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Intelligence in You

Intelligence in You

I was out with Ivanka over the weekend looking for plants for our garden. As I walked past these tomato plants I noticed something truely amazing.  Something that only exists in intelligent matter. Chiropractic has defined this as Universal Intelligence - A Universal...

Secrets to Avoid the Cold & Flu

Secrets to Avoid the Cold & Flu

If you are living in Sydney at the moment the likelihood that you have been or know of someone who has been struck down by the current cold and flu if pretty close to 100% of you.  This current winter is being advertised by the authorities as the ‘worst flu season...

Have the Riches of the World

Have the Riches of the World

I love sport. I love watching, I love participating.  More importantly, I love the lessons learned from sport.  From the depths of competition. Plato’s quote, “You can discover more about a person from an hour of play than in a year of conversation” Is perfectly...

Safety Pins and the Brain

Safety Pins and the Brain

From a very young age I learned that we have five senses: sight, sound, touch, taste and smell.  These senses help us to detect what is happening around us, and for the most part allow our body to adapt to the sensory stimulus. If we sense the cold, our body will try...

Dr. Brett’s 7 Top Cold & Flu Busters

Dr. Brett’s 7 Top Cold & Flu Busters

Last month I posted my 7 Top Immune Boosters.  As always though, some of us will do a cold and flu.  The way I see it our body needs to, every two or so years, do a cold and flu.  Think of it as a 'spring clean' for your body.  So here is a follow up as an action list...

Replacement Body Parts

Replacement Body Parts

What is the end impact of just looking after a part of our body; of just strengthening a muscle to facilitate healing from injury? Why did that area become injured in the first place? I have had clients in the past tell me that they have had to have a hip or a knee...

How to Think Like the Black Sheep

How to Think Like the Black Sheep

I had just finished my swimming training and was drying off and gathering my gear together, and I couldn’t help but listen in on two of the lady’s conversation next to me…yes I was eavesdropping! One of the ladies had not been swimming for a while and was telling...

7 Must Dos to Strengthen Your Immune System

7 Must Dos to Strengthen Your Immune System

I got to reminisce about 'the good old days' during the week with one one of my clients.  I broke out a 'Con the Fruiterer' voice as we started to talk.  From here the conversation took a turn. I got to talking about the local shops from where I grew up.  There was a...

Kids’ Stress Level Shock – Kids as Young as 5 Self Harm

Kids’ Stress Level Shock – Kids as Young as 5 Self Harm

It is amazing. I was in Melbourne over the weekend to attend a seminar that focused on stress.  What should I see in the main Victorian paper but an article on kid's and stress.  Could this all be set up by the lifestyle that we are now mostly living? With the birth...

Caesarian Cicada

Caesarian Cicada

I can distinctly remember the day as a kid that I both helped to give birth to, and subsequently killed a cicada. I was devastated.  I just thought that I was helping. On this day, a cicada shell collection day, I had come across a cicada nymph emerging out of its...

Our Western Diet is Slowly Killing Us.

Our Western Diet is Slowly Killing Us.

That’s a pretty big statement, however it is our transgression away from what we are genetically designed to eat as humans that is getting us into trouble.  Our diet, among other things, is an ‘inflammatory’ diet which in turn can provide the spark to initiate many of...

Poor Posture and a ‘Hungry Bum’

Poor Posture and a ‘Hungry Bum’

I love summer Maybe not the intense heat of an Australian summer, but the refreshing southerly changes, the sound of the cicadas chirping, the smell of the afternoon thunderstorms onto the hot pavement, the fun around the pool, and of course the beach. The fun of...

The Most Common Question I Get Asked on a Daily Basis

The Most Common Question I Get Asked on a Daily Basis

What do you think it is? It is “What can I do at home?” The answer to this question is quite simple. It is not about adding anything extra for you to do. Quite frankly it is quite the opposite. It is about taking things away, changing the habits that bring people...

The Doctor Said What…

The Doctor Said What…

I sat in the doctor’s office in disbelief. He had just said “you are going to have to take these for the rest of your life.” I thought that there had to be a better way, a different way. “The rest of your life” rang through my ears like an echo in a canyon, repeating...

Why I Don’t Do Diets

Why I Don’t Do Diets

diet |ˈdʌɪət| noun 1 the kinds of food that a person, animal, or community habitually eats: a vegetarian diet. 2 a special course of food to which a person restricts themselves, either to lose weight or for medical reasons: I'm going on a diet. • [ as modifier ] (of...