The Healthy Shift Worker

Shift workers are notorious for experiencing gut discomfort thanks to our disruptive lifestyle, which can certainly impact on our overall health and well-being.  One of which includes increasing our susceptibility to developing Leaky Gut Syndrome, otherwise known as intestinal permeability which can lead to an overgrowth of pathogens, nutritional deficiencies, allergies, autoimmune disease, irritable bowel Listen In

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Holy smokes!  Can you imagine working shift work for over 50 years?  That’s 50 years of disrupted sleep, getting out of bed in the dark, working weekends, public holidays and time away from family at Christmas?  Well my mind boggles at the thought, but Train Driver Jim Ward did exactly that.  In fact, Jim spent Listen In

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In this week’s episode Audra chat’s with Chiropractor, International Speaker and Business Coach Dr Laurence Tham, on all things to do with improving our shift working resilience – from a mindset perspective. Whilst it’s not a topic often discussed, Laurence shares some of his “mindset wisdom” on how we can improve our health and wellbeing Listen In

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Thanks to our crazy, sleep-deprived lifestyle the adrenal glands of shift workers, which are responsible for pumping out our stress hormones adrenalin and cortisol, are notorious for becoming burnt out. This is because we’re quite literally “biologically stressed” from having to work 24/7. But get ready for a super entertaining and informative podcast as Naturopath Listen In

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Every now and then I get blown away by some the achievements of my guests who I interview on this podcast.  None more so than this young lady, school girl Maddy Birt, who has launched a social media campaign called Hug the Helpers to help raise awareness for the plight of some of our emergency Listen In

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In this week’s episode, Audra goes solo for the very first time – without a guest, and shares a little about what she’s been up to, and why she’s so passionate about improving the health and well-being of shift workers around the globe. Having commenced shift work at the tender age of 22, and walking Listen In

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