Posts tagged Health & Wellbeing
Gut Health & Microbiome: Ayurveda & Modern Science with Prof Keith Wallace
Gut Health & Microbiome: Ayurveda & Modern Science with Prof Keith Wallace

This is a transcription from Mark's Ancient Wisdom from Modern Health Podcast. Original PODCAST Available Here (Scroll to Episode #46) Mark Bunn: (MB) Welcome to an absolutely fascinating chat about gut health with one of the world's leading researchers and scientists on this whole area; Dr. Keith Wallace. If you're like me, 30 years ago you probably never spoke the term “gut health”. Today, gut health is spoken about everywhere. Keith is one of the world's premier researchers and scientists in the area of physiology and consciousness. He was the first scientist to show a fourth state of human consciousness in his doctoral dissertation at UCLA.

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Section 3Mark BunnGut Health, Immunity, Weight Loss, Health & Wellbeing, Ayurveda
Ayurvedic Tongue Scraping – is brushing teeth not enough?
Ayurvedic Tongue Scraping – is brushing teeth not enough?

*This is a REPOST of the blog from August 13, 2012 Did you scrape your tongue this morning? Good news. Another ancient health practice has recently been accepted and promoted by modern experts. Have you been to buy a toothbrush lately, and noticed many companies marketing a tongue cleaner on the back of their brushes? Promoted as a way to rid yourself of bacteria that accumulates on the surface of your tongue, they actually have a lot of merit.

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Section 3Mark BunnHealth & Wellbeing, Dental, Bad Breath, Tongue Scraping, Ayurveda
Oil Pulling – The Ayurvedic Way to Supreme Oral Health & More
Oil Pulling – The Ayurvedic Way to Supreme Oral Health & More

You might have heard me talk a lot over the years about the Ayurvedic concept of oral hygiene. I've discussed the problems associated with using commercial mouthwashes , and how in Ayurvedic medicine it is being prescribed for thousands of years to combine this with daily tongue scraping for keeping the mouth truly clean and the teeth and gums strong and healthy.

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Section 3Mark BunnHealth & Wellbeing, Oil Pulling, Ayurveda
Protect your Brain - Wi-Fi & Mobile Phone Radiation Dangers
Protect your Brain - Wi-Fi & Mobile Phone Radiation Dangers

While it’s been a controversial topic for some years, a recent segment – Wi-Fried on ABC’s Catalyst program - graphically illustrated how our high use of mobile phones, Wi-Fi and other technological devices is probably not as safe as you may think. More and more evidence is now suggesting links to brain cancer and other negative health effects. Of course, we are not going to stop using our phones and Wi-Fi in the short term so here are some tips to minimise your risk and protect your precious brain.

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Section 3Mark BunnWiFi, Health & Wellbeing, EMF, Radiation
Earthing – a Great Health Discovery of our Time
Earthing – a Great Health Discovery of our Time

Hi everyone – I don’t say this often but this is one of the most important and exciting blogs I’ve written for a long time. Imagine if there was a completely ‘natural’ (and generally ‘free’) way to get one of the world’s most powerful anti-inflammatory and anti-aging medicines, which evidence is starting to suggest may help everything from heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, arthritis and joint pain, insomnia, auto-immune diseases, to athletic performance. Now imagine it was ‘right under your feet’! Guess what? It literally is, and now you get it under your feet while indoors!

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Section 3Mark BunnEarthing, Arthritis, Heart Disease, Inflammation, Insomnia, Health & Wellbeing
Margarine, Butter & Vegetable Oils – What’s Really Healthy?
Margarine, Butter & Vegetable Oils – What’s Really Healthy?

Today, food companies, many doctors and even some dieticians commonly recommend us to eat supposedly healthy margarine instead of evil butter. But should we listen to them? As always, the first question to ask is, ‘Are margarines or margarine spreads naturally occurring foods?’ The answer is absolutely not. While starting out as a natural product, margarines are artificially manipulated and highly processed. Synthetic or isolated natural ingredients are added by food technologists for the purpose of trying to control specific aspects of health such as cholesterol. However, trying to control individual aspects of health in isolation is a recipe for disaster as our bodies work holistically. All parts are interrelated.

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Section 3Mark BunnVegetable Oil, Cholesterol, Margarine, Butter, Cooking, Health & Wellbeing
Sugar – Is it Killing You?
Sugar – Is it Killing You?

