How Your Microbiome Affects Your Health

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Within your digestive system there’s an amazing ecosystem known as the gut microbiome. Your gut microbiome is a diverse collection of microorganisms, including bacteria, viruses, fungi, and other single-celled organisms that live in your gastrointestinal tract. If you’re stuck in discomfort with the words ‘bacteria’ and ‘fungi’, then know that there can be both good…

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Why And How To Make Your Own Hummus

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The ever versatile Hummus is made from wonderful chickpeas.   Chickpeas are loaded with fibre and nutrients, such as vitamin B6, choline, zinc, copper and selenium.  These nutrients help you look after your nervous system, immune system and hormone health.   Selenium and zinc together boost your detoxification capacity too, even the detoxification of heavy metals, such…

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How To Live In Sync With Your Day Night Rhythm

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In a previous blog, we discussed the wonderful benefits of living in sync with your circadian clock or day-night-rhythm.  Enjoy benefits such as improved sleep, increased energy and motivation, increased muscular strength, gut health and a healthy metabolism.  You can read more here: 5 Benefits Of Living In Sync With Your Day-Night-Rhythm.  In this blog,…

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5 Benefits Of Living In Sync With Your Day-Night-Rhythm

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Life is about rhythms. The sun rises and sets each day setting the stage for all other rhythms on earth. When humans inhale and exhale, it’s to a rhythm. The heart beats to the rhythm of a pulse circulating nutrients and air throughout the body.  Circadian rhythm, or day-night-rhythm, is the body’s internal 24 hour…

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5 Fun Things To Do That Boost Your Health

5 Fun Things To Do That Boost Your Health

Did you know that embracing life in a fun way has the potential to boost your health and wellness?  Life is a gift. When you seek out the things that energise you, and bring meaning to your life, you might be surprised at how some of them end up boosting your health in some way…

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3 Tips On How To Breathe

3 Tips On How To Breathe

If you haven’t yet, start to become aware of how you breathe. Intentional breathing can improve your resilience, reduce pain, improve posture, soothe stress and lower anxiety (among other wonderful benefits). If you haven’t yet, do yourself a favour and pay a few minutes of attention to how you naturally breathe: Are you taking deep…

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10 Easy Ways To Have More Leafy Greens

10 Easy Ways To Have More Leafy Greens

One of the questions I’m asked is often, how does someone include more leafy greens into everyday eating? It’s a great question and has many creative, fun and tasty answers. In another blog, I mention some benefits and why you should include more leafy greens into your daily routine.  Aside from nurturing skin health, improving…

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The Connection Between Mood, Anxiety, Pain And Breathing

The Connection Between Mood, Anxiety, Pain And Breathing

I was sitting at a local coffee shop in my coastal home town with a young mother who had previously struggled with debilitating neck and shoulder pain. She shared her experience after I was excitedly telling her about how our breathing affects our nervous systems and how people can use breathing as a means to…

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There’s More To Breathing Than You Might Think 

There's more to breathing than you might think

If you start to observe how you breathe, you might be surprised at what you discover. Think about whether you breathe through your nose or mouth. Consider how your shoulders, chest, or belly move when you inhale and exhale. Do you breathe slowly or quickly? Do you find you sigh or yawn often? These are…

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10 Health Benefits of Leafy Greens

As a teenager Dr. Brooke Goldner was diagnosed with Lupus and told she would never have children, and probably be paralysed by the time she turned 40. By adjusting her lifestyle, she began to see a change. One of the adjustments she made was to include a lot more leafy greens in her diet. Eventually, her…

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Embrace Life: Daily Choices That Can Improve Your Well-being

Embrace Life: Daily Choices That Can Improve Your Well-being

Consider your thinking when it comes to health. Do you find yourself focusing more on the ‘why nots’ in terms of food instead of on the benefits of positive choices? For example, maybe you’ve been asking yourself ‘why is sugar so bad?’ instead of ‘what types of food could I eat that will truly nourish…

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Are Milk Products Healthy?

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A common question I am asked often is, “are milk products healthy?” This blog sheds light on this and proposes ways to enjoy them in healthy ways.  Milk products have been proposed to support bone strength, have high calcium, and are rumoured to promote weight loss. But, some dairy products on the market today are…

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Why Should You Detox?

