Sleeping Soundly: The Science of Getting Restful Sleep
By Melbourne Functional Medicine |
Getting a good night’s sleep can seem elusive in our modern lives of frenzy and stress. Yet none of us can afford to compromise it …
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Functional Medicine Solutions And Natural Treatment Options For Hypothyroidism
By Melbourne Functional Medicine |
Hypothyroidism is now the most common thyroid disorder in Australia, affecting at least one in 33 Australians. The condition is characterised by underactive thyroid function, …
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Natural Treatment Options For Hyperthyroidism And Graves’ Disease
By Melbourne Functional Medicine |
Thyroid disorders are on the rise in the western world, yet hyperthyroidism and Graves’ disease remain among the most rare forms of thyroid illness. While …
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Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis: The Functional Medicine Approach
By Melbourne Functional Medicine |
A quick Google search will reveal thousands of results for natural treatments for Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. But how many of them actually work? What causes Hashimoto’s? …
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How To Break Your Sugar Addiction (And Why You’d Want To!)
By Melbourne Functional Medicine |
You likely know that a high intake of refined sugar causes problems like weight gain, brain fog, and fatigue, and can lead to diabetes, depression, …
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Relieve Stress, Improve Sleep and More with Mindfulness
By Melbourne Functional Medicine |
Mindfulness: Reduce Stress, Improve Sleep and More Mindfulness is more than just another buzzword, trend, or way to idle away your spare time. Using mindfulness …
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Functional Medicine Strategies for Stimulating the Vagus Nerve
By Melbourne Functional Medicine |
Functional Medicine Strategies for Stimulating the Vagus Nerve The Vagus Nerve is perhaps one of the most significant yet underappreciated contributors to health and wellbeing. …
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PCOS Treatment: The Functional Medicine Approach
By Melbourne Functional Medicine |
PCOS natural treatment – the functional medicine approach Acne, facial hair, painful periods, stubborn weight and difficulty conceiving can all form part of the PCOS …
Menopause Treatment: Natural Remedies for Menopause
By Melbourne Functional Medicine |
A functional medicine approach to menopause The change. The pause. Climacteric. The age of the crone. Whatever you choose to call it, menopause can be …
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PMS Treatment: The Functional Medicine Approach
By Melbourne Functional Medicine |
PMS treatment: Natural remedies for PMS to harmonise your hormones A lot of jokes are made about temper and mood swings around ‘that time of …
Endometriosis Treatment: The Functional Medicine Approach
By Melbourne Functional Medicine |
Endometriosis treatment: How to treat Endometriosis naturally for long-lasting relief Severe period pain and endometriosis have become so common that most people think they’re normal. …
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2020 Fatigue: 5 Ways To Feel Better At The End Of A Tough Year
By Melbourne Functional Medicine |
Experiencing end of year fatigue under normal circumstances is not uncommon, but throw a global pandemic into the mix that led to enduring months of …
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Hives Treatment: The Functional Medicine Approach to Hives
By Melbourne Functional Medicine |
Hives treatment: How to treat hives naturally for long-lasting relief Anyone who has experienced hives knows just how uncomfortable and frustrating they can be. Also …
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Natural Eczema Treatment: The Functional Medicine Approach to Eczema
By Melbourne Functional Medicine |
Searching for the best natural eczema treatment in Australia? Atopic dermatitis or eczema is one of the most common skin conditions we see in our …
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Psoriasis Treatment: A Natural Treatment For Psoriasis
By Melbourne Functional Medicine |
Have you already tried dozens of different creams, ointments and oils in the search for the best natural psoriasis treatment? And you’re still searching? Both …
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FODMAPS – What Are They And What Do They Mean For Your Health?
