Do you eat the same five vegetables on rotation? Apples and bananas the two options in your fruit bowl? Variety is the spice of life and will feed lots of different species of friendly bacteria to keep the population strong and fend off the angry mobs.
Lexi Crouch’s experience with Anorexia Nervosa began when she was seven years old. Officially diagnosed at 13, conventional treatments did little to help Lexi overcome the eating disorder. Aged 24, she started studying Nutrition at Endeavour and found the confidence and skills to heal herself.
As a young girl playing doctors, Ema Souness loved to blend up medicines using different plants from her parent’s country garden. Back then, she could never have guessed her own health would lead her to study naturopathy.
The idea of your first year in clinical practice can spark many different emotions – excitement, nerves, dread, curiosity and relief. Or maybe you are pushing the thought to the back of your mind until the last week of your last semester!
Before Jenna Carroll started her studies at Endeavour, she was a professional ballerina. At 16, Jenna left Sydney’s northern beaches to pursue an international career with the Birmingham Royal Ballet.
Acne can be like playing a game of whack-a-mole. On your face. Just when you get rid of one pimple, another seems to sprout somewhere else. If you experience more severe acne, this can equal a whole new breakout of cysts, just as the last patch begin to finally fade.
When Jack Maltby struck a difficult period in his life, he decided to start rock climbing. He loved it a bit too much and developed tennis elbow, which required manual therapy. Jack assumed the practitioners he saw at a Brisbane clinic were physiotherapists, but soon discovered he had entered the world of Myotherapy.
Clinical nutritionist Angela Emmerton is the sort of person you’d like to have a cuppa with – not just because she makes tea blends – but because she’s done some amazing things in her life. Like providing nutrition advice to Todd Sampson in preparation for his TV series, Body Hack, being an ambassador for That Sugar Film and flying around the world to design premium airport lounges.
Lexie McPhee fell into Naturopathy quite by accident. She had never been to a Naturopath and never knew anyone who had. How did she get started?