by admin@cynthiasillars | Oct 28, 2016 | Digestion
The digestive tract, so from your mouth to your bottom! is not only affected by everything you eat, but perhaps more importantly, by everything you think as well VERY INTERESTING TRUE MEDICAL HISTORY! Have you ever heard the story of the Dr William Beaumont, a US Army...
by admin@cynthiasillars | Jul 17, 2016 | Hydration
Hydration is essential for rapid healing It is a commonly held belief that health problems can be caused by a lack of vitamins and minerals. However, this may be an over simplification. The first point is that when the body is presenting an illness profile, there is...
by admin@cynthiasillars | May 5, 2016 | Good Health
Eating rubbish? Cortisol is a hormone produced by the adrenal glands, two small glands found at the top of each kidney. Everyone knows about adrenaline, few understand another important hormone Cortisol. Cortisol is responsible for diverse and highly important...
by admin@cynthiasillars | Mar 3, 2016 | Good Health
Your ancestral lineage is embedded or coded into your DNA, and the imprints continue to impact in many ways on your life every single day. You are literally a compilation of all the beliefs and experiences of those who have gone before you, coloured through the...
by admin@cynthiasillars | Mar 3, 2016 | Sleep, Stress
Of the four main electrolytes – Sodium, Potassium, Calcium and Magnesium, Magnesium is the most important in terms of needing to take a supplement. Why? Because it is deficient in most soils and therefore in most vegetables, even organic ones. It is one of the...
by admin@cynthiasillars | Feb 28, 2016 | Good Health
Going through my darkest hours, back in the year 2002, a series of coincidences happened that ultimately changed the direction of my life for ever. I was part of a presentation on nutritional supplements, something very new to me, when this guy joined the seminar. In...
by admin@cynthiasillars | Feb 20, 2016 | acidity, dehydration, Detox, water balance
What is meant by an “unbalanced terrain”?The term “terrain” was first used by the French physiologist Claude Bernard in the 19th century, who used the term for the body’s internal environment. He understood that since the body is mostly water, the terrain...
by admin@cynthiasillars | Jan 26, 2016 | Detox, Good Health
Why come to see me? Since this has to be the biggest question anyone who is thinking of seeing a Naturopath has to address I may as well write about it first. What does a naturopath do? Even more of a puzzle, how do you even pronounce ‘Kinesiology’ and...