Health Articles & Clinical Insights
The Relationship Between Lung Capacity and Ageing
Lung capacity falls with age as tissue loses elastic recoil and the chest wall stiffens. What counts as normal by decade, and which changes are worth acting on.
Red Light Therapy & Alzheimer’s Risk: The Evidence
Red light therapy for Alzheimer's is still experimental. What early studies suggest about mitochondria and amyloid, and where the evidence genuinely stops.
Navigating Perimenopause: Nutrition & Wellness Guide
Perimenopause is fluctuation, not simple deficiency. Why erratic estrogen and falling progesterone drive hot flushes, mood and sleep changes, and what helps.
Iodine, TSH & Thyroid Physiology: What You Need to Know
TSH can rise after starting iodine. Why that shift is often the thyroid axis recalibrating rather than a sign of harm, and when a rise is worth reviewing.
Calorie Restriction & Metabolic Adaptation: What to Know
Metabolic adaptation is why weight loss stalls: your body burns fewer calories than predicted. What drives the plateau, and what may help you past it.
Optimising Male Health After 40
Men often lose energy after 40 as testosterone, cortisol and metabolism shift. Why it isn't inevitable, and which lifestyle and lab factors make a difference.
Sleep & Hormonal Health: The Bidirectional Connection
Sleep and hormones run both ways: poor sleep shifts cortisol, insulin and leptin, while thyroid and oestrogen imbalance wrecks sleep quality in return.
How Social Connection Affects Stress and Fatigue
Social connection changes your stress hormones. How loneliness disrupts cortisol rhythms and raises inflammatory signalling, and what rebuilds the buffer.
Swimming for Chronic Fatigue, Joint Pain & Stress
Swimming may suit chronic fatigue and joint pain: water takes up to 90% of the load off joints, and the breathing rhythm helps settle the nervous system.
The Autoimmune Protocol (AIP) Diet: Food & Autoimmunity
The AIP diet is a structured elimination and reintroduction plan for autoimmune conditions. What it removes, how reintroduction works, and who it may suit.
Breathing Exercises for Scoliosis & Spinal Alignment
Breathing exercises for scoliosis, including the Schroth Method, may improve spinal stability, posture and pain, though they don't correct a fixed curve.
Hives & Histamine Intolerance: Gut Pathogens & Autoimmunity
Chronic hives that don't settle on a low-histamine diet may involve histamine-producing gut bacteria and low DAO. Which testing finds the driver behind them.
Sprinting vs HIIT: Metabolic Weight Loss & Myokines
Author: Rohan Smith | Functional Medicine Practitioner | Adelaide, SA Quick Answer Sprinting (Sprint Interval Training, or SIT) and HIIT may both support fat loss through the release of myokines, including irisin and interleukin-6 (IL-6), which can promote fat oxidation, insulin sensitivity, and metabolic adaptation. HIIT is generally more accessible and better tolerated, while sprinting...
Neuroplasticity & Cognitive Reserve: Dementia Prevention
Cognitive reserve may delay dementia by years. How novel, demanding mental activity drives BDNF and neuroplasticity, and which brain training actually counts.
Myofunctional Therapy for Snoring & Sleep Health
Myofunctional therapy, sometimes called face yoga, uses tongue and throat exercises that a meta-analysis links to less snoring and milder sleep apnoea.
Autistic Burnout: A Functional Medicine Perspective
Autistic burnout is deep exhaustion after prolonged masking and sensory overload. How it differs from depression, and the biological load that builds behind it.
Glyphosate Testing Australia: Chronic Fatigue & Gut Health
Glyphosate testing measures the herbicide and its metabolite AMPA in urine by LC-MS/MS. What the test shows, and when exposure is worth investigating.
The Biological Cost of Masking: A Functional View
Masking carries a measurable biological cost. How sustained camouflaging raises allostatic load and links to anxiety, depression and autistic burnout.
Cold Hydrotherapy Adelaide: Vagal Tone & Resilience
Cold water immersion may lift dopamine sharply and improve vagal tone. What research shows on temperature and timing, and who should be cautious with it.
Methylation Panel Testing Adelaide: Cellular Blueprint
Methylation panel testing in Adelaide measures SAMe, SAH and homocysteine to show how well your methylation cycle is running, not just which genes you carry.
HTMA Testing for Minerals and Heavy Metals
HTMA testing may reveal heavy metal burden and mineral imbalances standard bloods miss. How mercury, arsenic and cadmium can interfere with thyroid function.
Psychobiotics Adelaide: Gut-Brain Therapy for Mood
Psychobiotics are probiotic strains studied for mood rather than digestion. Which strains have evidence, how they act on the gut-brain axis, and what they suit.
Adrenal Testing Adelaide: HPA Axis Dysregulation
Adrenal testing maps cortisol and DHEA across a full 24 hours by saliva or dried urine, showing the awakening response a single blood draw cannot capture.
Are Oxalates Causing Your Pain?
Oxalates bind calcium into crystals that may contribute to kidney stones, joint pain and bladder irritation. Who tends to react, and which foods are highest.
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