Am I Intermittent Fasting or Just Starving?
\n The difference between Intermittent Fasting and Starving is a VERY FINE LINE \n \n\n \n 👣 There is no one-size-fits-all way to properly do Intermitte…
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Which ingredients to add to my healthy smoothie?
\n \n \n\n \n A journey to improved wellbeing often involves the courage to try new things a smoothie is a great way to Eat a Rainbow and packing in the antioxi…
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The Truth About Detox
\n When we detox our bodies, we think about fried food and too much wine, but we don’t think about other ways we can be making our bodies toxic… our homes are o…
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Is deodorant actually toxic, or is it just a myth?
\n With so much conflicting and inconclusive ‘research’ out there, weeding out the harmful from the harmless isn't an easy undertaking. To make better choices w…
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Are you ready to ‘Open up’ about lesser-discussed health topics for Men
\n O: Obviously, every man was once a boy and every boy will become a man – the earlier boys start learning about man stuff, the better. Our brothers, son…
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Did You Know Your appendix has a purpose? 👀
\n As usual, when it comes to real health promotion, you have to dig deep to find the truth that has been obscured ‘modern’ medicine. Back in the day, the parat…
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7 Ways That Sleep Affects Your Wellness
\n We’ve all experienced it: that heaviness of trying to drag yourself through a day when you haven’t had enough sleep the night before. \n \n\n \n Being tired …
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What is tempeh and why should we eat it?
\n Q: What is tempeh and why should we eat it? \n \n\n \n A: you’ve probably heard of Tofu, but you may not have heard of Tempeh - Tofu is made from soya …
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4 Easy Tips to Feeling more at ease with life:
\n You’re definitely not alone if you feel the need hit the ‘seat eject’ button. The secret sauce is learning to rest, not to quit, and here’s how you might thi…
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Procrastination
\n August month-end paperwork is due at the accountant this afternoon – the paperwork is looking at me askew and I am still avoiding the task at hand… do you al…
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Rhythm of Life
\n Here on the South Coast, in our amazing subtropical environment, almost everything stays green all year round. In my garden though, I have a deciduous tree; …
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When Dieting Doesn’t Work For You
\n At any given time 1 in 3 people are on a specific eating regime, with weight loss as a leading reason. Most people are going to be disappointed, because even…
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Change-of-Season-Preparedness Checklist
\n The mornings are starting to feel nippy, the days start later and night falls fast and early. Winter is approaching. We are caught in a lockdown time-warp bu…
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Am I Spreading The Virus Around?
\n Image by Prostooleh \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n * disclaimer - this blog is purely my opinion based on the science I follow on PubMed and other similar platforms .…
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One Small Step
\n Surviving to Thriving – Part 3 \n \n\n \n You made a list yesterday, even if it’s only in your head. \n \n\n \n You’re thinking and that puts you ahead…
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Lockdown Time Zone ‘every day is Chooseday’’
\n Surviving to Thriving – Part 2 \n \n\n \n Lets do a quick health assessment… Are you really 100 % healthy? \n \n\n \n Full of energy? Getting 8 hours of rest…
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Are You An \"I’ll Start on Monday\" Kind of Person?
\n Surviving to Thriving - Part 1 \n \n\n \n We humans like auspicious beginnings. Whenever we think about changing a habit or starting a new project, we wait f…
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Physical Thriving is perhaps an underestimated topic, purely because we take it so much for granted.
\n In this series of blogs we are exploring the 5 areas in which all humans should thrive, at age-appropriate levels - Physiological, Cognitive, Emotional, Phys…
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We’re More Fulfilled When We’re Social
\n In this series of blogs we are exploring the 5 areas in which all humans should thrive, at age-appropriate levels. The first three blogs in this series…
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Emotional Well-Being
\n In this series of blogs we are exploring the 5 areas in which all humans should thrive, at age-appropriate levels. The 1 st 2 blogs in this series deal…
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Cognitive Health
\n In Blog 1/5 we took a look at the 1 st of the 5 areas in which all humans should thrive, at age-appropriate levels: Physiological. This blog will focus on Co…
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8 hours, preconception through to toddler.
