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Fibromyalgia Flares – tips to manage them

Unfortunately, living with fibromyalgia often means dealing with pain flares from time to time. Flares can occur when there has been a period of stress, an injury, hormonal changes, poor sleep, a lot of extra demands being placed on you or not being able to follow your usual nutritional regimen amongst other reasons. The duration

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Let’s Talk Perimenopause

Thankfully women and the health profession are talking about perimenopause more frequently now. In years gone by, menopause was a hush-hush subject, even amongst other women. And perimenopause got barely a mention at all. Now, women are rightfully demanding more attention be paid to the often debilitating symptoms they experience and they are seeking options

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Olive oil and herbs

Vegetable & seed oils – healthy or unhealthy?

They may sound like they would be healthy. However, vegetable and seed oils are increasingly being thought of as anything but healthy. The oils I am referring to include: • Canola oil• Sunflower oil• Safflower oil• Soybean oil• Grapeseed oil• Cottonseed oil• Palm oil• Peanut oil• Rice bran oil These highly refined seed and vegetable

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ceramic bowl with fermented sauerkraut

Good health begins in the gut

The Ancient Greek physician, Hippocrates, who is known as the father of medicine, reportedly said “All disease begins in the gut”. Hippocrates was remarkably beyond his time considering he was born in the 5th century and modern science is still discovering links between gut health and development of a multitude of diseases and conditions. The

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