Each month in the Green Body Circle Membership I present an online workshop and one of the most popular workshops yet has been about supplements, vitamins and minerals. No wonder! If we could get great health from taking a tablet everyday - we would all do it right?! Well of course it's not that easy, … Continue reading Supplements & Micronutrients for Busy Women – Part 1
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This episode introduces the 3 ways that you can control your diet - dietary restriction, caloric restriction and time restriction. This episode details the first two "levers" you can pull to control your weight and generally improve your health, dietary and caloric restriction. This framework was put forward by Dr Peter Attia MD in an … Continue reading Episode #14: The 3 Control Levers Of Dieting Part 1 – Dietary & Caloric Restriction
Professional Women & Working Mums: Grab my FREE Burnout Recovery Guide. This changes with the seasons - seasons of life that is. (If you've stumbled upon this blog and don't know me, I am 33, I run an online nutrition coaching business and my husband and I own and run a gym and yoga studio … Continue reading My Personal Health Routine
Luckily there are a lot of natural ways that you can improve your gut health. Let's break it down into 3 steps. Step 1 - Ditch the junk. It’s always best to start with removing the causes of poor gut health aka triggers of gut inflammation - and that means cutting out the junk. Eliminate … Continue reading 3 Steps to Improving Gut Health
Hippocrates said, “All disease begins in the gut.” More and more research shows that our gut (digestive system) has a bigger role to play in the development of many modern day diseases. And we're not just talking about heartburn and IBS. We're talking about all kinds of issues like inflammation, allergies, pain, mood disorders, auto-immune … Continue reading Gut Health
Baby Eoin (pronounced Owen) is now 8 months and getting stuck into all sorts of solids which he smears all over the place and even occasionally eats. The last few weeks he has started really enjoying full meals where I find myself looking for something else to give him once the bowl is empty. I've … Continue reading Real Food For Babies
Professional Women & Working Mums: Grab my FREE Burnout Recovery Guide. Coffee anyone? Whether you're a hard working career woman coping on just 6 hours a night, or a mum with young children keeping you up at all hours, sleep deprivation is serious business. If you're in the first category, whilst you may feel like … Continue reading 5 Steps To Great Sleep
Professional Women & Working Mums: Grab my FREE Burnout Recovery Guide. The parasympathetic nervous system "Feed and breed", "rest and digest", call it what you want but this nervous system is responsible for most of the good things in life! Under the influence of the parasympathetic nervous system our heart rates are slow and our … Continue reading Enter Relax Mode
Professional Women & Working Mums: Grab my FREE Burnout Recovery Guide. Grace* was seemingly healthy and at the perfect time in her life to have a baby with her partner. She spent close to two years trying, seeing different doctors, going through a barrage of tests and was preparing for IVF. And then she changed … Continue reading How Chronic Stress Affects Our Health – And Our Weight
Professional Women & Working Mums: Grab my FREE Burnout Recovery Guide. I recently read a cry for help on a forum - a pregnant woman had been suffering from the flu and then bronchitis for 8 weeks and despite taking antibiotics her illness wasn’t shifting. The responses came in thick and fast - probiotics, vitamin … Continue reading How to Support Your Immune System – Part 1