Are you trying to achieve and maintain a healthy weight or perhaps improve your health via your diet? Despite your best efforts, are you struggling with those sneaky snacks that creep into your diet? Most of us (including this naturopath) have been there at some stage. Standing at the cupboard or the fridge, looking for … Read more
Holidays are one of life’s great pleasures and absolutely essential for your health. They are an opportunity to rest and rejuvenate, to stimulate your senses with new sights, sounds, smells and flavours. They are a change of routine and a much-needed opportunity to spend some essential time outdoors. A good holiday is great for reducing … Read more
We may have survived a pandemic but that doesn’t mean we should overlook the everyday viral or bacterial infections. As winter approaches, you might want to show your immune system a bit of love beyond hand-washing or mask-wearing. Beating those winter bugs Over the next few months, we will be exposed to increased levels of bacteria … Read more
A few of my naturopathy clients lately have been asking me why they have a string of good days (and they think everything is behind them) but then maybe a bad day or two. I’ve also had clients who might recover from a virus but then will have days when they feel like their symptoms … Read more
Clients come to me for naturopathic advice and help for their symptoms or their diagnosed complaint. It’s my job to work backwards with the goal of identifying the factor or factors that may have caused their symptoms in the first place and anything that might still be contributing to or exacerbating their problems. Often, but … Read more
You’ve probably seen the advertisements encouraging you to take a probiotic for good inner health. You may have even tried a probiotic supplement (perhaps with success or maybe not). And if you’ve ever looked at the number of different products available it would be no surprise if you have ended up very confused as to … Read more
Our lungs are part of our detoxification system. Like our liver, bowel, kidneys, lymphatic system and skin, our lungs filter out toxins. At the moment, with the bushfires across Australia our lungs are being exposed to some pretty nasty toxins and they are working overtime. We can do our best to minimise our exposure to … Read more
Do you regularly check in with your body to assess and monitor your health? As a naturopath, once I have worked with my clients to address the underlying issues which brought them to me in the first place, our focus shifts to ongoing monitoring of their overall health and wellness on a periodic basis. This … Read more
Ladies, let me get to the point. I want to talk today about how to look after your internal and external genitalia. It concerns me that too many girls and women do not understand how to do this. Either they have never been taught, have forgotten or have become confused by flashy marketing designed to … Read more
Spring is definitely on our door step now. I can see the green returning to the trees along the Yarra. Do you enjoy eating with the seasons? It can be a challenge sometimes, especially as the major supermarkets work hard to keep their shelves stocked with our favourite fruits and vegetables all year round….sometimes to … Read more