Waking up a sluggish thyroid
Your thyroid gland plays a crucial role in regulating your metabolism. The hormones it produces affect the activity of literally every cell in your body – including your brain. An underactive thyroid gland, or anything that interferes with the activity of thyroid hormone, can cause a wide array of symptoms including: Mental and physical sluggishness; Difficulty…
Beat menopausal hot flushes with fruit-and-veg-powered weight loss
Hot flushes are the bane of many perimenopausal women’s lives. That sudden rush of heat from the chest up to the neck and face, is not just embarrassing or inconvenient. Hot flushes that occur at night – commonly called night sweats – can severely disrupt sleep, causing day-time fatigue. Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is the…
Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH)
Benign prostatic hyperplasia, also known as benign prostatic hypertrophy or BPH, is a non-cancerous enlargement of the prostate that afflicts older men. Over half of men in their 60s and up to 90% in their 70s and 80s have some symptoms of BPH, such as: Urinary hesitancy, urgency and leaking or dribbling; An interrupted, weak…
The top 5 tips for building strong, healthy bones
1) Exercise regularly, throughout your whole life When you do any kind of physical activity that puts some stress on your bones, cells within the bone sense this stress and respond by making the bone stronger and denser. Such weight-bearing exercise (including walking, dancing, jogging, jumping rope, weight-lifting, stair-climbing and racquet sports) causes the bones…
The great osteoporosis scam
Updated 3 October 2022 Bone mineral density (BMD) scanning using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA, commonly referred to as DEXA) scanning is big business. Around the world, hundreds of millions of older women (and many men too), on the basis of their scan results, are prescribed potent drugs including bisphosphonates (Fosamax, Actonel, Reclast) and monoclonal antibodies…
Get a good night’s sleep – at last!
“The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to,” lamented F. Scott Fitzgerald, and anyone who has spent restless nights wrestling with the frustration of not being able to fall asleep, stay asleep, or sleep until the desired waking time, might be inclined to agree! Somewhere between 13 and 33% of…
5 reasons to think twice before taking sleeping pills
“Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together,” wrote Thomas Dekker. Yet for too many people in the modern world, that chain is stretched to – and often well past – breaking point. People who suffer from depression, arthritis, asthma, back problems, diabetes, obesity and just plain stress have an increased…
5 reasons to think twice before taking osteoporosis drugs
The broken bone business is lucrative, but what’s in it for patients?
Making Your New Year’s Resolutions Stick
The term New Year’s Resolution has come to mean ‘a promise that you break a few days into the New Year’! But there is a way to make commitments to yourself that you can really stick with. First, if you haven’t already downloaded my free action guide, ‘The 5 Steps to Breaking Bad Habits‘, please…
How childhood trauma changes the brain… and how EFT and Matrix Reimprinting heal it
It’s a truism that childhood experiences continue to influence our emotional reactions and behaviour, even when we’re ‘all grown up’. And it’s also common wisdom that people who suffered traumatic events in childhood are more likely to experience psychological distress as adults. But until quite recently, no one really knew how events that happened to…