Health

Did you know that many supposed fresh foods from the supermarket and fruit shops have possibly dangerous doses of chemicals on them and some that are actually banned?

Have you noticed that there is an inherent hypocrisy in the arguments often put forward by people who oppose herbal medicine? This hypocrisy was beautifully ullustrated by the news item on research showing that the herb Tansy can be useful for treating herpes infections (http://www.wellbeing.com.au/latestnews). The same article also carried a warning that Tansy can […]

Nutritional therapy to aid male fertility needs to be taken for at least 4 months. Healthy sperm is the first step towards giving your child a good start.

How does someone work 20% less and make 40% more?

This quick story might resonate for you.

I met with a client recently who completely amazed me. Karen (not her real name) owns a big practice with a lot of staff, a great reputation and a very high turnover. When I first took her on as a client, she told me she was working over 100 hours per week, completely stressed out, extremely worried about her health, sick of micromanaging everything, and her relationship was under a lot of stress to go with it all.

Bottom line, she felt she was “spinning plates” and it was clear to me that either something had to change for her, or else…

no matter how big or powerful the study on statins and CVD they cannot show a benefit of more than around 1%. But the claim big numbers like 25-45%. The reason for such a big discrepancy is that they use relative risk not real risk. If 3 people die out of 100 on the statin […]

Cholesterol is not the public enemy that it has been made out to be it is one of the most essential nutrients in the body. The only reason we have demonised it is because there is a drug, statins, that can lower the levels. Yes they do lower the levels of cholesterol extremely well but […]

We now know the underlying cause of metabolic syndrome and diabetes and that they are lifestyle diseases. But we persist in treating them with drugs and giving these people lifestyle advice when it is already progressed after years of damage. The only difference between diabetes and prediabetes is really an arbitrary number. On one side […]

Do you suffer from allergies? Do joint pain and immune problems plague you throughout the whole year?

Foods rich in flavonoids, like berries and chocolate, reduce your risk of developing Parkinson’s Disease.

Your liver is a central organ when it comes to filtering your blood, processing nutrients and metabolising everything from drugs to pollutants to hormones. For all these reasons and more, your liver is critical to your detox.

Digestion is central to your body’s detoxification processes, so it’s important to consider how to keep your digestion at its best.

…it’s a common misconception amongst practitioners that to be successful you need to work hard – and this, as we have seen above, simply isn’t true. Often there is also a sense of martyrdom about the health profession – that somehow, somewhere down the track we will be recognized for our skills, our passion, for how much we have given of ourselves to patients with no expectation of reward. My advice in this case is simply not to hold your breath for this to occur! To be truly successful in our chosen field of health and wellness, we need to create for ourselves cumulative advantage.

We firstly need to “simply show up” – in other