Category: Diet & Everyday Habits
Foot Spa at Home — The Easiest and Best Everyday Self-Care
If you’ve ever climbed into bed with ice-cold feet and spent twenty minutes waiting for them to warm up before you could fall asleep —… Read more →
Dairy and Digestion — Why Some People Notice It and Others Don’t
Dairy is not a problem food, and this is not an article telling you to give it up. It is an article about a specific… Read more →
After the Fever — Supporting a Child’s Recovery Once the Illness Has Passed
This article is about the weeks after a childhood illness, not about managing a fever while it is happening. Acute fever in a child is… Read more →
Cutting Carbs and Feeling Worse — What Gets Lost When Rice Comes Off the Plate
Some people cut carbohydrates and feel sharper within a fortnight. Others cut them and become progressively colder, flatter and more prone to waking at three… Read more →
Cold Drinks and Iced Food — What Chinese Medicine Watches, and Why Perth Makes It Harder
If a Chinese medicine practitioner has asked whether you drink iced water, it is not superstition and it is not about the water being harmful.… Read more →
Coffee and the Fatigue Loop — Why More Caffeine Stops Working
If you have gradually gone from one coffee to three or four and still feel flat, the caffeine is not failing you — it is… Read more →
How Many Eggs? Why the Answer Depends on Your Digestion, Not Just Your Cholesterol
The Heart Foundation sets no maximum on eggs for the general Australian population — its assessment is that eggs are neutral for heart health, neither… Read more →
Blood Sugar — What the Number Shows, What It Doesn’t, and the Pattern Underneath
A glucose reading tells you the concentration of sugar in your blood at one moment. It does not tell you why your body is handling… Read more →
Uterine Fibroids — Why They Often Return After Surgery, and What a Classical Reading Adds
Fibroids frequently come back after they are surgically removed. This is not a failure of the surgery — myomectomy removes the growths that are there,… Read more →
Long-Term Sleep Medication Users — Classical Chinese Medicine Support and Considering Deprescription
If you have been taking sleeping tablets for longer than a few weeks, you are in a very common position — and one that Australian… Read more →