De-stress your health in 6 simple steps. November 2020 International Stress Awareness Week seems to be the culmination of the mother and father of a long and stressful year! I’m putting my hand up – I’m stressed out! And before long it’ll be December, Christmas, New Year and…. arggh! When...
3 ways to help your immune resilience. In the UK we’re now joining our friends from Europe and other parts of the world and entering another period of isolation, anxiety and uncertainty. And at this time of year (autumn/winter in the UK) this heralds a period of not only emotional but...
How to lose weight naturally – my #talkhealth interview with the talkhealth Partnership. talkhealth is a team of like-minded individuals, who are keen to provide the latest health information and support that is currently available. The team’s primary aim is to make health support easily accessible to everyone, offering interactivity between...
How I healed from arthritis. National Arthritis Week 2020 runs from 7-13 October and as I know from personal experience, it’s the biggest cause of pain and disability in the UK. In this post, I share how I healed from autoimmune arthritis with nutrition and lifestyle medicine. Around 10 million...
Action for Happiness is a movement of people committed to building a happier and more caring society. They want to see a fundamentally different way of life – where people care less about what they can get just for themselves and more about the happiness of others, something we seem...
I have been struggling with my weight for 20+years, tried all the usual routes SW, WW, low carb etc, I would lose weight only to put it all back on again. I’ve studied and read so many articles on nutrition, I thought I knew what to eat but still struggled...
Is COVID-19 An Innocent Bystander? Oh my goodness… what a thought! With anxiety running at an all-time high right now, we feel helpless, even powerless, in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic and its seemingly unstoppable trail of human destruction. In this excellent podcast, Dr Zach Bush explains in detail...
Breathing! It is the very first thing we do when we arrive in the world and the very last thing we do before we leave. It happens automatically 26,000 times a day without us even having to pay any attention to it, yet breathing is one of the only autonomic systems...
Immune Resilience Series #25: Human Connection, Covid-19 & Black Lives. I wonder if humankind has ever felt more vulnerable, alone, disconnected, misunderstood and unhappy? All these are factors which impact powerfully on our sense of self-worth and value, and also provoke a chronic and enduring stress response which depletes and...
Immune resilience #19: Vitamin D (aka Vitamin Sunshine). In light of COVID-19, health experts across the globe are advising us to pay attention to and bolster our vitamin D levels. Every single cell in our body – including our immune cells – contains receptors for vitamin D. Indeed, as early...