\n Yesterday (Sunday) I attended an all-day Functional Practitioner’s workshop held by Dr Leslie Stone and Dr Michael Stone, who run a clinic in Oregon and an o…
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Competition Time!
\n \n \n\n \n Some background info \n \n\n \n I follow a business blog called Storybrand. This week the questions were ‘what is your mission?’ and ‘what is at s…
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Lifestyle medicine is The Medicine of The Future
\n ‘Health Care’ is becoming a very specific phrase. Health is no longer simply an absence of symptoms. You want to sleep well and wake up feeling a…
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Are You Ready to Change & Grow?
\n Facing challenges is inevitable. It might be a rare event, it might be daily struggle. The analogy of a baby’s birth, a difficult process for both mother and…
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Who isn’t tired, right?
\n This blog is for you if you are prepared to consider that the culprit is probably your eating habits. There’s a compelling wealth of research that closely li…
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Was your baby natural born or a Caesar baby?
\n The most important thing to ever happen to your microbiome, the bacterial environment of the gut, happens when you’re being born. \n \n\n \n Is your baby res…
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We are disconnected from the facts that how we live can be harmful to our health.
\n \n \n\n \n Health Coaching is emerging in response to the rise in chronic illness and the inability of western medicine to address issues in any way signifi…
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Is there really a difference between organically grown veg and regular grown veg?
\n Do you seek out Organic on a label or prefer Organic when buying fruit and veg? Organic is a fashionable word right now. Strictly speaking anything that grow…
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The School insists my child be on Ritalin. I don’t want him drugged. What are my options?
\n This is not the format to slam into the education system but the truth is that children are not designed to sit still and be ‘taught’ for 6 hours in a row. A…
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Are you Fatigued?
\n Fatigue seems to be trending. Are you one of the many struggling under the weight of all you are obliged to take on? \n \n\n \n I think we have lost ou…
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Why do I need fibre in my food?
\n According to a dietary supplement product formulation consultant , dietary fibre is important for our digestive health and regular bowel movements. Fibre hel…
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The Bach Flower Remedies
\n In our quest for radiant, vibrant, energetic good health, it’s the most natural thing to be thinking of physical health. We coach for changes in the Modifiab…
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Vitamins are divided into 2 categories – Water soluble and Fat soluble.
\n Water soluble are all the commoners you know and probably already take – all the B’s and C. Water-soluble vitamins are carried to the body's tissues bu…
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Fat Soluble vitamins and how to make the best of them.
\n Fat-soluble vitamins are dissolved in fats , so one should take supplements of A,D,E & K , the fat soluble vitamins, with a meal containing he…
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Kombucha & Kefir
\n 11 years ago when I started The Good Health Shop, kefir was a swear word and kobucha wasn’t even a word! Thanks, in part to The Banting Diet proponents, and …
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Living In Harmony With the Natural World
\n Despite being in the heat of summer, change of season is just around the corner. Already it’s getting light late in the morning, have you noticed? \n \…
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What Makes Rawbiotics A More Effective Probiotic – Understanding CFU Count?
\n Borrowed words from SAEM \n \n\n \n A quick look at the range of probiotic products available immediately reveals two segments: liquid (fermented drinks) and…
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5 Tips on Choosing Healthier Food
\n We are so worried about what we eat, and when we eat, we don’t stop to think about HOW we eat… put a good kid in a bad neighbourhood and he’ll probably …
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Why Should I Manage My Stress?
\n My adult son works a really stressful job. He’s under pressure all the working hours and is also ‘on-call’ for emergencies 24-7. He eats carefully and gyms a…
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What is a Thermogram and Why Should You Consider it Over a Mammogram?
\n The Breast Cancer Treatment Services have both tests that can produce images of the breasts, and offer the possibility of early breast cancer detection. They…
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Too Often We Don’t Realise Our Choices Have Consequences.
