THE CURIOUS MINDS CLUB 
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
I know you know I've had a very public falling out with iodine. First up, I was its biggest fan then over about a decade I became its very vocal detractor. So what happened to create such a change of heart? It's undeniable that our dietary intake increased and...
"Cosmeceutical” sits between cosmetics and pharmaceuticals and probably makes you think of serums and skincare, and of course many of these products' 'active agents' are in our lane: Retinol, Biotin, Collagen, Liposomal C and herbs. However, the new kids on the...
To the people who make up our profession... I'm just back from attending the opening of the Melbourne Apothecary/ Mecca collaboration in Melbourne CBD as one of Charmaine & Carly's VIPPPs... Very Impressed Proud Privileged People Everyone who knew I was attending...
What a delightful high to finish our group mentoring programs on 🤓🤸 We know the calibre of practitioners that commit strongly to their ongoing education and upskilling. We see this in action via myriad reflections - check out just some...
Are you ready for your bedtime story? Ok well snuggle in close and let’s get comfy because it’s a goodun! It’s 'The Story of Supplements' and how the contemporary practice of nutritional medicine in most countries became supplement-centric. I’ve been thinking about...
If you listened to our latest Update in Under 30 episode on Postpartum Thyroiditis and how to implement an optimal risk assessment (before, during & after pregnancy), you'll have been expecting this new arrival with much anticipation 🐣🤓 because the...
'Good v Better v Best', is often the value statement attached to each new nutritional product innovation as it enters the market...making the existing and older forms, according to the pattern, 'Bad'...or 'Inactive', certainly 'Superseded' etc. But changing the form...
Back when I used to go to parties, I remember the kind of things that got passed around 🤐 but these days the nature of the shared-substance has changed... Activated charcoal, anyone?!😶 Sure this says a lot about me and even more about the kind of...
I shared this recently on socials but for those of us that don't hang around that 'hood I am sharing again here because it is just too important. While we're busy updating our knowledge regarding reproductive health for women (soooo many huge headlines of...
Never done a MasterCourse in Diagnostics with me? Is that because you're scared of... a) investing that...
The case of a slim 41YOF under very high stress due to marriage separation & the care of 2 young kids was presented in mentoring this month. Her a.m. Cortisol was 710 nmol/L - Rachel asked the group to identify 3 results in her routine labs that are consistent...
I am just back from the NHAA Symposium - all informationed-up and raring to share!! LOL I learned some great stuff about Black Pepper and that made me think about a case from mentoring last month🤓 One of the presentations was from Jason Hawrelak during which we 'went...