by Audra Starkey | Mar 5, 2015 | Nutrition
As a shift work veteran and student of nutritional medicine I’ve certainly begun to understand the connection between nurturing your body with nutritious food as a way to help a fatigue-riddled body feel somewhat “normal”. But is getting enough sleep and eating the...by Audra Starkey | Oct 20, 2014 | De-stress, Sleep
Now I’m going to show my age again here, but when I first started shift work nearly 20 years ago I desperately needed help with my fatigue. So much so I decided to spend an entire week at a Health Retreat in the beautiful hinterland region of the Gold Coast in...by Audra Starkey | Oct 8, 2014 | Mindset
As I write this post, somewhere in the world right now it’s the middle of the night and even though most are sound asleep and tucked into bed, there will be someone, somewhere – working. In fact there are literally millions of people on the planet who work...by Audra Starkey | Jan 21, 2014 | Movement
Is working shift work harder than playing a game of tennis? Probably, but not if you asked the players currently competing in the Australian Open in Melbourne right now. With a week of record temperatures (4 days of over 40 degrees), even the world’s best are...by Audra Starkey | Sep 14, 2013 | Nutrition
Well here it is, my post early shift hangover cure (not to be confused with the alcoholic-beverage-type-hangover cure of course), just the “sleep-deprivation hangover” cure thanks to a 0415am start this morning! Ahhhh … as a fellow shift worker I can...