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How can gratitude practicing improve your health and change your brain?! 🍂It's winter in new zealand, and I am definitely not a fan of...

🍁Recent studies looking at diet and autoimmune disease have increasingly shown a link between a Western style diet, and higher risk of...

Friday night curry!! 🌱This cauliflower chickpea coconut and spinach curry is such an easy delicious comfort food for the end of the week...

👣I snapped this pic the other day - while it looks like clouds in the sky, it's actually looking into the ocean on a very calm day!!...

W inter comfort food 😊 🌾On cold grey winter days most people start to crave heavier more calorie dense meals - I'm pretty sure it's an...

👥Kindness is something that so often gets overlooked in our modern world - we strive to be successful, smart, creative, wealthy,...

Why we need the sun!! ☀️This was a super interesting study I read recently, around the psychology of sun exposure and opioid addiction,...

Blue space!! 💦After a busy fortnight juggling school holidays /work /meetings /visitors, what better way to recharge than a beautiful...

🌱In a just released study of over 2500 health care workers in Europe, following a plant based or mostly plant based diet was associated...

Did you know that stress has a measurable effect on your immune system?! 💙With all the stress over the past year, being aware of its...

This post is for all the exhausted healthcare workers, stressed carers, struggling mamas, worried business owners, overworked employees,...

🌿If you'd asked most doctors 10 years ago about leaky gut, the resounding response would be 'it doesn't exist' 🌿Yet like many things,...

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.' Jack Kornfield Self compassion is such a huge part of health and...

It's been an unusually wet few weeks here, which means I'm craving the sun ☀️ Since covid means no travel, channeling comfort food from...

It's human nature to look at what we don't have, rather than being aware of what we do Yet this will never bring happiness - there will...

These tasty little snacks are school lunch baking for the week - 10 minutes to prepare, super easy, and free of refined sugar. High in...

☀️Another trial looking at the link between diet and MS has been released recently ☀️It looked at the MRI (brain) scans of people with...

This is one of my favourite winter dishes - rich spicy and satisfying - and very easy!! Served with steamed brown rice and sesame seeds,...

A common question I get from patients, is what they should do about carbs... 🌿Carbohydrates have been shunned in recent years, for...

Need to take antibiotics? Here's how to protect your gut health 😊 ✳️Antibiotic prescriptions often skyrocket in winter, due to more...