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What is diabetes?
Diabetes is a cardiometabolic disease where your body can't properly control blood sugar levels. It happens because, either your pancreas isn't making enough of the hormone called insulin, or your body isn't very good at using the insulin that your pancreas has...
Which chia seeds are best?
What is the difference between black and white chia seeds? How do you eat them? And which seeds are the best? What are chia seeds? Chia seeds come from Salvia hispanica, a plant that is native to Mexico and Guatemala. The seeds love water and will soak up 12 times...
What is osteoarthritis?
Osteoarthritis is the most common form of arthritis diagnosed in New Zealand. In recognition of world arthritis day on 12 October, here's what you need to know about osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis affects around 10% of adults. It happens where your cartilage has...
Reduce anxiety with this emergency exercise
Reduce anxiety, stress or overwhelm with this quick and discrete visualisation. You can use whenever you feel anxious or upset. https://youtu.be/rj6yiRV99cw Medical Herbalist and High Performance coach, Tracy Tutty, introduces you to an exercise to reduce anxiety or...
How to breathe better in September
Breathe better September lifts the lid on all things respiratory. 700,000 kiwis have a respiratory condition - that's a lot, huh. Join me and thousands of other kiwis in the breathe better September challenge. What's the breathe better September challenge? This month...
Formal relaxation to reduce your stress
I often recommend formal relaxation to my patients because it provides a space where your body can get on with the business of healing. Your body knows exactly what it needs to do to heal itself. Our job is to provide it with the resources it needs to do just that. I...
Indigenous people and their medicine
9 August 2019 is the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. While the theme this year is indigenous languages, I'm choosing to celebrate our indigenous people by celebrating their plant medicine. Indigenous medicine has a long lineage. The use of 67...
How to do a walking meditation
It's mental health awareness week this week Mental health awareness week takes place from 8 - 15 October in New Zealand. This year the focus is: let nature in, strengthen your wellbeing. A wonderful way of combining calmness with nature is walking meditation. You...
Are your essential oils cat friendly?
Too many flies are plaguing my office. Being herbally inclined I decided some essential oils diffused in the air would do the trick. My usual go to are lavender and peppermint. They're very effective at repelling flies. But they are potentially poisonous to cats and I...
Herbal sleep remedies from your garden
Having trouble sleeping? Before reaching for the big guns, try these herbal sleep remedies. I've chosen these three herbs because they're effective and you'll find them growing in your garden. Whilst the plants listed below contain plant chemicals (phytochemicals)...
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