Health Conditions

After giving birth, the 'baby blues' is a short period of feeling down, emotional, and crying, typically lasting around two weeks. This is completely normal. Postpartum depression, on the other hand, is defined as depression lasting more than a few...

Gout is a type of arthritis marked by extreme joint pain, redness, and tenderness. Gout is caused when too much uric acid crystallises and accumulates in the joints, it causes extreme pain, redness, and swelling in joints, most commonly the...

Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common form of arthritis. It is a degenerative disease affecting the whole joint, and any joint can be affected but OA most commonly affects the knees, hips, hands, neck and low back. Diet changes, vitamins,...

Rheumatoid arthritis is an auto-immune disease in which the body's immune system attacks it's own tissue, particularly the joints such as ligament, tendons, muscle, are attacked and become stiff and inflamed. Resulting symptoms include painful and inflamed joints, especially the...

I have wanted to write on asthma for some time now and share my views on this all too common diagnosis. Unfortunately there are still quite a few people out there with the belief that people with asthma are “breathing...

Asthma Treatment Plan Asthma and the Buteyko method go hand in hand. Welcome back to part 2 in the asthma series. In Asthma part 1  we looked at some of the likely causes which present conventional treatment. Let’s look at some...