by Audra Starkey | Jan 10, 2018 | De-stress, HSW, Podcast
Healthy Shift Worker Podcast: Over the past 2 years or so of recording podcast episodes, I’ve occasionally mentioned the words ‘sympathetic dominance’, as it’s a condition that I quite often see in many of my patients who work 24/7, in particular those who struggle to...
by Audra Starkey | Dec 19, 2017 | Nutrition, Recipes
These Lime, Coconut and Date Christmas Balls are perfect for sensitive tummies on night-shift, and also make for a nice change to the regular “Cacao Protein Ball” recipes that we see flooded on the Internet, not to mention the caffeine in the cacao can...
by Audra Starkey | Jul 12, 2017 | De-stress, Nutrition
As a shift worker plagued by exhaustion, I’m pretty sure you will remember a time when you experienced digestive discomfort whether that’s in the form of bloating, stomach pain or nausea, and it was most likely during a night shift, or soon after getting up for an...
by Audra Starkey | Jun 14, 2017 | HSW, Podcast
Healthy Shift Worker Podcast Episode: As shift workers, we certainly understand how working irregular hours causes havoc on our sleep, but something most of us don’t even think about, is how our home environment may be disrupting our sleep. In this episode I chat with...
by Audra Starkey | Oct 19, 2016 | HSW, Nutrition, Podcast
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...
