Health Articles

Post-holiday travel quarantine has made some of us feel like a staycation is the safe option for summer 2020, but this isn’t necessarily bad news. Nutritional Therapist, Jackie Newson suggests ways to take advantage of the opportunity to rejuvenate, limber up and pamper your body with a retreat-style home spa staycation.

After months of research, nutrition analysis and recipe development The 5C Reset was created and a pilot group of 20 #CForYourself volunteers stepped forward to sign-up for an exciting 10 weeks partaking in The 5C Reset wellness strategy. We can’t wait to share the results of their incredible 10-week journey with you!

World Vegan Day on the 1st of November helped draw attention to veganism. As this style of eating becomes more mainstream many manufacturers are creating innovative products to help make the transition away from animal products easier and more enjoyable. If a plant-based diet and lifestyle is becoming important to you then now is a great time to embrace all the wonderful new products out there that make being a vegan a piece of cake (minus eggs of course!).

We’ve just added a new winter wellness product to the Abundance and Health product range called Neutrient D3+K2. This unique vegan oral spray contains highly absorbable forms of the essential vitamins D3 and K2. Nutritional Therapist, Jackie Newson reveals lifestyle factors that lower vitamin D, explains the impact of a vitamin D or vitamin K deficiency, suggests an easy home test kit and reveals the best forms for effective supplements.

Every January we hear about new healthy eating plans designed to help us shape up and lose any residual festive kilos. Why waste your time on a wellness plan that hasn’t already been put through its paces? Nutritional Therapist, Jackie Newson explains why ketogenic diets, which typically follow a high fat, low carb style of eating, that’s been tried, tested and perfected over the last century, makes light work of successful dieting.

It’s very natural to feel unusually stressed, anxious, frustrated or even a little low from the many challenges of these uncertain times. Nutritional Therapist Jackie Newson explains how The 3 Pillars Technique of diet, sleep and exercise are key to your physical and mental health and wellbeing. 

With obesity and type 2 diabetes on the increase, people are turning to ketogenic diets which reduce carbs and sugar and increase fats and MCT to help switch the body into fat-burning mode. Nutritional Therapist Jackie Newson explains how MCT provides an efficient source of fuel that can be readily utilised by brain and body cells, when sugar levels become depleted.

If you’re new to ketogenics then it’s simply a wellness strategy that involves cutting back on dietary sugar and carbs and swapping in fats to cleverly switch the body into fat-burning mode. MCT provides your body with the types of fat that make the switch to fat-burning more efficient and effective. Check out our butterfat bulletproof coffee, smoothies and snacks to help you power through your morning or get the best out of your workout.

In celebration of us all being able to return to active and sporty lifestyles, we asked Food Scientist and Nutritionist Susie Debice to explain why liposomal magnesium is set to be this summers’ most essential sports supplement.

It's all about fitness at Abundance & Health at the moment, so we caught up with Altrient Ambassador, Robson Lindberg to get to know him a little better and to hear some of his fitness wisdom. You can follow Robson and his adventures on Instagram.

If you are new to ketosis, then watch out for these five easy mistakes as you get settled into a ketogenic lifestyle. This ratio of fats, carbs and proteins helps promote ketosis and keep you in the fat burning zone. Here are five common mistakes that could prevent you from initially making any progress.

For centuries, humans have been trying to roll back the clock and stop ageing in its tracks. As such, age management serums, skincare and other age management treatments are becoming more and more popular, whether they're preventing fine lines and wrinkles or grey hairs and aching joints. Though we can't escape growing older, there are a few ways to slow down the process and retain that youthful glow – and you don't need the fountain of youth to achieve it, either.