We are always looking at ways to assess, measure and improve our health! I absolutely love this great blog done by Dan Go giving 5 simple tests to check your longevity barometer! He has also included what you can do about improving things, so give these 5 tests a shot...
Make Your Own Cleaning Products
Do you have skin issues, allergies or autoimmunity? You will benefit from taking a good look at what you are using to clean the house and also on your body! Did you know that chronic skin irritation is mostly caused by synthetic fragrances found in household cleaning...
Pain Management Strategies
PAIN MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES Pain is a very common condition. Pain may be anything from a dull ache to a sharp stab and can range from mild to extreme. You may feel pain in one part of your body or it may be widespread. There are two types of pain. ACUTE PAIN – a normal...
2 Hurdles To Understand For Your Health
Over the last fourteen years, I have been consulting with many clients and come across a large spectrum of different health conditions. One of the most interesting observations has been that whilst we are all at different places with our health, most of us have to pay...
How many hours should you work after a Heart Attack?
Well according to this study "Long Work Hours Tied to Double the Risk for Recurrent MI" by Batya Swift Yasgur, more than 55 hours per week is too many! For those of you who don't know MI stands for myocardial infarction, otherwise known as a heart attack. The outcome...
‘The Pantry Detox’ with Supermarket Swap
Pantry Detox - It's Here! I teamed up with Nabula from Supermarket Swap to create this FREE guide. This is a great way to get started in identifying foods that have nasty additives or chemicals that aren't good for you or your loved ones! Learn what to watch...
Zinc Eradicates Warts!
I'm sure everyone has experienced warts sometime in their life, but did you know you can eradicate them with natural therapies, particularly zinc - a little old mineral !? What are warts? Warts are rapid growth of the outer layer of the skin leading to raised bumps...
Treating & Understanding Autoimmunity
Treating & Understanding Autoimmunity AUTOIMMUNITY - Stop the body's attack on itself! Autoimmunity or autoimmune conditions, relate to diseases (of which there are more than 80), where the immune system is attacking the body's own healthy tissues and cells. This...
Mediterranean Diet Improves Inflammatory Bowel Diseases!
Mediterranean Diet on Inflammatory Bowel Disease This study showed for those with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) such as ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease that a Mediterranean Diet followed for 6 months significantly reduced malnutrition-related parameters and...
Rethinking Intermittent Fasting
Intermittent Fasting - Good or Bad? Like intermittent fasting anyone? I do! This study has shown we may need to consider it further. Eating between 12 pm and 8 pm was compared to eating 3 meals per day and there was a drop in muscle mass in the fasting group!!...
Is It Your Mood or Just An Iron Issue?
Iron deficiency Nearly everyone knows that iron deficiency causes tiredness and fatigue but it's one of the best kept secrets that iron deficiency causes much more than a tired body! When we are fatigued we are not motivated for a start! But iron deficiency also...
Liver Detox, How It Works!
Have you ever wondered how the body detoxifies? One of the primary function of the liver is to detoxify the body of waste products within its Phase I and Phase II detoxification pathways. Phase I and II detoxification Phase I detoxification takes waste products and...
Understanding Gut Health
Gut Health Gut Health is key to our overall wellbeing! It seems as though everyone is talking about it, self-prescribing supplements, using fermented foods, often not finding any relief from their symptoms. From the beginning to the end of digestion the gut has it all...
Lifestyle Medicine
Lifestyle Medicine If we where to check the meaning of the word "lifestyle", its defined by the way a person chooses to live, and medicine is defined as anything that is used to treat or prevent disease. Lifestyle medicine has its roots well and truly in naturopathic...
Diabetes explained…
Diabetes Part 1 - the basics According to the Diabetes Australia health report more than 100,000 Australians have developed diabetes in the past year and 280 Australians develop diabetes every day. If that isn’t enough to get your attention, every six seconds a person...
Understanding DEHYDRATION!
DEHYDRATION - Water An Essential Nutrient Why is water so important and how much should you drink? What happens when dehydration sets in? Got a busy lifestyle, balancing work, hobbies, family and everything else, makes it easy to forget to drink water!...
How do you increase your energy as a mum and keep your family healthy?
The best kept secret is the one that comes after our first born arrives!
We prepare so much for the birth the baby room, the baby clothes, the pram, but no one ever tells us exactly how we are going to feel after the birth!
Immune Health – how it works to protect you!
Immune Health Your Immune System can sometimes fly under the radar while fighting to protect you against disease and infection, what we mean is that its constantly at work and if its doing its job well you won't even know! But your immune health rely's on certain...
5 Simple Health Tips Post Easter!
Feeling a bit sluggish after over-indulging this Easter? Don’t worry, we are too! Whether it be the late nights, busy days, alcohol consumption or copious amount of chocolate contributing to your post-holiday fatigue, here are 5 simple health tips for getting back on...
6 Ways to Health
6 Ways to Health Understanding All Diseases We know that all chronic disease come from the same core, foundation areas which we have coined the “6 ways to health”, this will help you better understand how to tackle your health issues and what we are looking for....