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Safety of vitamin B6

Is vitamin B6 toxic?

September 3, 2025
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Nutrition, Vitamins

You may have heard of vitamin B6 being in the spotlight lately, as an overdose can cause peripheral neuropathy. The symptoms of this include numbness and pain in the limbs and healing can be slow.  An overdose usually occurs when someone is taking multiple supplements, or food products that have added B6. But the answer is not as simple as limiting B6, let me explain. Different forms of vitamin B6 There are different forms of B6, just like there are different types of dwellings: caravans, bungalows and houses. Imagine you live in a caravan and a storm causes it to roll down the road and hit a tree, causing the rain water to come pouring through the roof. There, in the middle of the night, in rain and...

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How a naturopath can help

How much difference does a naturopath make?

August 5, 2025
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Herbal Medicine, Homeopathy, Lifestyle, Nutrition

I thought I’d share 2 examples of how working with a naturopath can make a difference in your health. I have chosen two very different examples from my clinic in the last 12 months. Sometimes the journey is very straightforward, other times, there can be a few bumps in the road (names have been changed). Case 1 - stress and fatigue Emma, late 30’s, works, school aged kids. She presented with anxiety (with panic attacks), fatigue, insomnia, and frequent colds. Upon questioning: Energy 2/10 Stress 7/10 Too tired to exercise Daily nausea and bloating Poor concentration and memory Sleep waking 3x/night I first prescribed an individual herbal medicine formula, a specific homeopathic, a mineral supplement, and a few foods to add to her diet. 2nd appointment (2 weeks later) Anxiety has...

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nutritional medicine for cholesterol

How to lower your blood pressure

June 26, 2025
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Cardiovascular, Nutrition

Hypertension (high blood pressure) is defined as consistently high arterial blood pressure: a systolic pressure of over 130mmHg or diastolic pressure of more than 90mmHg. It is a major risk for cardiovascular disease and is present in over one third of Australians. How does the pressure increase? Like water in a pipe, blood flows through your blood vessels: arteries and veins. When the blood vessels are narrow more pressure is required, and when the walls of the of the blood vessels are stiff, they don’t increase in diameter to allow for more pressure. This causes blood pressure to increase, rather than adjusting to these changes. What causes high blood pressure? Atherosclerosis (arterial plaque build-up) is the main cause of hypertension, but it is also caused by other factors such...

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Breathing to move from 'fight or flight' to 'rest and digest'

Breathing to calm the mind

May 29, 2025
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Lifestyle, Mental health

When you’re feeling stressed or anxious and especially if you’re feeling stuck in that state, it can be really helpful to have some tools that you can use, to move out of it, into your calm, rational mind. Autonomic nervous system Your autonomic nervous system has 2 modes: sympathetic nervous system (fight or flight), and parasympathetic nervous system (rest and digest). Don’t worry too much about the names of these 2 modes, they were given hundreds of years ago and the original theories around what they did, turned out to be untrue. Long term balance To balance your autonomic nervous system in the long term, you want to make sure your life includes activities that you find fun or relaxing: exercise, time in nature, and time with friends (especially...

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adrenal fatigue

If you had a day to yourself, would you spend it in bed?

April 15, 2025
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Herbal Medicine, Lifestyle, Nutrition

People often come into my clinic for fatigue, and this is one of the questions I ask, as it tells me some important information: if you had a day to yourself, would you spend it in bed? Fatigue can present in so many different ways, and understanding the nature of it is the start of understanding exactly what is going on in your body. Some people start their day with fatigue, and it improves as the day goes on. Others start fine, but can hardly stay awake after lunch, and others get progressively more exhausted as the day goes on. For these people, when It’s bad enough, their ideal day is a day in bed, as they are just too tired to enjoy other activities. Adrenal fatigue If...

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