THE CURIOUS MINDS CLUB 
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 of you reading this are either currently trying to run a business or have given that a red hot crack in the past- it's full of challenges isn't it? In most cases, the bulk of the hard work that has to happen to keep the doors open, is the stuff 'unseen' by...
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...
If you’re reading this you already know how much I love a good set of blood test results, right? It’s always (tragically!) a bit of a high point of my day when they spit out of the fax machine or become available through some other more modern little IT...
“Access the Experts with Rachel Arthur” is a month long intensive webinar series focusing on the best of Mental Health Education. Every Thursday night for the month of July, Rachel will be interviewing a hand-picked guest speaker about a particular area of expertise...
The New Practitioner Drop In Class is a monthly drop in class that focuses on providing an easy to access drop in opportunity for integrative health practitioners to participate in some of the most accelerated form of post-graduate education and clinically relevant...
During a mentoring session this week a practitioner asked me, 'How could paracetamol relieve anger?'. After the initial, 'What the..??.' reflex, I thought well the placebo response is really a wonderful thing, the potency of which should never be under-estimated. I...
I really enjoy mentoring practitioners in business - it's a real privilege to be able to hear about each practitioners' aspirations and challenges. A few weeks back I had the good fortune to speak with a fresh one! A practitioner who has only been in business for a...
Perhaps you've been keeping abreast of the bone broth debate? The practice of preparing broths made from slow boiled animal bones and made popular by the GAPS diet as well as many Paleo advocates, has come under scrutiny thanks to a small pilot study that evaluated...
Due to popular demand and increasing interest, I am so pleased to announce that I will be starting a second Rachel Arthur Mentorship Program (RAMP) from May until November 2016! RAMP is a program that focuses on providing practitioners with the most accelerated form...
How many of your clients are on a combination OCP? Do you know the full extent of the physiological impact in each? Are you able to identify to key pathology indicators regarding the magnitude of that impact? Like you I see a lot of clients who are on the COCP -...
I've been sick - real sick just for a couple of days...an acute exotic respiratory thing that the northern Rivers and specifically the period around Bluesfest (!) seems to specialise in. Anyway, apart from it being terrible timing (I ask my patients 'when is it EVER...
I was recently asked to speak at an ACNEM conference on 'Clinical Pearls in Paediatric Practice' and I talked about 3 key things that have proved to be absolute game-changers in my understanding and better management of children...and guess what one of my...
Ok here's a gripe I'm having currently. I have a number of patients who are taking anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs) and most of these are children who require them for seizure control. Naturally, working alongside such serious pathology and these critical medications...
Have you ever wondered what is the best way to grow your business? Not a cardboard cut-out, off-the-shelf kind of business that every business coach talks to, or somebody else’s business, your business? Business advice like naturopathy, according to Rachel, is about...
It's taken a little while for me to collect my thoughts on this one. Initially there was a little flash of anger, frustration and a good deal of huffing and puffing when I heard about the RACGP guidelines recommending GPs say no to any requests from naturopaths for...
During mentoring sessions over the last week I've been prompted to ask a few practitioners if their patient had any signs, either clinically or in their pathology results, of high oestrogen. Each time it kind of caught the practitioner off guard because their...
Howdy practitioners - I've had an inspiring month of clients. Not because I cured anyone, answered some major riddle previously unsolved by modern medicine or any of these enormous tasks we or our patients often set ourselves but rather because I got back to basics....
Well here's a thought...the 'Superfood' nutrition movement has just about eaten the South Americans out of quinoa and the Pacific Islanders out of coconuts..isn't it time for a local hero? I get a bit despondent when any new food is touted as a 'Superfood' anyway for...
We kicked off mentoring this year with some great cases last week. One was a pregnant hyperthyroid client. During the session the wonderful practitioner mentions that the client is using Withania somnifera as required for anxiety. Insert sound of brakes screeching...
Low dopamine as an underpinning cause of depression, anxiety and even addiction (illicit drugs, sex, gambling) has been gaining increased recognition in research. In spite of this there are no antidepressants currently on the Australian market that address dopamine...
There's taking a break and then there's taking a break. For most of us Christmas does not fit the definition of a break but rather simply an altered version of our escalated pre-Christmas frenzy. The crazy end of year work wrap up replaced by the equally crazy...
It is with great excitement & enthusiasm that today I can announce the launch of our crowdfunding campaign for the first independent Australian Naturopathic Summit to be held in Byron Bay on the 27-28th August 2016 (check out our campaign video below!). This...