The sunshine is here and don’t we just love it !! You should know by now that vitamin D is essential for strong bones and immune function—but its influence reaches far beyond that. Emerging research shows that vitamin D plays a key role in regulating serotonin, the “feel-good” or “happy” neurotransmitter responsible for mood, social behavior, and emotional well-being. If you’ve ever felt more down during the…
In 2001, Apple and Steve Jobs launched the ipod and forever changed the way we listen (and buy) to music. In the revolution that happened afterwards, he said: This, in my opinion, is a bit like giving good care to your patients and adding in nutrition alongside it. Sure, they probably didn’t ask for vitamin D, or creatine, or carntine or ALA, or Collagen/Glycine or…
In an ideal world, you and your patient would address and resolve every single issue in their health – Physical, metabolic & emotional. They get up early and do an hour’s meditation, then an ice bath, followed by infrared sauna, a piece of liver for breakfast with glass of kefir on the side. They do regular exercise, a combo of strength, flexibility and cardio. They…
In a world of dietary extremes, from fashionable (and virtue signalling) veganism to the carnivore diet (it’s an extreme elimination diet FYI), there is one tried and tested diet that is always worth using as a template for your nutrient intake: The Mediterranean diet. It is a nutrient dense, whole food, sustainable and, frankly relatively sensible way to eat and live in the long term. Sure you need to…
Here at the ACN, we teach students straight line clinical action. We want the low hanging (nutritional) fruit to be picked. For easy results with our neuro-mechanical care. B12 is one such fruit, and the results can be mind-bendingly good. The protocol we have is relatively straight forward, as per the infographic below. The full protocol pdf is attached and you can get a card…
Are you a sage and wise parent? Kind and caring, but strong when needed. Do you always have time to explain everything to your kids in a way that leaves them empowered? I certainly was to my hypothetical children who didn’t yet exist, in theoretical situations I have never actually been in. In fact, pre-kids, I was a bloody genius in the parenting department. Who…
For the first time ever, will be teaching how to do an IMMUNE SYSTEM reset, via a simple 2 week elimination diet. Food is foundational for health, and here at ACN we love, NUTRIENT DENSE food. But, and it’s a BIG but, you have to tolerate the food that is delivering the nutrients (protein, fat, vitamins and minerals). Sadly, any benefits from the nutrients will be overridden by the…
We have talked about arrhythmia once before and how potassium supplements (even when blood tests are normal) can resolve it. Probably worth a re-read ???? But, as ever, my brain just lurves new info (it’s a dopamine thing), & after my own premature ventricular contractions, I explored BERBERINE. Turns out, it also helps atrial fibrillation !! And the winner is……BERBERINE (obvs). How it works is…
As far as I am concerned, nothing makes much sense in life unless you view it through the lens of evolution. This image appears frequently during the CCCN course. So riddle me this, if you eat something sweet, the brain registers it and knows there are calories coming, and that it’s glucose, it will get insulin production going (to get the sugar into the cells)….
It is true that many of the things I originally learned about in nutrition were born out of necessity. Diving deep into the world of psoriasis wasn’t on my list post graduation, but then this happened. And I got interested pretty quickly !! Turns out…..Oooop. So when Natalie and I got together, soooo many years ago, and she had polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), I started…