Many New Zealanders start their day with a nutritious breakfast and a nutritional supplement or two for good measure. While multivitamin and mineral tablets are a useful way of covering all the nutritional bases, specific nutrient therapy has has much to offer in restoring balance to a frayed or depressed nervous system. It is [...]
24 hours a day, 7 days a week our senses are bombarded with images and sounds of a world fraught with difficulty. Twenty four hour a day television, radio and the internet crash their way relentlessly into our private worlds, bringing us visions of terror, death and despair from around the globe. It is [...]
I see many patients in the clinic who are needing to improve their cardiovascular health. Usually it’s a cholesterol or blood pressure issue that brings them along. While any naturopathic program designed to help them is comprehensive, it nearly always includes high doses of purified fish oil. It’s one of my favourite supplements, and something [...]
Reflux, indigestion, heartburn… whatever you want to call it, it’s a huge pain in the gullet. It’s also an incredibly common problem plaguing millions of us. Rather than cut out the coffee, alcohol, rich foods and overeating that contribute to the problem, it’s so much easier to reach for a pill. And that’s exactly [...]
Living in a house with two teenage daughters means I’m constantly monitoring the excesses of modern “beauty”… it usually goes something like this…. “go and wash your face before you leave the house, there’s no way you’re going out looking like that!”. Now, courtesy of Allergan, we have a new designer drug that could make [...]
Around this time of year, my clients start asking me what I think of the flu vaccine? The truth is that after mountains of research, the evidence supporting the benefits of annual flu vaccination is weak. Recently a large review looked at the efficacy of flu vaccine trials from around the world. Called the Cochrane [...]
In the past week the cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil has been in the New Zealand news again. I watched the six o’clock news a few nights ago as Dr Karen Poutassi from the Ministry of Health reassured New Zealand women that this vaccine is extremely safe. She smiled and told us that side effects reported [...]
