We tend to think that gaining weight is something that happens with ageing, but this isn’t the case. It is, however, really important to monitor your body composition, in other words, your ratio of fat, water, bones, and muscle, as you get into older adulthood, to avoid putting yourself at […]
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Do you ever wake up on a Monday morning feeling groggy, tired, uninspired, or under-energised? Does this have a knock on effect on the rest of your week, where you never really catch up until the weekend when it all starts again? Well, the good news is you’re not alone.
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Anxiety can be caused by any number of things, but one area I’m really interested in currently is mental health, and specifically anxiety. Many people suffer from anxiety in one form or another, but increasingly we’re realising the link between anxiety and digestion. We’ve known for a while that there
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The mind is a clever thing. It can play tricks on us, and it can fool us as well. When we’re feeling low, or under a lot of stress and worry, the mind might tell us we’re okay and even encourage us to ‘power on’ despite our feelings. But ultimately,
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In the last of my series of blogs on goal setting for lasting and sustainable change, I’d like to share with you how I track and monitor my health using just one simple number. Maintaining this number is one of my goals for 2018, and in keeping it simple, it
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The subject of this blog is mental health, and specifically mental nourishment. To nourish: “to provide with food or other substances necessary for growth, health, and good condition”, and our minds and brains need nourishment as much as the vital organs, cells, tissues and muscles do. Despite this, I think
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Sleep problems are pervasive in today’s society and can cause a lot of problems with other areas of health such as mental health, energy, body composition, digestion and fitness (what we call the Six Signals®). Sleep disorders come in many forms, although we tend to think of insomnia when we
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Sleep is the force multiplier for life; without the right amount of quality sleep, it’s very difficult to take care of the other key aspects of health – mental health, energy, body composition, digestion and fitness (what we call the Six Signals®). The right amount of sleep is very subjective
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Do you have a regular evening routine that you follow before you go to bed? If so, what does that look like? When does it start – as soon as you get in or 30 minutes before bed? The quality of your sleep will be dictated by what you do
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Holistic health is a term that’s becoming used more popular, but what exactly does it mean? According to the Mirriam-Webster Medical Dictionary, the definition of holistic health is: “relating to or concerned with wholes or with complete systems rather than with the analysis of, treatment of, or dissection into parts holistic medicine attempts to
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