Health Issues

“Sleep dispenses a multitude of health-ensuring benefit, yours to pick up in repeat prescription every 24 hrs should you choose” – Matthew Walker This is my new favourite topic – a patient of mine put me onto a book called:  Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker:  what a cracker of a book it is! By…

Essential fatty acids or EFAs are polyunsaturated fatty acids that cannot be made in the body which is why it is essential that we ingest them through the diet or supplementation. There are two families of EFA’s omega-3 and omega-6. Incidentally Omega 9 fatty acids can be produced by the body so dietary ingestion is…

Although we, as a society, are slowly moving away from the narrative of ‘cut calories, exercise more to lose weight’, we still often see patients feeling discouraged that they are doing just that and are still unable to reach their target weight and feel comfortable in their body. When patients are not losing weight they…

While your body needs small amounts of some heavy metals, such as iron, copper, manganese, selenium and zinc, to function effectively, your health is at risk if these accumulate to an excessively high level. In this article we’ll take a look at the heavy metal toxicity symptoms you should be aware of, how you could…

High Stomach Acid/ Reflux/ Indigestion/ discomfort or burning pain in your sternum – we’ve all experienced that nasty symptom at some point but are you sure it was due to high stomach acid? Did you know that low stomach acid can cause similar symptoms?   By Caren Wigmore ND. Patients are often really surprised when I…

There is nothing I love more about my job, than getting a set of test results back for a patient confirming my suspicion and suddenly everything makes so much sense about why they are feeling the way they are! It excites me to be able to dig to the deepest cellular biochemical pathway to truly…

Author: Caren Wigmore ND Not much is said about Perimenopause – the gradual change (or not so gradual for some) from a regular cycle to cessation of them.  The symptoms might be mild or significant – on the mild side it often starts off like this:  a patient will tell me:  “I’m just not losing…

Melatonin is a hormone secreted by our pineal gland which plays a role in your natural sleep-wake cycle.  The production of this important hormone is affected by light/dark cycles as well as cortisol. Light can either suppress or synchronize melatonin production depending on our exposure. Melatonin should be at its highest level at night 4…