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I like to fancy myself as a bit of Supplement Sleuth! I love working with herbs, nutrients and nutraceuticals but I am not blinded to the fact that manufacturers and suppliers, whatever their form of medicine, are large competitive businesses that ultimately need to...
I know my busy mum patients think I am probably not to be taken literally when I say, 'Cook buckets of extras every time you step foot inside the kitchen', but I am. My slow cooker and my 'buckets' are two of my favourite kitchen resources I couldn't live without....
Fresh faced students, new graduates and seasoned practitioners alike, are forever reminding me of the challenge we experience as practitioners when it comes to instigating real change in our patients health related behaviours ... the change we KNOW will make a...
All health professionals are aware of increasing resistance in bacteria as a result of our overuse of broad spectrum antibiotics in both prescriptions and our livestock industry but increasingly we're hearing about evidence of resistance in microbes of a variety of...
Cheesy I know! 😉 However, recently the issue of knowing when to use Withania somnifera & when not to, came up again in mentoring so I thought it's probably a good one to share. Withania, aka Aswagandha or Indian Ginseng, has become a...
I've always been a bit of a fan of Vitamin A but this has grown again in the last year or so, having seen some great responses to short term high dose treatment during active infections or when trying to break a cycle of chronic reinfection. For me, and I...
I think most of us visualise the clearly malnourished young woman, when we think of eating disorders however, while anorexia nervosa is something to be on the watch for, our patients are presenting increasingly with more unusual, atypical patterns of disordered...
From the giddy holiday highs to the lows! As you know we kicked off these school holidays with a birthday celebration at Stradbroke Island...time travel forward just a short distance to the end of school holidays and you'll find us we've now taken up residence in the...
The understanding that certain infections produce mental health presentations is not a new one. However, based in part on observations of some of the features of tick borne diseases (TBD) such as Lyme like illness, a reawakening of the role for infection in psychiatry...
Question: What has 22 legs, 11 mouths, sounds like your tv, radio and CD player are all playing at their loudest deafening volume together and an appetite like a small army? Answer: the 11 teens I took to Stradbroke Island to celebrate my twins 16th birthday! Yes,...
A patient walks into your client and reports that they think they might be reacting to gluten. Happens every week, if not every day, right? Awareness about potential negative health effects from gluten is exploding and often patients present self-diagnosing and self...
Robert Bransfield MD DLFAPA likes to start off his presentations with a full and frank disclosure about potential conflicts of interest. After all, he is a well known psychiatrist and Associate Clinical Professor at Rutgers-RWJ Medical School, who is...
Sorry if I've been quiet for while but I promise have been very very busy! The Australian Naturopathic Summit is getting tantalisingly (& frighteningly!!) close, and I'm just back from a great Aus/NZ tour with Professor Vormann talking my heart out about Acid...
If you’re reading this you already know how much I love a good set of blood test results, right? It’s always (tragically!) a bit of a high point of my day when they spit out of the fax machine or become available through some other more modern little IT...
“Access the Experts with Rachel Arthur” is a month long intensive webinar series focusing on the best of Mental Health Education. Every Thursday night for the month of July, Rachel will be interviewing a hand-picked guest speaker about a particular area of expertise...
The New Practitioner Drop In Class is a monthly drop in class that focuses on providing an easy to access drop in opportunity for integrative health practitioners to participate in some of the most accelerated form of post-graduate education and clinically relevant...
During a mentoring session this week a practitioner asked me, 'How could paracetamol relieve anger?'. After the initial, 'What the..??.' reflex, I thought well the placebo response is really a wonderful thing, the potency of which should never be under-estimated. I...
I really enjoy mentoring practitioners in business - it's a real privilege to be able to hear about each practitioners' aspirations and challenges. A few weeks back I had the good fortune to speak with a fresh one! A practitioner who has only been in business for a...
Perhaps you've been keeping abreast of the bone broth debate? The practice of preparing broths made from slow boiled animal bones and made popular by the GAPS diet as well as many Paleo advocates, has come under scrutiny thanks to a small pilot study that evaluated...
Due to popular demand and increasing interest, I am so pleased to announce that I will be starting a second Rachel Arthur Mentorship Program (RAMP) from May until November 2016! RAMP is a program that focuses on providing practitioners with the most accelerated form...
How many of your clients are on a combination OCP? Do you know the full extent of the physiological impact in each? Are you able to identify to key pathology indicators regarding the magnitude of that impact? Like you I see a lot of clients who are on the COCP -...