Your supplement protocol should be reviewed regularly. Have a look through your supplement stash and consider whether they are all necessary – have you noticed any changes in your health status since you’ve been taking them? Have they made any difference? Check the labels to establish what’s in them – are the nutrient levels beneficial, what are the fillers, what is the source of the nutrient? Have you checked whether they interact with any of your medications?
Read MoreIt doesn’t matter how many B vitamins, magnesium, zinc, adaptogens etc that we take, we cannot out-supplement stress.
To support sleep, energy levels, immune system health, gut, hormones, and mental & cognitive health, we need to calm our nervous systems.
It makes sense that by paying attention to what and when you eat, and to what and how you supplement - by supporting the physiological imbalances caused by chronic drinking - you will make a big difference to how you feel as you recover.
Read MoreA big part of my role as a nutritional therapist is helping people to introduce changes. In this post I talk about a tool that I find useful, for both personal use and in clinic.
Read MoreBeing tired, when you know there is good reason for it, is different to fatigue. Tiredness is an expected consequence when you have been working without a break or not sleeping enough or under huge amounts of stress, but ongoing fatigue may be a sign that things are not be quite right.
Read MoreMore often than not, by the time we reach middle age our guts are in less than perfect working order. And good gut health is paramount because it affects every single system in our body - immune, cardiovascular, brain, hormones, skin, muscles and bone health. But unless we understand what is driving our gut dysfunction - the root causes - then it is difficult to support our gut health effectively.
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