Nutrition
Is Aluminium Really Safe?
Aluminium is being found increasingly in our day to day lives. It is incorporated in our water, our food packaging, personal care products and more. There has always been an assumption that it is safe.
However research has shown that low level cumulative aluminium ingestion through all forms may have toxic effects on the body and in particular developing children.
Detox Workshop Salad Recipe
Detox Workshop Salad
This easy and nutritious salad was an absolute hit at the Spring Detox Workshop. Due to a popular demand I had to right down dosages and come up with an actual recipe. A difficult task for someone who never follows cooking recipes strictly and always likes to experiment.
The good thing about salads is that you don’t have to be that precise with measuring ingredients, you just mix everything together in a bowl.
Spring Detox Workshop
RE-SET YOUR HEALTH NATURALLY THIS SPRING
Save the date
MONDAY 21st OCTOBER at 6 pm
at THE SPINAL CENTRE HAWTHORN CLINIC
FREE ENTRY
Tired Of Being Tired? – HPA Axis Dysfunction
Are you tired of being tired? Feeling exhausted?
The body has a certain amount of resilience and ability to repair. Stressors such as infection, toxicity, poor diet, inflammation and emotional stress may lead to depletion of the body’s reserves.
Traditionally, low levels of cortisol and DHEA in response to chronic stress have been often blamed on “adrenal fatigue” or “adrenal exhaustion”. However, during times of stress as part of the adaptive process, cortisol levels are mediated via the brain, specifically the hypothalamus, rather than the adrenal glands. Therefore, ‘hypothalamic pituitary adrenal (HPA) dysfunction is a more accurate descriptor of what occurs in response to chronic stress.
Celebrate Easter The Healthy Way
Easter- the holiday that is practically dedicated to baskets filled with loads of sugar.
While it is always nice to enjoy a sweet treat every now and then, it is important to remember that processed sugary foods, such as your Easter eggs and hot cross buns, should be best avoided.
We don’t want you to sabotage your healing process by eating too many sweet treats and therefore encouraging inflammation, so we would like to recommend some healthier options that are easy to make (with chocolate included of course!).
Fibre Intake Vital in Weight Loss
A study coming out of Massachusetts USA has reconfirmed that a single dietary change – an increase in fibre, is a simple more manageable addition to assist in weight loss.
Increasing fibre intake can result in having a more “clinically meaningful weight loss” when compared to a restrictive diet.
The Spinal Centre offers some tips to help you get to that magic 30 grams of fibre per day.
Vitamin D and Food Allergies
An Interesting study from Murdoch Childrens Research Institute highlights the importance of vitamin D levels in children to reduce rates of allergies.
We have be talking about Vitamin deficiencies for years and it still puzzles me when the latest medical expert gets on the telly and tells us that ‘don’t worry you get all your nutrients from your diet’. Ten years ago I would get laughed at if I suggested a patient should consider a Vitamin D test – particularly if they mentioned it to their GP.
‘We live in Australia. Your talking about the sunshine vitamin. No one in Australia could be Vitamin D deficient.’ Interesting how things change. Rarely would a middle age female patient come through now without a Vitamin D test, however no one seems to realise what the optimal range is.
Adults need to be somewhere between 100 to 150 for optimal levels. Fifty is way too low. If I had of asked for a child to be tested – I would probably have been up for malpractice.
