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Vitamin B6: Guidance for Clinical Prescription and Testing
From homocysteine regulation to mood and immune function, vitamin B6 is a foundational nutrient that underpins diverse bodily functions. But ...
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Are Saunas Good for Your Lungs and Respiratory Health? Turn up the heat – the science behind sauna bathing
Could the combination of gentle stress and deep relaxation unlock the key to a longer, healthier life? Sauna bathing ticks these boxes and ma...
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Holding Space, to Find Place: Practically applying nutritional therapy for our most vulnerable communities
In the wake of crisis, there will always be home for nourishment. It’s the universal language that speaks to one’s resilient spirit and provi...
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Born toxic: Microplastics in human placenta
We’ve all wondered if the plastic in our environment reaches our unbornbabies in the womb and now, fo...
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Is your Withania hitting hot flushes?
Perimenopause is a critical window of recalibration in hormonal flow and whole-body energy shifts. A time that often overlaps with life’s ...
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Milk thistle emerges as a novel remedy for menopausal hot flushes
Milk thistle (Silybum marianum) is usually an herbalist’s go-to for liver disorders, including liver damage caused by alcohol and drug use...
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Glutathione deficiency impacts fever development
Suppressing a fever with pharmaceutical medications during an infection can actually make it last lon...
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Clinical Gem: Q&A Does calcium supplementation increase the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD)?
Not all evidence points to an increased risk in CVD, and a large body of evidence including a large cohort study of postmenopausal women s...
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Mushrooms for the mind: how fungi rescue the ageing brain
Neurodegenerative disease continues to grow globally despite the advancement of medication, making management largely ineffective. When it...
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Botanicals to deeply fortify immunity
Herbal remedies have been used for centuries for their powerful immune-boosting properties and with this year’s intense cold and flu seaso...
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Clinical Gem: Q&A I want to prescribe high doses of vitamin C but I’m concerned about gastric irritation and bioavailability.
Some clinical presentations call for higher doses of vitamin C, however the bioavailable form ascorbic acid has a very high acidity and ma...
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Kidney stones – the silent link to metabolic syndrome
People with four of the five conditions associated with Metabolic Syndrome are almost twice as likely to develop kidney stones as healthy ...
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Reishi: superboosting the immune system
Ganoderma lucidum (Reishi), the ancient ‘mushroom of mortality’, has been revered for more than two thousand years in Traditional Chinese ...
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Sleep sabotage – an ecological perspective
As a healing tool, sleep is considered just as important as nutritional medicine to improve quality of life – yet one third of us grapple ...
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Clinical Gem: Q&A Is Boneset (containing pyrrolizidine alkaloids) suitable for ongoing use (prophylaxis) for immune support?
Boneset is rich and diverse in antioxidant and inflammation-modulating flavonoids (eupatorin, astragalin, quercetin and rutin) contributin...
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