What is the Vagus Nerve? The vagus nerve provides a direct telephone line between your gut and...
What is the Vagus Nerve?
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What Makes a Healthy Gut
What Makes a Healthy Gut? The gut is a complex system, influenced by many factors that either...
What are Bach Flowers?
What are Bach Flowers? Bach Flowers are a set of 38 flower essences, developed in the early 1900’s...
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...
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 created toxins we are all exposed to. This process changes toxins into less harmful substances,...
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 to any of these components can create imbalances that can compromise gut function and lead...
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 brain and also releases blood sugar to power the big muscles in the legs, so we can either...
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 boomers’. However, metabolic conditions are seen from the teenage years onwards. Together with...
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 is vital to our physical health, with depression linked to other health concerns, like...
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 motivation fleeting? How do you align your health goals with your wishes and desires? The key...
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 sulphate / Magnesium glycinate / Magnesium amino acid chelate. Some magnesium forms break...
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 samples) and send it to a laboratory for testing. (Welcome to my world!) However, there are...
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 the slowest form of poison.” ― Ann Wigmore... and never a truer word was spoken, but even if...