Common Ground

Naturopath and founder of MTHFR Support Australia Carolyn Ledowsky shares her insights on mould illness & mycotoxins including when to suspect mould illness, how to test and treat it, with a focus on gut support and detoxification.

Tune in here for clinical insights.

What is the role of a mid wife? why are antibiotics often presribed during labour? what is a Calm birth educator? Tune in here for an engaging conversation with mid wive Kerri-Ann Baxter who works at Wodonga hospital and is a Calm birth educator.

Clinical nutritionist and Functional medicine practitioner Filipa Bellette shares her journey with burn out, what worked for her, how she has integrated this into her clinical practice to assist others and juggling motherhood. Tune in here for an engaging conversation.

In this episode, Wendy McLean, Naturopath and Senior Writer & Presenter at vital.ly discusses the latest research on long COVID in children and adolescents and explores its prevalence, clinical manifestation, potential causes and management.

Autoimmune diseases affect 1 in 20 people and arise from a combination of genetic predisposition and environmental triggers. In this episode, naturopath and founder of MTHFR Support Australia Carolyn Ledowsky shares some research and her experience on MTHFR gene variations and autoimmune disease including key nutrients and diet and lifestyle interventions that are supportive for autoimmune patients with MTHFR.

PRACI….The world's largest practice based research network for complementary medicine has re-launched.

Want to hear about the benefits of PRACI and how you may get involved?

Dr Amie Steel shares some inspiring insights into how PRACI is benefiting our profession and how it enables more trained practitioners who are research skilled to produce research into the future.

If you're trying to provide a patient centred experience that actually supports preventative health, and it educates patients to take better care of themselves, PRACI has evidence that naturopaths are doing it better than anybody else.

Tune in here for more…..

A severe decline in child births has occurred over the past half century, particularly in industrialised countries, and has been partially linked to increasing exposures to manmade chemicals and other toxins.

In this episode naturopath Tabitha McIntosh will discuss the impact of the environment on reproductive development, health and fertility across the lifespan.

Tabitha will journey us through the changing landscape of fertility and plummeting sperm counts, highlighting the most vulnerable windows for exposures and how we can protect our clients from environmental insult at each stage.

Importantly, she shines the light on the various tools we have in our Natural Medicine toolkit to restore and enhance fertility outcomes for both men and women.

Why is diabetes type one considered an autoimmune disease?What role does diet play in regulating blood sugar control? what herbs, nutrients and lifestyle interventions can also support?

Tune in here to hear Melanie’s clinical insights and much more…

Inspiring conversation with Dr Amie Steel about the newly released Health Technology Assessment for Naturopathy. Covering why this assessment is so important for the naturopathic and greater general public communities. If you've wanted to see the research on naturopathy, what naturopathy involves, how naturopaths approach treatment, their thinking, their holistic training, this is a must interview to listen to. As Dr Amie Steel shares, “ this is the work that's produced by naturopaths and not only does it show the evidence of what we do, it shows how we approach thinking about treating these conditions.”

Thyroid disorders are some of the most common health conditions reported worldwide, and the prevalence of these disorders is increasing. In Australia, an estimated 850,000 people live with a thyroid issue, and often these issues are caused by immune dysfunction and autoimmunity.

In this episode, naturopath Emma Drady shares her clinical insights on autoimmune thyroid disorders, including their clinical presentation, how to test for them and therapeutic interventions for supporting thyroid health.