In this weeks episode I'm discussing the connection between our guts and our brain. How our digestion and the food we eat can directly affect our mood and our mental health. What is the Vagus Nerve? It is the super highway nerve that connects our digestive system to our brain. The key thing to note with the vagus nerve is that 80% of the messages come FROM the gut to the brain. This is why your gut brain axis and your digestive health is so important to your mental health. Chronic Ill Health...
Episode 135 – The Menopause Mentor – Jacky Wood
In this episode, I talk to The Menopause Mentor, Jacky Wood. Jacky has taken her own experience of menopause, along with all the research and training she has done as a result and is now committed to helping as many women as she can have an easier journey through perimenopause. About Jacky Wood Jacky Wood was a corporate woman until a few years ago and went into therapy treatments, Emmett, Scarwork, Access Bars, and some holistic treatment. When lockdown began, she was unable to practice any...
Episode 134 – Foods to Improve Sleep and Mood
Can we eat food that will improve both our sleep and our mood? Of course we can! And I'll share with you what they are in this week's podcast episode. Digestion is key Having a healthy digestion is key to ensuring you have good quality sleep and improve your mood. The key hormones associated with both are mostly made in the guts. So ensuring your guts are healthy is the first step, without that it doesn't really matter what you eat. Thinking about eating foods that support your microbiome and...
Episode 133 – Plants and Pilates with Hope Pedraza
This week I talk to Hope Pedraza about her health journey and finding a plant focused diet. And how she believes Pilates is essential for our long term health.
Episode 132 – Sleep and Pain with Sandra Weber
In this week's podcast I talk to Sandra Weber who helps her clients reduce or prevent chronic pain. We talk about the connection between sleep and repair and Sandra shares her expertise with us to encourage us to change our rhetoric and to promote healing. About Sandra Sandra Weber is a wellness mentor empowering her clients to rebuild a mind/body connection. Sandra has over a decade of experience in hands on clinical bodywork and is now using that experience to assist her clients in reducing...
Episode 131 – Ways to improve our sleep
Sleep is a wonderful aspect of life but it can often be an enigma, and this week I am going to share some tips to help you improve the quality of your sleep. From lifestyle to supplements they are all simple and easily actionable. Last week I explained why we sleep, if you missed it then this is the link episode 130. The environment (your bedroom) How comfortable is your bedroom and your bed? We sleep best at 18oC, and the room should be dark and quiet. Natural fibres for bed sheets help if...
Episode 130- Why do we sleep?
In this week's podcast, I discuss sleep, why we need to sleep, and what would happen if we didn't sleep. Do we actually need to sleep? Scientists have explored the question of why we sleep from many different angles. They have examined, for example, what happens when humans or other animals are deprived of sleep. Studies show that it affects our mood, our immune system, our sex drive and our health. So whilst wthe question of why we sleep has been difficult to answer, it is clear that lack of...
Episode 129 – Yoga for Women’s Health, with Kelsey Taylor
In this episode, I talk to Kelsey Taylor about yoga and the benefits for women's health. She is an expert in her field having studied yoga for fertility, menstruation, pregnancy and menopause. About Kelsey Taylor "Kelsey Taylor is a yoga teacher specialising in yoga for women’s health. Kelsey teaches yoga for Menstruation, Fertility, Pregnancy, Postnatal and Menopause. She has been practicing for 24 years and teaching for over 8 years. Kelsey is perimenopausal herself and a mother of two girls...
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