Are you looking at your health as if through a set of binoculars? Are you relying on one area of medicine to keep you healthy? Achieving optimal health doesn’t occur when we focus on one thing. It’s a bit like driving a car with the handbrake on as we’re unable to see...
We hear it time and time again. We need to keep our cholesterol levels down. But is low cholesterol a good thing? Despite the hype that it’s a bad thing, it’s actually needed for: -optimal brain function-the synthesis of vitamin D-the formation or...
Okey dokey. Hands up if you eat at your desk?? Shift workers are notorious for having gut issues for a myriad of reasons, but before sending you off to complete a heap of tests or writing a script to take some pills – has your health practitioner ever asked you...
When we work 24/7, we tend to eat 24/7 which can lead us on a downward spiral of all sorts of health complaints over the long-term. This is because our innate timing system, or circadian clock, is essentially switched to the ‘ON’ position for a very long time. Have...
There is a myriad of drugs that can affect our sleep, some of which include beta-blockers (prescribed for high blood pressure), selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors or SSRI’s (a type of antidepressant) and, ironically, even some which are designed to enhance sleep...
