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The Herbal Dispensary: How to survive the silly season

It’s that time of year when our diaries are starting to fill up with social events and end of year functions. This usually involves drinking more alcohol and eating richer foods placing more stress on the liver.

As well as detoxification, the liver is involved in maintaining blood sugar, cholesterol and hormone levels to name just a few of its functions. If your liver is stressed your energy levels won’t be as good.

So to make the most of this hectic but fun time of year, incorporate the following herbs and nutrients into your diet.

Milk Thistle

The ‘queen’ of liver herbs. Numerous studies have proven milk thistle’s liver restorative and protective effects confirming what the ancient Europeans knew when they started using this herb thousands of years ago.
Milk thistle can be taken as a tincture, tablet, or tea.

B Vitamins

This group of vitamins are essential for enzymatic reactions which occur in the liver that convert toxic chemicals to a water soluble form so the body can excrete them. They are also essential for converting glucose and fat into energy in the body. It’s best to take B vitamins in the morning with food.

Cruciferous vegetables

Broccoli, kale, cauliflower and cabbage contain compounds that are involved in detoxification. Use these raw or steamed to add a bit of variety and colour to your salads.

Sulphur containing foods

Sulphur is another important nutrient for liver detoxification. Plants that are high in sulphur are garlic, onions, leeks and chives as well as meat and eggs.

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Healthcare facility could be the way of the future

The enthusiastic folk behind building a community-owned healthcare facility in Raglan hope that their proposed model could be the way of the future for other rural communities in New Zealand.

The West Coast Health Charitable Trust this week presented their vision, Project Build It, to Health Select Committee chairman Simon O’Connor and MP Barbara Kuriger, who is also the select committee’s deputy chairperson. Barbara says the visit to Raglan was to gain a broader understanding of primary health care in the town and surrounding areas. Keep Reading

Surf Into Summer: The Originals

Raglan has a rich local history of surfing. From soulful characters to defining moments, we hope to highlight and uncover a big part of Raglan’s surfing history that some may not know about. Over the next few columns we’ll be introducing The Originals, a crew who have been surfing the points since the late 50’s. Keep Reading

Surf Into Summer: The Left-Hand Break

When The Endless Summer was released in 1966, it highlighted the seemingly endless left-hand break at Manu Bay and landed Raglan on surfing maps around the world.

Over the years Raglan has experienced visitors amass–some only come in during the swell while others who have come in for a few days are still around five (or twenty five) years later. Keep Reading

Wellbeing magician

Over the years I have moved across the globe, been faced with many challenges, separated by oceans from my family had a number of stressful things going on all of which have given me great insights and understanding of the ways these challenges can affect our health. We can all be affected, but there are things we can do to alleviate them. If we don’t they can impact on our long-term health. Keep Reading

Changes afoot at West Coast Health Clinic

Kia ora from West Coast Health!
You will have noticed lots of comings and goings over the last few months as we have been trying to expand our team to meet your health needs. We now have more doctors available: Dr Michael Becker will be work a few sessions each week on a long term basis and Dr Fiona Megahy has joined us all the way from Scotland, she will be with us for six months. Keep Reading

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