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Did you know that your body was designed to detox naturally? All your bodily systems and processes are wired to rid your body of anything harmful. Think about your digestive system, your clever gut microbiome, your skin, breathing in the fresh O2 and breathing out the CO2 and other toxins.  Everything about us is geared…

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What’s The Deal With Eating Bread?

the deal with bread

The bread we see in the shopping aisles of today is not all the same as it was many years ago. The number of ingredients on bread packaging has multiplied from what it used to be back in the day – a.k.a. flour, salt, olive oil, and water. So, what’s the deal with eating bread?…

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5 Applications for an Immune System Deep Dive Test

Testing the immune system in depth is a completely different story to a simple blood count. You can have a perfectly normal blood count, that looks like this:   While your in depth test could show reds and imbalances on the same day:   This is because the immune system is much more wonderful and…

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Hair Analysis: Metals and Minerals

Your hair tells a story of your interaction with your environment.  What you inhale, eat, drink and even apply to your skin, becomes a part of your body.  As you grow new hair, what is in you is used as building blocks for the hair.  Analysing a sample of hair can give you an idea…

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Omega 3 and Fatty Acid Testing

I have been involved with fatty acid profile testing since the early 2000s and can assure you that unless you are paying close attention to your omega 3 intake, you are highly likely to have a significant deficiency. Previously it was an expensive and complicated to test, but now you can do an easy test…

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10 things you need to know about vitamin D

1. Vitamin D helps to balance the immune system The key word here is balance. This means that vitamin D strengthens the immune system in its action against infectious disease, while helping to keep inflammation and overshoot reactions under control.   2. Bone health From supporting calcium absorption in the gut to calcium re-uptake in…

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Your genes and your immune system

Your DNA is like an instruction book. It contains the instructions for you to develop, function and grow. The instructions are made up of a varying sequence of four letters.  The four letters represent four amino acids – amino acids are the building blocks of proteins. The instruction sequence with the four letters reminds me…

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Chronic Pain and Fibromyalgia

It often starts with some aches and pains. Odd ones, unexplained. In young children it is often first thought to be “growing pains”. In older people it is blamed on stress, being over sensitive or arthritis starting to develop. Sometimes it starts as an injury or disease and then the pain seems to get a…

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7 Supportive Supplements in Corona Prevention and Care

Here are some ideas of excellent supplements that could be helpful and protective, both as part of an infection-prevention-strategy and complimentary support if you do have a Corona-virus or any other respiratory virus infection The doses and supplements mentioned are for adults.  Many of them can also be used for children, but not all and…

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Meal timing and intermittent fasting

meal timing and intermittent fasting

We often talk about what we should and shouldn’t eat.  But in addition to the effects of what we eat on our health, when we eat has a major influence too. A team of researchers from Germany set out to find out more about the impact of meal timing on ageing and metabolic health. As…

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7 ways to boost your mood

1.  Day-night-rhythm Your day-night rhythm and light exposure is closely linked to your mood. Try to live in sync with natural day-night rhythms by reducing bright and blue-white light (including screens) use at night and getting some natural daylight or good blue-white light in the morning. (If you struggle a lot with seasonal affected disorder…

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Exercise and the Immune System

Exercise makes you strong, beautiful and agile.  How wonderful to add that it strengthens your immune system and boosts your resistance to disease. A team of researchers from Brazil, published a powerful article in the journal Clinical and Experimental Medicine on the immune system, respiratory viral infection and exercise.  They remind us that acute viral…

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7 ways to increase glutathione levels naturally

  Glutathione is one of the most powerful health enhancing tools you produce in your own body. With lifestyle habits you can either increase this production or deplete it.   You need glutathione for your immune system to be the superpower it can be. On top of that, glutathione helps to balance inflammatory reactions, supports…

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Thyroid – Finding Balance

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What a fascinating gland! It is relatively small – about 30g in an adult – but controls so much in the body. Thyreos, meaning shield is a great description since it not only looks a bit like a shield, but also acts like a shield. The thyroid reacts to the smallest changes in the environment…

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Fertility Decline

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Struggling with fertility issues? YOU ARE NOT ALONE! How did we manage to get from an average of 100 million sperm per millilitre in young men during the 1940s to an average of 40 million per millilitre nowadays without it being headline news? Why is it that even though in the past is was necessary…

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Hormone Disruptors

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Common hormone disruptors, that should be avoided! Xenoestrogens / Xenohormones / Endocrine disruptors / Hormone disruptors Here follows a list of some of the most common hormone disruptors. This list is incomplete and a work in progress, but should help you get started avoiding some of the most common and harmful hormone disruptors. Chemical sunblocks:…

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Feeding Young Children With Flu

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I often get asked what the best foods are for toddlers and young children when they have flu or a nasty cold. Here are some general suggestions to help ensure you give the right food – food that will allow their bodies to fight the infection quickly. You might be tempted to give them all…

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6 Tips for a Sore Throat

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Winter is around the corner and unfortunately that means it’s also the start of cold and flu season. Here are 5 tips for soothing a sore throat and making sure it doesn’t linger or turn into a more serious infection. The important thing is to take action as soon as you feel the “scratchiness” starting…

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Managing Colds and Flu

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Colds and flus are mostly viral diseases and can take all kinds of forms, depending on the person and the specific virus involved. Sometimes, because the virus weakens an area, bacteria gets involved and can add to the infection. For one person, the lungs might always be the biggest issue, and for the next it…

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