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Could there be a link between food and non-digestion-related health concerns? Eating trigger foods drives up inflammation and can disrupt the gut environment which may then itself become inflamed. Gut inflammation is highly correlated with autoimmunity. If there is one thing you can do to make the biggest impact and start your healing journey right […]
Although it can be easier to take a tablet or a supplement, there are some lifestyle habits we can adopt to manage our own health. This is all the more important in our current environment when we are more aware of maintaining strong immunity, and when some of us have either lost jobs or have […]
Candida or yeast overgrowth (sometimes called “thrush”) is a very common condition most often experienced by women. It can be very itchy, often around the sensitive genital area, and sometimes smelly and always unpleasant. Here are ten common Candida symptoms: Seasonal Allergies or itchy ears and skin Low Energy, Fatigue & Malaise Digestive Problems such […]
A client came to see me this week with systemic inflammation – medically diagnosed fibromyalgia and autoimmune conditions were the background. We had come to a well-managed state – no pain, and sleep had returned to a normal cycle. But just before lockdown he was moving some heavy objects and sustained a shoulder injury. He […]
So often we are dismissive of our state of health – “It’s only a cold”, or “it’s just stress”. But without scaremongering or becoming hypochondriac, it is not wise to brush these things off. Why did we catch that cold? Is our immune system flat or overwhelmed? Did we allow a prolonged cool […]
The explosion of the Covid-19 pandemic has affected everyone on this planet, whether it is one extreme of contracting the virus and suffering secondary infections and hospitalisation or whether it is simply living through it in various levels of lockdown. What is clear among the confusion is that our leaders, medical and political and business, […]
I have been concerned about the knock-on effects of the Alert Levels 4 & 3 lockdown on our general immunity. We hear our PM and her leadership group saying how well we are containing SARS-Cov-2 by “staying home and saving lives”, and we have also heard the Ministry of Health exclaiming how low our numbers […]
Even if you have not had Covid-19 yourself, or if you have and you are in recovery, your life will have been touched in some way by the pandemic. Some of us find it harder than others, and may experience anxiety as a result of the stress. And anxiety in itself can be stressful! Herbal […]
We know when we are anxious & stressed. Whether we are conscious of it or not, our sympathetic nervous system is on high alert. That means that we’re not breathing fully. We’re not expanding our lungs, our heartbeat is going too fast, our blood pressure’s elevated, and we are releasing those stress hormones. Our […]
We may not be out of the woods yet (in NZ), but there seems to be glimpses of the open meadow on the path ahead. I think we can take heart that we may be over the hump, but as our leaders tell us, this is not a time to be complacent. One health-conscious action […]
