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How jet lag disrupts your thyroid
Jet lag isn’t just about sleep Most people think of jet lag as a temporary inconvenience such as fatigue, poor sleep, maybe some brain-fog. However, jet lag has a holistic impact on several hormonal systems. Most importantly your thyroid and prolactin are disrupted for weeks after you land in the "new time-zone". Especially neurodivergent people, or menopausal women, whom may already be dealing with burnout or hormonal sensitivity may struggle with the impacts for weeks after
Mar 235 min read
Can Leaky Gut cause behavioural or cognitive symptoms?
It’s not uncommon to see leaky gut in people who also have methylation issues — but that doesn’t mean one causes the other. Methylation is a biochemical process that’s vital for almost every cell in the body. It impacts detoxification, neurotransmitter production, hormone regulation, and much more. When methylation is inefficient, the body can struggle in a number of ways — most talked about is media is the liver, where detox pathways rely heavily on methyl groups to function
Apr 22, 20252 min read
Peri/Menopause symptoms list
Every time I have an appointment with a lady who could be going through her menopausal journey, we talk about all the various different symptoms that can be related to this life stage for a woman. Looking for answers to all the symptoms... Often it's a confusing array of symptoms which are hard to put our fingers on because they may or may not be because of the menopausal journey, or they are because of other changes we have had in our body because of the menopausal journey.
Jan 28, 20253 min read
Food intolerances?
Does your child (or you) complain a lot of a sore tummy, maybe has runny poo's, is farty, grumpy, or constipated, and maybe even a picky eater? You might worry they have a food intolerance, and may even have been to the Dr to rule out celiac disease and allergies. But all the tests came back fine, and the Dr sent you away without answers. In my practice I see a lot of children with tummy aches, runny poos and/or constipation. I rarely send kids for food sensitivity tests, as
Feb 16, 20242 min read
Meds - improves children's brain?
The R med in young children – may it actually improve their white matter? Note: Google will ban any website which names any medicines from showing in search results, as such the name of the med discussed in this blog post, has been replaced with The R med. A study was performed 2011-2015 on 48 boys 10–12-year-old, and 50 young adult men, all with ADHD. None of them had taken The R med before this study. They were divided into 4 groups, where two groups got a placebo, and the
Feb 7, 20242 min read
I'm not menopausal - or am I?
Are you over 40? Are you just not feeling yourself anymore. Nothing is quite working as it used to, and you feel there is a slow but very real decline in most of your body functions? Menopause starts as peri-menopause, the reversed puberty... before we realise Did you realise that menopause doesn't happen over night? We don't have regular hormones one day, and then no period the next. We go through a second reversed puberty! Because after decades of monthly bleeding, childbi
Oct 14, 20233 min read
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