Author: Gisèle Wertheim Aymes

  • 6 Top Immune Boosting Power Foods

    6 Top Immune Boosting Power Foods

    Having a strong immune system will contribute to your overall better health and longevity. Here are our top five immune boosting power foods to help you on your way. How to build your own defence system We tend to think of our immune system as a single entity.  However, it’s a whole system made up…

  • Omega-3 Supplements: Do We Really Need Them?

    Omega-3 Supplements: Do We Really Need Them?

    [vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text] Omega-3 supplements are taken by millions around the world. They are touted as a boost to…

  • Our Longevity Is Impacted By Toxins, Here’s What You Need To Know

    Our Longevity Is Impacted By Toxins, Here’s What You Need To Know

    We’re reading increasingly about the potentially significant threat to our health of toxins, but what exactly are they? How will they impact our longevity? What can we do to reduce our exposure to them? Dr Duncan Carmichael is a functional medicine specialist and author of the book Younger for Longer. He says: “A toxin is…

  • How Jenna Lowe’s Rare Disease Changed A Family Forever

    How Jenna Lowe’s Rare Disease Changed A Family Forever

    Jenna Lowe was young, bright, beautiful and articulate when she was diagnosed with a rare disease. Pulmonary hypertension was a devastating diagnosis that ultimately took her life.   Her equally extraordinary mother has written Get Me To 21.   In this book Gabi Lowe shares life lessons of this profound journey and how the consequences of…

  • Parkinson’s symptoms improved with physical and cognitive exercises

    Parkinson’s symptoms improved with physical and cognitive exercises

    News Alert: Parkinson’s patients’ motor and non-motor symptoms improved with a weekly exercise regimen that included physical and cognitive tasks. This is according to new research presented  on 16 December 2019 at The Physiological Society early career conference. The conference was titled Future Physiology 2019: Translating Cellular Mechanisms into Lifelong Health Strategies. Active Lifestyle and…

  • SALT of Palmar: Eco-Friendly Wellness Travel

    SALT of Palmar: Eco-Friendly Wellness Travel

    Imagine if you could stay in a hotel that not only offers a perfect luxury island experience but also satisfies your need for wellness travel.  A healthier, more humanistic approach to hospitality. Well, this is what SALT of Palmar, a luxury resort in Mauritius, promises its guests. Wellness travel is a growing trend I was…

  • Milk Thistle Needs To Be On Your Holiday Hangover Help List

    Milk Thistle Needs To Be On Your Holiday Hangover Help List

    Milk thistle should be on everyone’s festive shopping list.  The reason being, your liver often takes a beating over the holiday period with too much overeating and drinking. Milk thistle can be used to relieve the symptoms associated with occasional over-indulgence of drinks and food such as indigestion and upset stomachs. Alcohol and Your Body…

  • Hurry Up Food For A Healthy Holiday Break

    Hurry Up Food For A Healthy Holiday Break

    [vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]With the holidays approaching, the last thing you want to be doing is slaving over a stove. …

  • How The Sophrology Method Brings Success To Your Work, Sport And Life

    How The Sophrology Method Brings Success To Your Work, Sport And Life

    The sophrology method may well be one of Europe’s best-kept secrets. It’s described by the International Sophrology Federation  as “a series of easy physical and mental exercises, created specifically to provide a holistic method to manage the speed and stress of modern life.”  Sophrology is used by everyone from CEOs to athletes and is gaining…

  • Another Study Shows Why Coffee Drinkers Have Lower Risk

    Another Study Shows Why Coffee Drinkers Have Lower Risk

      A research team from Queen’s University Belfast has found that coffee drinkers have a lower risk of the most common type of liver cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The results were presented at the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) conference in Glasgow this week. The results were also published in the British Journal of Cancer…