Are you sick of making the same resolutions year in year out? With the New Year just around the corner, we usually make resolutions with a willingness to improve our lives. But can we learn from previous years and do somethings differently this year to bring wellness in our lives, that would stick through the […]
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Our bodies gradually slow down as we get older. As a result, women make less and less of the two sex hormones, oestrogen and progesterone, and many suffer unpleasant or distressing symptoms such as: hot flushes, night sweats, loss of libido, headaches and mood changes. This process takes years and can be characterised into three
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Because a Functional medicine Health coach, will consider several factors, including: Environmental inputs – The air you breathe and the water you drink, the diet you eat, the quality of the food you have available, your level of physical activity and toxic exposures or traumas you have experienced all affect your health. Body – mind
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Doctor John Lee – who was he? I write about him quite often in my articles, blogs, and social media posts. But have you ever wondered why? I support women who change the world and empower us, collaborate with them, and work with them, but not often do I include men in this
A microbe, or microscopic organism, is a living thing that is too small to be seen with the naked eye. This general term is used to describe bacteria, fungi, yeast, and viruses, to name a few. A microbiome is the collection of the microbes living in a given community, like the intestines in the human
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Taking a Holistic Approach to Hormone Balance For many women worldwide menopause produces majorly intrusive symptoms. 80% of women experience some kind of symptom, 50% of them express some emotional disturbance, loss of libido, vaginal dryness, anxiety depression, and brain fog. Just to mention a few of the most common issues. How does
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Giving birth may be a wonderful experience but it is without a doubt, one of the hardest things you will ever ask your body to do. And it comes after 9 months of your body doing extraordinary things and undergoing extraordinary changes. The hormones released during pregnancy, birth and the period directly after giving birth
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Dietary Considerations During Menopause A large portion of meat, chicken, and dairy products contain foreign estrogens that are used to add weight and monetary value to animals in our food chain and at the expense of our health. There are, however, “good” estrogens available in our food supply. By replacing animal proteins with saponin-rich plant
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Diet and migraine are inextricably linked aren’t they? Most migraine patients have at least one food that it feels like they only have to look at to trigger a migraine. Often, in reality, the relationship can be more complicated than that – an overstressed system takes the smallest trigger to over react and, by reducing
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Hello fellow Costa Women! As a Nutritional Therapist I am frequently asked about what supplements I recommend to help keep the body in tip-top condition during the colder months. Not only are we more likely to catch a cold or the flu at this time of year, but we now have the ubiquitous
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