\n The consumption of alcohol, like cigarettes, sugar, wheat, dairy and soya, is a very personal choice. \n \n\n \n Too often we don’t realise our choices have …
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How will I know if I am deficient in something?
\n A common question in the health shop is ‘how will I know if I am deficient in something’. \n \n\n \n It’s a great question, based on our processed foods bein…
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Health Challenge
\n I saw the term ‘health challenge’ on the internet, and it really got me thinking… perfectly healthy people can have a health challenge, or even a health cris…
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Would you define health as ‘the absence of symptoms’?
\n Do you consider ADD as a medicatable illness? Or a symptom? And if it’s a symptom, can you say of what? Is aging medicatable? Or a sy…
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Why do you supplement?
The most common reason we hear is that ‘I don’t think I eat enough’. It’s not a bad reason. Eat enough organically grown nutritious veg is a better answer. Here…
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The Risk of Being Healthy
How many people do you know who are sick? So many people are suffering to varying degrees. You might consider yourself lucky – you’re more well than most. Niggl…
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Organic Veg vs Regular Grown Veg
Q: Is there really a difference between organic veg and regular grown veg? \r\nA: The main difference between organic veg and regular grown veg is the pesticide…
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Food Has Become a For-Profit Industry
Recently, Carte Blanche blew the lid off fraud in the honey industry. It follows on a recent expose of flavoured olive oil. Its resonant of the fact that the in…
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Functional Medicine vs Conventional Medicine
I refer to the practice of conventional medicine today as The Sickness Industry, and i accept that it sounds disrespectful, and I am aware that I am generalisin…
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What is Colostrum?
We have had a strange number of people asking us for Colostrum Supplements, only to decide they are too expensive when they learn the price, so let me dip into …
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Supplements are a minefield.
Supplements are a minefield. People's belief systems range from ‘waste of money, expensive pee’ to ‘I can’t function without these’ and every shade in-between.\…
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We need time to heal!
As usual at this time of the year we see lots of strange ‘sickness’ – when your biology wants it to be winter but the weather here won’t play along, germs and b…
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Prevention Is Better Than Cure
Healthy Living is an idea that we aspire to, without really thinking about the concept in a practical way. We ‘eat healthier’ don’t drink too much coffee and we…
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Healthy Is The New Skinny
Sometimes blogs are easy to write. There’s a collective consciousness at work and a lot of people ask the same questions and I answer so often the blog comes na…
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Healthy Snacking
In holiday time, with all the travelling, and especially in the heat, many women struggle with bladder infections and all people can suffer constipation when ‘i…
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What is flu?
So you have the flu…. You feel horrible and miserable; you’re full of snot and aching and tearful...what is this germ?\r\n\r\nWould it surprise you to hear that…
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How to Deal with Flu...
So you have the flu…. You feel horrible and miserable; you’re full of snot and aching and tearful... what is this germ?\r\n\r\nWould it surprise you to hear tha…
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Triclosan - Hormone Disruptor
Triclosan is an ingredient found in toothpaste, antibacterial soap, some lipsticks, mascaras hand wash, wipes…\r\n\r\nTriclosan is a Hormone Disruptor: Endocrin…
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Why supplement Chromium?
Chromium is in many foods including brewer's yeast, some meats, potato skins, some cheeses, molasses, spices, whole-grain breads and cereals, and fresh organic …
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Toxic Skincare
We’ve done blogs about toxic skincare before . We know What goes on goes in, but did you know that 60% goes in? that’s a crazy number. What if that number appli…
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Listen to your body
In the last few weeks at The Good Health Shop we have seen a lot of people, men & women, with bladder infections – more than usual, but that’s a different conve…
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Decaf or Not?
Coffee is a great way to start the day. Heck, this website and this blog go hand-in-hand in terms of how much blogging gets done thanks to my coffee. And Maybe …
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Say It As It Is...
