Health Articles
Metabolic Flexibility After 40: How Your Body Senses, Uses and Adapts Energy
Your Metabolism Is Meant to Change “Keep insulin low.” “Become a fat burner.” “Avoid blood sugar spikes.” “Stop burning glucose.” “Stay in ketosis.” If you have spent any time reading about metabolic health, you have probably encountered some version of these ideas. There is real physiology behind many of them. [...]
How Metabolism Works: Understanding the Body’s Interconnected Systems
When we hear the word metabolism, most of us think about weight. We may describe someone as having a “fast” or “slow” metabolism, or start worrying about metabolic health when weight becomes harder to manage, blood sugar begins to rise or insulin resistance appears on a blood test. These things [...]
Stomach Acid: Why It Matters for Digestion and Health
Stomach acid has developed a rather negative reputation. Heartburn, reflux and upper digestive discomfort are frequently associated with “too much acid”, and medications that reduce stomach acid are among the familiar approaches to managing acid-related symptoms. Yet stomach acid is not something the body produces by mistake. A strongly acidic stomach [...]
Acid Reflux: Why It Happens and What You Can Do About It
Acid reflux is commonly described as a problem of “too much stomach acid.” It is an understandable assumption. If acid is causing the burning sensation, surely reducing the acid must solve the underlying problem? But reflux is more complicated than that. Stomach acid belongs in the stomach. The stomach has specialised protective [...]
Your Digestive System: Following the Journey of Food Through the Gut
Digestion is something most of us barely think about when it is working well. We eat a meal, nutrients are absorbed and what we do not need is eventually eliminated. Behind this apparently simple process, however, is a remarkable sequence involving the brain and nervous system, digestive organs, hormones, enzymes, [...]
Sleep Health After 40: A Whole-Person Guide to Better Sleep
Sleep is one of the foundations of good health, and good sleep after 40 can be more challenging to achieve for many people. It has multidimensional functions: healing, integrating and restoring, helping to replenish the foundations of body, mind and wellbeing each day. Sleep, like breathing, is a natural biological [...]
