Natural Health
As modern humans, it seems to be a requisite of our culture to fill up the schedule and make the most of every waking second of the day. Whether it’s work or play, we tend to glorify the go-hard or go-home mentality. When exhaustion is a competition and burn out is a marker of personal success, stress becomes a permanent state.
The fast-paced lifestyle our society promotes is generating so much illness and imbalance that it is leaving the majority of people feeling as though they are simply surviving, rather than radiating with the health and energy they desire. We must ask ourselves the question, why are we so busy making a living, that we are forgetting to live?
The area of contact between alveoli (the tiny air sacs in the lungs) and blood vessels in adult humans is between 50 to 100 square metres, enabling immense exposure to atmospheric air. Our skin on the other hand? Approximately two square metres.
It’s no secret that sisters Caitlin and Larissa Stores love their infrared saunas. With one thriving infrared sauna business in Sydney’s East, Bachelor of Complementary Medicine alumni, Caitlin Stores and her sister both sauna at least three times a week, year round and love the way it makes them feel, both physically and mentally.
Earlier this year we held graduations across the country for our Endeavour graduates. As part of the ceremony, we had particular people of note give speeches on the day – this included Bradley Leech – an Endeavour graduate and Lecturer of Nutritional and Dietetic Medicine. His speech struck such a chord with everyone at the Sydney graduation we wanted to share the speech with you all.
When acupuncturist Adele Bishop met lecturer Jiang Man during her studies she couldn’t have imagined the impact the Chinese medicine guru would have on her future. Jiang quickly spotted Adele’s potential, becoming her mentor, lifelong friend and shaping the way she practiced forever in the process.
The MethylenetetrahydroFolate Reductase (MTHFR) gene mutation is gaining widespread attention from researchers and medical professionals. Those in the know believe it could hold the answer to a plethora of medical conditions – anxiety, depression, fatigue – even miscarriages. With 40 per cent of people having the mutation, we brought in Carolyn Ledowsky, Founder of MTHFR Support Australia to talk us through the basics.
25-year-old nurse Coreena Cruceanu’s life turned on its axis when she contracted a Lyme-like illness. The extensive lifestyle and dietary changes she made to facilitate her recovery sparked a fascination with natural health and she is now studying to become a nutritionist.
Making health resolutions is easy – the hard part can be sticking to them, so it can pay to keep them as simple as possible. That’s where subscription boxes can step in...