Medicine

Day one of homeschooling started yesterday.. hands up how many of us feel like they failed bismally!? Go easy on yourself during this VERY dynamic time.. nobody is asking you to be a SuperHuman! This is a huge change for all of us, including those kids, and the one thing i want to stress is that the stronger your routine, the faster everyone will adapt! I know, sounds so simple. The reality is you, can only do what you can. As a parent or carer you are probably not trained with …

An underactive thyroid can reap havoc on many functions in the body. Symptoms can include fatigue, tiredness, exhaustion, constipation, low body temperature (feeling cold all of the time), hairloss, dry skin, cognitive impairment, menstrual abnormalities, weight gain and hairloss on the outer third of the eyebrows.. So many people I see present with some (or all) of these symptoms, yet their most recent thyroid blood results have come back as  ‘normal’.  It happens a LOT actually.. so whats really happening here? The standard medical blood test for hypothyroidism is the measurement of …

Last week I had two wonderful people come into the clinic who had been following certain dietary paradigms for a number of years, respectively. One had been vegan, the other had done keto. Both were ready to give it the shove because they felt like it hadn’t been working for them. I can’t tell you how proud I was of these two for having the courage to do this  – after spending a long while submersing themselves into each way of living, they were extremely knowledgeable and well-researched, and could …