1st Jul, 2024 | Nutritional Medicine
Do I need a nutritional supplement? (Part 1) It is not difficult to motivate someone in pain to do things that will relieve pain. This is why I spend much of my time helping people with joint pain and reduced mobility. One of the best things I do is to see people with...
8th Apr, 2024 | Nutritional Medicine
artilage (Part 2) In theory osteoarthritis (OA) is one of the simplest diseases. For years we thought that cartilage in our joints just wore away over time. We now know that OA is a complex disease where the processes that reduce cartilage are affected by genetics,...
11th Mar, 2024 | Nutritional Medicine
Cartilage loss (Part 1) Osteoarthritis is all about loss of cartilage, subsequent inflammation and changes to bone and joint structure. The result is pain and loss of mobility. The ends of bones such as the femur are covered in tough, flexible articular cartilage. It...
11th Mar, 2024 | Nutritional Medicine
Steps to more comfortable joints (Part 2) Most who contact me with joint problems have already tried joint health supplements with little or no success. We make what appear to be minor changes in dosages and within a few months many get significant benefits. Joint...
11th Mar, 2024 | Nutritional Medicine
Steps to more comfortable joints (Part 1) I feel as I have the best job in the world. I get to hear from people that often have life-changing benefits from effective nutritional therapy programmes. I was contacted by someone with significant discomfort from...
19th Apr, 2023 | Nutritional Medicine
Introduction The last newsletter introduced MCH-Cal® as the key ingredient in Abundant Health Bone Plus (https://www.abundant.co.nz/products/bone-plus-for-healthy-bones-3-pack/.  This edition we look closer at MCH-CAL to help understand why it is an important part of...
19th Apr, 2023 | Nutritional Medicine
Building Strong Bones Let’s get rid of one myth before we start: If additional calcium from food and supplements were the answer to bone diseases like osteoporosis then we would have eliminated this disease. This series will look at bones and bone density and see if...
19th Apr, 2023 | Nutritional Medicine
Magnesium and General Health Science buffs will know that Magnesium and Calcium are in the same column in the Periodic Table. It is unsurprising then that these two essential minerals control nerve and muscle function. In muscles, Calcium dominates Magnesium when...
19th Apr, 2023 | Nutritional Medicine
Can Magnesium help Hypertension? The Women’s Health Study is one of the most influential medical studies. This followed nearly 30,000 Female Health professionals who are over 45. It is still going now after 30 years. One of the many observations was the relationship...
19th Apr, 2023 | Nutritional Medicine
How does Magnesium help Heart rhythm? Someone I know well has been treated by a Cardiologist for atrial fibrillation, one of the more common heart rhythm issues. What was interesting that the Cardiologist recommended a high-grade magnesium supplement along with...
10th Jan, 2023 | Nutritional Medicine
Do I need extra Magnesium? Magnesium is one of the most commonly prescribed supplements by natural health practitioners. The nutritional medicine textbook Integrative Medicine (Rakel 2012) is a well-respected reference text for clinical nutrition. It is co-written by...
10th Jan, 2023 | Nutritional Medicine
o Enzyme Q10 (Part 2) This edition we take a closer look at disease processes that can indicate a need for CoQ10 supplements with other complementary compounds. Disease starts… All chronic disease starts with changes to normal cell chemistry. The biochemistry of our...
