Gut feelings influence your mood and well-being. We have all experienced feeling anxious and those “funny feelings” in our stomach. Anxiety can cause “butterflies in the stomach”, to debilitating panic attacks and conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Until recently it was believed that anxiety was caused by a combination of factors: genetics, environment, […]
Nutrition
Hormone Regulating Foods
The main hormone that causes skin to break out in acne is Testosterone, for males and females. Having a diverse diet with the right foods helps to keep it in balance. The following six foods proactively balance ones hormones, plump up the skin, ward off wrinkles and prevent acne. Hormone Regulating Foods List: QUINOA […]
Healthy Pregnancy for Mum and Bub
How exciting – you’re pregnant! Pregnancy is an exciting and special time in a woman’s life as she watches the way her body changes and grows to accommodate her unborn baby. There’s never been a better time to look after yourself so you can really sit back and enjoy your pregnancy while making plans to […]
Mushrooms: their power as a superfood
Often classified as a vegetable or a herb, mushrooms are actually a type of edible fungi. Humans have been consuming them for a thousands of years, dating back to Ancient Egypt. In fact the Egyptians called them “the food of immortality”. Medicinal mushroom use is well known in Traditional Chinese Medicine, but did you […]
Medicinal Mushrooms
There are more than 2,000 species of edible mushrooms on the planet, but only a few are known and eaten. Chinese and Asian medicine have been using mushrooms for their medicinal properties for thousands of years and our modern research is just catching up with this long history. Nutrient content of mushrooms The nutritional components […]