Sugar. . . raw sugar, brown sugar, white sugar, natural sugar, sugar substitutes, fructose, sucrose, glucose, artificial sweeteners, Stevia, agave nectar, coconut sugar, palm sugar!!! Yikes! Everywhere you turn these days, there is some article, debate or new type of sugar. Why? Because we are starting to realise just how dangerous regular sugar is, and more importantly, how we are consuming far too much (often unknowingly) and putting our health. . . and in some cases our lives in danger.

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Section 3Mark BunnHealth & Wellbeing, Diet & Nutrition, Sugar
Nanotechnology Foods – Beware
Nanotechnology Foods – Beware

Have you heard of nanotechnology yet? If not, you will soon…and BEWARE! Nanotechnology is a technology that will allow scientists in laboratories (always the first clue that something is not as Mother Nature intended) to deliver things like drugs, nutrients or chemicals in highly targeted ways. I.e. directly into your cells…at the molecular level!

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Section 3Mark BunnNatural Food, Health & Wellbeing
Skin Health – the Ayurvedic way!
Skin Health – the Ayurvedic way!

Are you contributing some of your hard earned dollars to the billion-dollar cosmetics industry trying to keep your skin healthy and younger looking but are overlooking one or more of the real keys to healthy, youthful skin? Now I am all for using (chemically free) external skin products where needed, but realise there are at least 5 far more important things (that will hardly cost you a cent) you should be focusing on before you worry about cosmetics.

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Section 3Mark BunnHealth & Wellbeing, Skin, Happiness, Diet & Nutrition
Healthy (Busy) Mums – Ayurvedic Tips
Healthy (Busy) Mums – Ayurvedic Tips

Not long ago I read that the average mother these days gets about 20 minutes to herself a day. (Seeing my sister with her 3 girls, I can hear her shouting, like I’m guessing you might be, “20 minutes, oh I wish!”) As a mum these days (you not me!), it is an unbelievably difficult challenge to do what you desire for your kids, your family, your work, before you even get a moment to think about yourself. Equally, as they say, “Our greatest wealth is our health”. While nearly every mum will say that healthy kids is their number one priority, it’s also logical, though not necessarily easy, that looking after your own health is the absolute first step in looking after your family’s health.

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Section 3Mark BunnDiet & Nutrition, Health & Wellbeing, Happiness, Ayurveda
Salt – is low salt really healthy?
Salt – is low salt really healthy?

An interesting article just came out in the Good Weekend magazine of the Age newspaper written by Mark Whittaker. Basically it outlines how there some new research and scientific studies showing that having low salt intakes are far worse than high intakes, even when it comes to things like heart disease, stroke and diabetes (things we’re commonly told to reduce salt intake to try and minimise the risks of).

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Section 2Mark BunnSalt, Dieting, Health & Wellbeing, Natural Salt
Supplements – do you really need them?
Supplements – do you really need them?

Are you confused/overwhelmed with the multitude of advertisements for supplements these days??? Vitamins, minerals, amino acids, shark cartilage, glucosamine, ancient traditional native american hair of a pygmie crossed with goats intestinal flora super aphrodisiac for 25 day erections etc etc? I think you get the drift!!! What to do? Are they for real? Should you take them? Do you really need them?

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Section 2Mark BunnDiet & Nutrition, Health & Wellbeing, Glucosamine, Fish Oil, Supplements, Food Quality
Play – The Key to Staying Young at Heart!
Play – The Key to Staying Young at Heart!

Remember when you were a little kid, and hours would go by without you even knowing? How did that happen? You were ‘PLAYING’. Whatever it was for you – cars, trucks, Barbie, doctors & nurses, rubbing the inside of your mates undies with ‘tiger balm’ (ouch!) etc etc, you certainly weren’t worrying about work, money or anything else we worry about as adults.

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Section 2Mark BunnHealth & Wellbeing, Happiness, Staying Young, Positive Psychology
Solariums / Sun Beds – Dangerous Killers or Potential Life Savers?
Solariums / Sun Beds – Dangerous Killers or Potential Life Savers?

Solariums / Sun Beds: Rather than a danger could they actually ‘improve’ your health or even ‘save’ your life? How the UV & Vitamin D benefits of sun beds can outweigh the dangers & why they should ‘NOT’ be banned based on both common sense, ancient wisdom and the latest modern science, the ‘intelligent’ use of ‘properly designed’ solariums or sunbeds may NOT only be entirely safe, but could potentially avoid many thousands of cases of serious illness and even deaths throughout the world each year. This might even apply to you or someone close to you. It applies most particularly during the winter months, where vitamin D producing sunshine is rare, or where individuals cannot access sufficient natural UVB radiation.

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Section 2Mark BunnSunlight, Health & Wellbeing, Solariums, Tanning Beds, Cancer, Vitamin D, Osteoporosis