Many women I speak with share a similar experience: they feel “off” hormonally but can’t quite pinpoint why. Maybe cycles feel different, moods fluctuate more easily, or energy rises and falls in unfamiliar ways. We often look first to stress, aging, or changes in routine, and those can absolutely play a role. But there’s another…
What are Ultra-Processed Foods?
Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) have emerged as a critical, yet often overlooked, driver of chronic disease burden and compromised wellbeing. Defined as edible products formulated with substances of rare or no culinary use – alongside cosmetic additives such as stabilisers, colourants, flavour enhancers, emulsifiers, and sweeteners – UPFs are engineered to extend…
Today's article is a reminder that everything that you do, eat, consume and are exposed to will influence your fertility, pregnancy outcomes and the health of your children as well as your grandchildren.
This applies to both parents.
Reproductive health can be significantly impacted by environmental factors.
• These factors include physical (e.g., pollution), biological…
The problem is global. Environmental pesticides and toxic chemicals continue to increase while fertility rates steadily decline. Scientists argue that correlation does not equal causation – but can we really afford to ignore what is happening?
Let me begin with sharing a few excerpts from the most recent edition of The Pesticide Atlas
Pesticide use…
We live in a world that has never been experienced before. Sanitation helped remove many of the infectious diseases that used to kill thousands of people around the globe. Travel, communication, technology ... all have helped progress our connectivity and changed our lives forever.
There are also many aspects of our modern lives that affect…
You may, or may not, be surprised at the regularity with which I see women in my clinic who have been told they have low ovarian reserve. Many of these women are as young as 25 years of age.
While the health of our ovaries and oocytes is determined while we are in our mother's…
Mandatory food fortification using folic acid began in the USA in 1998 and has spread through other countries, including Australia. What was considered a move to prevent folate deficiency in pregnancy may have led to a rise in unmetabolised folic acid or UMFA. Why is this a problem? Read on.
UMFA builds up when folic…
It's not often that I am able to share information relating to a specific remedy. The health benefits of supplementing with a quality, practitioner-only clean brand of activated sulforaphane (SFN) to mother and baby are outlined in this study. But the benefits go further - it's also fabulous for dad, especially during pre-conception preparation.
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When we think 'histamine' most of us may think of allergies, hay fever, itchy eyes, etc. But did you know that histamine is an essential organic nitrogenous compound involved in local immune response communication, as well as regulating physiological functions in the gut and acting as a neurotransmitter for the brain, spinal cord, and…
The recent announcement by the US President Donald Trump about the use of Tylenol in pregnancy and its links to autism has created significant concern for many mothers. I really dislike the comments that a drug is “bad” and mothers should just tough it out. Particularly coming from someone who has never lived through a…
One message that I tried to get across to readers of my book is that no single organ or part of the body functions in isolation - everything is linked. When we think of reproductive health there are many other aspects of our body that are often overlooked or not thought of in connection with…
Australian scientists say: wireless radiation damages genes
The world is facing a pandemic of cancers and Australian researchers say that wireless radiation could be a contributing factor.
In a review published in late July, Steven Weller and team reviewed over 500 studies, concluding that wireless radiation causes genetic damage (genotoxicity) and potentially contributes to cancer.…