Healthy Shift Worker Episode 28: OK, so I had lots of fun this week as I had the pleasure of interviewing one of my former lecturer’s, Ananda Mahony, who is the Senior Lecture of Nutritional Medicine at Endeavour College of Health here in Brisbane. In addition to her...
Healthy Shift Worker Episode 23: Thanks to our crazy, sleep-deprived lifestyle the adrenal glands of shift workers, which are responsible for pumping out our stress hormones adrenalin and cortisol, are notorious for becoming burnt out. This is because we’re quite...
Healthy Shift Worker Podcast Episode 20: In this week’s episode, Audra chats with Dr Amy Reynolds from CQ University’s Appleton Institute in Adelaide, who in conjunction with researchers at the University of Chicago, is heading up a research study to identify if...
In the last 7 weeks or so, I’ve had the privilege of seeing lots of shift working clients in our student clinic here at Endeavour College of Natural Health in Brisbane. However I have to say, after seeing so many patients something has been left imprinted in my...
As the blaring sound of an alarm clock pierces the serene and tranquil silence of the bedroom, a fatigue riddled body stirs beneath the warmth and comfort of a beautiful, yet hidden sleep sanctuary – otherwise known as a doona. The body struggles to move, as...
