Simple lifestyle and dietary changes can go a long way to improving, or even reversing, ill-health, chronic and autoimmune conditions. Achieving true health is a journey, not a destination, and every journey must start with a single step. Making fundamental changes to our established and ingrained routines is not always...
World Menopause Day takes place on 18th October, and far from menopause being down-the-hill-time, our midlife is our prime-time. Menopause is a time to embrace our wisdom, share our gifts with confidence and to step forward courageously to make the rest of life, the best of life for ourselves and...
“Stress is not a state of mind… it’s measurable and dangerous, and humans can’t seem to find their off-switch” – Neurobiologist Robert Sapolsky in the documentary Stress: Portrait of a Killer. The International Stress Awareness Week (5 – 9 November) highlights the impact that chronic stress has on...
The UK Government has decided that flour in the UK is to be fortified with folic acid after ministers were convinced by their health advisers that it would reduce the risk of babies developing spina bifida and other conditions that involve severe disability or death. Well, sadly this is NOT...
If you’re under 50, make Breast Cancer Awareness Month a time to get breast cancer aware NOW and learn how you can reduce your risk. 54,900 NEW cases; one in SEVEN women; one in FIVE under 50 For those of us under 50, the least of our worries may be about breast...
Vitamin D is, quite literally, on the tip of everyone’s tongue these days and research is giving us plenty on the pros (and the cons) of supplementing D. But why should women be particularly concerned to track their D? Although vitamin D has become a hot topic, many of today’s conventional clinicians receive...
