What We Need to Know – Skin Cancer. Skin cancers are the most common forms of cancer and are classified as per the following:
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Why do we LOVE Collagen?
Why do we LOVE Collagen? Collagen accounts for 30% of our body’s protein. It provides structure, support or strength to our skin, muscles, bones and connective tissues. We especially love it because it maintains our skin structure, hydration and integrity and plays an important role in supporting our skin’s health and appearance.
What is Tahini
What is Tahini Tahini is made by grinding sesame seeds into a smooth paste. Sometimes the sesame seeds are hulled, sometimes they’re left unhulled; sometimes roasted, sometimes...
Calcium Intake and Food Sources
Calcium Intake and Food Sources Calcium is the most abundant mineral in the human body. About 99% of the calcium in the body is found in bones and teeth, while the other 1% is...
Why Is Eating Breakfast is Important?
Why Eating Breakfast is Important? A circadian rhythm, or circadian cycle, is a natural, internal process that regulates the sleep–wake cycle and repeats roughly every 24 hours....
What is the Vagus Nerve?
What is the Vagus Nerve? The vagus nerve provides a direct telephone line between your gut and brain, allowing them to communicate regularly. The vagus nerve receives information...
What Makes a Healthy Gut
What Makes a Healthy Gut? The gut is a complex system, influenced by many factors that either enhance GI health or impinge on our digestive function. Disruptions to any of these...
What are Bach Flowers?
What are Bach Flowers? Bach Flowers are a set of 38 flower essences, developed in the early 1900’s by an English physician, Dr Edward Bach. The most well-known of the Bach...
What is Fibre and Where is it in Food?
What is Fibre and Where is it in Food? As dietary fibre is relatively indigestible and keeps our digestive system healthy. There are 2 sorts of fibre – Soluble and Insoluble. ...
Should I Go Gluten Free?
Should I Go Gluten Free? A gluten-free diet is not recommended for everyone. There are even some concerns about the nutritional value of gluten free food. Recent studies have...
Curbing Cravings
Why Do We Eat When We’re NOT Hungry? We certainly eat when we are happy and it can bring great joy! But we often eat when we are stressed, mad, tired, sad or bored. Our bodies...
What is Fasting?
What is Fasting? Fasting was made popular with the BBC documentary in 2012 on the 5:2 diet. There are a few different approaches to fasting. The 5:2 diet proposes 5 days of...
Menopausal Weight Gain or Meno Belly Fat
Why Do I Gain Weight in Menopause? We may sometimes forget that oestrogens play many important roles in our bodies other than the significant role it plays in reproduction. We...
Why do Vegetables Help Weight Loss?
Veggies tend to be weight-loss friendly, because most are low in calories, they are full of fibre which helps us feel fuller for longer and reduce snacking (although they do make...
Why is Bone Health Important?
Why is Bone Health Important? Bones provide us with support and allow us to move our bodies. They form a protective layer around important organs like our brain, heart, and other...
Do You Need a Health Reset (Detox)?
Do You Need a Health Reset (Detox)? Detoxification is a natural metabolic process your body undertakes every day to help eliminate the environmental, dietary and internally...
Pillars of a Healthy Gut
Pillars of a Healthy Gut The gut is a complex system, influenced by many factors that either enhance gastro-intestinal (GI) health or impinge on digestive function. Disruptions...
What is Stress Really?
What is Stress Really? Stress acts to motivate and sharpen our focus in situations where immediate action is required. It shunts blood to the important organs like the heart and...
Who has Cardiovascular and Metabolic Issues?
Who has Cardiovascular and Metabolic Issues? Cardiovascular and metabolic disorders are the most common age-related chronic diseases amongst Australian and New Zealand ‘baby...
Menopause and Mood – Is it All in My Head?
Menopause and Mood – Is it All in My Head? Women have been found to have 2 to 4 times more likely to experience depression after menopause than before it8. Our mental well-being...
SMART GOALS FOR MOTIVATION
Have you made another Resolution This Year? Most of us resolve at the start of the Year to be happier & healthier-which are wonderful goals. But is your inspiration and...
Is A Magnesium Supplement A Help For Menopause
Do I Need a Magnesium Supplement? There are many magnesium supplements on the market – Magnesium citrate / Magnesium orotate / Magnesium chloride / Magnesium malate / Magnesium...
Testing Your Stool – Why Do Naturopaths Do It?
Why do Naturopaths (and Nutritionists) like Testing Your Stool? It seems a rather unlikely thing to ask someone if they would collect a sample of their stool (sometimes several...
4 Proven Principals for Digestive Health
What are the main Principals for Digestive Health and how can we achieve it. I love the saying “The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or...
Hair, Skin, Nails and Knees
Hair, Skin, Nails and Knees We all know menopause can alter our moods, weight and sleep, but one of the things we tend to sweep under the rug is menopauses’ impact on our...
Why can’t I get a good night’s sleep
There are many things that can make it difficult to get to sleep and stay asleep or have a good night’s sleep and wake refreshed. Here are some different areas that may...
Vitamin D & Sun – how much is enough?
Sunlight contains ultraviolet radiation: ultraviolet B radiation (UVB) acts on the epidermis of the skin and causes erythema (reddening). When ultraviolet radiation interacts...
Which Diet is Right for Me?
Moderation is a wise approach. A balanced and healthy diet accommodates most foods and drinks, as long as moderation directs your wise choices. The Mediterranean Diet is grounded...
Stay Well (boost your immunity)
The immune system is a complex network of cells and proteins that defends the body against infection.
Balancing Hormones Naturally
Hormones are chemical messengers that carry information to cells. The sex hormones (estrogen, progesterone, testosterone) are responsible for growth, development and reproduction...
HAIR LOSS – WHAT CAUSES IT?
Hair is ‘fed’ by the blood vessels lying just beneath the scalp. Between starting to grow and falling out some years later, each hair passes through four stages: anagen, catagen,...
Stress Less
Being tired or fatigued is one of the most common complaints that healthcare practitioners hear from those who come to see them. The terms “adrenal fatigue” and “adrenal...
Sleep like a Baby
It has been said that ‘if sleep does not serve a vital function in the body and the evolutionary cycle – it is a colossal waste of time!’ Of course, sleep is vital to our...
Are Phytoestrogens part of the answer in Menopause?
Many menopausal women or those approaching in perimenopause, are suggested to take or add phytoestrogens to the diet to reduce many symptoms experienced in menopause. But what...
Managing Menopause
Menopause occurs when there is a marked decrease in the release of oestrogen and progesterone from the ovaries. The ovaries cease to produce an egg cell each month and therefore...