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The holiday season is aright around the corner and we look forward to Parties, fun, sun, laughing, joy and celebration! But the celebrations are usually shortly followed by headaches, shaking, nausea, diarrhoea, dizziness, fatigue, dry mouth, bad eating guilts, weight gain and a brain that seems strangely emptied of all knowledge.

It's important to realise that the focus is shifting from looking thin to realising that controlling our weight is crucial to our health and wellness. If the “other” pandemic has taught us anything, a healthy lifestyle is your greatest weapon for staying healthy!

These shroomie superstars have been around for centuries and a staple of Eastern diets and medicine, with the earliest recorded use dating back to 450 BC. We have recently seen functional and holistic medicine and nutrition going mainstream, so there has been a resurgence of interest in mushrooms.

So, whether it is for recovering from short or long-term physical or mental stress or boosting immunity (less stress = less likely to get sick) and overall well-being, adaptogens is a great tool for the stress-busting toolkit!

Better health, better bodies, better mental health, better sex, better relationships and just all-around optimisation of body, mind and spirit. We all want it, but it often feels unachievable. We have time constraints, we don’t have the energy to read conflicting literature and studies that leave us more confused than before and it’s becoming apparent that we are all so individual and gloriously different, that its near impossible to know if the advice you’re given will work for YOU!

Parenting in the modern world is hard. Especially during times of work-from-home, how do we eliminate all screen time and all sugar from our children’s diets? I’d venture that it is nigh impossible. In my view, your best strategy is to eliminate the bad stuff as much as possible and make a concerted effort to introduce the good stuff as much as possible, as often as possible!

I think we’ve all struggled with social anxiety in some shape or form in the past, whether you’re Mr Confident, Miss Whitty or the person who wishes that the earth would swallow them whole at least twice a day. The good news? Nootropics can actually have a profound impact on your ability to combat social anxiety and give you confidence in both work and social settings.

Fuel your body for optimal performance. The mental health and physical benefits from loving your food AND your body (by seeing food as fuel) are endless!

The truth is that humans are by far too individual (genetics, environment, geographic location and tastes) to ever be able to say that one particular diet will be effective for everyone.