Mozzies!!!!

Help! Getting woken up through the night by very nasty mosquitoes in the new place. I've got this great stuff from the states- B.. Anti Bug Balm- but even that is not deterring them they are so desperate they are getting into any naked crevasse where the balm has not been put- like in between fingers and toes!!Ahhh!. Is it true that mozzies love people who are low in Vit B? a girl in a health shop told me that a while ago. What do you think? Catherine

That's absolute crap. I piss the stuff and they adore me. In fact recent science has shown that the little bitches are attracted to people who have a high level of B12 and Folate in their blood. Can you believe this? the bitches want to make sure their offspring don't get neural tube defect. Unbelievable. You knew only female mozzies bite, didn't you? (the boys are just born, mate and die, what a short sweet life).

So how do you protect yourself? well, apart from having screens on every window, you know those things you plug in electric sockets, and you put a little mat of insecticide in? They work really well. "But! i hear you say, shouldn't we avoid chemicals?" Yes, as much as possible, but we are going to use some anyway and remember mosquitoes carry lots of diseases (such as Ross River, Dengue Fever, Barmah Forest, Australian Encephalitis, to name a few) and if you react badly to their bites this aggravates your immune system, which then causes a drop in your immune response to other things. And there is all the aggravation of not getting a good night sleep. Also you will be absorbing a lot of the 'balm' through your skin anyway. The mosquito 'zappers' are actually species specific and they don't touch other insects such as fleas for instance. So i doubt they would have much of a deleterious effect on humans. Kill them! (obviously this is not a blog favoured by strict Buddhists, but when i dispatch a loathsome insect, I always say: "Off you go, to a better reincarnation!"

Caffeine

CAN YOU TELL ME THE TRUTH: DOES COFFEE NEGATE THE BENEFICIAL EFECT OF SUPPLEMENTS IF TAKEN WITHIN A CERTAIN TIME FRAME? DOES IT MATTER WHEN WE TAKE THEM? AN AQUAINTANCE OF MINE WHO HAS A BUSINESS OF SUPPLYING MOBILE TOILETS TO RODEOS AND COUNTRY FAIRS SAYS HE IS AMAZED AT THE AMOUNT OF TABLETS HE HAS FLUSHED OUT OF THOSE TOILETS “IN ALMOST MINT CONDITION”. ARE WE WASTING OUR MONEY ON FALSE HOPES?

KAYE , MARYBOROUGH, QLD.

Dear Kaye, there are three rules for the successful intake of supplements:

Absorption, absorption, ABSORPTION!

Yes, coffee (and to a lesser extend tea,) stops the absorption of: iron, calcium, most B vitamins, especially B12, and Folic acid. Of course this happens not only with tablets but also with the nutrients in regular food. So if you must have coffee, have it between meals.

In general, supplements should be taken AFTER a meal, this way they get plenty of time to be broken down with the food and absorbed properly. Otherwise they go straight where your friend found them!

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Im back!

Hello Everyone!

People have emailed me and wondered why i suddenly stopped posting on my blog. Well, it's pretty sad really, but my beautiful little colt, Alois, who was only 10 months old had a dreadful accident and had to be euthanised. After that i really didn't feel like going on the net and being all funny and witty. Lots of beer and gin was more what i felt like really. Good thing i am such a goodie two shoes naturopath, or i would have succumbed.

Actually, i did. Just a bit.

Unfortunately for me i know how to cope with grief, my younger daughter died ten years ago, so losing a little horse is not comparable but it did hit exactly on that same scar.

I have had a couple of patients with grief since then so here is an article I wrote on grief, unfortunately some one you know might need it, you'll find it here:

And now I just know that you want me to say something funny and witty. Don't you? Well, i'll just say something positive, howzat? Wasn't 2009 a hell of a year? (did i say positive? wait, it's coming) it was! and it's still happening of course and why? Because the Chinese New Year hasn't happened yet. But it's close! the 14th of Feb, Year of the Tiger So here's a good thing to do: tidy up. Tidy up anything and everything, even if it's only your desktop or your knickers draws. Get rid of useless stuff give it to St Vinnies, somebody will like it. Pretend that The Tiger is going to be a house guest (as long as it isn't a golfing tiger, you'll be safe ;o) and you getting the place ready. An honoured guest will behave honourable and generously (old Elyane proverb)

There you are, off you go and i promise i'll post regularly from now on.