When working together an important area I like to focus on is building self awareness. Awareness around eating habits, patterns , thinking , how your feeling before and after eating , your stress, your joys , your pulse and temps etc - self awareness is the first step toward making changes. One common challenge from the woman I work with is that they can not seem to eat enough protein. And the truth is most woman aren’t - protein is important for : •rebuilding the gut •buildi

s this you? There was a time that this was me too. Often when a lifestyle of restrictive dieting , low blood sugar levels, stress and screens - tend to keep people wired so you stay up late or unable to get back to sleep... the solution many use to bring balance to the day is ...Coffee of course. Your body won’t do this for long. - woman tend to wake in the night because the liver has not stored enough glycogen in the day. The body breaks down glycogen when you sleep to creat

Food and nutrition can be very triggering topics for many people – especially when there is so much information out there. The dos the don’ts – the swayed studies to very strict dogmatic rules. A question I get often is - how strict do I need to be to achieve my health goals? – and each time is pains my heart. When we are in the mindset of being “strict” we are almost always also restricting and depriving ourselves of things we may actually need – which actually sets off a ch

Skipping breakfast for so long – when I was growing up was seen as some sort of badge of honour – right up there with hustling your butt and being super busy. I hear it all the time – and believe me – I used to be right there too. My mornings started with a tea or a coffee – straight up on an empty stomach – I would train fasted – or be on my way to work with beverage in my hand. I was never hungry – so I didn’t feel like I needed to eat breakfast. Now knowing better and unde

Intermittent fasting over a long time can be detrimental to your body. Please don’t let someone on the internet convince you that not providing your body with nutrient dense foods and adequate fuel doesn’t have its consequences on the female body – because it does. Why? The body needs fuel and nutrients – it can’t run off air and caffeine – not long term anyway. Long periods of not eating forces the body to break itself down for fuel with the use of stress hormones. Muscle a

Digging in to all the layers that make up a healthy mind, body and spirit is where we start when we work together. From emotional traumas to previous and current lifestyles. What medications you have been on or are on. From histories of yo yo dieting, over exercising, undernourished pregnancies, infections to mold and toxin exposure – depending on your history, your nature and life – things can look very different in the approach you as an individual need to take. Two people

To juice cleanse or not to juice cleanse I get this question a lot. Juice cleanses are popular and so is the popular celery juicing – but they are not a great way to decongest your liver. Let me tell you why: The liver sees a toxin – creates bile – puts toxin in the bile and then sends the bile to the gallbladder. Then we eat a meal containing fat and this then sends the signal to the gallbladder to release the bile into the intestinal tract to than be expelled to the bowls.

Did you know that healthy livers need sugar to function?! ❌A lot of people think that the liver is a filter. ✅It is our metabolic regulator- the battery pack of the body. The liver •performs over 500 functions (breaking down toxins, hormones and getting them where they need to go and out of your body •maintainsour blood sugar levels – you can’t run on air. Stores up glucose in storage form of glycogen – and then in to glucose and feeds the cell. 💡What do our cells need? – gl

reconception care is so important and often overlooked – it is crucial in preparing to conceive a baby. Many studies show that nutritional deficiencies, illnesses, toxin exposure and other factors influence the health of the egg and sperm. The reason I suggest preconception care 3-4 (or more) months before conception is that is takes up to 100 days for a oocyte (immature egg) to mature and 74 days for spermatogenesis to occure – the production of mature sperm. That being said

Your metabolism is the key to feeling your best. It’s important to understand that a slow metabolism can impact so many areas of your life (not just your body weight) and how you feel throughout the day from your moods, energy levels, libido, digestion and even your sleep quality. So what are some signs? • Fatigue/lethargy • Hair loss • Low sex drive • Irregular of painful periods + PMS • Poor sleep quality • Digestive complaints and constipation • Low body temperatures – les

At a deep cellular level, all parts of the body are in communication with each other and the body at any point in time is performing highly intelligent activities: it is making hormones when it recognizes that they are too low: the cells are making ATP ( adenosine triphosphate) for energy; the Krebs cycle is taking place; neurotransmitters are being made. How does the body instinctively know how to do this? The initial impulse to perform all these thousands of functions comes