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Welcome to the next installment of The Herbalist's Cabinet! In this post, we’ll be discussing remarkable herbs that can provide much-needed relief during times of stress, fatigue, and burnout—otherwise known as adrenal tonics or adaptogens. We have all experienced stress, whether it is physical or psychological. Stress is anything that upsets the normal equilibrium of …
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Menopause: A natural transition that marks the end of a woman's childbearing years. It's preceded by perimenopause, the first step in the process, characterised by a gradual decline in reproductive hormones, oestrogen and progesterone. This decline is responsible for the symptoms commonly experienced by women in perimenopause: Hot flashes Brain fog and cognitive changes Irregular …
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Self-care practices reduce stress and foster resilience. Most importantly, they foster awareness. Awareness of your internal emotional state is important, because it's this that will act as a call to action when your emotional state becomes overwhelming. Resilience is built through small, consistent choices that help to recalibrate the nervous system and remind us that we are not powerless in the face of adversity.
Believe it or not, I sat down to write this post over 12 months ago. The position I find myself in now, is very different to how things were then. I went through a very tough year. The people who cared about me most kept telling me to make sure I "Look after myself". At …
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Feeling gluggy, tired, bloated and generally unwell? If you're good at listening to your body then its likely you can decipher pretty quickly what's wrong. But what about if you're not sure what's wrong? Never fear - even if you are completely overwhelmed with all the signs and symptoms you've been experiencing, don't over overcomplicate …
Continue reading "Your health ‘reboot’ – How to get back to basics."
My interest in amino acids was sparked after I began to follow the research on NAC (n.acteyl cysteine) for treatment-resistant mental health disorders. An initial staunch non-believer in amino acid therapy, I decided to give it a try following the birth of my second child, in an attempt to mitigate the effects of post-natal depression …
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Neuroinflammation. A big word with heavy connotations. Over the last several years, I've written a lot about it, and for good reason. It is my firm belief that this, more than any other factor, is to blame for the rise in cases of anxiety, depression and other mood disorders all around the world. However, if …
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The human mind is a powerful thing, but it's easily broken. Is the pandemic of depression and anxiety because we're not making enough serotonin, or that we're vitamin D deficient? Or is is that generations of us have become accustomed to learned helplessness?
Burnout is a term that gets used frequently, but unlike depression, anxiety or other related disorders, it cannot be officially diagnosed. However, the symptoms can be very similar to depression, although it's more likely that burnout is a stage of the stress response.
If your body could talk, what would it tell you that you should be eating? Well, science has come up with a way to help you decipher just that. Nutrigenomics is the science of discovering how the food we eat interacts with our genes.