Immune System
How Your Microbiome Affects Your Health
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…
Read More5 Benefits Of Living In Sync With Your Day-Night-Rhythm
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…
Read MoreThere’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…
Read More10 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…
Read MoreAre Milk Products Healthy?
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…
Read MoreWhy Should You Detox?
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…
Read More5 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…
Read MoreKnow your Gut Health
Your gastro-intestinal tract, which starts with your mouth, continues over a distance of around 9 metres, of coiled highly functional tubes up to your anus. On the one end you eat and taste your food and on the other end let out clever quiet farts (and sometime embarrassing loud ones) and eliminate whatever food and…
Read MoreYour 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…
Read MoreExercise and Resilience
As my alarm clock went off this at 5:30 morning, I immediately had to do some top notch positive self-talk to get over my bad-morning-moment and get motivated for my 6:00 swim training with a friend. Add to that, that today is Friday, and it has been a taxing week. By now I am ready…
Read MoreThe power of light: The health benefits of natural light
Have you ever noticed how light affects you? Bright natural morning light can make you feel more awake and full of energy, happy and positive or possibly even irritate you if you are tired and find it too bright. On a cloudy day the lack of light can make you feel tired, hungry, lazy or…
Read More7 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…
Read MoreMeal 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…
Read More7 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…
Read MoreExercise 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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