preventive health

When did you last get a health check-up? How is your hearing?

If our blood is impure as it courses through our body it affects every organ.

Just like we trust nutritionists and personal trainers to help us stay fit, we trust Hygienists to do the same with our mouths. I like to call Hygienists “dental fitness coaches”. They really are your personal trainers when it comes to having a healthy mouth and we are very proud to have one on our team!

Learning about your oral health and seeing a dental professional is an important part of your road to perfect health. Education and a trusting relationship with your dental team make all the difference. Dentistry, that not-so-sexy word, then becomes evocative of a certain cleanliness and confidence, a sense of ownership of your own health and only encouragement and support from those trained to look after you.

I just recently did a cleanse. It was a 10 day program with herbal capsules and a strict diet. That meant doing without all the things I have grown accustomed. Tea (sweet tea with milk), sugar, carbs, alcohol basically everything except fruit and veggies.

It has been found that a chemical in plastics and soap can affect insulin resistance and weight in men.

That strong coffee is making you a good candidate for a heart attack maybe – or worse.

With so much information on how to get healthy out there it becomes a bit of a maze as to what to do.

Did you know Lysine blocks Arginine, the amino acid required for replication of the Herpes Simplex virus? Therefore the diet to follow to keep this killer-of-love virus at bay is to eat a diet high in Lysine and low in Arginine

Did you know that if you don’t drink enough water it can affect your blood pressure in the long term and this can be the forerunner of many other illnesses?

Did you know you should drink about 1-2 litres of water daily?

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 […]