Eating For Immunity: Eating healthy foods during the winter season or while you are sick can help speed up your recovery and may help you stay better longer. While sick, it’s important to give your digestive system a break by eating easily digestible, nutrient-dense foods. Here are a few ideas to get started… Start with […]
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Your 9-Step Immune Support Guide
Winter in Sydney might not bring snow, but the cooler temperatures and shorter days can still take a toll on your immune system. Prevention is key to staying healthy during the colder months, as it helps reduce the likelihood of illnesses and ensures your body is better equipped to handle seasonal challenges. To keep colds, […]
The Importance of Sleep for Recovery and Well-being
Sleep is one of the most powerful tools for recovery and overall well-being, yet it’s often overlooked. Whether you’re dealing with stress, muscle fatigue, or simply trying to function at your best, quality sleep is essential. It plays a critical role in physical repair, mental clarity, and nervous system regulation. But what exactly happens when […]
Collagen: Your New Best Friend for Skin, Joints, and Gut Health
Collagen is a major component of the human body, accounting for about 30% of total body protein, it is crucial for Mobile joints Stable bones Healthy muscles Strong ligaments and tendons Skin, hair and healthy fingernails. Collagen is one of the primary structural proteins of connective tissue. It makes up connective tissue like skin, tendons, […]
The Role of Nutrition in Sports Injury Recovery
Injuries are a common but unfortunate part of sports and exercise participation. The nature and severity of an injury will dictate the recovery and rehabilitation time, and protocols followed. Muscle mass, strength and function are lost quickly when injuries result in reduced movement or immobilisation, and this can also lead to unwanted weight gain. While […]
Acupuncture for your pregnancy journey
Complementary and alternative therapies became popular for the pregnancy journey because they include natural ingredients but are less invasive. Traditional Chinese herbal medicine combined with acupuncture treatment can be a pampering experience for women who are planning to have a baby and also for health restoration after having a baby. A healthy pregnancy journey can […]
Chronic lifestyle disease a Naturopathic approach
Chronic lifestyle disease is a broad term that covers a number of preventable diseases/conditions including obesity, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, metabolic syndrome, fatty liver disease, arthritis, eczema, back pain, osteoporosis, kidney disease and several cancers. Sadly 3 in 5 (60%) Australians over 65 years of age have more than 1 of the above […]
Five dietary swaps to help you reduce the risk of chronic lifestyle disease
What are chronic lifestyle diseases? Chronic diseases are long-term diseases, which are largely preventable. Chronic diseases are the leading cause of illness, disability and death in Australia. To simplify, chronic disease is often discussed in terms of 4 major disease groups—cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and diabetes. An unhealthy lifestyle, characterized by […]
How does Acupuncture Work (Part 2)
Following up on my previous blog on the local mechanisms of acupuncture, here we will discuss how acupuncture affects the bio-chemistry in the brain. What does this mean? Think of the acupuncture needle as the nail in Frankinstein’s head (but less painful or scary). Let out the happiness For most of us, what do we […]
Fatty Liver Disease
The occurrence of many so-called lifestyle diseases appears to be increasing, and all are troubling. One such disease is Fatty Liver Disease which occurs in both older and young adults, and it is unfortunately now being diagnosed in children. What does the liver do? The liver’s main functions are removing toxins and processing food nutrients. […]
Hamstring injuries
Hamstring strains happen when any of the large muscles or its tendons at the back of your leg is stretched beyond what it can withstand. Strains of your hamstring can be very painful and are fairly common in sports activities requiring the athlete to forcefully accelerate, such as running, football, rugby and basketball. As I […]
Detoxing with Pamela Nelson
After the festive season it’s a great idea to reboot your body with a detox which is a health reset focused on healing and regenerating your digestive tract. Detoxing is not just about your diet, it must also address physical, emotional, spiritual and mental issues to achieve overall good health. Eating only whole, clean foods […]
Acupuncture and Inflammation
Inflammation is commonly a response to some form of injury or trauma. The idea behind inflammation is to flood the injury site with white blood cells, natural killer cells, etc to help clear the site from foreign debris or pathogens, in order to promote healing. But with all these extra cells in a location where […]
A Naturopaths top tips to aging well
When I began researching and reading in preparation for writing this blog, the news I stumbled across on aging was all rather sad. My textbooks describe the aging process as senescence – ‘the deteriorative changes with time during postmaturational life that underlie increasing vulnerability to challenges, thereby decreasing the ability of the organism to survive’. […]
