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Is your gut leaking?

Leaky Gut Syndrome is one of many diseases that results from chronic inflammation. Poor gut health and inflammatory bowel diseases can be significant causes.  Identified by naturopaths more than 25 years ago, leaky gut syndrome has now been recognised by the medical profession as Gut Permeability. Gut Health is Connected to All Aspects of Your … Read more

A social drink or an addiction?

Addiction and Epigenetics – An Inheritable Disease? Why are humans drawn to a multitude of substances and behaviours?   It has become increasingly apparent that chronic substance abuse involves adaptations that are both genetic and epigenetic affecting our brain reward circuitry its limbic and cognitive regions.  A growing amount of literature is emerging in the field … Read more

Is acidity making you sick?

How our lives have changed                                      100,000 generations:  hunters and gatherers                                            500 generations:   introduction of agriculture                                              10 generations:   industrial times                                                 2 generations:   eating highly processed foods While our lifestyles have changed, our genes do … Read more

Brain Inflammation

Brain inflammation has been linked to long-term neurodegenerative diseases such as dementia, so it’s important to understand the link between diet and brain health. When it comes to your diet, how much attention do you pay to eating to keep your brain healthy? Diet and Brain Inflammation Continually eating the wrong things can lead to … Read more

Mould & fungal toxins

Mycotoxins are some of the most prevalent toxins in the environment. Mycotoxins are metabolites produced by fungi like mould, which can infest buildings, vehicles, and foods. A majority of mycotoxin exposures are through food ingestion or airborne exposure. In the European Union, 20% of all grains harvested have been found to be contaminated with mycotoxins. … Read more

Magnesium deficiency – 8 signs

The Challenge of Magnesium Deficiency Review these 8 commons signs of magnesium deficiency to see if they sound familiar… Headaches From slight passing tension to intense migraines, headaches can indicate low magnesium levels. This is because magnesium is essential for muscle relaxation and cellular function. Muscle pain and cramps Muscle pain and cramping can arise for … Read more

Is it Time to Give Your Body a Holistic Cleanse?

Article written and submitted by Anne Graham Everyone is guilty of overdoing it sometimes: working too hard, not getting enough sleep, or overindulging with the food and drink that you are using to fuel your body. When you are run down and need to rejuvenate, your body has a range of subtle ways of letting you know. … Read more

Hormones: more than just reproduction

When talk turns to hormones, most people think reproduction, monthly cycle, moods or the wife/girlfriend from hell. Truth is that our hormones are involved in a multitude of functions in the body. Most of these go unnoticed, at least until things get out of whack. At the heart of every woman’s health is her hormonal … Read more

The importance of a healthy body clock

The following article was written and submitted by Anne Graham These days, we seem to think that we can manipulate our bodies into doing whatever we want. Stay awake all night? Fine, we’ll bombard our brains with caffeine. Sleep when we’re not tired? No problem, there’s a pill for that. Lose weight? Easy peasy, you simply … Read more

Nourish your cells

Most vitamins were found, described and synthesized in the first part of the 20th century. In the sixties, biochemist and psychiatrist Dr. Abram Hoffer theorized – and proved in practice – that  He founded the Journal of Schizophrenia, later renamed Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine. Ortho means “right”, so the term orthomolecular means to set things straight on a … Read more