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These long winter evenings are the perfect time for a website makeover … watch this space for more updates and some exciting news!

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Telehealth consultations – bringing natural healthcare into your home

P5290005.00_00_17_50.Still008Telehealth consultations can break down the barrier to accessing quality naturopathic care, bringing personalised, comprehensive natural medicine directly to you.

Consultations via zoom or phone, provide the similar thorough, holistic approach you’d receive in person. We can start with a thorough health review, implementing wholistic and medical assessment, and developing targeted natural treatments.

I am passionate about lifestyle medicines, which can be tailored during consultation. Herbal and nutritional medicines are dispensed directly from our quality dispensary and mailed to your home. Follow-up support and consultations can then be easily arranged through our reception.

“Working with Jacqui has been a truly transformative experience. Her holistic approach, deep expertise, and genuine care made a remarkable difference in my health and well-being. Even living out of the area, I was able to continue monthly phone consultations after my initial visit. I began noticing results within weeks, and my health continues to improve every day. I highly recommend Jacqui to anyone looking for a natural, personalised path to better health.”

I welcome you to book a consultation today – whether for yourself or to support the health journey of family and friends.

How to deal with WARTS in kids

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Back to school health check for kids includes a healthy skin check – Warts are a viral infection which is a harmless yet common annoyance that can occur on any part of the skin, often seen on the hands. Since they can spread via touch, parents and educators are interested in anything that can be done to help kids recover from warts.

These are the proactive strategies for Warts using Naturopathic medicine which is

Safe, Natural and Effective

  • Palatable herbal medicines are anti-viral against the virus that causes warts
  • Natural Medicines can stimulate the immune system to help fight the virus
  • Anti-viral herbal cream can be applied to warts directly as part of a treatment plan

Contact Moruya Natural Therapies to make an appointment with a Naturopath to treat your child’s warts.

#TIP    The Royal Children’s hospital has a great fact sheet on childhood warts. They suggest that waterproof tape (duct tape) can be used to prevent spread of the virus.

https://www.rch.org.au/kidsinfo/fact_sheets/Warts/

Building better brain health – Free library talks in Moruya & Narooma

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Join your local natural health experts in an informative presentation on how to support clear, calm and alert thinking for all ages using natural health techniques.

 

The presentation will cover how to:

 

  • Improve mental health, boost your brain power and cognitive ability using nutrition and natural medicine

 

  • Avoid neurodegeneration (Dementia, Alzheimers, Parkinsons,), and natural ways to reduce stroke and boost stroke recovery

 

  • Calm the ADHD brain and improve your child’s mental wellbeing

 

There will be plenty of time for questions, so please come along and take advantage of this free event!

Menopause Matters!

For some women, ‘the change of life’ presents constant hormonal challenges like fatigue, hot flushes and mental health challenges.

Herbal medicine can help! Often resolving these symptoms and restoring great energy and that happy calm feeling.

Book an appointment for effective natural solutions today (02) 4474 2544

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Top two tips for healthy hormones at menopause

  1. Balance hormonal health

What you can do

Consume phytoestrogens rich foods such as linseeds and soy products.

How to do it

1-2 tsp ground linseeds or LSA in breakfast or as an ingredient in bliss balls or prinkled on salads.

Use fermented soy products like miso soup for snacks.

Add tofu and tempeh into the meal plan on occasion.

How naturopaths can help –

Herbal medicine such as Black Cohosh and Hops have therapeutic strength phytoestrogens so support hormonal changes quickly.

     2. Stress managment and supporting adrenal health

What you can do –

Studies show that women who exercise regularly have less hot flushes than those who don’t.

How to do it –

Choose a daily movement activity that brings you joy.

How naturopaths can help –

A class of herbal medicine called adaptogens can have a huge impact on energy and your coping capacity at times of stress and change.

 

 

Healthy weight – watch it on TV!

 

 

SBS fat-fighters

Are you frustrated and upset about diets that don’t work?

Confused about what is healthy food for healthy weight?

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/insight/tvepisode/fat-fighters

SBS recently aired this episode on Insight; ‘Fat fighters’. It aptly demonstrates that healthy weight is a controversial issue. We have the statistics to demonstrate that being overweight has health risks and weight loss is not easy. That no specific diet works better than another for short term weight loss, and is not the answer to long term healthy weight. We just need to eat healthy? What does that mean amongst all of today’s health messages and dieting hype?

The best evidence about achieving sustainable healthy weight comes from the American Heart Association.  It states that people should set achievable, individual, specific goals and self-monitor their progress toward attaining these goals in a supportive environment.

What this means is that we need to:

  1. Be health literate (learn about good health from quality sources without an agenda),
  2. Have a plan for healthy eating
  3. Follow up with support

 

Book Now  to take control, be empowered, have a plan & support to achieve your goals.

 

Would you like further information about what the quality research says?

  • Lifestyle programmes that include healthy eating, exercise and health education improve well-being, weight loss and improve reproductive functioning.
  • One diet type is not best – the key is to develop a food plan that suites the individual. The research demonstrates that low carb or low-calorie weight loss plans do not demonstrate significant difference in long term weight change.

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  1. Atallah, Long-term effects of 4 popular diets on weight loss & cardiovascular risk factors: a systematic review of RTC, American heart association, 2014
  2. Schwingshackl, Impact of long-term lifestyle programs on weight loss and cardiovascular risk factors in overweight/obese participants: a systematic review and network meta-analysis, 2014

 

Womens Wellness Weekend

What is your tipping point? At what point do the challenges to your health become significant enough for you to decide to care for yourself, make a positive change for health, and prioritise yourself?

This weekend is a gift of spring, an opportunity to nourish ourselves and infuse joy into a moment in time. Gather with Women in a calm, joyous and peaceful place to share skills about being the best women we can be, and return home filled with support, and a personal plan to be well and stay well.

Myself and seven women who are both local and from all over Australia will be sharing our expertise in health in our specific fields. Our aim is to give you the motivation and tools to make positive change that is personalised and relevant for you right now. It will be informative, fun and relaxed in a place of rare natural beauty – the perfect weekend away with women.

I will discuss the evidence based therapies for stress management and optimising energy levels: this includes food, lifestyle and interventions such as natural therapies, followed by a workshop to create a personal, manageable plan that you can take home and implement.

Once vitality is improved, we will look at how this can improve fertility and reproductive health. Importantly covering specific techniques to improve symptoms of common reproductive problems. The focus is on potent and effective lifestyle interventions that are relevant to you.

I hope to see you there.

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