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 More“Like it or not, at some point during midlife, you’re going down, and after that there are only two choices: staying down or enduring rebirth.” Brené Brown
You can completely change your life in your 50s. But if your brain isn’t working so well - if you can't concentrate, if you struggle to make decisions, or you struggle to find the right words or your memory isn't quite what it used to be - it makes it more challenging to turn things around.
Our cognitive health is all-important.
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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.
Read MoreMany of us are unaware that our blood sugar levels may be out of balance, and that these unbalanced blood sugar levels could be driving symptoms such as hot flushes, mood swings, fatigue, irritability, low mood, brain fog, carbohydrate/sugar cravings, insomnia and unwanted weight gain.
This post explains exactly what is meant by blood sugar balance.
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