If your health hasn’t been the best for a while, it means your body has stopped doing the job it was designed to do in keeping you healthy and happy. The human body is such a marvel of design, very capable of maintaining and repairing itself. But it is a very complex machine. If your …
Good health is the absence of symptoms Broadly there are two types of disease: Serious, life-threatening disease (like heart disease and cancer); and Chronic non life-threatening disease (like chronic reflux, IBS, back pain, insomnia and fatigue). Many people have the chronic non life-threatening kind. They just live with the symptoms: the pain, the discomfort and …
Are You Worried About Staying on Medications? LOTS of people are on medications. Medications generally suppress symptoms. But they do little to address the root cause of your health problem. Come off the medication and the symptom is likely to come back. Some medications provide the relief required (e.g. for pain, reflux or sinus problems) …
Getting to the Root Cause of Your Health Problem Your health is like a tree. The branches of the tree are the symptoms you experience – like fatigue, insomnia or digestive problems. But the cause of the problem is below, in the root system of the tree – your organs including your liver, stomach, kidneys, …
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5 Self-Care Tips to Keep You Feeling Great Self-care is so important to our health. There’s five small things we can all do each day to help our body’s stay healthier and happier! Lemon Juice in Warm Water A dash of lemon juice in a glass of warm water kicks starts your digestion and helps …
Choose Your Health Hammer Wisely This was a really popular post I did recently. I’ve expanded it a little here. Recognise every practitioner for what they are and do. It’s like a hammer and nail (and you’re the nail). Every practitioner has their own tools (hammer). A GP will treat you with medications (her hammer). …
Symptoms are Markers of Ill-Health If you are in perfect health you have no symptoms. Your body is working as it should to keep you well and pain-free. Therefore, the more symptoms you have the more trouble is brewing with your health. There are hundreds of potential symptoms we can have within the broader categories …
FAST START Check and correct your at-desk working posture Do some McKenzie neck exercises Learn to relax DETAILS With many of us in jobs requiring huge hours fused into position in front of the computer, neck tension and/or pain (‘tech neck’) has become endemic. Here’s some easy things you can do to help relieve tech …
Is Being In Pain Normal? Pain effects so many people that it begs the question: ‘Is being in pain normal?’ Common – yes. Normal – no! We have patients who have been told by others that they will just have to put up with their pain and take pain-killers when they need it. But this …
What Your Emotions Say About Your Health The emotions you mainly experience give some great insight into which of your organs may not be functioning as well as they should. Organs that don’t function as well as they should cause a range of physical and emotional symptoms. Specific organ dysfunction leads to a greater propensity …
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