Posts from the Dr Libby Blog
When you’ve had a rough day, what’s the thing you fall back on to make yourself feel better? Is it talking it out with your partner or a friend? Taking a relaxing bath? Or is it more likely to be a glass of wine paired with your preferred ‘comfort’ food? If it’s the latter, you’re […]
Have you ever considered whether your alcohol intake may be interfering with your sex hormone balance? A link between your after-work drink(s) and challenging symptoms such PMS and hot flushes may seem like a stretch… until you learn that there is one organ that is responsible for metabolising both alcohol and our sex hormones, such as estrogen. This organ is our precious liver.
From the soil, health and beauty are born. The soil contains minerals, such as calcium and magnesium, which we need to live. But we can’t eat the soil, so we need a medium that is able to supply us with the Earth’s nutrients. The middlemen are plants, as they absorb nutrients from the soil and make them available to us as food.
Why you decide to make changes to improve your health is a completely personal decision. Often we are influenced by very different motivations. For some people, it may be that they choose to move regularly so that they can keep up with their children. For others, they consciously choose to eat a mainly plant-based diet […]
Ever wake up feeling like you’ve been hit by a truck? It could be that your adrenal glands are struggling to keep up with what you’re asking of them. Only the size of a walnut, these mighty glands—you have two—are part of your endocrine system and they sit just on top of your kidneys. They […]
12.00am, 2am, 2.15am, 3.00am – do these times look familiar? When was the last time you actually slept through the night? Or better still when was the last time you woke up feeling refreshed? Unfortunately more often than not I hear the phrase “I can’t remember.” Can you imagine a world free from sleep anxiety […]
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