While working in a shop has it's own set of challenges, a health shop is perhaps unique - no other environment requires you to be open about things no-one ever …
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Why Make Bone Broth Part of Your Diet?
Here are the top seven reasons why everyone should make bone broth a part of their daily diet: \r\n \r\n It’s an excellent source of minerals, improving hydrati…
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Alternative Medicine vs Western Medicine
There’s no way of getting around the sad fact that Modern Western Medicine and anything ‘alternative’ are speaking two different languages; so much so that the …
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Young & Healthy... Know the Consequences
20-30 are our funning years, where, looking back from 50 years old, we were 12 ft tall and bulletproof. When I was young there was no internet, no access to inf…
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Stress Management
This is our 3rd-in-a series stress blog. We now know the difference between acute and chronic stress and we know that chronic stress damages every system in our…
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The Biological Effects of Stress, Part 2
In the previous blog we explored the stress response and the effect it has on our physical body. We know that once the brain has assessed the danger adrenalin a…
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The biological effects of stress...
So, 1/2 way through November and the silly season is approaching... the most common issues we’re seeing in the shop now revolve around stress: exam, money, pre…
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IBS, Bloating, Cramping and Farting
We've always thought that we are what we eat, but actually, we are only what we can absorb... So we can eat nutritious food and still not be optimally healthy..…
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How To B
Even though b vitamins work best together, it’s often necessary to supplement 1 b in a therapeutic, or very large dose to deal with a particular symptom. As lon…
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To B or not to B
B-vitamins are probably the most misused of all vitamins; here’s the lowdown:\r\n \r\n B vitamins are called B1, B2, B2... Because they are meant to Be together…
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Reducing Xeno-Oestrogen Levels
Last week’s blog determined that Oestrogen dominance is actually a deficiency of progesterone. We are well aware that this dire situation has arisen out of our …
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Oestrogen Dominance
Why is Oestrogen Dominance even a word and what does it mean? oh, and why does it even matter?\n\nLets start with a Wiki definition: Estrogen dominance is a ter…
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\"If you do what you’ve always done, you get what you always got\"
Having recently received my new reading glasses, I have become more aware of how poorly I actually see when I’m not wearing them. It’s not that my eyes have det…
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Yes, we are what we eat!!
In last week’s blog we said ‘With every meal and snack you are either fighting disease or feeding it’. How crazy is it then that the people who sell our food ar…
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We can control what goes in...
Sometimes ideas for a blog happen because I see the same issues happening over and over and other times I really have to think about what to say. I am always ca…
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Menopause...
Menopause is such a loaded word, packed with negative connotations.\r\nThis next phase of a woman’s life should be filled with prescription drugs frequent tests…
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Is my body healing itself?
We have been lied to our whole lives about our body’s ability to heal itself. Our internal ‘doctor’ is amazingly astute, as long as it has the correct tools for…
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Risk vs Reward
When you take a drug with known side-effects, do you make an effort to find out the potential side-effects? Is it difficult to decide if the reward is worth the…
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To test or not to test?
So off you go to give blood or off to the doctor for a bladder infection, or bronchitis or a pain that won’t resolve and while you’re there the nurse takes your…
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Old age is a privilege...
Old age is a privilege denied to many. Growing old is NOT a medicatable (SP) disease.\r\n\r\nIt’s unheard of for people today to approach their 60’s and not be …
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Change...
Running your own business is not easy; besides anything, people who work for themselves have the toughest bosses! This week I’ve stumbled into a business conund…
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Take the time to do what’s important...
Well, it’s half way through Tuesday and I forgot all about my blog, and it’s not the 1st time… people in general are so busy; we have a finger in a dozen pies, …
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Why are we so cruel to ourselves?
Today my blog is about cruelty. Especially about how cruel we are to ourselves… and this is something we see in the shop over and over, but I’ll use today’s cus…
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... Am I lazy?
