By Silvana La Pegna You’re not imagining it. You finish the day completely drained, fall onto the sofa and somehow still can’t switch off. Your body is exhausted but your mind is still spinning. Sound familiar? Here’s the thing - the problem might not be that you need more rest at the end of the [...]
The Hidden Reason You Can’t Make a Clear Decision By Silvana La Pegna Ever felt like your mind is a shaken snow globe, thoughts spinning, clarity gone, and every decision feeling harder than it should? Research shows that the part of your brain responsible for insight, reflection, and good decision-making starts to shut down when [...]
To successfully lift a heavy package, do you lift it just with just your pinkie fingers? No, not unless you really want to hurt yourself. You bring in your strong muscles – the quadriceps, the gluteal and abdominal muscles. The pinkie fingers are there and doing their bit – perhaps some balancing or dangling a [...]
Life commitments can be overwhelming. Unfortunately, stress is part of everyone`s life, but the good news is that there are plenty of tools to deal with it. Support your gut Gut and brain communicate with each other. Thus, a healthy gut is essential for your mental health. Focus on wholefood, including plenty of veggies and [...]
Our body’s intricate nervous system plays a pivotal role in safeguarding our overall health and vitality. Not only does it regulate essential functions like our stress response and heart rate, but it also manages many other physiological processes. Stress, when left unmanaged, can trigger detrimental effects, including an underfunctioning thyroid. When this occurs over an [...]
In Australia we live in a society that alcohol is “expected” to be enjoyed at just about every setting, event or even daily consumption. It appears that only if you are pregnant, is that a suitable “reason” as to why you wouldn’t be drinking with your friends/family. As a clinical nutritionist I can tell you [...]
Our increasingly busy and demanding lives can result in enduring prolonged periods of stress which can come at us from multiple sources. The emotional, physical and mental demands on our mind and body can become overwhelming which can often affects every aspect of our lives. To maintain good health and happiness we need to put [...]
Every time we eat a bunch of sugar or something that is high in carbohydrates we get a rush of glucose into our bloodstream which signals to our pancreas to release insulin to tell the cells to let the glucose in and signals to the liver to store the sugar and not make any more. [...]
Matt Steinacher, Naturopath Since it's earliest days, when it was known as the 'nature cure', Naturopaths have always focused on healing from a purely natural perspective. Today, naturopathy has developed into a highly effective evidence-based form of natural medicine. Hippocrates (460-370BC) known as the father of medicine, first highlighted the value of our environment, diet [...]
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