Health

Most of us try to implement healthy habits in our lives. We spend time and money buying ‘superfoods’ and supplements and try to avoid alcohol, sugar and processed foods when …
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Bone health is often overlooked as an important aspect of health – particularly with young girls and as women approach the menopause. The reality is that too many people don’t …
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Visit any supermarket and it’s like some sort of junk food frenzy with giant boxes of crisps, metre long tubes of chocolates and enough discounted booze to fill the Thames. …
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One of the most common complaints we hear from our clients are feeling fatigued and tired all the time. Often this tiredness prevents people from properly addressing their diets and …
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A term that frequently flies around in functional medicine circles is to ‘eat a rainbow’. Where previously we have always been told to simply eat more fruit and vegetables the …
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One of the areas we discuss with clients at their first or second consultation is the importance of sleep. Five or ten years ago it wouldn’t have crossed my mind …
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This isn’t a conventional blog post but rather a little self-indulgent, self-congratulatory post. A few weeks ago I became an Institute for Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner, one of just 16 in …
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Vitamin D was in the headlines earlier this year after the government recommended that everyone should supplement to protect against deficiency. They advised that many of us are at risk for not …
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Unless you’ve been meditating on a mountain for the last year (sounds appealing after today’s school run), you’ve probably seen plenty of adverts for cheap, ‘do at home’ saliva based …
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Practically everyone we see in our clinic talks about lack of energy and feeling tired all the time. This will probably get worse when the kids break up leaving parents …
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