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Pre-Conception

How to Fix your Long and Short Cycle

At this point, you have probably read our other blogs in this series on the female menstrual cycle and hormonal contraception. Now for some reason or another, you may feel that your cycle is not

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Pre-Conception

Periods: Is What You’re Feeling Normal?

Cramping, PMS, sugar craving, tender breasts. All of which comes along with our monthly menses, right? Well no, not necessarily. I know it is hard to believe, but most of the things that we ‘deal

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Pre-Conception

Your Menstrual Cycle Explained

We all know the highs and lows of being a woman (assuming you, the reader, are a woman of course), and we tend to have a general idea of what our body feels like as

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Why The Hoo-Haa About Bone Broth

“Over the last couple of years we’ve all heard someone we know singing praises about bone broths, so let’s explore what all the ‘hoo-ha’ is all about…” What is bone broth? Bone Broth (also referred

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General Wellness

Food Additives and Child Health

Hmmmm – seems The American Academy of Pediatrics have recently stated that food colourings are not the innocuous stuff most people consider them to be. What’s more, (wait for it) they may actually be dangerous

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General Wellness

Adaptogens #Re-balance, #Stress, #Fatigue

“Adaptogens are meant to bring us back to the middle” says Dr. Brenda Powell, co-medical director of the Center for Integrative and Lifestyle Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic’s Wellness Institute.1 Functional medicine guru Frank Lipman,

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Pre-Conception

5 Reasons Couples Have Trouble Conceiving

The process involved in ‘making a baby’ always sounds fun and easy but for many couples this simply isn’t the case. For some the desire to conceive desperately escalates over time and month after month they find themselves far from ‘barefoot and pregnant.’ Other couples struggle with repeat miscarriages and feelings of inadequacy and disappointment. In fact infertility is now a global issue affecting 1 in 6 Australian couples, 1 in 5 American couples and 1 in 7 in the UK.

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Pre-Conception

Good Health Prior To Conception

[ Note: This is the 3rd in my Health & Fertility series of articles. Please read #1 and #2 first! ] I’ve always been someone who likes to be prepared. I don’t really like surprises… (…unless I’ve hinted sufficiently about a gift

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Pre-Conception

Health & Fertility

A lot of couples today now wonder how fertile they are… This may be because they personally know other couples who have had ‘fertility challenges’ and they are now curious about their own potential to

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