Anxious & Exhausted? This Herb Needs to Be on Your Radar…

Anxious, dog-tired but maddeningly wired and unable to sleep, forgetful and foggy-headed: this is a common cluster of symptoms many women who seek my services present with. Upon deeper probing there is often adrenal fatigue (HPA axis dysfunction) and for many, a slowing down of thyroid function resulting in lethargy, low mood and weight gain.

While treatment certainly requires a personalised, multi-faceted approach combining diet, stress reduction, lifestyle changes, nutritional supplementation and often a unique blend of herbs, there is definitely one herb in particular that’s a God-send for all of these symptoms: Ashwaghandha, also known as Withania, Winter Cherry and Indian Ginseng.… Keep reading...

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How A Naturopath Can Help With Anxiety

If you’re struggling with anxiety and looking for answers, have you considered seeing a naturopath? Watch the video to see how naturopathy can be a helpful adjunct to orthodox medicine and therapy, or an effective stand-alone option without nasty side-effects. (And if you have no idea what a naturopath is or does, don’t worry – that’s covered in the video too!)

And in the comment below I’d love to hear from you – have you ever visited a naturopath?… Keep reading...

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How to Improve Anxiety With Diet

 How to Improve Anxiety with Diet: it may be surprising or even shocking to know this, but what you eat can have a BIG impact on your anxiety symptoms and mental health in general. Watch the video to find out which foods can help – and which foods can worsen – your anxiety.

 

 How to Improve Anxiety with Diet: it may be surprising or even shocking to know this, but what you eat can have a BIG impact on your anxiety symptoms and mental health in general.… Keep reading...

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How to Find Out if Gluten is Worsening Your Anxiety & Depression

Ok, this is going to make me seem old…but I graduated as a naturopath back in 2004. Back then, we received a lot of flack about putting people on gluten-free “fad diets” if they didn’t have coeliac disease (a diagnosable auto-immune condition characterised by severe gluten intolerance). Despite there being a lack of scientific evidence and being scoffed at by orthodox medical professionals at the time, we naturopaths saw people suffering from a range of conditions (from skin, to gut to neurological) improve when they cut out gluten, so we kept doing it and as people felt better, gluten-free options started filling supermarket shelves and restaurant menus everywhere.… Keep reading...

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Anxious? Depressed? How to REALLY Find Out if Your Thyroid Is the Problem

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I once came across a patient who on the surface seemed to be suffering from severe psychiatric symptoms such as hearing voices, hallucinating, suicidal thoughts and severe anxiety. He also suffered from extreme heat intolerance, a racing heart, diarrhoea and insomnia…Many of these are signs of thyroid imbalance and I suggested he get it tested…sure enough he tested positive for hyperthyroidism (an overactive thyroid).

This was an uncommon case in my experience, but what is far more common is women who are tired, foggy-headed, forgetful, overweight, have dry hair and skin, constipated and also suffer from anxiety and depression….and… Keep reading...

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