Is a Magnesium Deficiency Making You Stressed & Irritable?

Have you been feeling stressed, tired, irritable and grumpy lately?

If so, you could be suffering from an all-too-common magnesium deficiency!

Magnesium is the relaxation mineral, it literally repairs the coating (myelin sheath) around your nerves when it becomes damaged due to stress.

Other signs and symptoms of deficiency include:

  • twitchy eyelids
  • tremors/shaky hands
  • muscle cramps and spasms
  • restless legs
  • constipation
  • sensitivity to light and noise
  • high blood pressure
  • feeling snappy and unable to cope with daily stresses

Unfortunately blood testing for magnesium deficiency is not that reliable, if you suffer from any of the above symptoms, your best bet is taking a supplement for a few months, or on-going if you are particularly sensitive to stress.… Keep reading...

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Why Life-Balance Doesn’t Work (& What To Do Instead)

Slackline in the park. Black and white photos

 

Have you ever been to one of those self-help seminars, where they give you a fun worksheet to fill out in which your life is divided into neat little segments on a pie chart?

As you fill out the different sections that may be lacking or unbalanced in your life, you have the stunning realization that if you could just devote enough time and energy to each slice of life-pie, everything would be hunkey-dorey!… Keep reading...

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Super-Food Recipe: Sicilian Sardine Patè

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Sardines are probably one of the healthiest, cheapest and most under-rated superfoods on the planet. Packed full of omega-3 fatty acids, they are essential for great skin and hair and reducing inflammation in the body. Interestingly, studies have also shown Omega-3 fats are able to reduce stress, anxiety and depression as well.

I invented this recipe while on holiday in Sicily, and it is definitley not a traditional Sicilian recipe but does use classic Sicilian flavours and ingredients – and doesn’t taste too fishy!!… Keep reading...

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What To Do If World Events Are Getting You Down

The woman meditating in a yoga pose on the tropical beach.

I don’t think it is overly pessimistic to say that we are living in very truobled times.

War, environmental devastation, terrorism, racism…not to mention douche-bag politicians leading our nations who seem to be operating at the basest level of humanity.

Sometimes the problems seem so huge and insurmountable it can be easy to feel sad, overwhelmed and powerless in the face of them.

You may think, what can one little person like me do?… Keep reading...

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5 Essential Natural Remedies to Boost Your Immune System

Have you got time to be sick this winter? I know I certainly don’t! That is why I take a “prevention is better than cure” approach to my immune health to avoid the dreaded lurgies.
Our immune systems are incredibly complex but it is possible boost it’s fighting power with a few natural remedies.

  1. Zinc

During my time as a consultant naturopath, I used to test each of my patients zinc levels and found that approximately 90% of them were critically low in this vital mineral.… Keep reading...

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