THE CURIOUS MINDS CLUB 
I've been talking about the DMT1 transporters importing iron & other divalent metals - including their presence in our nose <GASP> - since the turn of the century <GASP GASP>. This helps to explain, of course, the profound neurotoxicity, for example,...
I've just finished laughing along to yet another comedy routine making fun of the current gen's 'obsession with water'. This comedian was nostalgic for the old days when, every week or so, we'd just 'wet our tongue on a water fountain' and that was our dehydration...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 important and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A recently published case study takes out the 'WOW! Factor Medal' for its extraordinary illustration of just how impacting simple silly old lil' (I'm being tongue in cheek of course) threadworm (aka Enterobius vermicularis) can be on a child's mental health. "The...
Not long ago, Kathryn Simpson and I were sharing a hotel room on yet another work trip to somewhere. The lights were out, it was way past our bedtime and we were just gasbagging incessantly like a couple of teens, when a thought pops into my head: "Hey Kathryn, back...
These little blighters are getting a lot of airplay this month and rightly so.....! Oh Em Geeeeeeeee....so much misinformation out there!! It's time to set the record straight Worm infestations never conjure up a pretty picture in our minds although a video of humans...
Help!!! I'm about to share the stage at the 3rd International Acid-Base Symposium on the 25th-27th Jun, with the best acid-base researchers in the world, all of whom I actively stalk (well read and recite everything they've ever published but close enough!) I'm...