Health

Your attitude to ageing determines your chances of developing dementia.

The key to homeopathic potency selection boils down to finding the susceptibility of our patient. What factors determine the susceptibility? Susceptibility depends on the following factors: Nature of the Constitution – Age; children or older, Physical Constitution and Psychological temperament. Is the patient sensitive, quick to act and react? or are they sluggish, dull, and […]

Coffee drinking lowers your risk of developing Alzheimer’s Disease.

Did you know that if it shows up in a blood test that you are anaemic it can cause you serious health problems? A deficiency in iron is just the start of it.

Omega-3 fats from fish oil can help prevent heart failure.

Junk food is more appealing when you are sleep deprived.

Echinacea angustifolia has become a popular medicine used by alternative therapists and the general public for ‘strengthening’ the immune system or for conditions related to immune dysfunction such as colds, flu, and susceptibility to infections. In the past it was a medicine known for its use in treating such conditions as typhoid, diphtheria, malignant scarlatina, […]

Cancer patients benefit from taking American Ginseng.

In a recent study this month researchers found that fungus plays an important part in inflammatory diseases such as ulcerative colitis. Cedars-Sinai’s Inflammatory Bowel and Immunobiology Research Institute found that the fungi in the large intestine were a model for the disease.

  I’m just back from holidays. My first business email says welcome back to the rat race – is it?  I then read my horoscope. It forecasts issues at work and direction changes. I gasped! That’s all I need coming back from holidays. Then I realised I was reading the wrong sign and didn’t feel […]

The neurotransmitter dopamine can be the difference in how hard you are willing to work.

Recently, we have been hearing renewed calls for decriminalization of certain illicit drugs and an old debate of whether all drugs should be legal or not continues. Cannabis is the most commonly used drug in Australia (about 40 percent of Australians over the age of 14 have tried cannabis), so in this blog we are highlighting how prolonged cannabis use affects oral health.