Why functional medicine is the answer to your health issues
We used to live in a time when women died in childbirth and children died of smallpox. We died of infectious diseases. That was, until...
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Welcome to my blog
Here you will find articles which tackle the key issues and latest research regarding stress - from living without enough real rest, to the role of environmental toxins, to the interconnection between the gut, brain, immune and nervous systems. I aim to educate and empower you, so that you can create the daily practices and lifelong habits which will tackle stress and ultimately allow you to thrive.
Kate Oliver
- Nov 9, 2022
- 5 min
Supplements - fact or fad?
There is no doubt that the supplement industry is a big business and like all consumer goods industries, there are people making plenty...
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Kate Oliver
- Aug 11, 2022
- 5 min
Is Balance the Secret to Good Health?
One of my Grandfather’s most famous phrases was “everything in moderation” and he lived by that mantra until he died, aged 87 of lung...
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Kate Oliver
- Mar 30, 2022
- 5 min
Boundaries: The distance at which I can love you AND me
Hands up who finds setting boundaries slightly excruciating? I know I did. The idea of saying no to people so that I could do something...
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Kate Oliver
- Jan 26, 2022
- 8 min
Are you and your diet a match?
The new year is a time when so many of us decide to go on highly restrictive diets. We do it as a kind of compensation for...
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Kate Oliver
- Nov 25, 2021
- 4 min
Give your body a bit of love this Christmas
Christmas is a time when we indulge in some of the most delicious foods - sumptuous roasts with lashings of gravy, steaming puddings with...
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Kate Oliver
- Oct 15, 2021
- 3 min
Keep your energy up as the clocks go back
When the clocks go back and the nights draw in, everything can feel a bit more difficult, right? Somehow, when it’s sunny and warm...
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Kate Oliver
- Aug 24, 2021
- 7 min
Does our mental health depend on our gut health?
We’ve all felt the feeling of “butterflies in our stomach” and known intuitively that when our mind reads an event as stressful, anxious...
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Kate Oliver
- Jul 15, 2021
- 7 min
Is chronic stress the invisible factor behind Long COVID?
When it comes to a COVID-19 prognosis, it has become abundantly clear that ‘underlying health conditions’ are the most important factors...
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Kate Oliver
- Apr 27, 2021
- 6 min
Are we coping with the toxicity of modern life?
The human body is amazing. It knows when something toxic has entered and it knows how to remove those toxins, to keep its organs working...
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Kate Oliver
- Mar 23, 2021
- 5 min
Transform your day with a morning routine
Until a couple of years ago, my mornings were not relaxing. In fact, I'd go as far as to say they were stressful. I would set my alarm...
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Kate Oliver
- Jan 20, 2021
- 6 min
The myth of the 'ideal' body weight
In this blog I discuss the idea of the 'ideal body weight' and it's link to so-called 'good health'.
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Kate Oliver
- Nov 23, 2020
- 6 min
Who has the secret to good sleep - the owl or the lark?
All my life, I have been told that when it comes to sleep, we are either an ‘owl’ or a ‘lark’. Or in other words, those of us that come...
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Kate Oliver
- Oct 29, 2020
- 5 min
Top tips for strengthening immunity
With COVID 19 on top of the usual delights that winter brings, avoiding getting sick is probably front of mind for most of us this...
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Kate Oliver
- Aug 21, 2020
- 4 min
The importance of real rest
It wasn’t so long ago that we thought of rest as something that is sacred. By rest, I mean real rest. Not the kind we pretend is rest today.
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Kate Oliver
- Jul 17, 2020
- 4 min
Take the stress out of cooking
We all know that eating home cooked food is better for us than eating packaged foods. But cooking from scratch everyday is hard right?
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Kate Oliver
- Jul 17, 2020
- 4 min
The healing power of nature
Can you remember a time when you were outside in nature and you felt at peace?
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Kate Oliver
- Jul 17, 2020
- 6 min
Stress: the silent threat to our health
Stress is one of the biggest risks to health that we face today, but in my opinion, we still hugely underestimate its impact.
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