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Nutrition + Wound Healing
Wound healing is quite a complex process. The body literally replaces injured tissue with new tissue that the body produces. This increases the body needs for energy and particular nutrients to be able to undergo this process. The body goes into a catabolic phase when...
Is IBS the condition or the symptom?
April is World IBS Month. As a Nutritionist who loves all things gut and hormones I had to take this opportunity to bring some awareness to this condition. Personally I was diagnosed with IBS in my early 20’s and was told that it was just something I was going to have...
Nutritional Treatments for Period Pain
Period pain is experienced by between 70 and 90% of women, which is a statistic that is crazy to me. Crazy because period pain is not normal, yet oh so common. This article is the third in a series I have been writing on period pain. You can jump back and read the...
Lifestyle Treatments for Period Pain
Did you know that our periods are meant to be relatively pain free? I know crazy right! Yet period pain/menstrual cramps is one of the most commonly experienced period symptom. Whilst I am all about addressing the root cause of your period pain so you actually don’t...
Understanding Period Pain
Let me start by saying whilst period pain is common it is not something that you should have to endure. I would also like to differentiate between two types of period pain. Now I want to say normal period pain but that just doesn’t seem to fit after what I just said...
Why we need fats in our diets. Reversing the trend of the low-fat era.
Unfortunately many people today are scared to consume fats for the fear that eating fat will make you fat - thanks to the many years of being told this is true. I am here today to tell you this is not ture. As a child of the 80’s and 90’s with a mother who wanted to...
Zucchini Fritters
Breakfast just got a whole lot tastier with these Zucchini Fritters. Crispy, golden, zesty - these fritters are perfect on their own or pair so well many of my favourite ingredients such as goats cheese, baby spinach, bacon, smoked salmon or avocado. My favourite...
Rejuvenate your whole body with a detox
This time of the year detox becomes the buzzword in the health space. It’s like you have to undergo a special cleanse to make your body do it’s detoxification thing. Spoiler alert! Your body is actually performing this detoxification day in day out, hour by hour,...
Change is not linear or instantaneous – it is a journey
I know, I know that word journey… but I want you to stop for a moment and really think about what a great journey entails. The kind of journey that you remember forever, talk about for years after and catch yourself randomly smiling about… Those journeys aren’t the...
I was so disconnected from my body
As far back as my teens I was all about the the doing, the hustle, the achieving. My dream job when I finished school and headed off to uni to study a BBA was to be CEO of Cadbury’s. I wanted to wear the power suit, I wanted to have my own office and I always wanted...