Category: Nutrition
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Horoscopes for the year ahead
Before I get on a roll about living a life with hyper-positivity, I want to do a shoutout to everyone affected by the fires in California. Fire has always been a reality of life in Australia, but the images I’m seeing of this conflagration are next-level scary. Good luck everyone,…
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What is functional medicine?
When I first heard the phrase “functional medicine” from my blogging buddy Midwest Mary, my first thought was – “isn’t all medicine functional? Why would I take a non-functioning medication?!?” Curiosity piqued, I went off to find out more about ‘functional medicine.’ First stop – my computer’s AI assistant which…
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Less “bad headache” / more “bad hangover”
A migraine is a complex neurological condition… it is NOT just a bad headache. That said, people who don’t experience migraines themselves are often looking for ‘shortcuts’ to help them imagine what it might feel like. I understand where the “bad headache” idea came from… but it’s just not accurate.…
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Migraine and gut health
Vince Martin, the director of a headache clinic in Cincinnati explained gut health in the 2024 World Migraine Summit earlier this year. As with some of the other presentations, I was out of my depth with the heavy science-side of things, so be sure to follow up my summary with…
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Mindful eating (and pill-popping)
There are several exercises in mindfulness where you eat mindfully. In the simplest of ways, you make sure that when you eat, you just eat. It is an act of intentionality where you savor each mouthful, its taste and texture. [In other words, your toast isn’t hanging limply out of…
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Hydration (Part Three)
I’ve written about how we need to keep our bodies hydrated, and how drinking lots of water leads to lots of weeing, and both posts mentioned the recurring phrase of “drink more water!” Today is one last post on hydration based on some feedback from the first two posts: there…
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Hydration (Part ONE)
“Drink more water” is the catch phrase of well-wishers everywhere. And they’re right. For most of us, we really CAN drink MORE water – and SHOULD. Our bodies are made of it, they need it, and the ‘dryer’ we get, the unhealthier we become. I want to demonstrate what goes…
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Breakfast for Dinner
When I was growing up, our family aimed to have a proper sit-down dinner 6 nights a week. My father would come home, we’d each sit in our regular spots at the dinner table, and as we ate, my sisters and I would recount what we’d done that day, what…
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Metabolic migraines
Ugh – I suppose that a blog writer who writes about migraines is going to have to expect to get a migraine from time to time. But I’m back – it’s 2.30pm in Australia and now that I’m up and at it, I thought I’d send you some notes I…
The Mindful Migraine 