COVID or no COVID, here comes Spring (and hayfever)
Hayfever is essentially an immune system response – so keeping healthy is about boosting your immune system. Its a win/win – helping avoid viral infections too.
HAYFEVER UPDATE: The power of probiotics
Spring is with us again – and that means it’s hayfever time. If your body has allergy reactions, then this recent research finding could be really useful for you to know about. New research has uncovered a novel approach to hayfever – one that which looks at restoring the normal balance between immune system cells…
How to manage (and maybe avoid) LONG COVID
COVID is a virus – and a particularly nasty one. Like other viruses, some unlucky people don’t recover fully. Instead they develop Post Viral Syndrome – whether the original bug was COVID, Epstein-Barr or other viral infections. So many people in so many places have had COVID – sometimes multiple times – that LONG COVID…
Caravanning with COVID
Yes – it happened to me. Despite our best efforts to self-protect, I got the bug. And on the last leg of our trip to Queensland while we were still in the caravan! I reckon it was from the amenities block where people were coughing and I couldn’t jump out of the shower quickly enough…
Minimise your glucose spikes to maximise your health
I find Jessie Inchauspé’s glucose spike management strategies easy to read, easy to understand AND to action.
Human needs – the view through the caravan door
We’re “on the wallaby” at the moment – travelling up the Australian east coast towing our temporary home (caravan) behind us. The weather is less than ideal, and the process has given us a whole new perspective on fundamental human needs. Some of you may have explored Maslow’s approach to human needs – that traditional…
Table Tennis is going outdoors in Monbulk
The Monbulk Table Tennis group made it through COVID and we’re back playing regularly. That’s great – it’s a game I love and it’s been a lovely way to have some fun and make friends. (And it’s why I founded the Monbulk Table Tennis Club in 2014.) And now we’re going outdoors, thanks to a…
Manage your migraine and headache pain with fewer painkillers
Natural and complementary therapies can be useful alternatives for both treating pain and for preventing migraine, tension-type headaches and headache pain. Headache disorders are common – nearly 2/3rds of adults are affected by repeated patterns of tension-type headaches. 2% of adults are victims of chronic migraine. Migraines severely disrupt the lives of sufferers and are…
Manage your arthritis better with the right supplements
Are you sick of the side effects of pain killers you take? do you have inflammation? (we all do to some extent!) NSAIDS (Ibuprofen, Voltaren, Naproxen etc) can cause stomach aches, diarrhoea, stomach ulcers, headaches, drowsiness, dizziness, increased blood pressure etc. NSAIDS can cause kidney failure when they are combined with ACE inhibitors (medicines used…
How conventional medications can impact your gut function
I’m a naturopath for a reason – and one of those reasons is that natural remedies have less side effects than the majority of industrially made pharmaceuticals. One of the less-known impacts of pharmaceuticals is that many of them impact your gut function. That’s why when we have a consultation I ask what your medications…
Moulds that matter after our La Nina summer
Torrential downpours the east coast of Australia caused devastation in NSW and Queensland. But it’s also been causing an abundance of mushrooms and moulds throughout the environment – from footpaths to broom cupboards. Some of these rapidly growing outdoor fungi are poisonous. Did you know that the indoor fungi also have harmful potential? The warm,…
Prepare to manage LONG COVID
COVID is a thoroughly nasty bug, causing inflammation everywhere from the brain to the gut. If you’re unlucky enough to end up with LONG COVID, there’s a whole raft of symptoms you could be experiencing – WITHOUT knowing that your problems are a result of COVID. Some of these are: And if you have these…