While exercise, a healthy diet and adequate sleep are all imperative for maintaining a healthy weight, evidence has now revealed a new player in the weight game – your gut bacteria! This collection of 37 trillion organisms (mainly bacteria) within your digestive tract is known as your microbiome, and strongly dictates how your body regulates and maintains its weight. A healthy microbiome for a happy waistline? Fascinating!
Does your dog send you into a sneezing frenzy? Do certain foods leave you bloated and headachy? Or do pollens and certain grasses leave your skin desperately itchy? If you answered yes, then you know this is a daily reality for you and the millions of people living with allergic conditions such as hay fever , asthma, food allergies and eczema.
Are you feeling sluggish, hormonal or overweight? Do you frequently experience digestive symptoms such as constipation, wind or bloating, or are you in pain? A detox may just be the answer! Supporting detoxification can not only help increase your energy, but also improve digestion, aid weight loss, reduce pain, balance hormones and support a healthy mood.
No-one is a stranger to stress. A little stress is healthy; it challenges you and makes you stronger. The body’s stress response is designed to help you survive stressful situations. Historically, stress looked a bit different, particularly if you were a caveman confronted with a sabre-toothed tiger!
In today’s modern world even those of you who eat a healthy diet may not be meeting your nutritional needs due to declining soil quality combined with modern food processing and cooking methods.
Dr. Bland responds to a recent Scientific American article about the research of Dr. Dean Ornish.
Stress is a natural, evolutionary body response. You will instinctively react to stress in life with a fight, flight or freeze type reaction. It may be an acute stressful event such as an exam or public speaking, or it may be the ongoing challenge of raising kids, the daily commute, or financial pressures.
BeHealthy has had great success with our new weight loss program, (even my sometimes sceptical son lost 8 kilos in a few weeks prior to his wedding) and given all the misinformation in the weight loss area we are very confident of results and of helping you to lose weight.
As you know I can hardly be accused of flooding social media with my posts, but for the next week, a group of organisations, including Metagenics are hosting what they are calling the Detox Summit.
Is that we have taller buildings, but shorter tempers
Wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints
We spend more, but we have less.
Wherever you are on the journey of life, there are opportunities to slow down the ageing process.
New research seems to be indicating that a topical application of Coenzyme Q10 is effective in reducing gingivitis, bleeding gums, plaque and other related oral disease.
Cancer is a life altering experience for the person involved, as well as their close family and friends.
Many people believe ‘health’ and ‘wellness’ are terms that simply mean being free from disease, but there is so much more to being truly well!
Ask yourself these questions:
Most people today are living extremely stressful, busy lives, so it is normal to feel tired sometimes.
This tiredness generally resolves itself after some rest and relaxation. Increasingly though, persistent tiredness is becoming a major problem for many people.
Fatigue is a common presenting complaint in the majority of Australians and New Zealanders, but it is also often misunderstood, and at times even dismissed, particularly if there is no easily identifiable cause.
Australia is now officially the fattest nation in the world, with more than nine million adults classified as obese or overweight.
Your hip bone’s connected to your leg bone…
Your leg bone’s connected to your knee bone….
Your knee bone’s connected to your shin bone…
Welcome to the first of, we hope many, small newsletters alerting you to the most recent research and latest tips on how to BeHealthy.
