Expert Solutions for Real Living
Expert Solutions for Real Living
The power to understand our inherited genetics and their impact upon our health is an extremely attractive concept and is now within our reach like never before! Our genes, inherited from our parents, regulate how we look, how our body functions and how we grow and...
How to Build Your IMMUNITY During this Time? We need to think of the immune system from a bigger picture perspective. Its an orchestra of things that effect the immune system rather than one thing, here are some important things that effect our immune system....
Food glorious food, what to eat? For the last few weeks we have been going through more specialized diets that we might use to make therapeutic changes to get and stay healthy. We also talked about finding out how much carbohydrates in your diet makes you feel and run...
Practical Tips and Advice on where to start and how to improve you health https://amandaswellbeingpodcast.com/maria_harpas_and_tim_jaeger/ 'Eat well, move well, think well' encompass the topics that Amanda covers with her guests from the wellbeing areas of nutrition,...
Changing your diet or what you eat can be the important first step in regaining your health. Your diet can affect anxiety, depression, skin conditions (eczema, psoriasis, rashes), autoimmune diseases (Hashimoto Thyroiditis, Rheumatoid Arthritis), joint and...
What should I eat? This is the most controversial question ever asked! Traditional cultures knew what to eat and we used to know what to eat - we would eat what our parents ate, what their parents ate…..so on and on. This way of eating was based on years of...
Vitamin D Toxicity - Too Much of a Good Thing? Vitamin D is critical to our health, in fact, our immune system depends on it! Making sure we have enough vitamin D is a MUST, but what happens when we have too much? As supplementing with vitamin D becomes more and more...
What is SIBO? SIBO is a condition where excessive amounts of bacteria are found in the small intestine (where you absorb all your nutrients) that causes hydrogen, methane or hydrogen sulphide gas production. These gases mimic Irritable bowel syndrome symptoms and can...
COQ10 Is A Must With Cholesterol Lowering Drugs! Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) is a natural antioxidant made in your body: it’s found in almost every cell, and it concentrates in the heart, liver and kidneys. Many medical studies demonstrate CoQ10 benefits when taken as a...
Are Vitamins Good For You? Vitamins & supplements yet again in the spotlight! And in some respects, rightly so, I thought it might be helpful to many of you to have a Naturopath's opinion, considering the level of training we have in this area. Are Vitamins A...
Fresh Local Whole Organic Seasonal Food Here are some valuable things to consider about your food: Quality - Wherever possible food needs to be fresh, local, organic or biodynamic, unprocessed and whole food, additive and chemical free (this is particular important...
Addictions Addictions are becoming a major issue and whilst one of the key elements to recovery is, ones genuine want to stop and for their lives to change, there are some still some potholes that can interfere with ones recovery and rehab centres for many have not...
Ulcers Helicobacter Pylori (H. Pylori) is a gram-negative bacteria which invades the human stomach, effecting 30% of children and 60% of adults worldwide - that is more than half the population! It has developed the ability to survive in the acid environment of the...
Are you getting caught up in too many trendy diets, and what's with the Paleo Diet? Just like, with many new food trends, the paleo diet should be considered carefully if you want to adopt it as a long term way of eating and particularly if you are responsible for...
The Elimination Diet – Uncover Your Food Reactions! The Elimination Diet is a way of seeing the true effect the food you eat has on your body! Not only does the Elimination diet allow you to see what foods effect you, but it shows you HOW they make you feel. Why...
Health Food to Superfood Here is a little brief on why some foods are beyond a health food, making them superfoods! Acai Has a high ORAC score, hence has a high antioxidant capacity and therefore slows down the oxidative processes, commonly associated with age-related...
Naturopathic Medicine Integrating In General Practice? Naturopathic and alternative therapies, have a huge roll to play in our health care! It looks like some general practitioners are now agreeing, with a view to educating other GP's, on the importance of an...
Australian Healthy Eating - Seasonal Produce Eating with the seasons, is an aspect of Australian Healthy Eating nearly forgotten! We can access tomatoes and cucumbers all year rounds, even though these foods, only grow naturally, in summer. Taking the lead and...
Whole Foods We hear the word "whole foods" a lot, but do you actually know what this means? Whole foods, are foods which have not been altered from the state they have been found in nature. They haven't been refined or processed. They are a healthy food, because they...
Homocysteine - elevated levels, a heart health risk! Most of us know or have heard about cholesterol levels and their relationship to our cardiovascular system, but few of us have any idea about the importance of homocysteine levels. What is homocysteine? Homocysteine...