How to reduce inflammation in your body

September Spring Clean Your Eating: Week Two Inflammation is a vital part of the immune system’s response to injury and infection. It is the body’s way of signalling the immune system to heal and repair damaged tissue, as well as defend itself against foreign invaders, such as viruses and bacteria. Without inflammation as a physiological…

8 Fluids that Nurture your Body – Spring Clean your Eating Habits

September is about bringing awareness to your eating (and drinking!) habits. As mentioned, the best place to start is by keeping a daily journal of what you are consuming including beverages. Don’t try to make any changes straight away, at first just reflect. Your body is made up of 50-75% water, let us start with…

Simple ways to improve gut health

All disease begins in the gut.” -Hippocrates With the variety of things that wreak havoc on our digestive systems these days, it may seem impossible to try to get back in balance and restore yourself to optimal health. But it’s not just about digestive issues alone, as gastrointestinal health can be the root cause for…

10 Common Nutrition Myths Debunked

For the last 16 years (since I started studying to be a Chiropractor!) I have been researching and experimenting with the old saying, ‘You are what you eat’. However even in this short period, new research continues to change my thoughts around what is the ideal diet. This has affected what I would recommend to…

Need a Local Weekend Retreat?

How often do you hear the story about ‘Busy Brenda’, the person who works hard bringing up a family, often whilst working and juggling many other commitments. Busy Brenda is frequently exhausted and run down, she plans to slow down and take it easy once work quietens down, or once the kids get a bit…

Five Top Tips on Detoxing to Decrease Pain

At Chiropractic Balance we know that to get to the core of your health issues and eliminate pain, we may need to peel back multiple layers. For many of us with nagging aches, one of those layers can be toxicity of our digestive system & liver causing chronic inflammation and pain.

A Healthy Gut

The importance of gut health has become an increasing area of interest for researchers recently, as a balanced gut flora has been linked to reducing signs of illness and disease. Etymologically the term probiotic is derived from the Greek language meaning for “life”. Probiotics aid in supporting the good bacteria in our digestive tract, which…

Real Life Story of Dr Roz Detoxing

‘Is it really good for you’ or ‘it sounds good I couldn’t do that’ are the two most common responses I get when I say I’m doing a detox. So why would you do a detox? It’s basically a complete spring clean of the entire digestion system, a system that works hard every single time…

8 Easy Tips to Reduce Sugar in your Diet

At Chiropractic Balance we look at the four pillars to overall health (Structure, Well being, Exercise and Nutrition) as they all influence the balance of our body. Often you will hear us talk to you about reducing sugar in your diet. This article explains a why sugar isn’t so sweet for you and easy tips…

Leaky Gut & Sympathetic Dominance

‘Trust your gut’. ‘Go with your gut feeling’. That’s how the sayings go. But can we really trust our gut to serve us reliably? In recent years, the link between our gut and our health have become much clearer. A ‘leaky gut’ that has become inflamed and compromised by stress can lead to a plethora of many physical and physiological issues. We examine this topic in the light of something called ‘Sympathetic Dominance’.