Vitamin B12 is essential for your nervous system, energy production, red blood cells, DNA synthesis, reproductive health and pregnancy (just to name a few!). Low levels of B12 have been associated with every ageing disease including alzheimers, dementia, memory loss as well as infertility, mental illness and serious neurological disorders – but why are so many of us deficient in this key nutrient? 86% of vegetarians and vegans, and 40% of the general population are deficient in B12 and their health is suffering because of this but it is still wildly under diagnosed and very poorly tested. On this episode of Wellness Women Radio Dr Andrea and Dr Ashleigh walk you through the best ways to have B12 tested and why this is important for you and the best ways to overcome deficiencies!

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This is one for the fellas! In celebration of Men’s health month we are exploring a really important part of the male reproductive tract, the prostate gland! The prostate has so many important roles to play in maintaining overall health including protecting and nourishing sperm, filtering toxins, regulating hormone production and synthesis – just to name a few!

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Diets don’t work. Yo-yo dieting is terrible for our metabolism, headspace, moods, hormones and  our gut health! Let’s once and for all dispel the myths around fad diets and why they lead to inevitable weight regain!

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There’s a new, very exciting and very nerdy field of study emerging called microbial-endocrinology which is just a bit fancy name describing the connection between gut health, the microbiota and hormonal balance. This has The Wellness Women pretty excited and launching into full nerd mode! Dr Andrea will presenting all about this concept at the upcoming Gut Summit in Perth and Adelaide. Tune in to find out exactly how your gut health can impact your hormones and vice versa!

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PCOS is a complicated condition that is still very poorly understood and may affect up to 25% of women! On this episode of Wellness Women Radio Dr Andrea & Dr Ashleigh are going to walk you through the latest research on PCOS, what should be the standards for identification and diagnosis, the subtypes of this condition and the biggest factors that influence it. As always, The Wellness Women talk about their essential treatment options for PCOS!

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Vaginal rejuvenation and genital cosmetic surgery is a becoming increasingly popular! Is this something we should be worried about?

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On this special episode of Wellness Women Radio we’re interviewing the amazing Mel Gearing, The Naked Naturopath while she interviews us (we promise she’s fully clothed in this episode)! We met Mel at the latest Wellness Summit and LOVED her no nonsense approach to health and wellbeing.

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Did you know that there’s a silent epidemic sweeping through our communities but also our school aged kids? Type II diabetes used to be known as adult-onset diabetes but it had to be renamed because preschoolers were being diagnosed with it!

Diabetes is a scary diagnosis but there are many warning signs and pre diabetic states that can absolutely be addressed and REVERSED with diet and lifestyle alone. In this episode of Wellness Women Radio we’re asking everyone to step up and not become a statistic in this lifestyle disease.

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This is an episode that we’ve been waiting YEARS for, to interview Dr Bruce Lipton! He is an visionary, a pioneer, the father of ‘epigenetics’ and just straight up genius! Tune in to hear all about how your perception and environment influence your body more than your genetics and DNA and that you are not a slave to your parents gene pool!

Dr Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D., bestselling author of The Biology of Belief, is a cellular biologist and former Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin’s School of Medicine.  His pioneering research on cloned stem cells at Wisconsin presaged the revolutionary field of epigenetics, the new science of how environment and perception control genes. His later research at Stanford University’s School of Medicine revealed the nature of the biochemical pathways that bridge the mind-body duality. For more information visit www.brucelipton.com

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On this special episode of Wellness Women Radio we’re running you through our most recent travel expeditions to the US and Africa with all the wild adventures, highlights and lessons learned. Tune in to find out why Andrea got bitten by a jackal (don’t worry she doesn’t have rabies), what Ashleigh thought of the food in the US as well as some of the surprising neurological changes that happen when you travel.

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