 THE CURIOUS MINDS CLUB 
Did you know that any supplement that 'identifies as a food' is subject to the same regulations as a sugary breakfast cereal? Yep. So in spite of 30% sugar content - the packaging and all advertising around said cereal, claims it's a great source of... PROTEIN Bs...
To the people who make up our profession... I'm just back from attending the opening of the Melbourne Apothecary/ Mecca collaboration in Melbourne CBD as one of Charmaine & Carly's VIPPPs... Very Impressed Proud Privileged People Everyone who knew I was attending...
Have you still got some thyroid patients that don't fit any sort of traditional thyroid disease model and are difficult to get results with? Oh yes me too... and watch out...I've been spending the last few weeks with my nose firmly embedded in hundreds of articles...
We all try and surround ourselves with fabulous people in our workplace and I have been luckier than most. Â I'll talk more another time about how to attract the right people to work for your business but right now I just want to share a gem from the fabulous Freya who...
This year has kicked off with lots of time spent re-calibrating my own and other practitioners' businesses models via business mentoring and it's such a privilege. Â One symptom that seems to creep into almost every practitioner's business model though, is one of...
I've been digging around in the scientific literature all about appendicitis and I've ended up here.  Long gone are the days when medicine foolishly considered the appendix without purpose - a dispensable 'extra' of the GIT and now, thanks to genetic PCR bacterial...
Yep, I've had them...and made them. Â I often hear practitioners say they cringe when they think back about the patients they saw in the first year because of the vastly greater knowledge they have now. Â I do too. But my mistakes are more recent than that! Â I know more...
Make the most of this special offer! If you become a 12 month subscriber before the end of January (that's tomorrow!) you receive 10% off ALL individual mentoring sessions in 2017! And just so you know what we have in store for you as an Update in Under 30 Subscriber...
Have you heard what everyone is saying about the "Update in Under 30 Podcasts"? But more importantly, have you heard about "Update in Under 30 Podcasts"... fullstop?! If you've somehow missed out on being a subscriber & receiving these monthly gems over the...
Sheeeeeshkebab I squirm at the whole premise of new year's resolutions.  If you understand a little about the process of behavioural change, you'll appreciate that there's no magic dust (or firework pollutants!) you are going to get sprinkled with between pre and post...
Ask me to name a lymphatic herb other than Cleavers and Poke Root and I might struggle (sorry Sue!) but some other things stay with us forever. One of my stayers pops into my head every time I eat a carrot.  Every time I make my partner or my kids eat a carrot.  Every...
Want to start 2017 with some good news? Sometimes working with patients challenged by mental health I get scared.  A well-known colleague of mine introduced me to the notion of the 'clinician in crisis'. The practitioner who, in the face of their patient's...
The standout gift I got this year for Christmas without a doubt was my very own copy of Sarah Lantz & Tabitha McIntosh's, One Bite at a Time  - Reduce Toxic Exposure & Eat the World You Want.  Every time I walk past it on the table a strange force compels me...
I've decided to resign, to quit, to call it a day. It's a big decision and it may come as a surprise to some of you but it's a timely one. Â You see, it's actually good business practice to figuratively or literally quit your job at the same time each year. Â Schedule...
It's officially official! The Rachel Arthur Mentorship Program for 2017 is in the loading dock ready to launch & we kick off with our first session on January 30. We are soooooooooooo excited & we have just a few spots left.  If you haven't heard as yet we...
Language is such a powerful thing and the art of 'reframing', to express a concept differently in order to facilitate a fresh perspective, can be the difference between engagement and disengagement. I see the power of this in my clinic and with each year of practice I...
I think of you most mornings.  You see I'm totally in the habit of checking abc online news when I wake and frequently expel several 'Oh my goodnesses', before even getting out of bed.  Here's one that made me want to jump out of bed and instantly share them with...
Often we assume our patients know at least the basics about health - especially about things soooo seemingly basic...that we fear mentioning them would offend and make us look like someone trying to teach grandma anything!  But there are some instances where I've...
The other night my 16yo daughter was reading through bits of reading matter that had made it home from the recent ASLM conference - one in particular was all about contrasting dietary guidelines of key western countries and comparing these using a more naturopathic...
As an add on to my recent blog, I thought you might find this other detail about prolactin levels (PRL) interesting. Â Several studies including a one published in 2009, have demonstrated a positive correlation between PRL and increased CVD risk in both men and...
Back a few weeks ago I had the pleasure of presenting at the Integria Symposium and the even greater pleasure of listening to some of the fabulous speakers ...you see I've heard my stuff before! 😉 The 'Mosaic of Autoimmunity' was delivered by the very funny and...
While I am a sponge for new information I do have my moments... delusional moments when I think, ‘I am done learning’. These are usually very short lived, maybe an hour, half a day?  Inevitably, patients and the practitioners I have the honour of mentoring snap me out...
Does your brain feel like it's going to explode, spilling brain-juice everywhere, when you do 2 weekend conferences in a row? Or is that just me?  I have returned to my desk after the Integria Symposium and then the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine...