 THE CURIOUS MINDS CLUB 
What a delightful high to finish our group mentoring programs on 🤓🤸  We know the calibre of practitioners that commit strongly to their ongoing education and upskilling. We see this in action via myriad reflections - check out just some...
I can guess when you graduated from your training to be a nat/nut/IM GP just by how you complete this sentence, 'In student clinic my supplementing style would've been best described as...' a) Lots of lecithin, Brewer's yeast, some rosehip based Vit C with...
Most practitioners are pretty knowledgeable about Zinc and are quick to recognise a deficiency and the opportunities for zinc supplementation as an effective therapy and those same practitioners are often plagued by nagging questions that come up, in spite of loads of...
Probably not news to anyone but I tend towards busy then bust! Â If I lived in the pages of a Vogue Living magazine, I would of course have a stunning Japanese water feature located somewhere centrally in my work space & abode to antidote this very Western madness...
While the positive ripple effect of the ANS is still being felt (and - yes the video package is just about to be released, so prepare for another big ripple!!), there is another inaugural education event trailing hot on its heels! Â Hopefully you've already...
I became interested in working in mental health not entirely of my own free will.  I guess you could say, it had made it's way into my world via family members and friends as well as my own problems when I was younger. So when I was at uni and I came across any...
As an organiser of the Australian Naturopathic Summit I wasn't immune to the content.  In fact, like so many other practitioners we keep hearing from, I think I am forever changed...and that's not just my adrenals talking!!  All the speakers' insights continue...
Recently, while I was touring around the country talking all things Acid Base (!), I spent a bit of time talking to practitioners about the limitations of our current protocols and assessment tools for detecting 'Bad Bones'.  I was surrounded by a sea of nodding heads...
Anyone who knows me will tell you that unlike many praccies, I don't double as Food Diva.  I cook yes...in abundance and I have been told on may occasions my food is 'delish' and no one leaves hungry but I focus my energy on preparing food that is super easy, highly...
The structure of the recent, wonderfully received, Australian Naturopathic Summit came to me when I was riding my bike along one of the beautiful back roads of Mullumbimby, freewheeling downhill in the glorious sunshine. Â Like the cartoons, the format of the...
I like to fancy myself as a bit of Supplement Sleuth! Â I love working with herbs, nutrients and nutraceuticals but I am not blinded to the fact that manufacturers and suppliers, whatever their form of medicine, are large competitive businesses that ultimately need to...
I know my busy mum patients think I am probably not to be taken literally when I say, 'Cook buckets of extras every time you step foot inside the kitchen', but I am.  My slow cooker and my 'buckets' are two of my favourite kitchen resources I couldn't live without....
Fresh faced students, new graduates and seasoned practitioners alike, are forever reminding me of the challenge we experience as practitioners when it comes to instigating real change in our patients health related behaviours ... the change we KNOW will make a...
All health professionals are aware of increasing resistance in bacteria as a result of our overuse of broad spectrum antibiotics in both prescriptions and our livestock industry but increasingly we're hearing about evidence of resistance in microbes of a variety of...
Cheesy I know! 😉 However, recently the issue of knowing when to use Withania somnifera & when not to, came up again in mentoring so I thought it's probably a good one to share. Withania, aka Aswagandha or Indian Ginseng, has become a...
I've always been a bit of a fan of Vitamin A but this has grown again in the last year or so, having seen some great responses to short term high dose treatment during active infections or when trying to break a cycle of chronic reinfection.  For me, and I...
I think most of us visualise the clearly malnourished young woman, when we think of eating disorders however, while anorexia nervosa is something to be on the watch for, our patients are presenting increasingly with more unusual, atypical patterns of disordered...
From the giddy holiday highs to the lows! Â As you know we kicked off these school holidays with a birthday celebration at Stradbroke Island...time travel forward just a short distance to the end of school holidays and you'll find us we've now taken up residence in the...
The understanding that certain infections produce mental health presentations is not a new one. However, based in part on observations of some of the features of tick borne diseases (TBD) such as Lyme like illness, a reawakening of the role for infection in psychiatry...
Question: What has 22 legs, 11 mouths, sounds like your tv, radio and CD player are all playing at their loudest deafening volume together and an appetite like a small army?  Answer: the 11 teens I took to Stradbroke Island to celebrate my twins 16th birthday! Yes,...
A patient walks into your client and reports that they think they might be reacting to gluten.  Happens every week, if not every day, right?  Awareness about potential negative health effects from gluten is exploding and often patients present self-diagnosing and self...
Robert Bransfield MD DLFAPA  likes to start off his presentations with a full and frank disclosure about potential conflicts of interest.  After all, he is a well known psychiatrist and Associate Clinical Professor at Rutgers-RWJ Medical School, who is...
Sorry if I've been quiet for while but I promise have been very very busy!  The Australian Naturopathic Summit is getting tantalisingly (& frighteningly!!) close, and I'm just back from a great  Aus/NZ tour with Professor Vormann talking my heart out about Acid...