By Bee Pennington |
The acronym FODMAP has, in the last few years, worked its way into the Australian health and food vernacular. You can now find processed food …
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What is Functional Medicine? The Solution To Our Current Chronic Disease Crisis
By Melbourne Functional Medicine |
Almost half the Australian population is suffering from chronic health conditions, and the conventional acute healthcare model is failing to manage this crisis. Functional medicine …
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Environmental Toxins In Your Home: Where They’re Lurking And How To Remove Them
By Melbourne Functional Medicine |
Many of us are aware of the health effects of food and exercise. What you might not consider are the products you use in your …
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The Underlying Cause of Most Chronic Health Conditions – Inflammation
By Melbourne Functional Medicine |
What do acne, fatigue, depression and IBS have in common? Most people think of these and other chronic health conditions as separate and unrelated illnesses. …
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How To Maintain Your Mental Health During A Pandemic
By Melbourne Functional Medicine |
Melbourne in August 2020 has been tough for many people. So far, we’ve experienced lock downs for nearly 5 months, wearing masks is now mandatory, …
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Health and The Coronavirus: How You Can Protect Your Health
By Melbourne Functional Medicine |
No doubt you and your loved ones are concerned about the situation regarding the Coronavirus. As the current international response and the research has been …
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The Functional Medicine Approach To Acne
By Melbourne Functional Medicine |
Discover the approach of functional medicine to Acne to solve it for good. Frustrated and fed up from trying potions, lotions and treatments to get …
Tech and Your Health – Changing Behaviour Changes your Health
By Bee Pennington |
Today I want to spend just a few minutes sharing some insights and tips into technology – specifically how and what to change in order …
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Energy Credit – How an Energy Credit Can Help You
By Bee Pennington |
Recently I did something that felt amazing. I sat at my kitchen table and wanted to squeal with delight – you know, that feeling when …
Emotional Intelligence – It’s OK to feel sad (or angry)
By Bee Pennington |
“Don’t cry, it’ll be OK”, “calm down, there’s no need to be upset”, “chill out/get over it”. Did you hear these and similar sentiments growing …
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How guilt can be disrupting your gut health
By Bee Pennington |
You may have heard the phrase ‘rest and digest’. It’s the opposing state of ‘fight or flight’. These are two arms representing our autonomic nervous …
My favourite reframe
By Bee Pennington |
About a year ago, I did a positive parenting course – being a single mum to a powerful tween I felt there were areas I …
Why mindful eating matters
By Bee Pennington |
When it comes to healthy digestion, what do your environment, mindset, and the way that you perceive and consume your food have to do with …
How to use tech for your health
By Bee Pennington |
Have you ever thought about how you can use technology to support your health journey? We’re now living in a time when pretty much all …
Bee’s 5 tips for socialising success
By Bee Pennington |
Today I’m going to give you my 5 favourite ‘failsafe’ strategies for keeping your health on track when you want to go out and enjoy …
A workout for your emotions
By Bee Pennington |
When we experience pain or discomfort, over time, we create and attach emotions to those sensations. Your physical experience might be a cramp in your …
Detoxing – What is it and why should we do it?
By Jabe Brown |
We are all familiar with the idea of doing a ‘detox,’ and yet while it is often poo-pooed, there is legitimacy to it. At its …
On Supplements and Medications
By Jabe Brown |
If you are like most of our patients, you engage with us because your health is sub-par, or because you want it to be optimal, …
The Functional Future of Medicine
By Jabe Brown |
Thanks to the wonders of modern medicine, no longer are we keeling over in droves from acute infectious diseases. Instead, we of the modern world, …
The Way of Sleep
By Jabe Brown |
The only person who knows exactly how much sleep you need is you. We find that around eight hours is the magic number for most …
The Why of Sleep
By Jabe Brown |
If there is a word that personifies modern life, it would be: ‘busy’. Busy is something we pride ourselves on; no matter the arena. To …
Fluoridation – how safe is your drinking water?
By Bee Pennington |
Today let’s get a little controversial and talk about water. Are you aware that your water is medicated? Although there are many water treatment processes, …
Floatation Tanks – a novel way to calm a busy mind
By Bee Pennington |
I’ve recently started tracking my time – taking note of what I get up to and for how long. The goal is to become more …
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Top Healthy Eating Spots in Melbourne
By Bee Pennington |
Are you like me when it comes to eating out? I’ll go out and have an amazing meal and thoroughly enjoy it and the next …
Adrenal Fatigue – a modern woman’s war cry
By Bee Pennington |
When it comes to adrenal fatigue, have you simply earned your exhaustion (or is it something more)? Let’s contextualise for a moment. If you were …
MTHFR…what the?
By Bee Pennington |
If you are into health, then you may have heard about MTHFR, and if you’ve dared to dig into it, you are probably thoroughly confused. …
Organic food…is it worth it? – do the health benefits outweigh the cost?
By Bee Pennington |
Organic produce is often seen to be relatively expensive, less accessible and goes ‘off’ quickly, so why would you eat organic? For many, the choice …
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Change – strategies for success and staying on track
By Bee Pennington |
Whenever you want a different outcome, you need to do something different. Fact – that means change We know that change can be one of …
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How to create goals that stick (a revolt against New Year’s Resolutions)
By Bee Pennington |
To be resolute means to be “admirably purposeful, determined, and unwavering” and a resolution is something that you make a firm decision to do, or …
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7 ways to stay on track during the ‘Silly Season’.
By Jabe Brown |
There’s no need to warn you that Christmas is fast approaching (and if it weren’t Christmas it would be New Years, Easter, birthdays, Anzac Day, …
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Cholesterol finally off the hook…
By Jabe Brown |
Cholesterol from food finally found not to be guilty after all! This from the US government: “available evidence shows no appreciable relationship between consumption of …
What is your food made from?
By Jabe Brown |
Modern food just ain’t what it used to be. This statement should be read quite literally. Many of the packaged products available, should more accurately …
Resoleomics, Stress, and ‘The Self’.
By Jabe Brown |
Leo Pruimboom writes on resoleomics in his article entitled: ‘The evolutionary origins of inflammation’, which I summarise here: What is resoleomics? Resoleomics is the body’s …
Paleo – A Simple Truth – Melbourne Functional Medicine
By Jabe Brown |
You, dear reader, really are an amazing organism; a work of art, say some; a beautiful machine prefer others. Either way, the problem is that …
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