Today, I want to talk about Gut Health and some of the science behind it

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This week I welcome the super successful Rosie Fraser for a chat on business and Life:

Shelley: I became aware of you as, an estate agent. And everywhere I went

Rosie: 28, yeah.

Shelley: Ah, working for yourself, and

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Join me today for a deeper look at mindset. Find yourself some quiet space and time, you'll need it!

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This week, I'm joined by the amazing Kay McIntyre. Listen in to hear about her business, how it's grown, and even some hair tips!

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Kay: She wasn't soft at heart at all. My

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Do you realise how important Visualisation, Mindset, and taking action is? Listen to this week's episode to find out more!

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This week, I welcome to the show Leanne Carling. From

Shelley: Brilliant. That's amazing because

Leanne: Well, because of my experience,

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This week I sit down with Kate Knowler to discuss all things Blood Tests.  What you might want, what you can and can't get through your GP, and most importantly, how to interpret the results.

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Kate: So if you go to your doctor and you say, I feel tired or I'm fatigued, they'll probably tell you to get more sleep. Are you waking up in the night? But what we really need is some blood M testing. We need to look at your thyroid function. If your thyroid is underactive, that will affect your energy, it will affect your metabolism, your body temperature, your hair. So if you've got those kind of feeling dry skin, dry nails, dry hair, if you're very tired, if you're gaining weight, if you feel cold, I'd be suspecting thyroid if you're feeling tired but you're also a bit breathless on stairs, I can't catch my breath on stairs. It's really hard. Not a fitness question here. This is a question of gravity. When you're going upstairs and perhaps, you're a bit forgetful, maybe you get pins and needles in your hands or your feet, maybe you're feeling a bit light headed if you stand up too quickly, if those are the kind of symptoms you're experiencing, then B twelve, Folate and iron would be the markers to get checked. Iron is a difficult one with the NHS. Now, in Scotland it may be different, but I know in England the NHS will mainly only test serum ferritin, which is your iron stores, which is great, but it tells us a little bit of information. But you can get falsely raised iron stores if you've got inflammation or an infections. If you've had COVID, you'll see a ferritin is quite high. What we need to see is your iron level. And the NHS in England certainly won't test iron unless they think you've got an iron overload. If they think you've got too much iron, they might test iron, but otherwise they'll just test your iron stores. So it's not 100% reliable. B twelve, yet relatively easy to get. So if you've been taking any B twelve supplements there, you'll get a falsely raised B twelve and you need to be taking the right form of B Twelve in order to get that nutrient into your cells. If you're taking a cheap form of B twelve, that will just sit in your serum, in your blood and it will cause a, raised reading in your blood results and then folate. So folate comes from foliage. So if you're not eating your leafy greens, then you probably want to get your Folate levels checked. If your folate is low and you've got high cholesterol, it's not a good picture because that means your homocysteine will be raised. It's a very inflammatory picture. so we want to keep that Folate nice and high. And so the more foliage you can eat, the better is what I say to all my clients.

Shelley: Brilliant. So I'm just thinking this is probably quite a lot for a lot of people to take in. I've got potential tests, if you like, in front of me here. Do you mind if I just run through them? And then you could tell me if you think you need to ask for that. Or would that be covered in a basic blood test? The first one is Hba one C.

Kate: So that's a micro type two diabetes. If you're over a certain age, probably over about 30, doctors normally jump on out and do it anyway. If they ask you, do you have a balanced diet? And you say, not really, or if you're a smoker. If you drink alcohol, they'll probably test it for you. You should be able to ask for it as well. Hba one C. It's called glycated hemoglobin. I don't know if you want to know, but essentially it's all the red blood cells that have got glucose up to them. If you've got too much glucose or sugar in your blood, sticks it to the red blood cells and that's the test that they're doing there.

Shelley: Cool. Brilliant. And could be, a sign of prediabetes or even type two diabetes.

Kate: Exactly.

Find Kate at https://kateknowler.co.uk/ 

This week, we welcome Paula Fraser of PF Aesthetics to the show for a frank discussion around skincare and more.

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Paula: First of all, there's lots of dos and there's lots of don'ts, all right? So for me it's really important to, first of all, invest in a good quality skincare and be religious with it. And we'll come back to being religious with it, but that is the most important. It's fine to have everything in the bathroom or the shower, but if you're not religious with it, really, there's not really much point, if I'm being honest, to do a weebit here and a wee bit there, it's just not enough. So it's also really important. I would say my biggest piece of advice to every single patient is to protect the skin daily with an SPF. Now, whether we live in Dundee, whether it's not really as great, or if we're in Spain and the sun is out every day, those rays that are out there that are in our laptops, our light bulbs, our ah phones that we're using every single day as aging the skin and speeding that up times 100. And that is always, always my biggest piece of advice would be protect the skin with SPF. And lots of patients don't get that. They'll say, well, I'm not on holiday, I don't really need to do that. But the skin's agent every single day. So if we can protect it, then why not? Let's do that. Let's slow that down a little bit.

Shelley: Now, Paula, I was slow on the uptake of that. I've only just started using on the back of the advice you've been giving me for years is an SPF. And you say to me, sure, it doesn't have to be the most expensive, it doesn't have to be this, that, I just use one. Honestly, I do see a difference in the skin. You know that I had sunbed shops, I used to clean my sun beds with the lights on. Yeah, you got some M damage but you're right. Every screen that you use is obviously penetrating your skin, isn't it?

Paula: It's penetrating the skin. And I think things like, there's things we can do daily. We want to sleep well, we want to eat well. We want to keep the skin hydrated, and that's all stuff that we can do. And we're in control of, obviously, the light we're not. So we have to protect that. Um, but, yeah, eating well, sleeping well, keeping hydrated. Obviously there are things we shouldn't be doing. Excessive sunlight, sun beds that are killer, that are an absolute killer.

Shelley: What are sun beds doing to people's skin? Because when holiday, we go for a top up for a week or so before you go on holiday, so you don't burn when you go away. What is that doing?

Paula: Of course. So that artificial sunlight really just the same as the sun that's out there. It's speeding up the aging process. It's degrading the quality of the skin. It's dehydrating the skin. The skin, uh, aloe will have a color and will feel maybe a bit healthier at the time. That short acting. That doesn't last. So patients that are using sunbed or people that are using sunbed, they get caught up sometime in the cycle of it's short acting, and I'm going to use it again, and I'm going to use it again until they get to a point where they say, I'm feeling the skin as now. So the skin felt great for a long time because they've felt youthful and it's had a bit of color until they hit that vital point that they think, I need to do something. I'm feeling the skin aging now, and I definitely feel those patients are getting younger and younger. Coming into the clinic with those concerns.

Reach out to Paula on Instagram @pfaesthetics or on the website HERE