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Mushroom and fungi occupy a staggering 25% of the earth’s biomass. So, a quarter of ALL living organisms on earth are mushroom or fungi and a great deal of this is due to the density of the subterranean mycelium. Given this is the case it offers an insight into the role and importance of mushrooms in the natural world.

Why you should be considering a Keto Diet. In addition to weight loss, a Keto Diet can potentially improve your health and quality of life in a number of ways. Simply by changing your way of eating, can result in a number of health and mental benefits.

We have such a strong association and affinity with exercise being the solution to health and weight management that we can tie ourselves up in knots trying to achieve the goals we want through exercise. The truth is nutrition and sleep are the biggest drivers for health and weight management which allows some freedom of expression with the mode of exercise we can choose.

An important point to consider is the quality of the food you are consuming on or close to a Keto diet. The Keto diet has taken the world by storm, but it wasn’t long before the type of Keto diet I prescribe got moulded, pushed, pressed and squeezed into a new version. Version 2.0 comes […]

Eating a predominately unprocessed and natural diet will help to regulate your hormones and neurotransmitters responsible for the neuro-regulation of appetite. Assisting in reducing the harm caused by systemic overeating. 

Are you a Lark or an Owl and do you allow those natural tendencies to play out?  Perhaps you’re a lark and if undistracted would hit the pillow consistently around 8 pm but because you have pressure from work to complete deadlines and work late that doesn’t happen. 

Good news …We are Plastic!! Not in a Barbie and Ken kinda way, more that we have the ability to change our habits through rewiring, as our brains have plasticity.  The notion of plasticity is the brain’s ability to adapt and change, this was once believed to be only possible as a child but lucky for us it continues throughout your lifespan.

Do you have a mercurial friend that you only want to hang out with when they are in certain moods? Well, Soy is the food equivalent of this friend.  Soy has had its time in the sun and has been hailed as the nutritional equivalent of Michael Jordan but it transpires there are a number of caveats that we need to address.

As I have always stated it’s unfortunate that the same word is used for an essential macro-nutrient as a state of being overweight.  This gives rise to fear around foods that contain fat and has contributed to the demonisation of fat over the past 70 years