Fibromyalgia is a neurosensory disorder that affects the central nervous system’s ability to process stimuli. It is characterized by fatigue and widespread pain and tenderness. Disease dynamics are quite complex and typically involve mitochondrial dysfunction, neurotransmitter imbalances, toxicity, neuroinflammation, and gut dysbiosis.

WOW what a response from putting up an Instagram story on how Nuttelex is NOT a healthy alternative. Many of you wanted to know why. It is such great marketing especially the olive oil Nuttelex, I mean Olive oil is healthy right? Yes it is but NOT mixed with the other ingredients. Vegetable oil is the main ingredient in Nuttelex. This include oils such as corn, soybean, rapeseed, cottonseed, sunflower and canola. Let’s look at the process of how vegetables oils are made.

By relief by simply adopting a few principles of what I call Eating Hygiene. I am sharing here some helpful tips, and I hope you use them to get rid of your own GI frustrations. Don’t be fooled by how simple these ideas seem at first; they are powerful!

Thyropause is the drop in reproductive hormones in peri menopause that can trigger hypothyroidism (underactive thyroid).

PBCS is when you come off the pill or other hormonal contraceptive and symptoms appear in the next coming months. Most likely the same symptoms that were there before the pill and they could even be worse now.

Dealing with pimples at any age is so not fair. As a teenager when you’re in the formative years and then as an adult when your kids are teenagers. For years, the treatment for hormonal acne has been the birth control pill, but what if that's not for you?

It can happen anytime but it is prolific in peri menopause due to poor detox capacity, poor thyroid function and impaired gut health. It is where there is an imbalance of estrogen to progesterone. Either from progesterone deficiency or estrogen excess. Here are the most common symptoms of estrogen dominance.

It is common for women in their 40’s to note weight gain when they haven’t been doing anything different. Particularly around the hips, belly and thighs.

There are several reasons why this could be happening to you which I will go through. I believe you need to get to the root cause to slow and/or stop it from happening.

Xenoestrogens are found in a variety of everyday items. Many of us don’t think twice about the makeup we wear each day or the plastic container we use to pack our lunch. We know organic food is supposed to be better for us, but sometimes we just don’t want to pay the extra money. Unfortunately, all of the above may be altering the way our body naturally functions because they all contain endocrine disruptors called, xenoestrogens.

You’ve been trying to conceive naturally for 12 months and it hasn’t happened, so you go to your GP who hasn’t really given you an explanation for why but refers you on to IVF specialists.

There were a series of events that didn’t sit right with me on my fertility journey and they were;

-the endocrinologist looking over my blood results and saying ‘you have low estrogen and there is nothing you can do about it except go on The Pill which is counteractive to getting pregnant or IVF.

-then once in front of the IVF specialist getting asked a series of psychological questions and NOT one question on my nutrition or lifestyle

Had too much of a good thing over the Easter break? Now you have sugar cravings and want the next hit? Sugar is one of the most addictive substances, it actually works on the opioid receptors in the brain making it very addictive!

The name Poly Cystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) is misleading in itself.  Only 65% of women who have PCOS have the cysts visible on their ovaries through an ultrasound.   35% of women don’t have cysts.  15% of women in the Western World have PCOS with it exponentially increasing.  It is the leading cause of infertility in the Western World. 

You’ve probably heard of the many symptoms associated with poor thyroid function and wonder if you do actually have a thyroid problem.  However, you’ve been to the GP to discuss this idea of yours and your results come back ‘normal’ and ‘in-range’. 

Although period pain is common it is not normal.  Ladies in-tune with their bodies can feel the nuances of their menstrual cycles, but pain is an indication there could be something else going on which could have detrimental emotional, psychological and physiological effects.

It’s hard not to over indulge over the festive season. Most people are on holidays, relaxing with friends and family, drinks are on offer and taken up more. Events, parties, BBQ’s, dinners, coffee dates and it goes on and on are all happening, its fun.

So I am doing a January reset (albiet, I still have some parties to host and attend but mostly this will be me.)

Low progesterone is like your grandmother, she comes in and calms everything down, she has a sedative affect. Where as estrogen is like your naughty aunt and amps everything up!

There is something quite scary and disconcerting about clumps of hair falling out of your head or finding your hair everywhere in the house.  There are several reasons why this could be happening to you and I will go through each one. 

After working closely with physiotherapists, osteopaths, myotherapist and exercise physiologists and the topic came up of what supplements would be beneficial for their clients to help with recovery. So I put together a list of evidence based supplements that could really help with conditions such as injuries, osteo-arthritis, joint pain and inflammation.