 THE CURIOUS MINDS CLUB 
Wanna see behind the curtain here? Sometimes in my pursuit of perfect clarity I go totally OTT. <GASP👀> But when you know that for women diagnosed with Postpartum thyroiditis it was likely to have been missed or misattributed for months to, 'You've had...
A white marking makes a return If you've been following the story of 'my little white spot' you'll know that it's part of me keeping myself (& my whole new framework for nutrition prescribing as per the Nutrient Prescriber's Program) extremely accountable! Based...
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'...
   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...
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...
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...
'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...
Practitioners have been bringing their most challenging cases to me for mentoring & supervision for over a decade, that's hundreds, in fact, probably thousands, of cases, tempting me to say, therefore I've seen 'everything'. Except of course I haven't. And each...
When it comes to the recognition of Nickel as the number one metal allergen worldwide, affecting up to 30% of adults and with a particular predilection for women, it seems like Australian health professionals really do come from the 'land down under', with many of us...
How much? How often? When is the best time & timing? do you know about friends, foes and frenemies? Which form, when? e.g. building blocks or bioactives? And for how long? aka are we there yet...? These are the kind of questions that one would imagine nutritional...
It's quite the meme of the moment and while I completely get the sentiment behind its original meaning, my take is a little different: Results in Practice 2021! How were yours? Here were some of ours from the cases presented in group mentoring: 💪Â We correctly...
We are getting ready to launch our new look Group Mentoring for 2021! We are now counting down the weeks days (gULp!!) until we open up applications for Group Mentoring next year. We're keeping everything our practitioners have told us they love, over the past 8...
Shhhhhhhh(eesh)! I am confessing my sins. As part of our mentoring discussions we try to keep one another honest & in-check with, what seems to be, integrative health professionals' innate flair for over-delivering. Name someone right now from another health...
As a health practitioner, you are always actively building: your reputation, your practice and your knowledge. There's theoretical ...and then there's applied. Some of the biggest leaps we take forward as practitioners come with being shown how (rather than told)...
We're midway through mentoring 2020 and we've temporarily shifted gear out of case presentations and into dedicated time for answering praccies toughest questions...and oh man, I love these opportunities! This year in our Mental Health Primer Group, there are...
I take my job to heart. When someone asked me recently to choose the single value that spoke most to me personally I couldn't seem to go past, 'Purpose'.  I feel very honoured to have contributed to the learning of so many health professionals in their undergraduate...
Forehead USB not required. Phew. All that is required, is a real thirst for new knowledge, rapid development of your diagnostic skills and a willingness to commit an hour every month to tap into your new Brain's Trust: Rachel and a collection of colleagues with a...
If you know me, you may wonder if I've recently undergone a personality bypass. I am passionate about diagnostics, pride myself on 'making the invisible visible' through better understanding of pathology markers and confirming the true nature of the underpinning...
If my dispensary was on an island and could only stock 3 items, S-adenosyl-methionine would make the cut. That's how important this nutraceutical is to my practice and has proved itself to be to so many of my patients. Regularly, I cross paths with practitioners who...
Recognise your own name or someone else's on this list? Dear 2017 Group Minties aka Mentees.  I have always struggled with the term, 'mentees'...seems too American or something and this morning when I was out walking, I had a light-bulb moment - I am proposing a...
Following a huge co-ordination and curation effort we have finally confirmed all of our group mentoring positions for 2018 EXCEPT: Tuesday 10.30am (AEST) Group has 3 positions left!** Tuesday 1pm (AEST) Group has 1 position left! Wednesday 10.30am Group has 3...