Ideas for healthy home-living in the “lock-up” stage Gardening is a great pastime especially for the elderly. Light, physical work lifts your circulation and should be manageable if arthritic or fatigued. Herbs or herbal medicines containing: Korean Ginseng, Ginkgo biloba, ginger, peppermint, lemon balm may lift your immune system and are available to buy from […]
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Building Health Regular, light exercise is important.https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/007165.htm Further, I recommend that you take a vitamin C complex regularly. But much more is missing from food these days than just vitamin C. Why? Simply ’cause your food is undernourished these days, and must be supplemented, a fact also according to latest research (Metagenics International Congress of
So, it is important to ensure that zinc is accompanied by other essential micronutrients when taken as a supplement, in order to ensure your health and that of your unborn child, if pregnant. The same applies if you are taking ZinAc to help to make your immune system more active. ZinAc was one of my
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Why Combine Pharmacy with Natural Therapy? To understand that, let me start with my story. In my mid-thirties, my health was going downhill. Fast. I was feeling pain in the abdomen, low on energy, four young children, owned a large seaside pharmacy, working 7 days and some nights, big mortgage, training for half marathons, taking
Resolving persistent pain naturally. Sixty percent of Australians are suffering some kind of pain, often associated with some chronic ill-health problem. Starting with: “growing pains” of youth (that are pains in the actual growth plates) scoliosis – that is a form of osteoporosis, fibromyalgia (fibrositis), upper and lower back pain, spinal injury (“floating” or “whiplash”)
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SPMs – ever heard of them? Neither had I. Until I attended the recent International Natural Medicine Congress, where Dr Cristina Lopez Vicario pointed out the existence of these transient “chemicals” that have a profound effect on nerves – they can block pain. Made normally in small amounts and acting on your own internal cannabinoid
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Preconception Kit Preparing for pregnancy in this day and age may need extra nutritional help due to a 90% decline in food nutritional content in the last 100 years (Int. Congress Natural Medicine, June 2019, Gold Coast). Eating “emptier” food during that period has been accompanied by an exponential rise in environmental pollutants in the
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Common Complaints Did you know that 11 million Australians have a chronic illness that leaves them fatigued, in pain and emotionally burdened? And that authorities are now recommending the wholistic treatments are the option of choice because the GP system is being overwhelmed. Not only that but because wholistic treatments frequently are also more
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Good Carbohydrates Carbohydrates provide energy to build cells like health-giving killer white blood cells. They also play a role in building tissue of all types. They come from starches and sugars from grains, fruit and sugar additives. Sugar excess can cause fatty liver because sugar is half fructose and fructose is the culprit. Glucose is
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Children’s immune Systems By Phillip Wade When we consider what differentiates a child from an adult, several factors come to mind including: immune resilience to combat high exposure to germs to which their immune system has not been previously exposed high nutrient requirements to support rapid growth constant movement requiring suppleness combined with strength and
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