My Favourite Minerals
In my business, we get well known for using herbal medicines and vitamin supplements. What is often neglected are the minerals which are essential for supporting how we function. These are a few of...
Category: Immunity
Hayfever: seasonal rhinitis and bane of springtime
Hayfever Management: Allergies: Allergies occur as the immune system becomes sensitive to protein in the environment, such as dust mites, pollen, moulds or animal dander. Long term allergies may act to exacerbate underlying chronic...
Podcast recommendations for Longevity
Ageing: how to live longer and feel better for longer. Nothing like covering the big topics in one post! Something which I discuss with a lot of patients, once we have got on top...
Recommended Podcasts: Sleep
Sleep and how to achieve it, and the best podcasts in which to learn more about it, as enjoyed by Eve Armytage.
Grief: how to survive and support
In this modern society, we have very poor coping strategies for grief. We can write a letter of condolence, send flowers, drop over a casserole, but face to face, often we freeze. Rather than...
Immunity support for this winter.
What I am seeing most in clinic at the moment: I am seeing a lot of people with post-covid fatigue – that dragging feeling of not feeling sick, but of feeling far from recovered. ...
The end of 2021.
Who else has found this year difficult? I am hearing more sense of exhaustion and anxiety this year than last. It’s not that last year wasn’t a challenge, more that this year has been...
Iron – Requirements and Supplementation
Red blood cells are the most numerous cells in the body, and we make around 200 billion daily. To do this, we use around 20-25mg of iron. This means that we need available iron...
Taking one for the community
As a naturopath, most people assume that I am against vaccination. Personally, I believe that vaccination is a very personal issue and prefer to educate my patients on making their own choices, but note...
My Experience with Covid-19
It’s been a year since I got Covid-19. I got it very early on in the process, and was well aware where I got it from. Whilst there was a lot of negativity in...