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The End of Dehydration | Podcast

There was a time when thirty years of advanced research on hydration stated that we must drink half our body weight in liquid ounces of water everyday to stay hydrated. But according to physicist Dan Nelson, dehydration affects all of us equally - whether we drink two glasses or two gallons per day. Picking up where Dr. Fereydoon Batmanghelidj (the author of Your Body's Many Cries For Water) left off, Dan Nelson identified chronic dehydration as a central factor in aging and disease and set ...

Becoming a Busy CAM Practitioner

An unmissable podcast exploring the challenges of setting up a successful CAM practice post covid, when most people now accept the need to be communicating and offering online services. In this unmissable podcast for anyone looking to set up or expand their CAM practice, Andrew discusses with Mary Greensmith, founder of Homeopathy 247 and Natural Health Courses Online, the challenges that CAM Graduates face as they start to take their clinical practice online. Mary explains that within her...

The Connection Between Stress & Dehydration and our preparations for the Spring Equinox

Andrew and Barbara Wren explore the physiological effects of stress in connection with Cellular hydration. In this insightful podcast, we look at ways that we can self-empower ourselves with techniques and an understanding of how to best handle the anxiety we all seem to be facing more and more these days. Looking at protecting our levels of hydration and appropriate electrolyte levels to enable us to deal with this pressure more efficiently. Reviewing the role of juicing, smoothies, and b...

Understanding the Regulatory Processes With the ASA & Trading Standards for CAM Practitioners

Andrew Wren talks to Barry Tanner. In this interview, Andrew Wren explores the function, funding, and processes applied in cases that involve either the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) and Trading Standards Office (TSO) and review their differing legal powers to enforce any suggested infringement of regulations, whilst also reviewing the latest resurgence of cases now coming out of the Surrey and Buck’s TSO.  Barry Tanner is a regulatory consultant to the CAM sector with over 25 years...

An Interview with Barbara Wren

The first in the series of webinars by Conella. In this episode, Andrew interviews the renowned, Naturopath, teacher and author, Barbara Wren. In this episode, Andrew interviews the renowned, naturopath and teacher Barbara Wren, who is also the author of the bestselling books Cellular Awakening and our Return to the Light.    During this fascinating interview, Andrew and Barbara explore many of the key naturopathic principles, that have been forgotten in many of today’s nutritional teachin...

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Are blood tests as definitive as people assume?

Blood tests were originally envisaged as a way of helping to diagnose diseases. Since their inception, the number of ailments tested for has risen dramatically, along with the volume of ‘routine’ tests we’re exposed to. The latter are typically carried out when there is nothing actually wrong with the patient. While these may be slightly unpleasant, they’re viewed as a necessary evil because they’re only minimally invasive and can yield supposedly valuable information about our health. A p...

Systemic Enzymes Create a Superior Immune System

As individuals, we are all exposed to a variety of substances on a daily basis, from the foods we eat to the household and hygienic products we use to environmental agents. This constant exposure can cause the bloodstream to become overloaded with allergens, inflammatory agents (e.g., bacteria, fungi, antigens), undigested food, and even fibrin, which is a blood clot-forming protein. The buildup of these types of substances can put a strain on the immune system and subsequently lead to the i...

The Secret Behind a More Flexible Way of Life

Dehydration - and is effect on our vibrational cellular health

Checkout this video by Barbara Wren, where she explains how cellular dehydration is at the very core of understanding how to optimise our health and wellbeing https://youtu.be/-EWZ4y1VQBE

Dehydration - and is effect on our vibrational cellular health

Checkout this video by Barbara Wren, where she explains how cellular dehydration is at the very core of understanding how to optimise our health and wellbeing https://youtu.be/-EWZ4y1VQBE

Beauchamp VS Pasteur

These days the term naturopathic is bounded around by a wide range of health providers who want to associate their activities with an ability to work with natural rhythms that influence our bodies, for example the circadian rhythm, in a non-suppressive manner. Yet on closer inspection, we have to ask how many really live up to this esteemed label? An example of this quandary is the controversial question; does our diet affect our health and do we need to supplement this diet? The trouble w...

As society comes out of lockdown, we ask can we learn from the experience of past pandemics

COVID-19 has been having a huge impact on all our lives over the past few months: socially, emotionally, and financially. The current government restrictions have meant that normal life, and all its freedom, is unlikely to be fully reinstated for the foreseeable future, in a bid to slow down the infection rate.  But the origin of this ‘virus’ is still unclear and is a vaccine our only hope of seeing a return to normal life? There is an abundance of existing work, research and theories surro...

Getting to Know Your Author - An Interview with Barbara Cousins

This week Andrew Wren interviews Barbara Cousins, the author of the wonderful cook book entitled "Easy, Tasty, Healthy Food".

The importance of a healthy diet and optimal immune function during the lockdown

According to a panel of experts from the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN UK), the ongoing situation surrounding Coronavirus could soon lead to dietary deficiencies among the country’s population, with a potentially detrimental impact on our immune function and ability to fight disease. In the view of CRN UK, if existing circumstances prevail, we could soon begin to experience a severe lack of certain micronutrients in our diets, including vitamins A, B, C, and D, and minerals such as...

Understanding probiotics - so much more than a simple digestive aid.

