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But does it make you doubt yourself & all your knowledge when it does? When you personally suffer a health condition, from the small to the significant, does it always come with a double diagnosis; a bad bout of imposter syndrome being added for good measure? Do you think things like, ‘How can I be advising […]
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But does it make you doubt yourself & all your knowledge when it does? When you personally suffer a health condition, from the small to the significant, does it always come with a double diagnosis; a bad bout of imposter syndrome being added for good measure?...
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But does it make you doubt yourself & all your knowledge when it does? When you personally suffer a health condition, from the small to the significant, does it always come with a double diagnosis; a bad bout of imposter syndrome being added for good measure? Do...
Food Cancel Culture is Alive & Unwell 🫤😦😞
Take a moment to reflect honestly on your (ouch!), or alternatively 'our' collective (if that's more comfortable) opinions over time regarding each of these: Butter. Coffee. Spinach. Red meat. I could go on and on...and tragically, on some more. The total number of...
“Soy?!” They Screamed!
Anyone else? Or should that be...'Everyone else?' 🙄 Because if I had a dollar for every cracking encounter I've had with people that included this line, I wouldn't be writing this line - so too, if I'd been persuaded by the push-back against this lovely little legume....
When Women Lean In
I've been talking lately about my own perimenopause experience & I've been listening to others do the same when suddenly it occurred to me that when these conversations happen - women all around lean in. Physically, mentally, emotionally, biologically. While for...
Feeling Pressure To Be An ‘Early Adopter’?
I often feel on the outer even among my peers. I recall a period during which I was a regular invited speaker at an event, where I was increasingly the odd one out from the others & their escalating unified chant of the same single solution: the GAPS diet. I could...
How’s Your B6 Situationship?
Completely breaking up would have been easier for everyone. But cutting the cord isn't an option because she's everywhere. She remains essential, beneficial & yes, indicated in some patients as part of their prescription. But her 'toxic nature', exposed via excess...
Novel Iron Options – But Which Form When?
The iron options available to us have undergone a 'Grand-Designs-Scale' reno. And whether your taste is for supplements that offer more food-like forms (I'm thinking an off-grid rammed earth, built into a hill) or you welcome nutrition borrowing from the best that...
February Ate My Ferrous Homework
It always does! Turns out I rely heavily on those last few days of every month to get my homework done in time 😦 as many of my 11th hour Update and Under 30 timestamps will attest to! And this month (as is the case every other month tbh) I felt the topic was so...
TRE & Perimenopausal PTH Problems
While we're on the topic of perimenopause -and will we ever get off it btw because quite frankly there's so much that needs to be said?!- I need to bang the drum some more about bone health & our role in that. During our recent all-things-peri-education-event I...
A Perimenopausal P.S.
It's 2022 and I am celebrating my 50th with friends. Within just a few months of this I have left a 14 year long relationship & relocated to a new town where I know no one. Next up, I'm undertaking an 11 day solo hike across the island of Kythira in Greece and at...
Another Immersion Into Vietnamese Cuisine🍜
Just back from my 6th...🤔 or 7th... trip to Vietnam. But this one was different - made all the more special, as I was visiting family🤗 Which meant I got to eat and enjoy things, I myself, despite being there so often, was never previously game to try mostly due to the...
We Each See Success Differently
Not just differently in terms of how we view other peoples' success but also how we recognise it within ourselves, or where we perceive ourselves to be in relationship to that 'goal'. Our 'identifiers' will be as unique as we are. What we've had modelled within our...
No Please. Mansplain It To Me
Seriously, hold my beer. A pattern has come to my attention that warrants calling out. A social media manosphere of sorts. You see I have these 'Facebook fellas', let's just say, who appear out of nowhere, as in, they are not people I know, not in truth even my peers,...
Nobody Actually Reads Anymore
Hey wait what? What are you still doing here? The average time we look at anything online is 3-8 seconds. Poof! There's another big portion of followers gone just with stating that stat! But, you see, if we are so quick to think we have all that we need from...
An Important Update About Iron
I certainly pride myself on possessing an impressive level of endurance for an argument, as most of you surely know 😊 But the record for this is held by all practitioners of nutritional medicine. Because we've actually been debating the same 3 facets of what makes a...
New Year New You? 👵
Yeah nah — I’ll settle for the increasingly old me, thanks. Vanity aside (and ouch, by the way), I’m perfectly happy remaining Insta‑unsuitable. I refuse to reinvent myself in the name of naturopathy meets neoliberalism, so I’m okay with being off‑trend. Liberated by...
Having the Conversation💬
There was indeed food & drink & merriment galore but a good holiday season for me is about having the conversations. With family, friends, my professional peers. This is the real feast. In this strange period between one year and the next, portals appear to...
The Hooha Health Revival: Time to take a look under the bonnet 🍑
As part of our current audio series on the pros & cons of non-enteral administration of our medicines, we're finally up to the foof. The vajayjay. The bajingo. The coochie. I mean what exactly does happen when we start delivering nutrients direct to this target...
How Much Is ‘Mattering’ Part Of Our Medicine? 💡
After not seeing her for some time I messaged my longstanding (or should that be long suffering? 😂) psychologist chasing up a contact. Much to my astonishment she rang & left a voice message along the lines of, "Great to hear from you, I often think of you and...