Wellness for the rest of us

The best way to boost immunity is via multiple layers of defence, like the “Swiss cheese” model – a great metaphor where we know there are holes in the cheese but if we have multiple layers, hopefully, they won’t line up – the multiple layers are hygiene, masks, a healthy (bolstered) immune syste...

The reality is, is that many people suffer from more than one disease.  The medical term for this is “presenting with co-morbidities.”  The challenge of course, is that for someone presenting with co-morbidities, it feels a bit like dominoes – or as Darcy describes it, “cascade failure.”  One dis...

For those who question the efficacy of plant medicines, close to 50% of modern pharmaceuticals, approved in the past 30 years, originate from plants, or are analogues of plant compounds.  Further to that, 80% of these plant derived pharmaceuticals are related to their original ethnopharmacologica...

We have all experienced what happens when things go wrong – the only holiday I ever lost weight on was when I travelled with a cricket team throughout India!  That was extreme gut dysbiosis, but gut problems can also be insidious, gradually creeping up on us after years of poor diets and/or medic...

I lay on that hospital gurney for two and a half hours in an empty hallway, apprehensively awaiting my turn.  I got lost in my thoughts.  I felt a profound sense of loneliness and hopelessness, all the decisions in my life that had brought me to that point laid out before me.  I wanted to be anyw...

Boosting Act 3, the adaptive immune system, is also supported by a healthy lifestyle, and it is here that the use of medical vaccinations come into play.  Vaccinations essentially short-cut the path to the development of our memory cells – we want those memory cells developed as quickly and painl...