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We look forward to our holiday all year but so much can go wrong. Flights get cancelled or delayed. The accommodation isn’t what you’re expecting. The fun friends you’ve decided to travel with turn out to be exhausting when you’re with them 24/7. I could go on and on. The other truth is that we all want different things from …
I have had so many holidays ruined by things that bite, mostly mosquitoes. Rarely does a holiday go by when I don’t end up at the local hospital with some huge swelling or itching so badly I can’t sleep. On my one and only trip to the Maldives, I got bitten so badly on the first day, I was up …
Remember how we used to play as children? Running around without a care in the world? It didn’t matter what we were wearing, if the toys were shop-bought or fashioned from sticks, or what the weather was doing, there was such utter delight and a wonderful sense of freedom. I look back at my childhood running around barefoot, using incredible …
Did you know that the inside of your house is 2-10 x more polluted than the outside? That’s right, many people are living in a seriously polluted atmosphere. This is down to household cleansers, candles, room sprays and pesticides to kill off bugs. The air inside our homes is a soup of toxic chemicals We may be trying to live …
In my recent article and video about how to stop ageing your skin, I mentioned sleep as one of the lifestyle factors that hugely impacts how your skin looks. It’s called Beauty Sleep for a reason Below, Shabir Daya, pharmacist at Victoria Health, takes a look at the impact of lack of sleep on our skin and hair.
As I’ve always maintained, beauty starts from within. So many of us are focused on treatments and tweakments that work on the outside, and that’s ok, but it needs to be done on a good foundation. Tweakments need to start on the inside It’s about tweaking our lifestyle to reduce inflammation and keep our cells hydrated and plumped. Here are …
Do you think of vertigo as merely being the fear of heights? Of getting butterflies when near the edge of a mountain or a tall building? While that’s certainly a version of vertigo, there’s another version that’s connected to the inner ear and it’s surprisingly common. It often comes on with age and can be quite debilitating, with feeling like …
I’ve been a fan of NAD+ for quite awhile now. It’s been touted as the elixir of youth as it can reduce the signs of ageing and boost skin health. It has many other powerful benefits as well. And according to Shabir Daya, pharmacist at VICTORIA HEALTH, it’s also good for jet lag. Read all about it below. Shabir recommends …
Could B vitamins be the most underrated? There are a number of different B vitamins and they benefit the entire body, For me, however, they are vital to counteract stress. I feel so much better when I take them. But which one to take? Do we take them all or cherry pick? I like to take one that has the …
I’m not sure how it happened, but in the last 10 years or so, I’ve become ‘a very busy woman’. A phrase I now use regularly as a joke with my husband when he keeps asking me to do things for him. Even the cast I’m working with at the moment use the phrase. After a weekend or a few …
Stress is one of the biggest enemies of good health. Prolonged stress can seriously undermine our health which is why managing it by using breathing, mindfulness and meditation is so important. It can also deplete us of vital nutrients. Besides tackling stress itself, taking supplements to help bolster these nutrients, can be very beneficial. We often think of stress as …
A few months ago, I wrote an article for Hello magazine on this subject and it got a huge response. It made me ponder as to why this was the case. I suspect it’s because most of us have low energy a lot of the time, even when we’re not busy. I decided to make a video about it to …
