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CFS and Emotional Trauma: The Biological Link to Burnout
The Cell Danger Response describes mitochondria switching from energy production to defence. How sustained trauma may lock that state in, driving fatigue.
PCOS Root Causes: Functional Testing & Hormone Balance
PCOS is driven by insulin resistance, inflammation and androgen disruption. Which tests identify your particular driver, and why that changes what works.
Detoxification: Supporting Your Body’s Natural Cleansing
Detoxification is something your liver, kidneys and gut do continuously, not a juice cleanse. How Phase I and Phase II pathways clear toxins, and what helps.
Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin): The Mitochondrial Spark Plug
Vitamin B2 (riboflavin) drives mitochondrial energy, methylation and thyroid activation. Signs of low riboflavin, and why fatigue and migraines are clues.
Estrogen, Serotonin & Mood Swings Before Your Period
Estrogen and serotonin move together. When estrogen falls before your period, serotonin can drop with it, driving irritability, low mood and PMS anxiety.
Glutathione & Thyroid Health: The Master Antioxidant
Glutathione may protect the thyroid. Making thyroid hormone generates hydrogen peroxide, and glutathione neutralises it before it damages thyroid cells.
EMF Exposure & Oxidative Stress: Protecting Cellular Health
EMFs from phones and Wi-Fi may cause oxidative stress without heating tissue. What the calcium channel research suggests, and how contested the findings are.
Visceral Fat & Metabolic Endotoxemia: Longevity Risks
Visceral fat raises mortality risk mainly through inflammation, releasing IL-6 and TNF-alpha straight to the liver. How it is measured, and what reduces it.
How Your Thoughts Change Your Biology: Mind-Body Health
Thoughts change biology through the HPA axis and autonomic nervous system. How chronic stress raises cortisol and inflammation, and which techniques help.
MTHFR Testing Adelaide: Methylation & Folate Support
MTHFR testing in Adelaide looks at the C677T and A1298C gene variants that slow folate activation. What carrying a variant means, and what it does not mean.
Extend Your Life by Preserving Your Telomeres
Telomeres cap your chromosomes and shorten as cells divide. Why telomere length isn't a reliable personal test, and what nutrition genuinely does for ageing.
Akkermansia muciniphila: Gut Health & Metabolic Benefits
Akkermansia muciniphila feeds on gut mucus and may strengthen the gut barrier, calm inflammation and improve insulin sensitivity. What raises and lowers it.
Mycotox Mould Testing Adelaide: Hidden Drivers of Fatigue
Mycotoxin urine testing uses LC-MS/MS to detect mould metabolites. How it differs from an IgE mould allergy panel, and what a raised result may point to.
How Music Affects Your Brain: Stress & Mood
Music engages the auditory cortex, limbic system and dopamine pathways at once. How listening may lower cortisol, steady the nervous system and lift mood.
The Gut-Fatigue Connection: How Gut Health Drives Fatigue
Reduced microbiome diversity, a leaky gut barrier and LPS-driven immune activation appear repeatedly in ME/CFS research. How the gut may sustain fatigue.
DHA & Brain Development in Pregnancy: Key Facts
DHA is a building block of the fetal brain and retina. Why the third trimester matters most, how much crosses the placenta, and what the research supports.
The Surprising Health Benefits of Dancing in the Kitchen
Dancing in the kitchen counts as real movement. What a few minutes of music a day may do for your heart, mood, balance and brain, backed by research.
Mycoplasma & Stealth Infections: Chronic Fatigue Adelaide
Mycoplasma are cell-wall-deficient bacteria that hide inside cells and shrug off common antibiotics. How chronic infection may sustain fatigue and fibromyalgia.
Screen Time, Sleep & Mood: A Digital Health Guide
Screen time works on you two ways: blue light suppressing melatonin, and constant stimulation of dopamine and stress pathways. What that does to sleep and mood.
CBD for Sleep, Stress & Insomnia: What the Evidence Says
Author: Rohan Smith | Functional Medicine Practitioner | Adelaide, SA Quick Answer Cannabidiol (CBD) may support sleep by modulating endocannabinoid system (ECS) tone, serotonin 5-HT1A receptor signalling, and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activity. A 2019 case series by Shannon et al. in The Permanente Journal reported that 66.7% of participants experienced improved sleep scores within the...
Loneliness in Older Adults: Health Impacts & Solutions
Loneliness in older adults is linked to a 26% higher risk of early death, plus heart disease, cognitive decline and inflammation. Practical ways to reconnect.
HTMA Testing Adelaide: Minerals & Chronic Illness
HTMA testing in Adelaide measures minerals laid down in hair over three months, showing trace element patterns a standard blood test may not pick up.
A Guide to Extending Telomere Length
Telomere length is a marker of biological ageing. What the evidence says about nutrition, exercise, sleep and stress, and which claims do not hold up.
Contrast Therapy & Hormetic Stress for Metabolic Recovery
Contrast therapy pairs sauna heat with cold immersion to trigger hormesis. How heat shock and cold shock proteins aid recovery, and how to structure it.
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