I don’t believe in diets. After all if we are eating a healthy diet and exercising we shouldn’t have a problem with managing our weight – right? Why is it – as we get older – the things we use to do to lose a few pounds are no...
Read MoreDr. Raphael Kellman has launched the Microbiome Medicine Summit to raise awareness about the importance of our relationship with micro-organisms living within our bodies and in our environment. His passion is truly inspiring and with so many respected and well-known guest speakers talking about new research and their own...
Read MoreSome 15 years ago I attended a seminar by Dr Steve Haltiwinger, a maverick U.S. doctor who had once specialised in a mental health clinic, one of several physicians in this facility. Disappointed with results, Dr Haltiwinger began experimenting with nutrients such as B12 and folic acid, much to...
Read MoreOxalates and oxalic acids are organic acids that can be measured in an OATS test and play a part in mitochondrial dysfunction, mineral deficiencies and gut dysbiosis. It can come from dietary sources, yeast or fungal infections, or cell metabolism, and can be the source of a lot of...
Read MoreIt seems like such a simple thing to do. Just close your eyes and go to sleep. But yet 20-50% of people (depending on demographics and age groups) experience less than 7 hours of sleep a night on a regular basis with 10% classified as chronic insomnia. This should...
Read MoreProblems with getting a good night’s sleep is something we encounter a lot in our clinic. Our stressful and busy lives, relationship problems, 24-hour society, constant stimulation, irregular sleeping patterns, shift work, poor diets, poor methylation, EMF effects and blood sugar problems all effect our quality of sleep. And...
Read MoreWhether we realize it or not, we are always in a survival response as part of our biological programming – the need to survive, is actually just a permanent characteristic of being human. It is our biological reality. It is that same ‘submerged’ cellular programming that is being acted...
Read MoreIn my practice this is not an uncommon symptom. I call it a symptom as it is part of a bigger process in the body and not a disorder on its own. And as with everything, there isn’t a one treatment for all. Laxatives, whether it be chemical-based or...
Read MoreAcid reflux or heartburn has always been treated as a condition of too much stomach acid when the opposite is in fact true. Bad eating habits formed over years such as eating on the run, eating when you’re stressed or stimulated, drinking during meals, eating highly processed/high carbohydrate/high fat...
Read MoreYou’re cranky, exhausted and you are having trouble concentrating and sleeping. Surely you are too young for menopause. Menopause is a term that we use in retrospect when a woman has been without a period for 12 months. The average age for menopause is 51.5 years but it can...
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