Your liver is a central organ when it comes to filtering your blood, processing nutrients and metabolising everything from drugs to pollutants to hormones. For all these reasons and more, your liver is critical to your detox.

Digestion is central to your body’s detoxification processes, so it’s important to consider how to keep your digestion at its best.

Concerns have been raised about caramel colouring in soft drinks.

…it’s a common misconception amongst practitioners that to be successful you need to work hard – and this, as we have seen above, simply isn’t true. Often there is also a sense of martyrdom about the health profession – that somehow, somewhere down the track we will be recognized for our skills, our passion, for how much we have given of ourselves to patients with no expectation of reward. My advice in this case is simply not to hold your breath for this to occur! To be truly successful in our chosen field of health and wellness, we need to create for ourselves cumulative advantage.

We firstly need to “simply show up” – in other

Dark roasted coffee beans have more antioxidant power.

Generation Y you face many challenges such as moving away from home, starting work or study. These changes in lifestyle can cause dietary changes that are not always conducive to healthy eating. Binge drinking, recreational drug taking and fast food all take their toll sooner than later. As does going to bed late, texting, on the computer for hours and sleep deprivation.

No matter how old you are healthy eating and exercise is imperative. It’s a matter of finding out what works for you and sticking to it. I stopped running when I started karate. Over Christmas I met a senior in her 60’s who has been running for over twenty years. I was inspired.

Just anticipating music can have a similar pleasure effect to sex and food.

Detoxifying is a lifelong process and the steps outlined here can be a constant reference point for you as you undertake a holistic approach to achieving a clean and vital you for a rewarding and sustainable life.

The Chinese approach to health and beauty remains one of the most popular in the world, and it all begins with energy and balance.

Cycling in Vietnam is a gentle, fun and intimate way to experience the landscape, the people and daily life of a country that encourages a slow approach.

At some stage in everyone’s life we will be lonely on Valentine’s Day.  Break-ups, divorce, death, separation thru work commitments or just not been able to find the right one. It’s not easy being lonely in a sea of bright red hearts found blooming in newsagencies, shopping centres and magazines. A reminder, love is not […]