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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…
Are Eggs, Butter and Meat Still ‘Bad’ for Your Cholesterol Levels? “Your body is going to make 80% of your cholesterol regardless of what you eat”, is what I have been saying in the clinic for years. So foods that were on the ‘naughty list’ like eggs, meat and butter are now no longer on…
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)…
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…
Hayfever Self Help It’s a horrible time for hayfever sufferers, especially in Melbourne! Here’s 4 things you can do to help reduce your hayfever. Eat less sugar and dairy. These foods cause your body to produce a lot of phlegm and exacerbate your allergic response to allergens like pollen and dust. Eating less/or no sugar…
7 Simple Things That Can Help You Sleep Like a Baby. Get to sleep before 11pm Circadian rhythm is like a body clock which tells you when to sleep, rise and eat. Your body starts to produce melatonin (the sleep hormone) at around 9pm to start to get you ready for bed. Research also shows…
What Your Tongue Tells You About Your Health A quick look at your own tongue can tell you a lot about your health. It’s as easy as looking at it in the mirror and using the table below. Doctors of Chinese Medicine have for thousands of years have looked at the tongue to tell them…
Acupuncture for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is the catch-all term used to describe gastro-intestinal troubles that Western medicine cannot find a reason for. We’ve had a lot of patients recently come to us with ‘IBS’ having been to their doctor, referred to a gastric specialist, been through gastroscopies and endoscopies and…
Varicocele (Teste) Pain A varicocele is an enlargement of the veins in the scrotum. It is not unlike varicose veins that you find in the leg. Varicoceles can occur with no symptoms at all. Other times symptoms may emerge including pain, impeded teste growth and low sperm count leading to infertility. Varicoceles mainly affect younger…
Diabetes is Out of Control Around 1.5 million Australians have been diagnosed with diabetes, with another estimated 1.2 million undiagnosed. Near 3 million Australians have pre-diabetes. That’s approximately 25% of the Australian adult population affected by diabetes. How did it get this bad? It all comes down to what we are eating and with the…
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