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The podcast

Thrive: Mind and Body

Psychology and nutrition for complete wellbeing.

Hosted by a Clinical Nutritionist and a Counselling Psychologist, who also happen to be mother and son.

Clinical Nutritionist & Counselling Psychologist Mother and son Free on Spotify & Apple Podcasts Made in Aotearoa
The premise

You can't have one without the other

Most health advice picks a side, the physical or the mental, and then wonders why the results don't hold.

THE BODY What you eat, sleep, absorb THE MIND Stress, thought, nervous system HOW YOU ACTUALLY FEEL One system, not two
Fig. 01 — Two disciplines, one outcome

On Thrive: Mind and Body, we treat that split as the problem rather than the starting point. What you eat changes how you think. How you think changes what you eat. Neither of us can do our job properly while ignoring the other's.

So each episode takes a complex health topic and works it from both ends at once, the biology and the psychology, and turns it into steps you can use the same week.

What to expect

Complex topics, made usable

The topics below come up most often, both on the show and in the clinic.

01

The gut–brain connection

How what you eat dictates how you feel, and why the gut gets called the second brain.

02

Stress management

Practical tools from both a psychological and a nutritional lens, used together.

03

Sleep & recovery

Optimising your environment and your biology for genuinely deep rest.

04

Hormonal health

Getting through life's transitions with science-backed support rather than guesswork.

05

Relatable conversations

Real stories from our clinical practice and from our own lives, told plainly.

06

Got a topic?

If there's something you'd like us to cover, tell us. Listener questions shape the show. Suggest an episode

About your hosts

A nutritionist and a psychologist

Two clinicians, two disciplines, one kitchen table. We've been having versions of this conversation for years. The podcast just turned the recorder on.

Luke Gabites, Registered Clinical Nutritionist, in natural light beside a window The Nutritionist

Luke Gabites

As a Registered Clinical Nutritionist, I cover the biological side. Mostly that means taking current research and working out what it actually means for your energy, your mood and your long-term health.

Jane Gabites, Registered Counselling Psychologist, seated with a cup of tea The Psychologist

Jane Gabites

Jane is a Registered Counselling Psychologist with over a decade in private practice. She specialises in mindfulness, stress reduction and calming the nervous system, and works with people through anxiety, burnout and life transitions.

250,000+ Listeners reached through her meditations on Insight Timer
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The podcast is the general version. If you'd like the same thinking turned into a protocol built around your bloods, your symptoms and your actual life, that's what a consultation is for.