Postnatal Diet Nourishment
Dietary advice is an extremely important part of promoting postnatal recovery. Constipation is one of the most common postpartum problems, which can lead to painful bloating, straining and haemorrhoids. In…
Dietary advice is an extremely important part of promoting postnatal recovery. Constipation is one of the most common postpartum problems, which can lead to painful bloating, straining and haemorrhoids. In…
Traditional Chinese medicine has lots of offer new mums with both lifestyle and dietary advice. I offer some simple tips in this blog, but as with all Chinese medicine -…
‘Inflammageing’ is the term used to describe that as we age, low-grade chronic inflammation increases in the body and is linked to many diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, dementia…
“Spending a few quiet hours staring out of the window isn’t an activity with high prestige. Our busy, media-saturated age wants us to take action; there is always something new…
You might be offered extra fertility treatments if you’ve had previously failed IVFs or investigations suggest they might help, these are called ‘Add-ons’. The difficulty for patients having IVF is…
Before and just after the menopause is a critical window in a time of physiological flux in women, where we have an opportunity for intervention to prevent later illness. Essentially…
The bacteria in the vagina or its microbiome has been linked to poor reproductive health such as infertility, poor IVF results, frequent miscarriage, pre-term birth and frequent infections, including bacterial…
It is January and I know many of you will be at the gym or attending a new exercise classes to counter the excess of the festive season, but actually…
I use the word ‘dose’ rather than number of sessions because in effect that’s what we need to consider for treatment effectiveness. It’s like taking a pill: "Would 500mg of…
As part of your road to enhancing your fertility you may have surgery to remove fibroids and endometriosis. You may do a fresh IVF cycle where eggs are collected from…
We didn’t use to exercise historically; our everyday physical activity was our exercise. Walking to work, cleaning the house, digging, chopping wood, hunting for food and only in our modern…
Not literally you understand, now that would be painful on the ear and lead to a major exodus of my clients! But I do ‘twiddle’ the needles once they are…