Hormones/ Menopause

Oxymel: the ancient honey-vinegar tonic for immune and metabolic health

2025-12-08T19:08:23+11:00

For centuries, women relied on kitchen medicine — simple, potent formulas created from ingredients they trusted. Oxymel is one of those remedies: a blend of honey, vinegar, and herbs with a long history and modern relevance. Today, as health-aware women seek natural, evidence-informed solutions for immunity, energy, digestion, and resilience, oxymels are making a quiet comeback. Not [...]

Oxymel: the ancient honey-vinegar tonic for immune and metabolic health2025-12-08T19:08:23+11:00

Rebuilding Your Natural Melatonin Cycle: Practical Strategies for Hormonal Harmony

2025-12-08T17:37:20+11:00

If melatonin is your body’s master timing molecule / body clock, then light is the hand that winds it. Understanding the natural melatonin cycle is key to manage your entire hormonal network during the night and day. In the first article, we explored how melatonin is far more than a “sleep hormone.” It’s a master molecule, [...]

Rebuilding Your Natural Melatonin Cycle: Practical Strategies for Hormonal Harmony2025-12-08T17:37:20+11:00

Melatonin: The Hidden Daytime Hormone That Powers Your Hormones

2025-12-08T15:52:40+11:00

For years, melatonin has been called the sleep hormone. We’ve been told it’s released by the pineal gland at night to help us drift off to sleep. But that’s only a tiny part of the story. In truth, melatonin is a 24-hour hormone — made mostly during the day, powered by light, and essential for hormone balance [...]

Melatonin: The Hidden Daytime Hormone That Powers Your Hormones2025-12-08T15:52:40+11:00

Artificial light vs sunlight: the hidden impact on your health

2025-12-08T15:55:41+11:00

We live in an artificial light, mainly blue light world nowadays. Modern life has pulled us indoors, under a sea of artificial lights. From LED office lights to phone screens, our bodies are exposed to constant blue light, often at the wrong time of day. This creates a hidden problem: we’re confusing our circadian rhythm — the internal [...]

Artificial light vs sunlight: the hidden impact on your health2025-12-08T15:55:41+11:00

Morning sunlight: the key to your body clock

2025-11-18T15:44:45+11:00

Morning sunlight plays a crucial role in setting the body’s internal clock for the day. This is because light is the main cue that tells the brain to follow healthy circadian rhythms by all organs, tissues and cells. It plays a role in how well we function throughout the day – it increases energy and [...]

Morning sunlight: the key to your body clock2025-11-18T15:44:45+11:00

Top 2 sleep promoting nutrients: Magnesium and Calcium

2025-10-30T17:42:08+11:00

There are a number of effective sleep promoting nutrients that support and enhance sleep and relaxation. Calming minerals - magnesium and calcium are my top sleep promoting nutrients. They are effective, relatively safe, and readily available for purchase over the counter from chemists, health food shops or online. Quality of theses minerals, when supplemented, is [...]

Top 2 sleep promoting nutrients: Magnesium and Calcium2025-10-30T17:42:08+11:00

Know and love your herbs: Tribulus, a very special herb

2025-08-31T12:18:06+10:00

Herb Tribulus (Tribulus terrestris) is known traditionally as a tonic which may be used to restore, tone, and invigorate a number of systems of the body and to promote wellbeing. Many Western Herbalists utilise tribulus for certain cases of female infertility. Subsequently, a common clinical use of tribulus is recommending it at the beginning of the menstrual [...]

Know and love your herbs: Tribulus, a very special herb2025-08-31T12:18:06+10:00

Gut health and hormones: how microbiome regulates estrogen levels

2025-09-01T16:11:52+10:00

Empirical clinical evidence as well as many studies to date indicate that gut health and hormones are closely linked. In particular, recent research shows that the composition and diversity of the gut microbiome play a big role in hormone regulation, especially regarding the key female hormone estrogen. The studies suggest that poor gut health increases [...]

Gut health and hormones: how microbiome regulates estrogen levels2025-09-01T16:11:52+10:00

Top sleep enhancing nutrients: inositol and L-theanine

2025-08-31T12:13:56+10:00

I'm always searching for effective, safe and readily available sleep enhancing nutrients to test them myself as well as make effective recommendations for my clients. In my previous post I talked about how calming minerals magnesium and calcium promote more restful and uninterrupted sleep. In addition to magnesium and calcium, the other highly effective sleep [...]

Top sleep enhancing nutrients: inositol and L-theanine2025-08-31T12:13:56+10:00

Preventing weight gain during menopause

2025-08-31T12:11:41+10:00

Menopause can be a difficult time for many women, not only suffering hot flushes, night sweats and mood swings, gaining excess kilograms may also seem like an inevitable side effect. The reality is, by making a few small lifestyle changes, it is possible to maintain your current weight and even shed a few pounds during [...]

Preventing weight gain during menopause2025-08-31T12:11:41+10:00

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