Keeping them Bones Healthy
There are plenty of ways to support your bone health through diet and lifestyle. We often think of bones as just hard, static structures. Our bones are living tissues that are constantly being broken down and remade and what we eat and how we live plays a big part in keeping our bones healthy at…
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Is Nitric Oxide the answer for sports performance?
Nitric oxide plays a major role in the dilation of blood vessels. It is vital for maintaining healthy blood flow, blood pressure, and platelet function. The problem is that internal nitric oxide production decreases with age. Low nitric oxide is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular diseases, cognitive decline, and dementia. Nitric oxide has…
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Nutrition for Injury Recovery
I work with a lot of injured athletes. I see athletes with torn ACL’s, achilles tendon injuries, broken bones, overused joints and tendons, history of concussion and a handful of other issues. While rest and physical therapy are essential to optimal recovery, so is the athlete’s nutrition. Unfortunately, nutrition can sometimes get forgotten during the…
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Probiotics and Sports Performance
If you’re training hard, but don’t feel like you’re improving your athletic performance, then enriching your gut health could be the missing link. In this article, I explain what probiotics are, how they’re classified, and how probiotics can impact your athletic performance and general wellbeing. What are probiotics?Probiotics are live microorganisms, mainly bacteria, and yeasts,…
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Do I Need Zinc?
Building a robust immunity is all part of a holistic approach to coaching and training. So how do you minimise your risk of getting sick? There are many nutrients that contribute to a healthy immune system. Today’s focus is on ZINC. Athletes may be more susceptible to being deficient in zinc because exercise, particularly strenuous…
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Gastro-Intestinal Dysbiosis
Gastrointestinal dysbiosis is now being linked to a myriad of pathological conditions including Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes, Obesity, Anxiety, Autism, Atopic Eczema, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Depression, Metabolic Syndrome, Ulcerative Colitis, Cardiovascular Disease, Coeliac Disease, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Parkinson’s Disease. Your body is full of colonies of harmless bacteria known as microbiota. Most of…
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How to Stop Cramping
Finding the root cause Dehydration may contribute to cramping in athletes along with imbalances in electrolytes. Over the cooler months, we naturally reach for comfort warming foods and reduce our consumption of salads packed with magnesium rich leafy vegetables. Also, our natural thirst cues to drink fluids may also be reduced and our thirst mechanism…
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Digestion Basics
I’m sure you’re familiar with the saying “you are what you eat”. It’s a great way to motivate us to eat healthier. However, a more concise way of looking at this proves that you are not what you eat, you are what you digest, absorb and are able to utilize. So no matter how perfect…
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Is Stress affecting your Health? Adrenal Dysfunction and what you need to know.
High levels of stress can affect and impair quality of life and health. We are all busy and disconnected, and it making time for rest and relaxation can be difficult. But it’s one of the best things that you can do because high levels of perceived stress that go unaddressed are one of the primary…
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Are Fortified foods and Vitamin supplements enough in a world of fake food?
We live in an era of convenience foods which are highly processed. Nature has provided us with all the food we need to stay healthy, active and full of energy. However when we start tampering with natural foods we lose the chemical and biological structure of these foods. The more food is processed, the more…
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What is Intuitive Eating?
What is INTUITIVE EATING? Any weight loss plan can achieve short term benefits, but over time the weight creeps back, and it’s not unusual to end up weighing more than you did before you started dieting. Research shows us that intuitive eating can help you get off the diet roller coaster for good. One of…
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What is coaching anyway?
Let’s play a game. Can you answer ‘yes’ to any of these questions? There’s a gap between where I am now and where I want to be I can make and keep appointments to work on my goal(s) I’m committed to do the work required and take action to get to where I want to…
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Magnesium – are you getting enough?
Magnesium is a mineral essential for over 300 enzymatic systems in the body, many of which relate to brain and nervous system function. Inadequate intake of magnesium is linked to cardiovascular disease, metabolic diseases, skeletal disorders and neurological abnormalities. Magnesium and mental wellbeing Magnesium comes up a lot when talking about muscle cramp relief, exercise…
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Intermittent Fasting – is it right for me?
Intermittent fasting is the voluntary abstinence from food for a prolonged period of time. Traditionally many cultures and religions have used fasting in their practises. Some Christians follow lent. The Muslim religion has Ramadan where fasting is observed for 29-30 days during the daylight hours. Buddhist monks and nuns following Vinaya rules commonly do not…
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