Participating in flu season isn’t mandatory. In fact, it’s not recommended. Just because there’s a chill in the air doesn’t mean a bout of the flu or a cold is inevitable; even if you have pre-schoolers in your house! You can abstain from the so-called season through boosting your immune system naturally.The viruses that cause coughs, colds and flu, and even the opportunistic bacteria that...
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I’ve always loved to experiment on myself particularly in the area of health and human performance. Over a decade ago I found myself wearing several gadgets at the same time that each tracked various aspects of my life such as the number of steps I’d taken, my pulse, heart rate and how I slept. These gadgets, known as wearables, are all too common nowadays, but at...
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Much of modern medicine is guided by the germ theory of disease, a framework that led to the development of the first antibiotics in the 1940s. While credited with saving millions from once deadly infections, the current explosion in chronic conditions highlights the shortfall in this narrow view of what ails us and how to tackle it. The nearly forgotten model of terrain theory, proposed around...
Read MoreI was recently interviewed by the Nutrition Therapy Institute about the career opportunities in corporate wellness for their students and others with a background in nutrition.It was an engaging conversation and got me thinking about the typical corporate wellness professional who tends to have an HR background or perhaps a qualification in public health. Useful skills but not necessarily well suited to addressing the myriad...
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Just the fact I am recommending a pharmaceutical product is astounding. Despite growing up as the daughter of a pharmacist and my first job being counting pills in my Mum’s suburban pharmacy in England, I avoid pharmaceuticals wherever possible. I am an advocate of getting to the root cause of your problem and finding natural solutions to support your body in addressing it. Masking symptoms...
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Have you noticed the new pickleball craze popping up on former-tennis courts all over the country? Tennis used to be my game, my passion and my joy. I played at the club level in high school. But time took its toll on my body and eventually I only equated tennis with pain. I played occasionally, waiting months in between for the memory of the pain...
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I had been struggling with an underperforming thyroid for years. At my annual physicals the standard blood tests showed my TSH levels steadily rising well outside “normal” ranges. I exhibited many of the typical symptoms (we’ll get into below) and finally in 2020 my well-meaning doctor prescribed “Nature-throid” to be taken daily reassuring me it was “natural” as he knew my avoidance of all medications....
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The human body is not a machine. One way we know this is the more you use your body the better it works. Use-it-or-lose-it is a mantra to live by. You might have heard of knees, hips or discs wearing out but there is usually more going on than over-use. Toxic burden and/or a shortage of nutrients are likely the main culprits preventing your body secreting...
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