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Welcome to my blog where I will be featuring a host of exciting vitality posts, all based around the areas of nutrition, fitness, longevity and natural beauty. Some of them are based on questions I often receive, whilst others are things I personally recommend and practice, eye-opening ideas you will want to know about.
In regards to natural skin care, when we talk about moisturisation we are often talking about imparting oils (aka fats) back into the (predominantly outermost layer of) skin. High quality natural plant fats are truly essential components of an effective facial or skin regimen to facilitate beautiful, glowing skin, especially…
When we think about palm trees most of us think about coconuts. A large proportion even assume that palm and coconuts are synonymous things. The truth however is very different: there are over 2,500 known species of palm, and only one of those species (Cocos nucifera) is coconut. That leaves…
Chances are you use earphones on a pretty regular basis, whether to make calls plugged into your mobile phone, or else to listen to music or watch movies on the go. In fact many people are using ear or headphones in one way or another for hours a day. But…
Cryotherapy is all the rage right now, and for good reason. The use of the cold for healing and beautification purposes goes back thousands of years, but in more recent times finds popularity in countries like Russia and Korea. Though cryotherapy can involve the whole body, today’s (not so) hot…
Perhaps you have not knowingly tried the richly health-imparting edible in question, but chances are at some point you have seen at least one of the below varieties of the fruit known in English as bitter melon – whether abroad or in a variety of Asian and African market stalls/supermarkets…
Sometimes, in our bid to seek out the new and exotic, we end-up devaluing and discounting what grows readily on our own doorstep. It’s a shame, because in the process we often lose something really quite substantial. Not only do we disconnect from successful forms of sustenance, but we also…
According to philosopher Cornel West, dogmatism represents man’s often-desperate attempt to hold on to certainty. As we all know, contemporary life has been thoroughly penetrated by all kinds and genres of dogmatism and just like “certainty” and “security”, their effect is often warm and comforting. And yet, despite this effect,…
Not too far from the Finnish border in North West Russia, on the shores of Europe’s second largest lake, lies a most remarkable deposit of mineraloid rock – Shungite. 300 years ago Peter the Great funded Russia’s first spa on the shores of Lake Onega to make use of the…
As a nutritionist and plant explorer I rate a particular kingdom of foods above all others for nutrient density and phytochemical potency. And, of this group, there is one among them that I want to draw special attention too. For those with access to it, I would rank it as…
