Sodium Scope – Why the Sinful Stigma?
Sodium – for some reason is titled as one of the 'sins' of nutrition from some conversations we have had. To be honest, it’s baffling that we still think this way in this day and age, where informa...
Smoothie Bowl Do’s and Don’ts!
Smoothie Bowl - Everyone loves a good smoothie bowl, they look appealing, they are fresh and cool, and you can pack them full of all your favorite fruits and veg, take a pic for the gram and #smoot...
Resistant Starch – Don’t Forget About This Functional Food!
Resistant starch – You have heard us harp on about resistant starch a fair bit on our social platforms and podcast episodes, and we broke it down a little in a small space, but science is catching ...
Vitamin C - How Much is Enough?
Vitamin C - The history of this vitamin has been plagued with death. For example, the early sailors that were sent to sea for months at a time developed a disease known as ‘Scurvy’. At the time, li...
Curcuma longa - Traditional Uses Quenching Inflammation
Curcuma longa (turmeric) is cultivated in many places around the world, including South East Asia, where it has been used for thousands of years. Due to its distinctive yellow color in the Hindu re...
Boswellia: An Underestimated Anti-inflammatory
Boswellia Serrata has been traditionally used for thousands of years. Ancient civilizations such as the Hindus, Persians, Babylonians, Chinese, Romans, and Greeks have used Boswellia as incense for...
Reishi Mushroom: From Tradition to Today
Reishi Mushroom (Ganoderma lucidum) has an amazing history of treating various ailments. Early writings that praised the medicinal properties of Reishi dated back to the second century B.C. in the ...
Edible Earth - How Effective Is The Trend
Edible earth – Why it's not always great to pair with your smoothies… Edible earth -Bentonite clay, Charcoal, and Diatomaceous Earth – The Edible Earth movement took the health industry by storm re...
Blood Pressure and Licorice – The Facts
Blood Pressure - About one million years ago (OK, 25 years ago really) when I was studying herbal medicine, one of the first things we learned was that you need to take care of prescribing licorice...
Licorice Root - Why is it so sweet?!
Licorice or as it is botanically known - Glycyrrhiza glabra has been around for centuries, much associate licorice with that of the tar-like black confectionary with the strong bitter and sweet par...
Reishi Mushroom – Taking a look under the cap!
Reishi Mushroom – has been in amongst ancient Chinese medicinal literature for hundreds of years and was originally reserved for the royals due to its rarity and peculiar growth preference. It is a...
Caffeine - Busting the super charged myths
Caffeine gets a bad wrap and part of that is probably a lot to do with how much people feel they need to rely on caffeine to get their day going, so the media has led us to believe it's no good for...
Modbiotic Food List
Modbiotic ™ Food List Whenever or wherever possible follow these top 5 rules: Eat local Eat in-season Organic/ free-range / biodynamic Sit down to eat (do not eat on the run) process the food you ...
