Rachel's Blogs
Copper Crimes (via Misinformation) 🤯
I haven't personally seen every medical condition known to occur, nor every micronutrient deficiency & toxicity picture in the flesh but that doesn't mean I doubt their very existence. Sadly, it would seem some practitioners due to a) not knowing 'where' to look...
Cracking At The Corners?
Name a B vitamin. Hey, Bingo! It's on the list! What list? The complete one from all the review papers & references to possible links between individual nutrient deficiencies & Angular Cheilitis - inflammation & cracking at the corners of the mouth. So...
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Are You Interested In A Mental Health Specialist Mentoring Group In 2019?
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...
And What Would That Look Like?
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...
New Nat Grads – Uncover Your Naturopathic Super-Powers!
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...
FAKE NEWS!…or just uncomfortable?..Read On
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...
We’re Unveiling Exciting New Changes to Group Mentoring…
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...
The Best Form of Charcoal
This weekend I re-experienced an incredibly potent therapeutic intervention firsthand. We drove 40 minutes inland to vamp under the stars (that's between camping and glamping and has nothing to do with vaping!) That was a good start. Breaking from the 'norm', looking...
Are You a Premature Evaluator?
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...
How Do YOU Take Your Coffee??
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...
The More You Move The Longer You Can!
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...
Hunger Has Never Been This Comforting
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...
Thyroxine Replaced Patients Left To ‘Set & Forget’?
Too many times we see thyroxine treated patients on the ‘set and forget’ setting. Often, they’re taking the same dose they started on a decade or so ago, in spite of weight changes, ageing of course and new comorbidities. They’ve undergone limited monitoring, with...
One Small Step For Our Clients?
When I look back over how I've raised my kids there are a few serious 'what tha...' moments - like the time I thought shopping with a child in rollerskates was doable...I mean she loved those rollerskates and she was amazingly agile and good...just not quite good...
‘Getting’ Gilbert’s Guts
So I had to look all the way back in the UU30 back catalogue to 2013 to find my original Gilbert's Girls recording talking about this common polymorphism and how it might present in your practice but I haven't exactly been quiet on this one since then. In the last 5...
What’s Eating Gilbert Now?
I've had my nose in all the research on Gilbert's Syndrome again..watch this space...in the interim just thought I'd share this image and a couple of important details I may not have been able to convey when you last heard me talk (very fast!) about this...
One Direction Is So Last Decade…
With many of the mentoring sessions I run, I suspect there's often a misperception that the learning is one way. Part of what thrills me about being a mentor is all the learning opportunities I am personally presented with. Recently, I had an exceptional example. You...
The wait is nearly over…
It is with great excitement & enthusiasm that I'll be speaking at the second independent Australian Naturopathic Summit being held in Lennox Head, NSW on the 24-26th August 2018. You'll have to wait until Sunday though...and I'll be sharing the stage with Dr...
Real vs Research
A discussion in the Australian Medical Observer this week has got me thinking about the huge push for evidence-based Medicine to form the foundation of our naturopathic practice. Now as you well know, I am a lover of science, and I enjoy immensely when...
ABB…Which Ages are Affected and What Effects at Each Age?
Just back from Slovakia and I am a little EXCITED & a giant bit KEEN TO SHARE!!!! Thank goodness we have a tour planned for Aug/Sept so I don't have to sit on this incredible info for too long!! I had already been delving into the impact of mild acidosis across...
It Had to Happen
Right? I've been banging on about our kidneys for years now - only to be met with a deafening chorus of practitioners of all sorts chanting, "Yes! What about renal health & the best way for us to support it?! We haven't been trained in this!!" I hear you and I'm...
NAC can knock negative symptoms down!
WOW!! Did we hear that right??! Medical doctors are branching out in their search for effective treatments for schizophrenic patients. You see while most of the drugs available currently for this condition are aimed at reducing ‘positive symptoms’, however they can...
Tools to Master Mental Health
I’ve just completed the Mastering Mental Health tour in May with Nutrition Care. The last 16 years I’ve been focusing on Mental Health and have seen a lot of patients who present with this as their primary issue. We have so much to offer mental health in our...