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Researchers in Pittsburg have concluded that getting a good night's sleep is a big step towards staying healthy.
It has been understood that sleep and physical performance have been closely linked,
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What does pH mean to the body?
pH is the ‘potential of hydrogen’, but in lay terms we are referring to the acid/alkaline balance of the body. pH is calibrated on a scale of 1 (very acidic) to 1
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The endocrine system is involved in all of the integrative aspects of life, including growth, sex differentiation, metabolism and adaptation to an ever changing environment. This system is connected
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In good news for those who like to drink wine, researchers at the University College of London have found that drinking half a bottle of wine every day makes your brain work better, especially if yo
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Over the years many people have come to me wondering if they have an allergy or intolerance to food(s) that may be causing their symptoms. Symptoms that are often many and varied, such as headaches,
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Researchers at the University of California have linked soaring rates of autism and autism spectrum disorders with feotal and infant exposure to pesticides and household chemicals.
California has se
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Have you ever had viral infections? Fungal infections? Bacterial infections? Parasites?
These organisms can remain in your body, buried in your organs and tissues, doing damage to your health. Year
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Just as humans have learned to connect dark clouds with rain, so too have bacteria and yeast learned to use one event to predict the arrival of another.
"For multicellular organisms, there is a real
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In an age of increasing medical specialisation, complex medical procedures and expensive medications, many health-care consumers are interested in getting back to basics. They are looking for safe a
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Popular wisdom amongst pro marijuana people is that smoking marijuana is a healthy activity while smoking tobacco is not. A study published in the New Scientist says that not only is smoking pure ma
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Ever wondered if you really saw or heard something?
UK researchers have found that drinking seven or more cups of instant coffee a day can create hallunications.
People who drink a lot of coffee, s
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Many people these days are in to doing a liver and gall bladder flush using a heroic combination of olive oil and lemon juice, drunk in large quantities and followed by a chaser of Epsom salts. Ther
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The body uses a great deal of energy, processing and eliminating the vast number of toxins that our body produces each day. The body’s elimination system does not occur by chance, but by a chain o
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On May 19th 2009, the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) called on doctors to educate their patients and the general community to avoid GE foods when possible.
Citing health problems
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In a study reported in Lancet Neurology researchers have concluded that exercise in midlife can reduce the risk of contracting Alzheimer's in the general population by as much as 50% and for those g
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A study undertaken by the Columbia University Medical Center in New York has shown that people who exercise frequently have better memories than those who don't. People who exercise tend to absorb s
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Many of you are aware of my great interest in the importance of detoxification of the body to regain or maintain good health, and with this in mind I have in the past and now employed the use of col
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Research published in November 08 by researchers at Sweden's Karolinska Institute shows how a diet rich in sugar, cholestorol and fat increases the risk of Alzheimers in mice and could do the same i
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As a clinician who specialises in detoxification I have employed over the last 11 years the use of various methods to detoxify the body. The addition to the clinic of live blood analysis as a tool t
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A study ignored by mainstream media and somehow overlooked by government regulators has caste serious doubt on the safety of GE foods.
Secret research from Monsanto about their research on the affec
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A recent study conducted by the University of Vienna and sponsored by the Austrian Ministry of Health, Families, and Youth, and with potentially massive ramifications for the whole GE and agricorp i
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The power of green plants in healing has been recognised throughout history. Many indigenous peoples — and all mammals except modern man — live primarily on grasses and green plants in times of
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Holographic Kinetics is an Aboriginal healing system based on traditional Dreamtime Healing. My teacher Steve Richards is an Aboriginal descendant who could remember all the ancient teachings of his
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"The real food is not being advertised. And that's really all you need to know."
In an interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! Michael Pollan states that as a rule of thumb, if a food is advert
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There are a lot of people with problems with their ileocecal valve. The ileocecal valve (ICV) is the joining point between the large and small intestines. The valve has two primary functions. The fi
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In another twist in what is becoming 'the incredible shrinking romance of sexual attraction' scientists are developing drugs that boost the feeling of love.