My blog today is about being lazy. We, especially women and even more especially, mothers, we have this mindset that if we are not doing something we are being …
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More about HPV
As promised last week, we'll be talking about HPV. Let’s start at the beginning: HPV is the most common sexually transmitted infection. HPV is a viral infection…
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Preventing Throat Cancer
This past week has seen 3 of our customers diagnosed with throat cancer. Seems arbitrary. In the sclerology clinic I see trachea congestion lines in almost ever…
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Should we avoid sugar at all costs?
Sugar addiction is a difficult topic to tackle. Is every ‘sweet tooth’ addiction? Should we avoid sugar at all costs? How do you even know if you are an addict?…
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If you are looking for a healing modality - look within
According to the sickness industry, there are only 2 choices, medicine and ‘alternative medicine’\r\n\r\nThe whole scope of options falls under their umbrella o…
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Our bodies are uniquely structured to heal themselves...
Are you afraid of having a fever or of feeling sick? Do you hate feeling pain? Are you a person who likes to Nip Things in The Bud before They Get Worse?\r\n\r\…
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Sclerology gives an insight into the inter-connectedness of things within us.
The Sclerology clinic has been busy this week and in the way of the universe I have seen a number of people of 80 years and older.\r\n\r\nA few of them look and…
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Flaxseed Oil or Fish Oil
Flaxseed oil is being heavily promoted as an alternative to fish oil. The health benefits of fish oil are believed to derive principally from two omega-3 fats, …
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Female Health
Vaginal thrush is something almost every women is familiar with. We don’t always know why it happens, and it usually clears up with a tube of anti-fungal cream,…
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Making supplements scheduled drugs...
By now everyone should know that our government and Medical Control council are attempting to legislate our health care industry by making supplements scheduled…
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How long must I continue my supplements?
As a generalization, most people quit their supplement regimen too soon, and often right on the cusp of a breakthrough\n\nThere are a few reasons for this:\n\n1…
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The answer may simply lie in portion control...
We generally don’t count calories any more these days because there are so many other more fun, sensible, user-friendly ways to tackle weight-loss. Yet we still…
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How do Bach Flower remedies fit into our healthcare protocol?
The current trend of the Power of Positive Thinking, the need for your life to look perfect for social media, the whole idea of seeing the bright side no matter…
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A distinction is being made between dieticians and nutritionists.
If you’re alive and living in the world, you know that Tim Noakes is defending banting principles in court. No matter what your personal opinion of the banting …
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Is Sun Skin sunscreen organic and what does it mean?
The SUN SKIN Sunscreens are manufactured with organic filters. Organic in this case means that the construction of the molecule is made of carbon atoms. These c…
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Do you have healthy gut bacteria, and does it really matter? PART 2
There’s no point knowing the problems if we can’t formulate a solution. If any of the warning signs look familiar to you, that’s actually good news because now …
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Do you have healthy gut bacteria, and does it really matter?
Exciting new studies are coming out every day exploring the connection between gut bacteria and every other aspect of human health. The conclusion is clear: the…
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What is a Hydrosol?
Hydrosols, also known as floral waters, are products from steam distilling plant materials. Hydrosols are like essential oils but in far less of a concentration…
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Honey is truly a superfood and an effective healing agent all in one...
It is packed with vitamins and minerals, enzymes and antioxidants, lots of carbohydrates in the form of sugars and even some amino acids. The most important of …
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Wash your brushes and applicators
This is a conversation I start at least twice a year, and it’s for women and it’s about make-up; not about how organic, or where it’s tested or if it has lead –…
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Twas The Month After Christmas
Twas The Month After Christmas\n A Christmas Poem by Author Unknown \n\nT'was the month after Christmas and all through the house\nNothing would fit me, not eve…
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Vitamins are so valuable when taken in the correct doses...
It’s amazing that, despite the internet and the access to information we have, that people still remain so ignorant when it comes to the supplements they spend …
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The Silly Season - Let’s make the best of it...
It may be labelled The Silly Season, but we are seeing more people suffering with anxiety, stress and all manner of misery than we see even in Matric Exam time.…
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Thank you...
