In the field of medicine, as well as doctors, specialists, and hospital acute care, there are an array of alternative and complementary medical practices. You are here listening to me talk about nutrition – that’s an alternative or complementary practice further to the medicine model–Hippocrates did say “Let food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food” after all– and there are a number of Traditional alternative medicine practices that take a holistic approach – […]
Nourishing your mitochondria isn’t likely your first thought as you open your eyes in the morning. And yet, the energy, the thought, the movement that follows waking up, all take energy produced within each and every cell in your body. You know that I love to do a deep dive on this show and podcast, and truly, I’m not sure if we could go deeper than the structures in the cell that make energy by […]
You’ve heard the saying, you are what you eat, right? Well, I know I don’t look like the blueberries I had for breakfast, but I do know that my cells are happier for the vitamin C, vitamin K1, manganese and potassium and plant antioxidants, my gut loves the fibre and my mouth loves the sweet taste. But what if my blueberries were conventionally grown? What if I didn’t buy only organic berries? Well, that would […]
Yes there’s HIIT, Zumba, Spinning, Barre, bootcamp, crossfit, boxing, rowing, cycling, gyming on your own or with a personal trainer, weight lifting with heavy weights and low reps, or high with reps with low weights, there’s pilates, yoga of which there’s bikram or hot yoga, ashtanga, hybrids and just about anything else that falls under the umbrella of movement and fitness. Oh walking, did I say walking and going for a run. Duh. Walking became […]
Not our usual age group on this podcast this week, but before your switch off and hit skip, we are now in the era babies are being born after our lives went from hustle and bustle, off to work, dinners, drinks and frantic schedules to STAY HOME. Well, for many couples and historically like times of quiet like the blackout of 2003 for instance, couples found themselves with more time on their hands to reconnect […]
So you’re not happy with your weight. Many aren’t so that conversation is extremely common. How many diets have you put yourself on, tried in earnest, only to find that you go back to your default way of eating and the weight creeps back on? There are health implications that come with obesity, fat deposited around the middle–that muffin top, a high fat to muscle ratio and numbers staring back at you when you step […]
When everything is taken into account, the average adult will try about 126 different diets in their lifetime, according to a poll that I came across recently. That’s a lot of diets, or specific ways of eating with the hopes of reaching a goal weight, as that seems to be the number one reason for putting oneself on a crash diet. And by crash diet I mean a diet that’s far from your usual. I’m […]
What does living a healthy lifestyle mean exactly? It’s a bit of an opened ended question, isn’t it? Does it mean you go for a run every day? Do regular yoga and meditation? Do you feel like you tick the healthy box when you eat your greens or have enough fibre? Where would self-care fit? Or 8 hours of sleep? A rather specific point of all of this healthy living stuff is to feel good. […]
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