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Food preparation: Can it help you avoid food toxins?
Healthy eating and food toxins have become a major concern. Dr Matt le Roux explores the benefits of food preparation in avoiding food toxins.
What are the benefits of being outdoors? A scientific answer
What are the benefits of being outdoors? Dr. Matt le Roux, specialised in sports chiropractic and functional medicine, takes a look at the scientific answer.
Training recovery: How to optimise your training
Training recovery is vital to a healthy balanced lifestyle. Dr. Matt le Roux takes a deeper look into why it is important and how you can improve on your training recovery plan.
Try these breathing techniques to reduce stress
In our everyday lives, we’re barely conscious of our breathing. However, there’s a powerful connection between your mental state and your respiratory system. One of the physiological reactions to stress (and strong emotions) is rapid breathing, shortness of breath,...
Ditching dairy? A Guide to the Alternatives
Plant-based milks are having a real pop-culture moment. The available options have rapidly expanded and adding your choice of soy, almond, oat or macadamia milk to your coffee order is increasingly becoming the norm. So what’s all the fuss about these dairy...
DNA isn’t everything – how Functional Medicine puts you in control
Our unique genetic makeup is often thought of as a pre-determined ‘blueprint’ for our health and our likelihood of developing certain chronic diseases. Functional Medicine takes a more nuanced view. Counter to the determinist outlook, the Functional Medicine approach...
Benefits of bodyweight training
When it comes to building strength and muscle, most people will immediately think of spending hours in the gym weights section. But ‘pumping iron’ and using expensive machines is not the only way. Simple and consistent bodyweight training actually holds the key to not...
Nine ways to improve your athletic performance in your forties (and beyond)
A common misperception about aging is that it’s all downhill after 35 – particularly when it comes to performative decline for competitive and noncompetitive athletes. While this may have been the case decades ago, increasing numbers of athletes are defying this...
Is your gut impacting your health?
The microbiota within the gut plays a critical, yet often underplayed, role in human health and disease. Known as the gut microbiome, we typically have anywhere between 300 to 500 different bacterial species living in our digestive systems1. How healthy our gut is,...
How to build your strength and endurance
Whether you’re planning to get active again after a period of inactivity, tackling your first fun run or your 20th marathon, building stamina and endurance is essential. While stamina refers to how long you can perform at your peak, endurance is how long you can...
Pesticides: What you need to know about what’s on your food
Pesticides are the chemicals used to kill or harm various organisms or pests – so they’re inherently toxic. But they’re part and parcel of modern food production systems as they stop organisms and bacteria from infecting, destroying or contaminating food and...
Foods to fight cognitive decline
Few things scare us about getting old as much as the prospect of losing cognitive function. Much research has gone into understanding ways to prevent and lower the risk of cognitive decline, and specifically Alzheimer’s disease. Research has shown that maintaining a...
