Health Issues

November is Diabetes Awareness Month so we thought it would be timely to take a look at Insulin and more specifically, insulin resistance. Insulin is a hormone that plays a crucial role in regulating blood sugar levels in the body. However, sometimes the body may become resistant to the effects of insulin, resulting in a…

Our practitioners recently attended a day-long seminar focussing on ADHD. This is a presentation that we are seeing so much more commonly now in clinic, and we particularly have noticed a sudden rise in Adults presenting with Late-Diagnosed ADHD. ADHD has previously been thought of as a childhood condition, however awareness around adult ADHD is…

Have you recently gained weight around your belly and it’s really hard to lose? Stress and fat stored around the belly can often be a cycle of weight gain, inflammation and difficulty losing weight that is more complex than you might realise.  Stress belly is a term that describes the extra abdominal fat that accumulates as…

When organs and processes in our bodies aren’t working optimally – such as your thyroid, pancreas, brain, gut, liver, kidneys, adrenals, sex organs, heart and lungs – our bodies send us signals to say something is wrong. At first we might ignore these signals, until they get so extreme that we can’t ignore them anymore.…

“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…