Intermittent fasting has become a popular diet trend in recent years. Not only does it offer a range of health benefits, but it can also be an effective way to lose weight and improve body composition. However, as with any diet or lifestyle change, there are common mistakes that can hinder progress and even cause harm. In this article, we will explore some of the most common intermittent fasting mistakes and how to avoid them.

Have you ever wondered what the best way is to start fasting? Fasting is simple, but it does require a bit of preparation to successfully fulfill your fasting journey and get the most out of it! 

Health during the Holy Month is a recurring aspect that seems to get more attention each year! Dr. Ludidi was previously interviewed by Men’s Health NL and you read all about it below!

Former NFC champion and dr. Ludidi athlete Jarno Errens (Netherlands) has been called on short notice, to fight on the UFC Paris fight card on September 3rd.

Wow! The first season of The Food Academy is already over. It’s been such a pleasure to share all this valuable information with you. It’s exactly these fundamentals that I teach my clients too, to get a better grip on their health and personal wellbeing. I’m thrilled to move on because there is more to come, but first, let’s just get a quick recap of what we learned during that first season. ‍

Realizing a sustainable healthy lifestyle is challenging and through the collaboration with the internationally renowned lifestyle expert Dr Ludidi, Philips Domestic Appliances is taking a new and innovative path to encourage healthier behavior within people’s homes.

You might have noticed something is cooking behind the scenes at dr. Ludidi.

Our health is partly determined by the environment in which we live, at least to the extent that the environment plays a role in influencing the choices we make in our daily lives.

Time for some new stuff to try! Enjoy!

Haven't you wondered why even a tiny bump on the pavement could make you fall while walking? Or how a gymnast can perform complex exercises like a backflip on a 10 cm wide (!!!) balance beam? Or how your body 'knows' how to catch a tennis ball with the speed of light? This is where proprioception comes into play.

Did you know that your intestines are extremely sensitive? So sensitive that we often even ‘feel’ with our gut first. Infatuation, sadness, fear: they are all feelings that you ‘sense’ with your gut. A hypersensitive gut however, can be quite annoying. Yet today 10-15% of all people suffer from such a hypersensitive or irritable bowel. It probably won’t kill you, but - as the name suggests - it can be quite an annoying thing.

Summer vacation is just around the corner, time for reflection after the tumult of the first six months, perhaps? Make a plan and create space for new ambitions, but also spend some time resting and relaxing. Recharge for the second half. Eat tasty, but also healthy and varied. And don't forget to properly “listen to your gut feeling” because in the end it is the gut that is the gateway to good health!

Sun will be out this week, which means: take good care of those precious peepers! Too much exposure of sunlight can lead to eye damage due to UV-related sunburn of the eye and local inflammation. This could cause several eye diseases to occur, such as: age-related macular degeneration and cataracts.

To protect itself, your body will use less energy for tasks so that it can fulfil the same processes but with less energy, simply by making more efficient use of the available energy.

Hydration is an often underrated aspect of most lifestyle plans. "Drink a lot and as often as you can!" is an often heard general advice. It's quite contradictory that, now that the clock has been set to winter time and temperatures are dropping, the risk of dehydration lurks around the corner. In this blog, I tell you how to stay hydrated, the right way!

Salt is a mineral largely consisting of sodium and chloride and can be produced by evaporating water (sea salt or lake salt) or extracting solid salt from underground salt mines (rock salt such as Himalayan salt). We have been using salt to flavour and preserve foods for thousands of years.

Salt is one of the culprits here and there. And it is quite a difficult one because, although salt has been used for centuries as a preservative and for seasoning, it has also caused a lot of health problems in recent decades: I'm talking about high blood pressure.

Food is nowadays pulled apart and reduced to nothing more than nutrients. The fact is that eating is about much more than nutrients, but many diets neglect the relevance and significance of the other important “ingredients”. They preach their faith from the narrow perspective that food should be healthy in the first, second and third place. When you try one of the new diets, you discover that they are usually quite difficult to maintain.

"It was on very short notice, but I am more than pleased to add another world-class multiple World Champion to our hall of achievers. My goal for the following years within the Martial Arts scene is, to change the way fighters approach their weight cut. There are still a lot of dangerous things going on out there."

Intermittent fasting. It's a subject that still raises many questions. In this blog I answer a number of frequently asked questions from the past period.

Intermittent fasting and I, we met in 2012. It was when I was still working at university, probably just after the carnival period. At that time, we went to conferences in the US once a year, in the spring.

“Hey doc. How bad are sugars?” It’s a question I get asked very often.It is perhaps the question I get asked most often. Of course, you cannot judge nutrientsfor being what they are. They do nothing more than simply provide the building blocksof our foods. We are the ones who make our choices (sometimes deliberately, but often onautopilot) and those choices can - depending on the context - be better or worse.

“Hey doc. How bad are sugars?” It’s a question I get asked very often. Let me tell you in part two how I think about it.

Time to eat something delicious!

How tolerant is this ketogenic diet to cheat days? Lets talk about this!

Ketones are perhaps the most undervalued and least-known energy source. They do not naturally occur in our foods even though they are a type of “super fuel”, especially for the brain and muscles. Within the muscles, ketones compete with other fuel sources such as carbohydrates and fats.

Something tasty!

Physical activity - along with a good diet - is one of the main pillars of healthy living. Daily physical activity activates your body and keeps your metabolism high.Especially for this month, I have selected three exercises that can help you!‍

Former NFC champion Jarno Errens (Netherlands) put down a wonderful performance after he previously lost his NFC title in April.

My initial goal was to bridge that gap between science and practice in a most “human-way” possible: just by talking to people, guiding them through their challenges and showing them how to master the craft of living a healthy and happy life in a way that is easy and fun, delicious and nutritious.