Tag: lifestyle

TWIW 50: Healthy lifestyle adds 10 disease free years

This Week In Wellness a healthy lifestyle leads to a life that is free of chronic illness including diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer for longer. Using data from the Nurses Health Study and the Health Professionals follow up study this paper in the British Journal of Medicine was able to confirm that never smoking, maintaining… Continue reading TWIW 50: Healthy lifestyle adds 10 disease free years

TWIW 38: 41% of cancer caused by environment and lifestyle

This Week In Wellness a new study has estimated that almost 41% of cancers can be linked to lifestyle and environmental factors. The study, published in Canada by the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) looked at 24 lifestyle and environment-related risk factors for cancer such as smoking, obesity, low fruit and vegetable intake, lack of… Continue reading TWIW 38: 41% of cancer caused by environment and lifestyle

AQJ 148: Navigating Parasites, Metals and Candida When Healing

In this episode, Jo chats with Elyse Comerford, Integrative Nutritionist and GAPS Practitioner, about where to begin on your gut healing journey when you suspect metal toxicity, parasites and/or candida are an issue. This is a question that comes up a lot in the Quirky Cooking for Gut Health chat group… Do you start with… Continue reading AQJ 148: Navigating Parasites, Metals and Candida When Healing

AQJ 147: From City Careers to Farming Life – The Story of Bellasato Farm

Dan and Leanne Cordner are the owners of Bellasato Farm, where they raise naturally grown, heritage breed chickens on chemical free pasture in North Queensland. The couple, along with their two young girls began farming life just four years ago, leaving their career jobs – Dan was an engineer and Leanne a microbiologist – in… Continue reading AQJ 147: From City Careers to Farming Life – The Story of Bellasato Farm

TWIW 25: Cancer doctors reticent to offer lifestyle advice

This Week In Wellness Oncologists are unlikely to offer lifestyle tips that improve the health and reduce the risk of recurrence in cancer patients according to a survey conducted by the journal Cancer. The survey of primary care physicians, specialists and oncologists from the Midwestern Health System in America showed that less than 10% of… Continue reading TWIW 25: Cancer doctors reticent to offer lifestyle advice

TWB 1: Thriving Through Cancer with Mel Deller

Back at The Wellness Summit in 2015 The Wellness Couch team were given some information by an incredible chiropractor – Katelyn McGregor – that a young child and his family were under stress. Young Byron Deller had cancer and Katelyn asked if we would write a card to the family to share our best wishes.… Continue reading TWB 1: Thriving Through Cancer with Mel Deller

HBH 36: Supplements & Nutritional Supports with Peter Mullen

As we become more interested in a whole body, whole child approach to autism, it becomes important to look at what is happening at a biological level. Good food is good for everyone, we know that. But what kinds of nutritional supplementation may be beneficial for kids on the autism spectrum? What kinds of dietary… Continue reading HBH 36: Supplements & Nutritional Supports with Peter Mullen

TWG 385: Hope For Health

This week Brett and Damian have a chat to Kama Trudgen from Hope For Health who many of you may recognise from the documentary, The Magic Pill. The conversations covers the amazing relationship that Kama and her family have with the people of Arnhem Land and the work she has been doping to help them… Continue reading TWG 385: Hope For Health

HBH 26: The eyes are useless when the mind is blind- Unlearning What We Know About Autism

We need to look at autism through a completely different lense. We need to unlearn what we have known to be true. We need to challenge deeply ingrained belief systems and embrace a whole child approach to the complexities of autism. Today it’s just you and me! I chat about how my understanding of autism… Continue reading HBH 26: The eyes are useless when the mind is blind- Unlearning What We Know About Autism

HBH 25: Lifestyle Matters For Autism- Exploring Epigenetics with Shandy Laskey

We know genes play a major role in autism, but are you aware that autism is also heavily influenced by environmental factors? The more we learn about autism as an epigenetic condition – the more we start to realise that lifestyle really matters! This is a really empowering model to work from – because it… Continue reading HBH 25: Lifestyle Matters For Autism- Exploring Epigenetics with Shandy Laskey