Eat for Peak Performance
We eat to survive. However, what we eat determines much about our personality, our physical, emotional and mental health, and our potential. So let’s eat for peak performance! It starts before conception. A tree planted in nutrient-rich soil produces quality fruit. One in nutrient-deficient soil produces poor quality fruit or no fruit at all. It […]
Part 3: The Real Educators In Health And Wellness
Sunday was hunt day and this meant it was time to experience traditional food in all its primal glory. We were picked up by Tim, Kama, Eli and a couple of the Yolngu ladies and their adorable grandchildren. We visited Kathy and Collin Guthadjaka who run a remote Christian School in Gawa up the top […]
Part 2: Elcho Island Yolngu Health Update
Hello from Elcho Island!! My name is Jessica Gaunt and I am one of the Naturopaths at Living Valley Springs. Over the past year we have partnered with the Hope4Health team in Elcho island to support a dream they and the Yolngu people have of reclaiming the extraordinary knowledge in traditional nutritional health that the […]
Part 1: Health Journey To Elcho Island
It has been just over 3 months since the wonderful Yolngu women from Elcho Island visited Living Valley Springs and not only had life changing results but also changed our lives forever in the process. During their stay we equipped, educated and empowered them to reclaim back their unprecedented wealth of knowledge in primal health […]
Vitamin D supplements, the shocking truth!
Vitamin D is the general term given to the group of cholesterol-based hormones that maintain healthy calcium, magnesium and phosphate balance in blood and bone. Exalted as a wonder vitamin for the prevention and treatment of many diseases ((Michos, Erin, et al., Archives Internal Med, August 2008.)) , vitamin D is often recommended by both medical […]
Discover the Secret to Beating Diabetes
The life expectancy at birth of Australians, as at 2013, is 83 years, the ninth highest in the world. ((World Health Organisation. Life expectancy at birth 2013. “CIA – The World Factbook Life Expectancy”. Cia.gov. Retrieved 2012-03-22. “Central Intelligence Agency Factbook Population”. Retrieved 2013-03-22.)) In June 2011, the country boasted 4252 living centenarians. ((Aust. Bureau of […]
