Month: December 2016

For our final edition of the newsletter for the year, we have tips on how to manage your health during the silly season.

The way we experience menopause can be as varied as the way we experience puberty. Some women just stop menstruating, have minimal symptoms and hardly miss a beat, whereas for others it is an extremely challenging time where both physical and emotional symptoms are hard to cope with and can be debilitating and prolonged. Fortunately … Read more

Are you exhausted, even after 8 hours sleep? Do you suffer from brain fog? Do you feel cold all the time or have difficulty losing weight? If this sounds like you, you may be suffering from a thyroid deficiency, or hypothyroidism. What’s important to understand is that in most cases, the malfunctioning thyroid gland isn’t … Read more

Auto-immune (AI) disease occurs when the immune system mistakenly attacks your own body tissues.  It can be localised, meaning only affecting certain parts of the body, like Hashimoto’s Disease which affects the Thyroid; or it can be systemic, which affects multiple organs or body systems, like SLE (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus). Examples of Autoimmune diseases include; … Read more

Conception is a well orchestrated miracle that can be influenced by a myriad of subtle and more obvious factors, which are often difficult to pinpoint with standard medical tests. When a couple is diagnosed with “unexplained Infertility” it means doctors can find no physical reason for the problem. Generally speaking fertility is a corollary of good … Read more