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Yin and Tonic

Locality: Denmark, Western Australia

Address: 1/39 Strickland St 6333 Denmark, WA, Australia

Website: http://www.yinandtonicnaturalmedicine.com

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24.01.2022 Naturopaths bang on a lot about adrenal health and resilience. Perhaps because we have all "been there"? Or are tittering around the edges of it ourselves. ... I cannot express the importance enough... Take care of yourself. Live your life in a sustainable way. Release the achievement-based worth and people-pleasing. REST! Take a day off, take a week off (or three!) The world will still be turning when you return... My main tip is to be villigent and aware of the first warning signs, whatever they may look like for you. We are all different.... This feels especially real for me today, after a busy month, getting to Monday morning and sighing, feeling tired and overwhelmed. Headaches creep in. I start to feel anxious, and lose joy in what would normally excite me. Everything feels like an effort and I lose my sense of ease and flow... Our little friend cortisol tells us that we are "fine, that we can "push through", that we "just have to get through today / tomorrow / this week" etc etc. It's job is to keep us functioning and alive. It gives us our "get up and go" in the morning (if you have a healthy cortisol awakening response)! This is one of the reasons why adrenal tonic herbs are always at the forefront of my treatment plans. We live busy lives, that's the way it is... We want to work and be physically active, there is so much Yang and very little Yin. What are your 'warning signs'? How are you bring more Yin into your life? What changes can you make this Full Moon to support a more sustainable output? Much love xxx Em

11.01.2022 Blending tonics this morning. Let me know if you would like a brew to get you through! I know I will making myself one to support my adrenals after a busy month. Phew! ... Inhale.... Exhale.... don't forget to look after yourself too. #yinandtonicnaturalmedicine #herbalmedicine #supportyouradrenals #selfcare

08.01.2022 PARASITES & TRAUMA So you’ve been diagnosed with Blasto. Surely this is the cause of your poor health. Surely you've found the answer. Surely you just need to... KILL...THAT...BUG! Yet I’ve found a surprising percentage of my clients with chronic blasto to have a significant history of trauma and burn-out. When I think about it, my current estimate on that stat is roughly 100%. Although our entire culture thinks every situation can be reduced to a victim and a perpetrator, when it comes to blasto and similar ‘slow’ microbial infections it always takes two to tango. ALWAYS. It’s the germ and the host, the seed and the terrain, the organism and its environment. We live and breathe and work and choose our diseases into being, both individually and collectively, and we must live and breathe and work and choose our way out of them. Perhaps you’ve been working too hard? Perhaps you’ve been drinking too much? Perhaps you’ve been on the couch too long? Perhaps you’re lonely and scared and hurt and bitter? So let me give you a little research on blasto so you don’t just dismiss all this as woo before I come back to my trauma hypothesis. In contrast to the understanding of more commonly ‘acknowledged’ pathogens such as Giardia, Cryptosporidium, and Entamoeba spp., the clinical significance of Blastocystis has been uncertain since its discovery more than 100 years ago. At present around 1:7 humans have it, making around a billion carriers world-wide. Studies show that 50% of HEALTHY adults in highly industrialized countries have blasto, and 100% of healthy Senegalese children have it. As a 2016 paper in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology states: Randomized controlled treatment studies serving to identify any role for Blastocystis in disease, including alleviation of symptoms upon parasite eradication, are practically nonexistent Blasto doesn’t even look like a parasite according to microbiologists; it has no flagella, lectins, or rhoptries and phagocytosis doesn’t occur in its presence. Blastocystis infections are actually less common in patients with infectious diarrhea and in those with IBS or inflammatory bowel diseases. One researcher thus states that it might be speculated that the presence of Blastocystis parasites may be an indicator of intestinal and maybe even general health. Neither is there any evidence that Blasto impedes nutritional status and absorption; even healthy day care children with asymptomatic Giardia infection show no disadvantage and perhaps even an advantage in nutritional status and freedom from other illnesses. Yet I have certainly encountered a number of people with blasto who are clearly failing to thrive. There are also at least 17 different geno-types of blasto, but the truly interesting thing from a genetic perspective is this: blasto prefers lean individuals to overweight ones. This is something I can confirm from my clinical experience, with blasto preferring either vata-type constitutions from an Ayurvedic perspective, or those with current vata derangement COULD BURN-OUT AND TRAUMA REALLY BE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THOSE THRIVING WITH BLASTO AND THOSE NOT? Over the years, I have to say that I have yet to encounter someone with chronic lymes or blasto who was truly thriving until some evil bacteria or tick came out of nowhere. I’ve certainly encountered a bunch of healthy folk who have had a tick-born disease that knocked them for 6 but then recovered, but the ones that have chronic infections like this always have a pulse that shows PTSD or long-term exhaustion. The thing about stress and trauma and burn-out is that it effects everything. EVERYTHING. The most obvious connection with ‘parasites’ like Blasto is that trauma switches you in to a fight-or-flight adrenal mode as your baseline operating system and switches OFF the rest-and-digest branch of your nervous system. So your guts and your immune system are off at the mains. The analogy I give my clients to move them away from our culture’s ‘bacteria as terrorists’ mentality is of a pot plant: When a gardener sees a plant with aphids or mould infections they immediately know that their plant isn’t thriving because it’s not in the right environment. It has too much sun, or to little sun, or its soil drains too much or too little the point is, rather than just trying to squish aphids, the experienced gardener tries to change the environment so the pot plant can thrive. This is what I do with my clients. I help them move the pot plant of their life and start to tend to their Soul like a loving gardener. Regardless of what disease label you’ve woken up with today, if you can cease to approach your illness as a terrorist to be fought, and instead sit down in deep dialogue with it I sincerely believe that you will learn something truly important about yourself. Often, our diseases aren’t even terrorists at all, but freedom fighters, attempting to liberate us from the tyranny of our worn-out and limited identity. Seen like this, bacteria like Blasto are idealists and dreamers, they seek change, they yearn for a better life they just want to be loved. Love your disease sweet friend, wake up each morning and greet it respectfully like the Zen-Master it is, for it is the medicine you have been searching for. With heart, Jimi PS: Yes I also make herbal anti-parasitics, and yes you can order them if you send me a PM. Research: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23548084/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19834337/ https://jcm.asm.org/content/jcm/54/3/524.full.pdf

08.01.2022 WE ALL THIS - MINDS BLOWN Even people on our team who don't have a science background...Sal our resident artist and graphic designer extraordinaire said......'I think I spy a mitochondrion!' The most detailed model of a human cell to date, obtained using x-rays, nuclear magnetic resonance, and cryoelectron microscopy data sets. Source and Credit: Transformation of the Cellular Landscape through a Eukaryotic Cell, by Evan Ingersoll Ingersoll Gael McGill ~ Digizyme's Custom Maya Molecular Software

02.01.2022 If someone had told me 12, 6, even 3 months ago that today I would be standing in front of a group of people talking about thyroid-adrenal health, I would have laughed, shaken my head and shrunk in horror at the thought! But, here I find myself. .. In many ways ... And it brings me joy! I am constantly amazed by (and so honoured ) where my life has taken me. I was given incredible opportunities, and I worked really (really!) hard. But, I have to say, if it hadn't been for the people around me who believed in me, I wouldn't have believed in myself. Surround yourself with people who love and support you, people who don't doubt you or your abilities and dreams... People who will hold space for you and remind you of your worth and brilliance when you forget, have doubts or fears . There is so much to be said, but today, I am incredibly honoured. Thank you for your support