Proteins are often referred to as the ‘building blocks of life’ and considering it is involved in nearly every body function, you can understand why. Protein is essential for all the hard work the body puts into building and repairing itself. Your muscles, skin, hair, nails, organs and [...]
Greens are a blend of nature’s most nutrient dense super foods; they provide a highly bio-available whole food nutrient to the body. They are absorbed more effectively than those found in synthetic formulations, (eg. mass produced vitamins), and are best ingested in liquid form. Greens are [...]
Gut health refers to the small and large intestines in our digestive tract. Billions of microorganisms live inside our gut and help break down our food for absorption and elimination. Having a balanced and healthy gut is vital if you want to maintain a strong immune system and a healthy digestive [...]
For a long time now many health professionals have advised us to avoid the sun due to its negative effects on our skin in the way of skin cancers. This combined with long office days; television and computer games have resulted in many of us not getting enough old-fashioned sunshine on our skin. [...]
Self-talk is the chitter chatter that goes on inside our head and the conversations we have with ourselves. Just like any conversations we have, this talk can be both positive and negative. But more times than not we are our own worst critic and can be very hard on ourselves. The majority of the [...]
As you know water is vital to every living being. Our bodies are made up of over 50% water so of course it is only natural to replenish this vital fluid regularly. However, through the colder months we tend to let our water intake slip. We also tend to confuse the bodies thirst signals with hunger, [...]
Pilates was created by Joseph Pilates in the 1920’s. He devised the Pilates method as a new approach to exercise and body-conditioning. Referred in the early days as ‘Controlology’, it later became known by his own surname – Pilates. He conceived it as a mental, as well as a [...]
To help celebrate QLD Mental Health week we asked some of our Yoga and Pilates Instructors to tell us how their class can help your whole self stay healthy “All exercise is mood enhancing because of the endorphin’s that are released through movement. I feel that my vinyasa flow [...]
Our mental health is the health of our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. Just like the health of your body it can effect how you think, feel and act. It can also determine how we cope, interact with others and how we make choices in life. One in five Australians experience mental [...]
On the 1st of September I celebrated 3 years in Business for Wellwood Health, a journey that has brought me some humbling highs, gut wrenching lows, soul changing lessons and an education in self that has changed me as a person. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, more than 60 percent [...]