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Enhance Your Resilience to Stress

Enhance Your Resilience to Stress

Are you tired but wired?  Here are my top 10 tips to enhance your body’s resilience to stress… B complex vitamins (B1, B2, B3, B5, B6 and B7) are vitally important for the adrenals and energy production. B vitamins are water soluble...

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Break the Cycle with Carb Cycling

Break the Cycle with Carb Cycling

Stuck on a low carb diet?  Fearing the dreaded weight gain when you reintroduce carbs?  Even Paleo advocates can benefit from this. Carb Cycling does not involve eating less, it is a smart way of timing your macronutrients (carbs, fat and...

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Cholesterol ~ Lower Naturally

Cholesterol ~ Lower Naturally

Our liver synthesises 1000-1400mg (about 80%) of our cholesterol on a daily basis.  While 300mg is the upper limit of our recommended daily intake (RDI).  Our liver has an intelligent feedback mechanism which regulates our endogenous production...

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Health Benefits of Summer

Health Benefits of Summer

Your Health Loves Summer! Welcome summer!  Here are my top 10 reasons to love summer… Vitamin D ~ deficiency of this important vitamin may be the reason you feel SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) during the winter months. Vitamin D enhances...

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Hypoglycaemia (Low Blood Sugar)

Hypoglycaemia (Low Blood Sugar)

Below 2.8 mmol/L in non-diabetics or 3.9 mmol/L in diabetics. Signs & Symptoms: confusion, dizziness/light-headedness, shakiness, hungry, headache, irritability, racing heart rate, sweating, pale skin, trembling, weakness, anxiety, chills...

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Osteoporosis Natural Treatment

Osteoporosis Natural Treatment

Osteoporosis is a condition in which bones become fragile and brittle, leading to a higher risk of fractures than normal bones. Osteoporosis occurs when bones lose minerals, such as calcium, more quickly than the body can replace them.  This...

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Insulin Resistance Top 10 Tips

Insulin Resistance Top 10 Tips

A condition in which cells fail to respond normally to the hormone insulin.  Insulin is produced when glucose is released into the bloodstream.  Signs and symptoms include extreme thirst and hunger, hunger after eating and increased urination. ...

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How to be an Energiser Bunny

How to be an Energiser Bunny

B complex vitamins Vitamin B1, B2, B3, B5, B6 and B7 are all essential for energy production in the body. Water soluble like vitamin C (as opposed to fat soluble like vitamins A, D, E and K) are not stored in the body. They are depleted rapidly...

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