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Navigating the Shifting Tides: Hormones, Perimenopause, and the Grief of Change

Navigating the Shifting Tides: Hormones, Perimenopause, and the Grief of Change As women, we are beautifully cyclical beings, and our hormones are the quiet conductors of this rhythm. From puberty to pregnancy and finally to perimenopause and menopause, we are...
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Change Your Behaviours, You can Change Your Life

Change Your Behaviours, You can Change Your Life Ever wished some aspect off your life was different? Your weight? Your mood? The way you view the world? The news flash is, only you have the power to make things different! Embarking on the journey to break bad habits...
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10 Healthy Morning Habits to Boost Energy and Well-being

Healthy Morning Habits How you start your day can set the tone for everything that follows. Waking up feeling refreshed and ready to tackle your goals is something we all aspire to, but it doesn't happen by accident. A positive morning routine not only helps you feel...
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Tips for staying active in winter

Embracing Winter Wellness: A Naturopathic Guide Discover how to stay healthy and vibrant through the winter months with these naturopathic strategies for boosting immunity, staying active, and supporting mental well-being. Strengthening the Immune System for Winter...
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The Best Food Prep, Cooking and Storage Ideas 

The Best Food Prep, Cooking and Storage Ideas Cooking methods Different food preparation and cooking methods can alter the nutrient content we derive from our food, and some have also been shown to be associated with the creation of certain carcinogens that are...
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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 raw. Tahi­ni has a unique abil­i­ty to main­tain its char­ac­ter while adapt­ing to...
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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 found in the blood and soft tissue. Calcium is important for a wide range of population...
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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. We all have a diurnal rhythm or circadian rhythm, and when we eat what we eat, can have a...
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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 from your gut microbes and communicates this from the gut to the CNS (i.e., the brain)–...
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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 enhance GI health or impinge on our digestive function. Disruptions to any of these components create imbalances that can compromise gut function and lead to disease...
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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 Flowers is a combination of 5 remedies, called Rescue Remedy- Cherry Plum / Clematis / Impatiens...
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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.   Soluble fibre which soaks up water like a sponge and helps to bulk out our stool (poo)...
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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 found that the nutritional composition of processed gluten–free food items may include high...
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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 perceive these emotions as chronic stress, and our brains release the hormone cortisol,...
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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 ‘normal’ eating followed by 2 days of ‘fasting’ with an intake of only 500kcal for women and...
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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 also have oestrogen receptors in a variety of nonreproductive tissues too. Most notably we...
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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 great snacks too) and they have a high-water content, so they help with our hydration! Do...
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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 organs. Our bones are also a store of minerals, such as calcium and phosphorous, which...
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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,...
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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...
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Are Phytoestrogens part of the answer in Menopause?

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 are phytoestrogens? And why would they help? What are the benefits? Are there any side...

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Managing Menopause

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 periods cease, this is an important trigger for the onset of menopause. Menopause usually...

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