Going through a lot of stress impacts the quality of sleep you get come bedtime. Sometimes the mind simply does not shut down so that you can finally fall asleep. Often, the stress can even wake you up several times through the night. If you have been going through this yourself, you would know first-hand how frustrating this situation is,
PEA (palmitoylethanolamide) started out back in 1939 as a natural food ingredient within dried egg yolk. It was noted that it possessed medicinal properties because when fed to undernourished children with recurrent haemolytic streptococcus infections, rheumatic fever was reduced. The action was attributed the anti-inflammatory actions of PEA and later isolated from soy lecithin in 1957. Later this was confirmed
How would you describes your average day? Busy but fun? Productive and joyful? Or stressful and feeling like you are never achieving much? Are you reacting to ever mad driver cutting you off or running into difficult situations at every turn? The difference between being resilient and no is about adaptation to constant challenges and being able to let the
As winter begins in Perth, I’d like to revisit the keys to keeping our immune system in optimal function. There will always be a new virus or “bug” revealing itself, but the keys are rarely different. Keep yourself well! Organisms are inhaled, swallowed and touched daily through the foods we eat, objects we touch and air we breath. This dance
Out of all the hormones, most of us have heard of Oestrogen (US spelling estrogen). Today I will shed a little light on the different types of Oestrogen. Our bodies make three different forms oestrogens: Oestrone (E1) Oestradiol (E2) Oestriol (E3) Oestrone (E1) is usually considered an “unhealthy” oestrogen. It is still bio-identical, but you do not want an excess
If you take a stroll down the cleaning isle in the supermarket, you’ll notice the products are all about killing and sterilising. As a collective society, our mission is to eradicate things and have a mindset to start a war on germs. The western world has largely adopted the germ theory which was first popularised by Louis Pasteur (1822 –