The vagus nerve is a key player in your body's nervous system, influencing everything from heart rate to digestion. As the longest and most complex of the twelve cranial nerves, it connects the brain to organs like the heart, lungs, and abdomen, regulating essential functions like the "rest and digest" response. In this blog post, we’ll explore how natural therapies can help stimulate the vagus nerve, promoting relaxation, reducing stress, and improving overall health. Whether through breathing techniques, herbs, or other holistic methods, stimulating the vagus nerve can support your well-being in a safe, natural way.

How the hedgehog principle can be applied to humans and why it can contribute to yo-yo dieting. Reducing your caloric intake below your basal metabolic rate (BMR) may seem like an effective way to lose weight, but it often leads to a sling-shot effect with your weight —where the weight comes off only to return, with more extra fat than before. This can happen when the body enters "starvation mode" and slows down metabolism. In this blog post, we’ll explore how the Metabolic Balance® program offers a sustainable alternative by focusing on whole foods and personalised coaching. By addressing the root causes of weight gain and helping to regulate metabolism, Metabolic Balance® supports lasting results without the cycle of weight gain, loss and heart-ache.

"Ok, well what’s the one thing that’s easy and cheap that I can do right now to improve my health?" The answer is simple: breathing into your belly. This technique activates your vagus nerve, which plays a key role in promoting relaxation and reducing stress. By consciously breathing deeply and slowly into your abdomen, you can stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system, helping to lower heart rate, reduce anxiety, and enhance overall well-being. In this blog post, we’ll explore the connection between the vagus nerve and relaxation, and how you can use belly breathing to improve your health in just a few minutes a day.

Unlock self sabotaging behaviours which stop the release of unwanted weight. We know that using real, natural, whole foods to improve our health makes sense. So why don't we do it? What's stopping us from achieving the level of freedom that we want? Click here to find out more.

The Metabolic Balance® program, is a worldwide and established nutrition and lifestyle program. It is unique, highly individualised and extremely valuable for those who are over yo-yo dieting. This is for those who want something well balanced, structured and as unique as they are. The results of a blood test forms the foundations to each personal nutrition plan.

Welcome to our blog on Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) and how natural therapies can help support those managing this common condition. PCOS affects many individuals, leading to symptoms like irregular (or absent) periods, weight gain, acne, hair loss, and hormonal imbalances. While there’s no single cure for PCOS, holistic approaches can make a significant difference in managing symptoms and improving overall well-being. Natural therapies—such as herbal medicine, nutritional support, lifestyle modifications, and stress management—focus on addressing the root causes of PCOS rather than just masking symptoms.

The Metabolic Balance® program, is a worldwide and established nutrition and lifestyle program. It is unique, highly individualised and extremely valuable for those who are over yo-yo dieting. This is for those who want something well balanced, structured and as unique as they are. The results of a blood test forms the foundations to each personal nutrition plan.

Endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory condition affecting around 10-15% of Australian women, with approximately 750,000 women affected nationally and 176 million worldwide. The disease involves the growth of endometrial-like tissue outside the uterus, which responds to hormonal changes by thickening and bleeding—much like the tissue within the uterus. However, unlike uterine tissue that sheds during menstruation, this misplaced tissue cannot be cleared from the body, leading to lesions that may impact nearby organs.

Natural therapies can play a supportive role in managing endometriosis, focusing on reducing inflammation, balancing hormones, improving gut health, and supporting the immune system to enhance overall well-being. We offer individualised testing, dietary guidance, herbal support, and other targeted treatments to help manage symptoms and improve quality of life.

Ovulation, and having a regular menstrual cycle is not just about baby making. Ovulation, and the delicate hormonal cascade which supports ovulation is required for bone health, mental and emotional health, cardiovascular health and immune function. Just like testosterone isn't just about fertilising eggs and clearly has many other benefits for men, women also need their own endogenous supply of oestrogen, progesterone and other sex hormones.

Firstly, constipation is anything that isn’t opening your bowels daily. The female body is ideally meant to have a ratio of approximately 100:1 progesterone to oestrogen for healthy hormonal balance. If waste products are left within the large intestine for long periods of time it risks increasing oestrogen ratios through a process called enterohepatic circulation. This then can cause undesirable consequences by shifting the oestrogen to progesterone ratio out of alignment.

When we see evidence that these microbes are grown in unhealthy proportions (like the pictures shown here), we call this dysbiosis. As a woman who has experienced some of the worst symptoms of endometriosis (a disease which is made worse by hormonal imbalances), I understand how uncomfortable it can be to have what I call ‘endo-belly’… when you wake up first thing in the morning with a flat belly and by the end of the day have what looks like a baby-on-board. Read on to learn more about the oestrobolome and the bacteria which help us to help our hormone balance.

A recent study revealed that only 2-3% of Australian women self-report endometriosis whereas the true figure is believed to be in excess of one in ten women being impacted. The average time lapse between experiencing symptoms to diagnosis is approximately ten years during which symptoms such as profound pain, increased infertility risk and reduced quality of life is accepted and even normalised. The gold standard method of diagnosis, a laparoscopy of the pelvis, is typically quite invasive and costly. Read here for a very personal account of how ignoring niggly symptoms delayed healing and allowed an energetic woman’s health to decline over time.

The reason why understanding more about PMS is so important is that we consider that a woman’s experience during her menstrual cycle gives us important clues as to her overall health. If she cannot have a ‘functional period’ it may flag that there are biological, environmental and nutritional drivers that need attention and nurturing. Find out more about PMS in a way that’s not dismissive and supports it naturally so you can get your time back, here.

A delicious chocolate alternative packed with nutrients which can help constipation, hormone health, acne and whole myriad of other less than awesome symptoms… Chia seeds provides the richest plant based source of omega-3 fatty acids (which has helped earned its title as a functional food). It swells to approximately 10 times its original size when combined with liquid, providing both soluble and insoluble fibre for those with gut and immune issues. It also has a high content of linoleic and alpha-linolenic (ALA) fatty-acids which scientists are beginning to connect with cardiovascular-risk health improvements such as weight management, high cholesterol and blood sugar regulation.

Post pill acne and how to avoid it using natural medicine. Preparation is key! Learn more about androgens, excess sebum and the hidden bacterial culprit behind acne development post hormonal birth control withdrawal.