What are they? Probiotics are live bacteria, or microorganisms, found in the digestive tract which have been shown to benefit human health and contribute to a healthy microbiome.  The microbiome refers to the balance of different types of bacteria in the gut and a healthy microbiome contains plenty of beneficial strains (or probiotics).  Numerous studies show that a healthy microbiome can positively influence many aspects of human health, including digestion, mental health, and immunity.  ...

The Power of Indole

This week - David Green reviews the role of a lesser noncompound INDOLE, a special compound present in many cruciferous foods, like broccoli, Kale, Cauliflower, Cabbage, and even our own gut bacteria and its protective role in protecting our livers against Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver (NAFLD)that is reported to affect a staggering 33% of all UK adults.

The Health Benefits of Castor Oil Packing

I for one place a lot of faith in castor oil packing as a beneficial naturopathic technique. Administered for its anti-inflammatory and circulatory properties, it has been used as a natural remedy in countries across the world for centuries.  Naturally occurring in India, castor oil has long been used in Ayurveda, a school of eastern medicine. Believed to be possessed of ‘hotness’, it was traditionally harnessed as a tool for resolving digestive issues and expelling toxins. However, its me...

An introduction to Omega Oils, their health benefits and consumer choices?

Since the publication of two papers in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, by husband and wife team, George and Mildred Burr in the early 1900s, highlighting the potential health benefits of Omega 3, our understanding of this fascinating subject has developed precipitously, attracting vast media interest, fuelling an insatiable global demand estimated to be worth a staggering fifty-seven billion by 2025.    Despite this huge global demand, there remains much controversy within the media and...

Liver Support - Phospholipids & Plantsterols Connection

The importance of the liver for overall health The liver is the second largest organ (after the skin) of the human body and probably has the most diverse metabolic activity. It is part of the digestive system and performs many vital functions.  Many of these processes happen on membranes, either the plasma membrane or internal membranes of organelles, which are thought to add up to 33,000 square meters of the surface area [Kidd, 1996].  This is one probable reason why supporting healthy mem...

Getting the most out of your Super-foods.

We all know we should eat more fruit and veg and increasingly look to fortify our diets with our chosen “Super Food” powders.  However, many of these powders vary greatly in their active ingredients, raising the question; “What should we be looking for in our chosen “Super Food” powder? First, let’s look at the ingredients found in most standard superfood blends: - Spirulina Spirulina is a type of nutrient-dense algae which contains potassium, calcium, chromium, copper, iron, magnesium, m...

Could a good daily intake of antioxidants unlock the secret to a youthful looking skin and greater longevity?

Antioxidants are an important group of substances that can be obtained from natural food sources or food supplements. They are substances that can slow down or prevent damage to our cells caused by free radical activity, connected to the visible signs of aging and many other associated dis-eases (inflammation). The better-known antioxidant nutrients are vitamin C, vitamin E, Coenzyme Q10, beta carotene, selenium, manganese and other plant extracts like the well-documented properties of grape...

Vitamin D, a key nutrient for mitochondrial function and bio-photon activity, earning it the reputation as the "sunshine" nutrient, we review why?

Discovery of vitamin D Vitamin D was one of 13 vitamins discovered in the early 1920s by a group of doctors researching diseases resulting from nutritional deficiencies, such as rickets.  Since then scientists have defined vitamins as being carbon-containing chemicals that must be obtained through diet because they are not produced by the body’s tissues.  These vitamins play a vital role in our body’s metabolism, but only very small amounts are needed for them to achieve their purpose. Wh...

The healing properties of palmitic acid monoethanolamide (PEA), a natural evolution in pain management.

David Green,  Reviews the UK's concerning addiction to opioid pain killers whilst sharing some exciting research that's set to change the face of natural pain management forever. An estimated 43.5% of all UK adults suffer from chronic pain. This goes up to almost two thirds in patients over age 75. Unfortunately, many popular pain-killing medications, like paracetamol, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) all carry potential health risks.  For example, NSAIDs can cause intestinal...

The healing properties of palmitic acid monoethanolamide (PEA), a natural evolution in pain management.

David Green,  Reviews the UK's concerning addiction to opioid pain killers whilst sharing some exciting research that's set to change the face of natural pain management forever. An estimated 43.5% of all UK adults suffer from chronic pain. This goes up to almost two thirds in patients over age 75. Unfortunately, many popular pain-killing medications, like paracetamol, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) all carry potential health risks.  For example, NSAIDs can cause intestinal...

Palmitic acid monoethanolamide (PEA), and its positive effects on our sleep patterns.

David Green, Reminds us of the importance of a good night's sleep whilst identifying the growing concerns over the 30% of adults reporting poor sleep.   Unfortunately, in our busy always moving 24-7 society, sleep has all too often become devalued and even considered a waste of time, or worse still a sign of laziness.  In fact, some professionals consider missed sleep as something to brag about, demonstrating to all just how hard they’re working.  The truth is, we ideally need seven to eigh...

An Introduction to Electromagnetic Nutrition - Episode one

An approach that goes beyond the simplistic observations of biochemistry, favouring instead the development of observational methods designed to evaluate our ability to hold and convert light into energy. Just like a solar panel our mitochondrial function holds the ability to create ATP (needed for respiratory energy), the more anaerobic a cell the less effective it would appear to be at creating this essential ATP.   However, less of us are aware that given the right conditions, sunlight c...