baby making vs love making
Baby making is hard work. Constantly timing intimate connections with your significant other doesn't conjure up aphrodisiac notions of ecstasy.
The Fertility Myth
Challenge the myth. Connect to the innate. Know your feminine capacity.
What is Homeopathy?
The term homoeopathy comes from the Greek words homeo, meaning similar, and pathos, meaning suffering or disease. It is a 200-year-old [...]
What is Herbal Medicine?
Herbal medicine, also called botanical medicine or phytomedicine, refers to the use of a plant's seeds, berries, roots, leaves, bark, or [...]
What is Clinical Nutrition?
As the saying goes, 'we are what we eat'. What we put into our body provides us with our basic building [...]
Headaches
When your head is pounding the last thing you want to do is analyse how or why you have a headache.
Flaxseed
This ordinary-looking ingredient disguises impressive health-giving powers.
The ability to boost fertility
Youth and fertility go hand in hand, right? Wrong. Find out why young couples need to think about their fertility now.
Soy – Is it actually healthy?
Introduction What you might not realise is that your breakfast – regardless of what you ate – may actually contain soy. [...]
Building, promoting and supporting breast feeding
Introduction Whilst I always advise women that breast is best, for some breastfeeding is an exhaustive, troublesome and painful experience. Some [...]
‘Burnout’ – article in Nature and Health
Feeling Frazzled? How to beat burnout.
Fertility – The Preconception Period
Just as we plan for a wedding, so to should we plan for one of the most important decisions of our [...]
New life kick-start
Introduction We've all been there - when life starts to feel like the colour beige. Plain, uninspiring and directionless. Over the [...]
Probiotics to prevent preeclampsia
A new large observational study conducted in Norway has just released promising results. Researchers have found that pregnant women who consume [...]
Assessing the alternatives – The Canberra Times
By Peter Jean - The Canberra Times forum Patients seeking reassurance about their doctor's medical qualifications usually have to look no further than [...]
Conscious planning for the coming year
2012 has been an eventful year for everyone I've spoken to. It has brought an incredible amount of change and everyone [...]
Can you prevent mental illness?
Can you prevent mental illness? Leah's column in Health Debate.