Slow bowels? Only pooping every few days? Are you also noticing? Heavy painful periods Swollen tender breasts Increased body fat on hips and thighs Headaches/migraines Mood swings creating irritability or impatience Did you know your slow bowel movements could be creating these signs of estrogen dominance? When your body is done with the estrogen it …
Balancing Hormones with Vitamin D
As a nutritionist and a chiropractor, I talk with many women in pain and struggling with hormonal issues. Nutritional sufficiencies are key to hormonal health, inflammation control, and whole-body health. If you don’t feed your body with the nutritional building blocks it requires to perform its daily functions it cannot expect it to work optimally! …
Breaking free of stress
I see a lot of female clients that are stressed! This stress causes an imbalance of hormones creating a cascade of side effects including weight-loss resistance, frazzled brain, inability to focus, lethargy, sugar and coffee cravings, exhaustion, anxiety, and many other symptoms. When these amazing women try to address the symptoms they get nowhere. They …
Slow metabolism? – How lifting weights can help.
“I have a slow metabolism” A phrase I have caught myself saying and hear often from my clients. What does it mean? What is metabolism really? How does it affect your weight? I have often felt I have a slow metabolism. I have decided that if a famine hit Australia, I would be fine. My …
Wellness Care – How does Chiropractic help?
What is Wellness? Is it just a fancy word for feeling good, or a hippy term for spiritual enlightenment? Dictionary.com says wellness is: noun the quality or state of being healthy in body and mind, especially as the result of deliberate effort. an approach to healthcare that emphasizes preventing illness and prolonging life, as opposed …
4 tips to a healthy Christmas – without compromising on the fun factor
Christmas and all its feasting will soon be upon us. Getting through the Christmas season without feeling bloated, frumpy, or like you are about to explode, can be quite a challenge. But today I am going to help you succeed and enjoy the silly season with all its fun and frivolity! My top …
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Morning Rituals – how to set your day up for success
IMAGINE THIS… The alarm goes off, beep, beep, beep. It hurts your ears. You press snooze. Just 5 more minutes so that you can wake up refreshed! But to no avail, the alarm goes off again in 5 minutes, beep, beep, beep. No still not refreshed. But this time you know that if you don’t …
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5 Tips to Better Quality Sleep
For thousands of years the cycle of wake and sleep was dictated by the sun. The light enabled activity and safety and the darkness was a time to hide away, rest, recoup and recover from the hard work of the day. This is the basis of our human genome. We are wired to sleep several …
The Dangers of a Sedentary Lifestyle
I often talk about the benefits of movement, I generally like to focus people on the positives of behaviour change. That’s just me. I like to look at the happy and positive side of life! But sometimes we need to hear the truth. The truth about the lack of movement is that it kills. The …
Do I need to exercise?
I have been working through my own “Thrive After 35” program leading up to Christmas. In this program, there are 4 main pillars of health building to get women over 35 feelings fantastic in their own skin again. One of the pillars is movement. Moving our bodies is vital for health. As a chiropractor who works with …
I Don’t Follow the Traditional Food Pyramid
Can you think of a time when you couldn’t find any food to buy or eat? Believe it or not, a little over 100 years ago, there were a lot of people in Australia who didn’t have enough to eat. Food was not widely available. There weren’t multiple grocery stores in every town, and they …
Feeling Forgetful – especially since the Pandemic?
I have caught myself in the last few days and weeks walking into a room and having no idea why I am there. Was I getting a jumper? (nope, not cold) Was I getting a pen? (nope, it’s already in my hand) Was it to get a phone recharger? (nope, forgotten where I even put …