THE CURIOUS MINDS CLUB 
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...
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...
Never say never, right. Back in my old uni teaching days, I scorned the very notion of treating someone with 'actual melatonin'. Always in favour of upstream approaches over downstream, I was keen instead to give patients the 'ingredients & cofactors' so they...
Well who'd have thunk?! I had no idea cigarettes contain sugar and turns out about 95% of smokers don't either, according to this recently published article! Now while we're not purporting this is going to be of caloric significance enough to prove a deal-breaker for...
Don’t find yourself sad come November 15th when we close applications for Group Mentoring in 2019!! You still have a week left to to jump in! (if you haven’t already) and make this investment in building your incredible naturopathic skill-set and subsequently, your...
While this ABC article is written for the public it's a great checklist to have written up somewhere to prevent against placing your confidence in the wrong sources of info. Just recently, I had a practitioner ask about the 'risks' of B12 dosing...& while B12 is...
Oral sex. There I said it. Last month when I talked about Helicobacter pylori and where people might 'catch' this - if they didn't inherit the little critter from their mum or family as an infant - we thankfully were able to rule out kissing as a source of...
Finally a systematic review puts paid to the nonsense that 'withdrawal from antidepressants' is problematic only for a few, is 'mild' & 'lasts only 1-2 weeks' with no treatment necessary other than reassurance, which is still being perpetuated by current...
Forever fascinated by the neurobiology of various mental health presentations, addiction included, two medical news items caught my attention this week. If you've ever heard me speak on addiction, in somewhat simplistic terms, it is very much about the reward centre...
In the not too distant past, were you wearing your Sunday-best when you were ceremoniously handed a special piece of paper to say, 'You're officially qualified to see patients!' And did you, or have you since then thought...'Wow! Really?!' Does the certificate come...
So we already know that thyroid problems can start in utero, right…but a recent Medscape review (the fountain of thyroid information that I frequently drinketh from 😉 ) on Hypothyroidism in childhood taught me a couple of big things I hadn't known before! The...
You may have already heard whispers about some great things happening in our Group Mentoring program next year but it's ok we can hear your silent screams!! The ones that say, 'BUT WE LOVE IT ALREADY!'...or...'But next year was my year to finally find out what...
https://youtu.be/B2MK-XKOaaw This mentoring community that I am a part of, I absolutely love and together we make good companions on this road that too often we often find ourselves travelling In isolation. So I wanted to put together this little fun video here to get...
A few months back I seriously 'blew over'. Not on an RBT but on a UBT (Urea Breath Test). In spite of it being not the kind of test you want to score top marks for, my result was in the high 2000s, when all I needed was around 800 to confirm, and anything over 50 to...
We are looking at establishing a Mental Health Focus Group to support practitioners in mastering the maze of mental health. This is such a growing health issue, with a recent survey of Australian doctors identifying psychological issues as the number one presenting...
No, not this. But in setting up a dedicated new grad group mentoring platform for 2019, designed to help anyone who wants support transitioning from student to Naturopathic SuperPower (!)...here are some more details Monthly live, interactive, online tutorials...
Alright, so I can't teach you how to leap tall buildings in a single bound but I can show you how you can make big leaps towards uncovering your Naturopathic Super-Powers! I often marvel on what I now know, that I wish I had been privy to as a new graduate and while...
As an avid reader of medical news I face a barrage of headlines both domestic & international everyday. I feel this is important for many reasons - not just so that I know what's being said about their medicine but what they're saying about ours as well! Anyone...
OH YES!!...we are rolling out a 'new look' for RAN Group Mentoring in 2019. We're not losing any of the good stuff!, so don't panic! We are keeping everything that so many practitioners love from the past 6 years of Rachel's group mentoring (wow..have I been doing it...
I was lucky enough to hear Jason Hawrelak's excellent presentation at the Australian Naturopathic Summit last weekend, titled: A Case of Blastocystis Infection - Or Is It? Timely, highly valuable, immediately usable, provocative education (just how I like it 😉 ) on...
If you've not seen Kitty Flanagan's skit on current coffee culture...it's essential viewing. In true Kitty-fashion, she wants to simplify coffee ordering down to 2 basic lines - White or Black - says all our pretentious coffee orders; macchiato, skinny, decaf, half...
I love it when new research supports my existing beliefs and bias, don't we all?! 😉 'Sitting is the new smoking,' emerged as a new war-cry a little while ago...then naturally, soon after came the nay-sayers, flooding the media with counter evidence. But you know I...
A recent Medscape review on the medical benefits of fasting, published in July, got me pressing pause on the food button. Now don’t worry, we’re not taking the “breatharian” path…but for those of us perpetually well-fed people, going hungry has never seemed perhaps...