><li>Why failure is a necessary part of learning and improving</li><li>How to respond to low mood and anxiety</li><l
Feb 2, 2022 · 14 min
Bite-Sized: Why Sleep Is So Important to Your Health
We’re joined by Guy Meadows, physiologist, and leading sleep expert, to discuss why sleep is such an integral element of our health. Here’s a quick recap:<ul><li>Why sleep is so key for supporting and improving our mental health</li><li>How long we should be sleeping for</li><li>How sleep supports our immunity, and the health of our heart and brain</li><li>Sleep cycles</li><li>The 2 drivers of sleep</li><li>The importance of regularity</li><li>How sleep is the bedrock for all as
Jan 31, 2022 · 45 min
Why the Gut is the Key to Health
We’re joined by Dr. Emeran Mayer; a professor, gastroenterologist, scientist, and author about the latest research on the gut microbiome, the connection between the gut microbiome and the immune system, and how we can improve the health of our gut to support our overall health. We discuss:<ul><li>What is a healthy gut microbiome</li><li>Is it nature or nurture that determines the health of our gut?</li><li>The link between the gut microbiome and the immune system</li><
Jan 26, 2022 · 16 min
Bite-Sized: How to Improve Gut Health
Ways to improve our gut health with nutritional therapist Alice Mackintosh. An increasing body of evidence is demonstrating that the health of our gut microbiome affects the health of numerous other systems in the body and mind. In this bite-sized episode we look at how we can improve our gut health from the importance of fibre-rich plant foods and probiotics, as well as the role of processed foods and stress. Here’s a brief recap:<ul><li>Prioritise increasing fibre in
Jan 24, 2022 · 52 min
How to Escape the Productivity Trap
We’re joined by writer and author Oliver Burkeman to talk about the productivity-trap; the narrative that keeps our sense of self-worth and value tied to how much we get done and achieve. In his new book, Four Thousand Weeks, Oliver argues that this only results in disappointment and unhappiness, and explores how to cultivate a healthier relationship with productivity to ultimately lead a more fulfilling life. We discuss:<ul><li>Confronting the mismatch be
Jan 19, 2022 · 15 min
Bite-Sized: Food to Boost Your Mood
Ways to support our mood with nutritional therapist Alice Mackintosh. Our mood is influenced by a variety of things including what we eat, and in this bite-sized episode we look at how we can support healthy brain function from the key macronutrients and micronutrients to be mindful of to the importance of whole plant foods, as well as the role of processed and refined foods. Here’s a quick recap:<ul><li>Including a variety of high-quality proteins</li><li>Including su
Jan 17, 2022 · 50 min
How a Plant-Based Diet Can Transform Your Health
We’re joined by Dr. Shireen Kassam, an NHS consultant and board-certified lifestyle medicine physician. Here’s a short recap of what we discuss:<ul><li>The power of diet and lifestyle factors in health and disease outcomes</li><li>What is an unhealthy diet?</li><li>The impact of ultra-processed foods in the body </li><li>What is inflammation, how is it related to diet and how is it linked to chronic diseases?</li><li>Diet and immunity</li><li>Why it is never too late to ado
Jan 12, 2022 · 15 min
Bite-Sized: Eating for Energy
5 ways to boost energy with nutritional therapist Alice Mackintosh. Feeling tired all the time is the most common complaint in GP surgery’s, in this short episode we break down the simple steps to combat exhaustion from balancing blood sugar to the key vitamins and minerals to look out for, plus the role of coffee, sugar and artificial sweeteners. Here’s a simple recap - eat lots of bright, colourful, whole food ingredients and look at:Balancing blood sugarS
Jan 10, 2022 · 58 min
Why Changing Your Mindset Can Change Your Health
We’re joined by Dr. David Hamilton, a leading expert on the mind body connection, about the latest research on the power of our mindset, how a change in thinking can exert physiological effects within the body and how we can harness the mind to improve our wellbeing. We talk about:<ul><li>Why the placebo effect is more than ‘just in the mind’</li><li>How can we harness the power of our mindset to create positive neurological and physiological change</li><li>The relatio
Jun 8, 2021 · 33 min
Understanding Anxiety, Depression and Mental Health
Ella and guest, Karl Deisseroth on understanding anxiety, depression and mental health. From the depths of human emotion to why the science can expand our empathy and connectivity; why our view of mental health needs updating; the hidden realm...
Jun 1, 2021 · 33 min
Why Calories Don’t Count
Why calorie-counting simply doesn’t stack up, with Giles Yeo. We ask: are all calories equal; what’s the connection between calories and weight loss; and are foods with fewer calories automatically better for you? A debunk of every ca...
May 25, 2021 · 46 min
Mindfulness, Meditation and Easing Stress
Michael James Wong on how to bring mindfulness into your day, ways to let go of stress and expectation, redefining happiness and the benefits of slowing down.
May 18, 2021 · 30 min
Food As Medicine
Tim Spector, a world expert on gut health, reveals the at-home blue muffin test that’ll help you understand how healthy your gut is, why food is medicine and how to improve our health.To get involved, visit www.bluepoopchallenge.com/deliciouslyella
May 4, 2021 · 42 min
How to Optimise Your Health
Is wellness to prescriptive and how can we optimise our individual health? We talk about understanding and optimising your hormones, the concept of happiness as a chemical concept, the role of stress and sleep, quick ways to boost your wellbeing, unloc...
Apr 27, 2021 · 39 min
Building Exceptional Relationships
We talk to Stanford lecturers David Bradford and Carole Robin about the six characteristics of an exceptional relationship and their relevance to all relationships in our lives from friends to family and colleagues. We look at how to shift out relation...
Apr 20, 2021 · 55 min
Plant-Based Diets for Children
Everything you need to know about raising plant-based children from protein to calcium, iron, fat, carbohydrates, omega 3, milk, B12, vitamin D and so much more. With dieticians Whitney and Alex from Plant Based Juniors. Alexandra Caspero ...
Apr 13, 2021 · 47 min
Happiness, Change and Emotional Resilience
Renowned psychotherapist Julia Samuel talks about learning to face our difficulties with self-compassion, expectation versus reality, the relationship between happiness and change, escapism and building a strong foundation with her eight pilla...
Apr 6, 2021 · 36 min
How to Supercharge Your Brain
This week we’re looking at the practical advise on how to maximise, nurture and sustain your brain health with Professor James Goodwin, a leading expert on brain health. From managing stress levels to why meditation and yoga make your brain glow, the i...