Fibre – The Key to a Healthy Gut and a Healthy You!
December 2020
By Naturopath: Jocelyn Carter @Vim Vigour Vivactiy
Over the past 5-10 years research into the human gut microbioime has increased exponentially. While we continue to learn more about our gut bugs, one thing experts agree on is that a diet high in a variety of plant fibre is essential to having a health gut microbiome, a healthy gut, and a healthy you.
Stay Healthy and Have Fun this Christmas/New Year
December 2020
By Naturopath: Jocelyn Carter @Vim Vigour Vivactiy
2020 has been a challenging year! We are now at the end of it, and so our attention turns to the festive season. While we probably won’t be filling our diaries with parties, get togethers with friends, and social events with work colleagues, we will be …
The Unglamorous Guide to a 1% Easier Postpartum Period:
from your local pelvic floor physiotherapist.
The Keep your Boobs Happy Edition
August 2020
By Physiotherapist: Lara Bowyer
Tips within this blog include:
How to hold onto your boobs throughout breastfeeding + exclusive encyclopaedia grade diagrams to keep you enthralled along the way.
Nutrition for Fuelling & Recovering from Exercise
July 2020
By Naturopath: Jocelyn Carter @Vim Vigour Vivacity
There are 3 Main Aspects to Fitness Nutrition:
1. Fuelling your body pre-exercise
2. Eating and drinking during exercise
3. Nutrition for recovery
Train Like a Woman
June 2020
By Women’s Health and Hormone Coach: Jordan Schouten
How frustrating is it when you can’t gain momentum in your training program? One week you have loads of energy, training hard, eating right, and it’s like the next BAMM! You are getting food cravings, feeling lethargic, no energy and struggling to get to the gym. It is so hard to see results when you are constantly yoyoing between feeling good and feeling ‘off’.
The Unglamorous Guide to a 1% Easier Postpartum Period:
from your local pelvic floor physiotherapist.
Immediate Post Birth Edition
May 2020
By Physiotherapist: Lara Bowyer
Tips within this blog include: how to keep your insides on the inside of you. How to wee and poo post birth. The how to avoid wetting pants 101 Guide + an exclusive peak at artwork created by the next Michael Angelo.
Staying healthy during lockdown
May 2020
By Physiotherapist: Michael Ryan @canberraconcussionphysio
The Corona Virus isolation has impacted all of us heavily.
As well as the obvious financial, emotional and spiritual impacts, this period of isolation has also impacted a lot of us physically.
Building Immune Systems Resilience
April 2020
By Naturopath: Jocelyn Carter @Vim Vigour Vivactiy
The Covid19 health crisis has taken up a lot of our health related attention lately.
While the current compulsory isolation regime is also reducing the risks of catching colds and flu, it is essential to build resilience before restrictions lift.
How well is your nervous system functioning?
February 2020
By Chiropractor: Dr Steven Hawkins @ drstevenhawkins.com.au
When people come to see me, one of the things I check regularly is how they distribute their weight when standing. In other words, I put them on two regular scales to see how much weight they are carrying down their left side and down their right side.
Overcoming Chronic Pain
February 2020
By P.S.H. Therapist: Belinda Hawkins @embracing chemo
What we now know about chronic pain, is that it is more about the sensitivity of the nervous system, than any physical injury.
And one of the best analogies to help someone understand how to overcome chronic pain, is that of a polluted river.
Myths & Mistruths About Concussion
January 2020
By Physiotherapist: Michael Ryan @canberraconcussionphysio
Concussion is an ever-growing field of knowledge and because of this, everything we know about it is constantly undergoing some sort of change. To help you all stay up to date, here are the top three myths I hear on a regular basis that just are simply not true.
Lyme Disease & Co-Infections
January 2020
By Naturopath: Jocelyn Carter @Vim Vigour Vivactiy
What is Lyme Disease?
Lyme disease is defined as an infectious disease caused by tick bites infected with the bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi.
