#Health A-Z

Blue eye close up

Your eyes – are they healthy?

Most people don’t think about their eyes or their eyesight till something goes wrong. Me included. At the age of 25, overnight I lost my sight, to the point I couldn’t read STOP on a stop sign sitting right in front of it. Wow. That was scary. My specialist told me I would be legally blind […]
Sugary donut close-up with sprinkles

Diabetes – manage it or eliminate it?

Did you know that 3000 years ago in India, Ayurveda medicine could differentiate between 20 different types of sugar disorders and in today’s western medicine, we can only differentiate four – hypoglycemia, prediabetes aka metabolic disorder, type 1 and type 2. Pretty pathetic wouldn’t you say? Like with so many medical issues, we are still coming […]
Neem plant

Do you get cold sores?

What causes cold sores? They are a form of herpes. Did you know there are over 100 different types of herpes? Thankfully not all of them infect humans! However, 8 routinely infect only humans: People often assume that if you have a cold sore (simplex virus type 1) you have the genitalia form of herpes […]
Sauerkraut, fermented food for healthy microbiome

Could we live without bacteria?

The simple answer is no. And the medical profession or more accurately Big Pharma really doesn’t want you to know that. When I was in Naturopathic College almost 20 years ago, it was taught that there were just over 500 species of bacteria in the gut and they did a few things…. For over a […]