 THE CURIOUS MINDS CLUB 
The new season of 'Alone' is out & the contenders are all from our community: Nats, Nuts & Herbalists. Who's likely to last longest?😅 I've been entertaining myself with this idea ever since I attended an inspiring interactive workshop at the recent NHAA...
Sounds were emanating not just from me, but from everyone around me, at my table. Admittedly, I was sitting with some very seasoned practitioners, no doubt skewing how representative the sample was of our entire profession, however, at least one thing was clear....
How has your start to 2025 been? Mine has been humbling thanks to the grumbling of my appendix over 2 days, so much so that on the 3rd day it was forcibly 'removed from its place of residence'! Being unwell brings up all sorts of stuff for me. Many questions (Why do...
It's important for all of us, as people who spend our working life caring for others, to routinely take time out to really care for ourselves. Across my 3 decade long career there have been many occasions when I ended the year in the red, my 'personal account'...
By virtue of our profession we all have an ongoing relationship with science but the nature of that may differ. Slave? Submissive? Subscriber? Sceptic? Or of course it could be all of these on different occasions depending on the science in question! But as...
In January, after 30 years I finally got off the gear. That's how long I'd been taking good quality, high dose (minimum 20mg elemental) zinc daily for. Originally the rationale was I was a vegetarian. Then the 20 years that followed my reintroduction of meat saw me...
We're weirdos in the nutrition world, right? Tell you something you don't know?!😅 Ok, how about this, with respect to sodium, our positions, perspective and for some of us, prescriptions set us completely apart. Say the word, 'sodium' to a room filled by any other...
   Some days I feel as old as the hills & others like a new sprout just making its way up out of the earth, especially in relation to my professional knowledge. It's absolutely true I've been around the block a few (zillion) times, building up substantial...
Ever feel like you're trying to improve people's mineral levels but you're not getting the results you should? Does it seem that despite making good product choices and doses, there's something that keeps derailing or rerouting where these minerals end up? It could...
Isn't it always the case that when something takes on personal significance - 'we' give it more attention? Whether that 'we' is a country, a group of researchers, a practitioner or a patient.  Let me explain... 🌍Denmark, among many other European countries,...
These days it's all about who you know right? So if we applied that same mindset to rating and ranking our organs then the kidneys would've amassed the largest number of followers, 'top fan badges', likes, watches, you name it. The kidneys are nothing if not...
I know you haven't heard a lot from me of late. 📢Â I repeat I been BUSY📢 . Anyone currently undertaking our Nutrient Prescriber's Program this year or Cracking the Case Series will vouch for that and fill you in on the insanely dynamic details!! But...
It's so wonderful to know kidney health is moving address. From the darkest bits at the back, now to the front of our clever clinical minds. We're easy to impress when it comes to any 'axis' - gut-brain, brain-immune etc. so we all need to take a moment and take note...
Do you realise we're often giving our patients Crabs? Stay with me 🙄 We're all BIG fans of polyphenols right, but did you know that one of the key ways they qualify as antioxidants is that they chelate metals?  Chemically speaking that means that polyphenols...
It's no secret I am in the midst of some serious deep-diving through the micronutrient evidence base & at a depth of about 30 metres I struck Boron! Don't yawn! I saw that. Thinking, 'boring', when we hear, 'Boron', is almost as bankable as watching everyone...
Still. And yes - like you - I don't see any slowing down any time soon in this extraordinary paradigm shift occurring in medicine and health. Which for us humans involves one humbling discovery after another. Here we were thinking we made our dietary choices from a...
I'm such a sucker for marketing!...ZoomZoom is from an old Australian car ad - an earworm clearly conveying ' the speed of something', and let me tell you, totally fitting for this little Zinc tale I'm about to tell! Many years ago, I wrote a thesis on Zinc that...
Wow, menopause is really having a moment, isn't it? Or is that just me (and my mates who are all somewhere on that perimenopausal path)?! But seriously, medical perception of this reproductive transition is undergoing a revolution right now—widening the lens to take...
Any steps towards inclusivity in societal & cultural terms are cause for celebration but in medicine, that can come in the form of a 'diagnosis of inclusion', the opposite, of course, of a 'diagnosis of exclusion' and potentially as slippery and loose as it...
Recently I asked practitioners to tell me where the 'therapeutic reference range' many of us were taught for nutrients comes from & no one has been able to answer that.🙄 If you've heard me refer to my original naturopathic education before you'll know I generally...
Let's play a word association game of minerals & their major roles I say, 'Potassium'. Maybe you say, 'Sodium Potassium Pump' I say, 'Magnesium'. You say, 'Muscles?' I say, 'Calcium'. You say, "Bones'.... But I say, Second Messenger. And arguably the most...
'Still-believers' look away now! One of the great myths, misconceptions & misunderstandings in nutritional medicine is that supplementation will produce change specifically in the one system, or pathway, that the practitioner believes would benefit most.  Let me...
Current New Graduate Mentee: Kelly Allan giving her elevator introduction in a recent New Grad mentoring session The fabulous Nina,...