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If you suffer with hormonal acne you’re probably wondering where do you start when you want to get rid of it? Being a specialist in the natural treatment of hormonal acne I’m going to walk you through where you start and what are your options are. Step 1. The first step is to consider your options, and there are two …
If you’ve had breast cancer you’ll know how fantastic the support is while you’re going through treatment. Whenever you go into the clinic you’re surrounded by people who care. It’s like a little community where everyone, nurses and other cancer sufferers, pull together to help make your cancer treatment journey as bearable as possible. It’s a place and time where …
An Unexpected Benefit of Quitting Cigarettes When you quit smoking, a whole new world awaits you. You’ll have more money. Better health. You won’t smell it. And you won’t be a slave to a hideous addiction. As a smoker, you know all this. And they are all good reasons to quit. Yet there is one thing about quitting many of …
The answer below may surprise you… Everyone knows smoking is bad for their health. There’s no denying the facts; smoking slashes years off your life. And smokers know they should quit. It’s not like they’re unaware they are slowly killing themselves. For over 4 years, I’ve helped smokers quit the habit. At that time, I’ve come to fully understand the …
What tests are the most important to boost body fat burning! I do a lot of testing with patients. I might test to check their stress hormones (cortisol & DHEA); their reproductive hormone levels (oestrogen, progesterone or testosterone); their gut for parasites (DNA stool test); Or if their cells are burning fats and carbohydrates optimally (Organic acids test). The reason …
While a lot has been said and documented about the need for a healthy gut to enjoy good health, most individuals have more or less ignored it, realizing its importance only after health complications. However, it is heartening to note that, in the recent past, research has helped to enlighten people on the need for good gut health. Let’s take …
By Frances Bueno – Clinical Hypnotherapist Weight loss. It sounds so simple. Make some changes… diet, exercise, habits and “hey presto” you’re skinnier! But if you’re like most of my patients your experience of trying to lose weight is probably a bit different. It seems so much harder than it should be. And is SO frustrating for most people because …
More and more research is coming out revealing how effective mindful eating is for losing weight and maintaining weight loss. And the great thing about mindful eating is it isn’t about dieting, restriction and depravation. It’s about being in the moment when you eat, savouring the flavours of your food and enjoying eating. A big factor that leads us to …
Frances Bueno – Clinical Hypnotherapist The power of emotion can seem like a magical force. I remember as a young woman being down at Circular Quay on Sydney Harbour many moons ago for the Olympic host city announcement. The raw emotion that was released when Sydney was named as host city that morning was something that I’ll …
Most women have come to believe that period problems, PMS, heavy bleeding, irregular cycles, period pain, anger, moodiness, irritability, depression, are all normal parts of the menstrual cycle. But the truth is they’re not normal parts of the menstrual cycle. So in this post I’m going to reveal how stress is the underlying cause of these problems. And how it …
Because premenstrual symptoms like anger, irritability, teariness, and depression as well as period pain are so common it’s easy to think that these issues are a normal part of a woman’s menstrual cycle. However, they aren’t. As much as it might seem impossible if you’re a menstruating woman, in THEORY, your period should be an uneventful experience each month. Your …
One of the health questions on everyone’s lips these days is “why have so many people become gluten and lactose intolerant?” People find it difficult to understand why foods that everyone used to eat, seemingly without an issue for generations, have become so problematic. The reason is twofold. Firstly, grains and dairy while looking the same are vastly different from …
Some people just know how to get under your skin. You can be feeling all cool, calm and collected one minute and then… with a couple of words or even a single word someone turns you into an emotional mess. It’s like an emotional firecracker going off inside you. BOOM! Suddenly your blood boiling, your blood pressure rises and you …
If you want your body to burn fat, your thyroid gland is the number one gland that needs to be working optimally. Your thyroid makes and releases a hormone called Thyroid Hormone. And thyroid hormone is the accelerator pedal for your metabolism. The more of it you have, the faster your metabolic rate and the more fat you burn. The …
Having a good reason to lose weight is vital if you want to have any chance of reaching your goal. A lot of people decide “yep, I’m going to lose weight” but then not very long into it they give up, while others manage to keep going through thick and thin. What sets people apart? Why do some succeed while …
