by Felicity Eating on the run, and eating poor quality foods that are energy dense and nutrient poor can become a vicious cycle of increasing stress. For me, it seems the more I stress, the more I crave indulgent foods and want to treat myself to yet another sweet or salty snack or both! As … Continue reading
by Darren Sassall Disease in the body manifests in a wide variety of symptoms, but interestingly, there is a common denominator and cause behind these symptoms – Inflammation and Oxidation! While industry funded science focuses on individual diseases, population wide diets and the symptom based treatment of illness with drugs (and more recently natural supplements), … Continue reading
Core is once again offering our existing clients our Wellness Assessment (with testing) at $65. The assessment is for you to (once a year) update your present health status – to have a yearly check-up. It allows you see if all your efforts from the previous year have paid off & to review & re-assess … Continue reading
Cells, cells and more cells. 100 000 billion of them in fact. Each one a community of its own. What makes a natural healthy cell? Its environment (internal and external). The environment dictates the way the cell expresses its genetic material in the nucleus via the so called “junk genes” which act as the dials … Continue reading
Sports or any physical activity for that matter is crucial for your mental and physical wellbeing. This is due to the combination of effects sports can produce. Those being, immune enhancing, mood regulating, cell nourishing, blood & lymph circulation boosting and toxin eliminating. As sports and activity burn off stress hormones (when done 60min or … Continue reading
When recovering from anything, be it the common cold to a more serious infection, sports injury, or night out consisting of heavy drinking, there is a period of time that allows for recovery. However, depending on your nutritional reserves and environmental stressors, this “recovery” period can be drastically shortened. Basically, the body utilities nutrition in … Continue reading
As Naturopath’s who have been working in a clinical environment for over fifteen years, you start to see social trends in relation to health. Currently, the “big one” is stress & adrenal fatigue. Actually, it’s massive! Less and less time is spent relaxing and recovering from the daily grind. More and more social pressures are … Continue reading
Peter Thompson, our resident chiropractor and osteopath has these words of wisdom to share with us. The best general advice I give to my patients is this: Take heed of what your body is telling you. If you don’t listen and act on the first message, the body will repeat itself in a stronger, more … Continue reading
Dehydration is one of the most overlooked and basic causes of disease. Being the universal solvent for biochemistry, a lack of cellular water cannot be medicated for or modified other than by providing mineralised water of the appropriate quality and in the appropriate quantities. We can live for a few months without food but will … Continue reading
You’ve heard it all before but I’ll say it again: Just eat real food! Ditch the processed, boxed, deep-fried, sugar, chemical laden stuff as much as you possibly can. Your body will love you for it the long run! As a (former) self-confessed chocoholic and emotional eater – I know how daunting this can seem. … Continue reading