Aetiology

Sleep is essential for optimum health! 🙌

If you’re having trouble falling asleep, waking up through the night, having a night of restless sleep, getting up to go to the toilet, suffer from insomnia or having night sweats, these are all signs that your body is telling you that your health needs more support.😴

We are not meant to be more awake at night! 🌃

Our bodies have their own circadian clock. This means you should go to bed and wake up around the same time every day. Don’t except quality sleep if your timing fluctuates on a day to basis. Having a nighttime routine really helps. Saying you have ‘always been that way’ doesn’t mean its healthy! It means that your body chemistry needs balancing. 🤷‍♀️
1/3 of our GENES run on a clock and 90% of other genes are related to those so our body follows a Circadian Rhythm. 🌒

If you suffer from anxiety or have trouble switching off your brain at night then your body is in a constant revved upstate. High levels of stress hormones produced throughout the day can impair your circadian rhythm from cycling properly, resulting in melatonin production being affected come night time.

People with hormone imbalance like PCOS and menopause often have a disrupted circadian rhythm, this means that they wake at night and feel groggy in the morning. It’s like having continuous jet lag. Hormones influence our sleep. 🌜

Ditch the caffeine! Try it for a month and see it if helps!! This includes coffee, green tea and black tea. Even though you may think that your morning cuppa is not affecting your sleep.☕

Also to improve the quality of your sleep, avoid blue screens before bed, keep a notepad by the bed to take note of the million tasks you have to do, reduce fluid intake and all refined sugars and carbs before bed.🍬

If you are suffering from sleep problems then please contact me to make an appointment. I can help show you how to put a Sleep Plan in place to help you. Education and understanding your own unique pathways is vital to improving your health and wellbeing. 🙌

If you’re having trouble falling asleep, waking up through the night, having a night of restless sleep, getting up to go to the toilet, suffer from insomnia or having night sweats, these are all signs that your body is telling you that your health needs more support.😴

We are not meant to be more awake at night! 🌃 Our bodies have their own circadian clock. This means you should go to bed and wake up around the same time every day. Don’t except quality sleep if your timing fluctuates on a day to basis. Having a nighttime routine really helps. Saying you have ‘always been that way’ doesn’t mean its healthy! It means that your body chemistry needs balancing. 🤷‍♀️
1/3 of our GENES run on a clock and 90% of other genes are related to those so our body follows a Circadian Rhythm. 🌒

If you suffer from anxiety or have trouble switching off your brain at night then your body is in a constant revved upstate. High levels of stress hormones produced throughout the day can impair your circadian rhythm from cycling properly, resulting in melatonin production being affected come night time.

People with hormone imbalance like PCOS and menopause often have a disrupted circadian rhythm, this means that they wake at night and feel groggy in the morning. It’s like having continuous jet lag. Hormones influence our sleep. 🌜

Ditch the caffeine! Try it for a month and see it if helps!! This includes coffee, green tea and black tea. Even though you may think that your morning cuppa is not affecting your sleep.☕

Also to improve the quality of your sleep, avoid blue screens before bed, keep a notepad by the bed to take note of the million tasks you have to do, reduce fluid intake and all refined sugars and carbs before bed.🍬

If you are suffering from sleep problems then please contact me to make an appointment. I can help show you how to put a Sleep Plan in place to help you. Education and understanding your own unique pathways is vital to improving your health and wellbeing. 🙌

Often this struggle can leave you isolated and misunderstood, and sometimes that it’s not real. This is not in your head and you aren’t overreacting.😖

If you would like more information on how you can feel good again and regain your health, please contact me.💖

Great Health is All in the Gut

By interacting with your immune system, your gut bacteria influence your ability to resist infection, reduce inflammation, and maintain a healthy mood. If you are wondering whether your gut may be making you sick, sad or inflamed, make an appointment with me today. Together, you can assess your bacterial balance, and make a plan to improve your specific symptoms.

https://blog.metagenics.com.au/is-your-gut-making-you-sick-sad-or-inflamed/

The ripeness can greatly influence how your body reacts.😖 The high starch prebiotic option is great for improving your gut health.🍌

Are you finding it hard to find know which foods you should be eating?🥦

YOU need to understand what the root causes of YOUR GUT INFLAMMATION are before you can improve your gut health.💩

TO FIND OUT MORE please contact me. 🌱🥰

Yoga is a gentle and restorative way to wind down your day. A national survey found that over 55% of people who did yoga found that it helped them get better sleep. Over 85% said yoga helped reduce stress. You can use supportive props like bolsters, blankets, and blocks to make poses comfortable so that you can stay in the pose for longer and continue to breathe.

Your breath is key to be able to relax in these poses. Breath in yoga is equally important—if not more important—as the physical pose. Use a gentle and calming yoga breath technique called Ujjayi Breath, also known as Ocean Breath or Victorious Breath. Inhale deeply through the nose. With your mouth closed, exhale through your nose while constricting the back of your throat as if you are saying “ha” but keep your mouth closed. This exhalation should sound like the waves of the ocean (or like Darth Vader from Star Wars). Use this slow and steady breath to soothe yourself in each of these poses.

Practice these yoga poses right before bedtime and stay in them about 3 to 5 minutes each. Use your Ocean Breath in each pose, with the exception of Corpse Pose, where your breath returns to normal.

For more information on seven restoratives of these yoga poses to relieve tension and stress at the end of the day. Please follow this link. https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/8753-201512048753

The more that you practice these poses regularly, the more you likely you can get a good night’s rest. 🥰

Although some of us have seen restrictions being lifted, there are still some states in lockdown, some borders are still closed and for most of us – it is the longest we have gone without physically seeing some of our family and friends.
As we know, having social interactions is important for our well-being and happiness! With physical interactions still not an option for many of us, it is still vital that we maintain those connections even if they are through digital platforms.
Here are 7 ways you can connect digitally with your friends and family, as we might not be out of the woods yet – but we are all still in this together!💛