Rachel's Blogs
Urinary Iodine Curveball Corrected!
Example 1: Example 2: We love hearing from our fellow fearless friends on the frontline - working with lab results & pathology providers - everyday. We recently received an SOS! from the Francesca Naish over yet another iodine assessment issue that you may need...
Are You And Your Patients Stuck?
There are some things we say so often to patients we could record them and just press <PLAY> Like this daily dogma: 'When you're under stress, your demand for Magnesium rises and then in turn that can make you more susceptible to further stress, so we're going...
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Keen to Catch the Early Worm in 2019?
Sheesh...who turned down the music and turned on all the lights...are the holidays seriously over??! That’s right, pack away the Christmas tree (somehow), drag yourself away from your (endless tennis/cricket watching) meditation practice and start looking at...
Oh No…Not Her Again!!
Oh no, it's her again 🙁 I mean the chick in the photostock image not the other 'her', me. I know. It's the end of another mammoth year, you're tired, worn out, used-up all your brain-power quota (a little projection?) and I can hear you begging for mercy when I start...
All I Want for Christmas…Is Some Recognition & Respect
Yes them's fightin' words. It's 6 days til Christmas and we've all got way too many things to do before Santa visits, right? But this will take you 1 minute and takes precedence over finding excuses not to attend Christmas parties, half-crazed-mad present...
Are You a Quercetin Queen (or King)?
Did you and all your patients survive Spring? Have you had a chance to restock the shelves with all the big-gun-Quercetin-products for the next allergy onslaught...or maybe for patients presenting with other conditions that respond well to this, like leaky gut,...
Someone’s Lost Might Be Your Found!
As Britney so famously put it, 'Oops, I did it again!' I remember the actions on my to do list but not the intended recipients! D.O.H. I was talking with a practitioner the other day who lamented that she had never really learnt about stats nor how to assess...
Melatonin…Making Sleep Not Babies?!
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...
Should We Tell Them About The Sugar?
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 miss out…there’s one week left!
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...
Spotting an ‘Off’ Claim in Record Time
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...
Ready, Aim…Don’t Fire!
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...
Antidepressant Withdrawal is a Worryingly ‘Normal’ (Severely) Abnormal Experience
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...
Two Pointers for Addiction Management
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...
New Graduates….you’ll be amazed at how much you’ll grow!!
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...
Double Trouble for Hypothyroid?
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...
Nothing’s disappearing…just more good stuff coming into view!
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...
The ‘Circle of Life’ of Mentoring
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...
Blowing Over On A UBT
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...
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...