nutrition
Magnesium: THE essential mineral for your health
Have you ever been recommended by your therapist to have an Epsom salt bath as part of your recovery? This is because it contains magnesium, an essential macro mineral for...
Heart Awareness Month
With Valentine’s day being in the middle of February, it is rather appropriate that it is also the month assigned to raise awareness of heart-related issues. In the U.K., on...
Don’t give up on your dreams, sleep longer!
We all love to sleep, don’t we? There’s nothing quite like climbing into bed, fresh sheets, snuggling up under the covers and dozing off into the land of nod. However,...
How to reduce stress with supplements
Stress awareness day is coming up and there are so many articles written about stress and how to manage it. It is a massive subject and very individual but cortisol...
Prebiotics, Probiotics, Microbiomes – What does it all mean?
We are not alone! The average human body contains approximately 30-40 trillion cells, but also about 40 trillion microorganisms including bacteria, fungi and viruses. In fact, there are so many...
Alzheimer’s Disease – Positive things you can do
Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia in the UK. Dementia is the name for a group of symptoms associated with an ongoing decline of brain functioning. It can affect memory,...
Blood Pressure Awareness
What is important and what can you do if you want to try to avoid medication. Scientists are not sure why hypertension (high blood pressure – BP) happens although diet,...
Beating migraine naturally
Migraine is a leading cause of disability worldwide, and in the UK alone, some 86 million workdays are lost to the condition every year. Besides severe headaches, symptoms also include...
Psoriasis – Can you help your symptoms with a natural approach?
Psoriasis is thought to be caused by an over-responsive immune system. When the immune system functions properly, a highly complex collection of processes work together as our first line of...
Diabetes – what are the risks and what can you do about it?
Diabetes is a condition where there is no insulin, not enough insulin or there is insulin resistance. We all need insulin to live. It does an essential job. Glucose in...
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
I think this is something most of us have heard of and up to one third of the population suffer symptoms at times. It is the most common disorder of...
The evil that is sugar!
Pure white and deadly was how John Yudkin put it in 1972 (a British nutritionist and former Chair of Nutrition at Queen Elizabeth College, London). It was the first publication by...