Costa Women Meet … Lynne Parkin
With a mission to help women “embrace the menopause not fear it”, meet Lynne Parkin. With a love of all things ‘Gone with the Wind’ Read her story.
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Intermittent fasting – get started
Weight loss is the most common reason why people try intermittent fasting. By making you eat fewer meals, periodic fasting can lead to an automatic reduction in calorie intake. In addition, intermittent fasting hormone levels change and this makes it easier to achieve weight loss. In addition to lowering insulin and increasing growth hormone levels, …
A Collection of My 2020 Musings… For better & worse
What a year this has been… AND it all began with my Dad deciding to leave this world on my birthday January 22. I was dealing with this very abrupt physical separation as best I could, and then suddenly I was amidst a world wide pandemic, fear for the C-o-r-o-n-a V-i-r-u-s was sending our …
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After Birth Recovery Treatment
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 …
What Supplements Should I be Taking Now?
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 …
Post Cosmetic Surgery Recovery
When you choose to have a cosmetic procedure it is easy to forget that before you reach the beautiful “after” picture you have to undergo surgery. And all surgery, regardless of its aim, causes trauma and swelling and discomfort. Which doesn’t really fit into that beautiful “after” picture does it? Less swelling, less pain, faster …
Post Surgery Anti Inflammation Diet
In a recent newsletter I referenced this article talking about how our bodies interact with the food we eat. A quote that jumped out at me was: Recently recovering from a minor surgical procedure, the physician and author Siddhartha Mukherjee mused that he was able to turn to medicine for anti-inflammatories and antibiotics targeted to his recovery from the …
Battling the Perimenopausal Bulge
I set myself a challenge in 2019 to do a 365-day running streak. On New Year’s Day I pulled on my trainers with a goal of running a minimum of one mile each day for a year. By the end of January I’d clocked up 102 miles so readjusted my goal to do 100 miles …
The importance of Private Air Conditioned Treatment Rooms
It’s funny isn’t it the things you take for granted. Things that are so obvious to you that it never occurs to you that someone else might feel differently. Things like privacy, patient comfort, medical confidentiality, personalised treatment. UK Training In the UK where I trained and worked for many years, physiotherapy occurred 1 on …
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Frozen Shoulder – What to do now
Sadly this version has no princesses or catchy tunes! But with a bit of help you can “Let it go” (sorry I couldn’t help myself!). Adhesive Capsulitis This is when the “capsule” that surrounds the shoulder joint becomes stiff and tense (adhesion). So the shoulder joint becomes “frozen” and painful to move. With 3 bones, …