The Best Aussie Foods for Boosting Your Immune System To feel like a superhero with a strong immune system, you need to eat like one. Eating foods rich in Vitamin C, like Kakadu Plum, can help. Aussie honey and...
The Science of Yawning Did you yawn while reading this article? If so, you’re not alone! Contagious yawning is a common reflex triggered by social cues and even reading about yawning. But did you...
Commercial vs Compounded Vitamins and Supplements Are you taking the right vitamins and supplements for your body’s unique needs? Traditional options may not be the most effective for everyone, but there’s an alternative: custom formulated vitamins...
Popular Cough Medicines Recalled The TGA has urgently recalled a popular cough medicine ingredient due to an increased risk of anaphylaxis, resulting in the recent death of one Australian and reports to the TGA...
Eat this, not that, for a sluggish thyroid Hypothyroidism, or underactive thyroid, is when your thyroid gland doesn’t make enough thyroid hormones to efficiently perform its functions of controlling growth, cell repair and metabolism. A lack of these...
Lactose Intolerant? Check your Medication These figures might surprise you – they certainly did us – it’s estimated that lactose is an ingredient in 15-20% of medications prescribed by a doctor and up to 7%...
Strange Technique to Treat Chronic Pain Shows Promise in University Study While the following article may have you raising your eyebrows at first, bear with us: An intriguing new university study, recently published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Neural Engineering, has...
Compounding Pharmacists Fill the Gap Created by Antibiotic Shortage If there’s one thing that the current antibiotic shortage in Australia has taught us, it’s the critical role compounding pharmacists continue to play in our society when supply chains fail....
Can Hydroquinone really get rid of sun spots? Sun spots, often called age spots, are small, dark discoloured patches on the skin that can sometimes look like overgrown freckles. They usually appear on the face but can show...
What Ticks Them Off: Older People on Multiple Medications A review conducted by a Swedish University found that when it comes to managing multiple medications for older people, the two biggest obstacles to treatment adherence at home are: Participants...
Apples, Chillis and Beans: These and other surprisingly effective treatments for hair loss A recent (November 2022) study review conducted by three U.S. Schools of Medicine, including Harvard, has uncovered a number of non-drug treatments with the potential to effectively treat hair loss....