Studying the brain chemistry responsible
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Twenty years ago when I first started out in the world of naturopathy and was doing my clinic hours with a GP/naturopath in Sydney, the main observation that I noted was in his use of magnesium. He
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A report published in November 08 (Journal of the American Medical Association's Archives of Internal Medicine (Arch Intern Med. 2008;168[21]:2302-2303) ) concluded what many naturopaths and alterna
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It is widely recognised throughout the Western world that heart disease and cancer are our biggest killers. However, in reality, an equally large burden on our society today really belongs to mental
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There is a definite correlation between the functioning of the mind and the body, and the mind has the dominant role. Conscious life has its beginnings within our own feelings, and emotions within o
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I can drink booze again! My migraines are gone. There’s not a whisper of a hot flash. I’ve stopped attacking my loved ones. And I sleep through the night. How did I do it? How did I make my meno
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The nature and nurture debate has been raging for decades, particularly as it relates to human behaviour. Is a 'good' or 'bad' person born or simply a product of how he is raised, his environment? C
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In a recent study of 6000 women it was found that exercise reduces the risk of cancer, and that this benefit is mostly reduced if she does not get enough sleep.
Woman who slept less than seven hour
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Researchers have shown that children who switch their diet for just a few days to organic food from non organic food lowered the levels of pesticides in their bodies dramatically and immediately.
Ch
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I started using live blood analysis in my naturopathic clinic over two years ago and hardly ever saw parasites in people’s blood, and yes I was looking, but in the last two months I have been seei
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Psychoneuroimmunology is the study of how the mind effects the nervous system and immune system to eventually effect the body by creating a physical manifestation of dis-ease or unwellness. There ar
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According to a UK study the herb sage can be used to improve memory and also may prevent Alzheimer's.
In the study, young adults who took sage oil had markedly improved memory, performing significan
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It may well be that many of the mental disorders that are diagnosed and for which drugs are prescribed for are just a result of poor sleeping habits.
The impact of sleep deprivation is only recently
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In a study reported in the International Journal of Obesity researchers found that children who slept less than 10 hours a night were 3/5 times as likely to be overweight.
Of all the factors taken
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A preservative E211, known as sodium benzoate, which is in most soft drinks, pickles and sauces, has been implicated in some serious health problems.
Sodium benzoate has already caused concern as wh
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According to researchers at Northwestern
University in Chicago, doses of a subject's own stem cells reset the immune system and reversed any disability of early stages Multiple Sclerorsis.
All s
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Most practitioners like myself find ourselves talking about the effects of stress to clients more often than not. Stress can be physical, mental and/or emotional, and is seen as a major contributor
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Is swine flu really dangerous or is it a media beat up, a corporate scam to sell $1billion worth of vaccines? Can public policy driven by shock jocks and their scare campaigns ever be good for anybo
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A healthy person is home to hundreds of different kinds of beneficial and friendly bacteria that inhabit mainly the digestive tract. It is estimated that there are more bacteria in the gut than ther
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During the process of giving a client colonic irrigation, we often see (through the waste outlet tube) undigested and often fermented food wastes (as well as the usual “old” compacted waste that
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With summer upon us once again we often have thoughts of going to the beach and generally getting out in the fresh air and sunshine. But then there’s the nagging in the back of the mind of how bad
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Recently there have been some interesting programs about parasites on television. This has raised a lot of interest in my clinic during Live Blood Analysis sessions, as quite often we see parasites
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Despite major changes in food production and technology, the eating habits of Western society over the last few decades have resulted in record levels of chronic degenerative disease as well as a my
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We have all had such a long hot summer and many people have been feeling overly tired from the effects of the heat. I have had practically every person who has come in for a live blood analysis comp
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One of the main causes of fatigue, toxemia, constipation, and premature aging is simply that most people don’t drink enough water. A common statement found in literature everywhere.
Water is invo
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The properties of water
1. 75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated.
2. In 37% of Americans the thirst mechanism is so weak that it is often mistaken for hunger.
3. Even MILD dehydration will slo
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Scientists say that cornflakes, biscuits and soft drinks may be as addictive as cigarettes and may attract similar health warning requirements.
Scientists have found that foods with a high glycaemic
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