Since the day I opened I have kept a book of customer requests – things we don’t keep that people want. This ‘wishing book’ has helped me to grow in the right d…
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The Gut Microbiome
The more we learn about the gut microbiome, the more we begin to understand how important it is to our health. While pesticides and other chemicals might not hu…
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Stop Smoking...
We have had so many requests about Quitting smoking this week, that I thought I’d make this my blog topic.\n\nCigarette smoke (besides the obvious damage to mou…
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Your Emotions Affect Your Health
One of the things that we get so clearly from Sclerology is that we can’t separate our physical and emotional selves. In fact, more than 50% of all the informat…
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Bach Flower Remedy
I spent the weekend in Jhb at a Bach Flower Remedy training course (level 1). The original Bach Flower Remedies are a safe and natural method of healing discove…
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How to help your immune system before you supplement or medicate...
When we start getting some signs that our immune system is taking strain – we want to know what to “take”. We want to just stop the symptoms without taking into…
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Manuka Honey
So now that we have Manuka Honey in stock for the 1st time in ages, a lot of people are asking why it’s expensive and why it’s different… All pure honey around …
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Less insulin equals less belly fat...
Belly fat is the hardest fat to lose because it doesn’t respond to exercise. Numerous hormones contribute to belly fat, but none proves more powerful than insul…
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Be mindful of what goes into your body...
I am a mindful eater. This means that on the rare occasion I buy food in a packet or a box, I scour the label. Being an avid label reader means I buy very few t…
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Labels on products are meant to be informative...
Labels on products are meant to be informative and to the benefit of the consumer. Are you aware that food labels with many ingredients are listed from the most…
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Getting Healthy is a Journey
Getting Healthy is a journey - no-one gets it right 100% of the time and no-one has all the answers today. As we make changes and create awareness, new knowledg…
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It’s not easy being a healthy eater on a road trip...
I have been away travelling for a few days. We went as far as Thabazimbi and drove 2000kms in 4 days. It’s not easy being a healthy eater on a road trip. No gar…
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Optimum nutrition is essential for a healthy and functional liver...
This morning I saw the nicest young man in the sclerology clinic and he reminded me of myself when I was in my 30’s and trying so hard to be a good person and d…
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Helping people get well & stay well - the natural way
I have worked in retail my entire adult life. I qualified as a beautician for lack of any realistic desire and my 1 st job was in a salon in a pharmacy. Because…
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Clean meat at the Good Health Shop
In our effort to provide the cleanest food to all, including all those with food intolerance, banters and those of us who choose to be mindful eaters, we have b…
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Life is moving so fast!
Life is moving so fast! And our stress levels… even retired folk feel it. I was at a seminar last week and the speaker was from Jozi and hearing her compare her…
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Are we losing the fight against junk food?
I recently spent a few days in the big city and spent time with people who are not mindful eaters. I can say with absolute certainty that I felt like we are los…
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The Microbiome...
Over the last year the Good Health Shop has started selling Grass-fed meat and free range chickens. We also have ready-to-drink kombucha and kefir starters. Thi…
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This is the reason we go to the effort of stocking grass fed hormone free meat and free range chicken and eggs:
I found this article on www.eatlocalgrown.com \r\n Puberty Before Age 10 Now "Normal"... What is Causing This? \r\nReaching puberty is a rite of passage that we…
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Kombucha & Other Fermented Foods
Kombucha has an unusually high concentrate of beneficial microbes which are essential in assisting our bodies with healing, detoxing and functioning more effici…
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Hello world!
Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!'…
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Remember To De-Worm
Parasites and worms are a reality of life! Our Healthy bodies are exposed to them on a daily basis. You may not have kids or pets but here’s the truth about int…
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Chia Seeds
Chia Seeds are new and Very Interesting.\nChia seeds are harvested from the Salvia hispanica plant, part of the Mint family. The seeds are high in Omega-3 fatty…
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