Prescription For Health

🌟 A heartfelt thank you to everyone who joined us at our Gut Health and Hormones Cookshop! 🌟 It was wonderful to see so many enthusiastic participants eager to learn about nourishing their bodies and supporting their health. From the informative presentation to the delicious food and hands-on cooking demos, it was truly a fantastic few hours filled with learning and laughter. We're grateful for your enthusiasm and participation, and we can't wait to see you at our next event! 🍽️💚

Meet Dr Lydia, a Lifestyle Medicine doctor and coach, who, based on her personal experience with endometriosis, will lead the conversation around how the right foods can give you the nutrients you need to profoundly impact your health. Discover the critical role of the gut microbiome in hormonal balance and how to translate that knowledge into practical kitchen skills. Join us to learn about specific ingredients and try new foods, combinations and flavours!

Food is Medicine: Gut Health and Hormones Cookshop Saturday the 27th April. Tickets https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/food-is-medicine-gut-health-and-hormones-cookshop-tickets-867129877807

Pic 1 - Dr Lydia, Pic 2 - & Pic 3 - a wonderful group of ladies at a previous workshop 🌱

Meet Anna from a plant-based chef with a passion for nutrition. Anna will be sharing her expertise with you through live cooking demonstrations at our Food is Medicine Cookshop on Saturday April 27th.

Together we’ll uncover the key foods that support gut health and promote hormonal balance and learn how to effortlessly incorporate them into everyday meals. We are so excited to gift you these recipes to recreate the magic in your own kitchen.

‘Food is Medicine - Gut Health & Hormones’ is a 2 hour workshop. Tickets are available for only $40 via the link in our bio 🌱🔗🌱

Are you or someone you care about affected by cancer?
The Cancer Council WA Life Now Program invites you to take part in their free, supportive cancer care course. Mindfulness practices encourage individuals to experience the present moment in a non-judgemental way, to counter the effects of stressors relating to the cancer diagnosis. Research shows that stress management programs may reduce anxiety and improve mood, improve quality of life, alleviate sleep problems and provide some pain relief.
Join a 2 hour class held each week for 8 weeks at the Margaret River Community Centre starting 11th May. Registrations essential.
To apply, visit cancerwa.asn.au and view the Event Calendar or call 13 11 20.

Join me on Thursday mornings from the 16th February, 10 to 11am at the Margaret River Community Centre for small group health coaching sessions over a cup of tea.
Whether your goal is more energy, better sleep, reaching a healthy weight or fewer aches and pains, I can help you cut through the confusion and support you to take those first steps towards achieving your health goals.
Learn by doing within a friendly community of like-minded people who want to recover their health just like you do.
What to expect:
We’ll be discussing all areas of a healthy lifestyle at our weekly meetings, including:
• The key principles of healthy nutrition – how to easily transition to a predominantly whole food, plant-based diet that will help you lose weight without having to count calories or worry about portion control.
• How to treat and even reverse specific chronic diseases like diabetes or heart disease, lower high blood pressure and cholesterol levels
• How to create tasty, simple, inexpensive healthy food
• Strategies for eating out
• The psychology of addictive behaviours including food addiction and cravings
• The importance of our gut microbiome
• How to read food labels plus an optional supermarket tour
• How to bring more movement into your day
• Strategies for sleeping well
• Techniques to manage your stress levels, reduce anxiety and lift your mood

In addition you will also enjoy:
• Special guests who will share their expertise
• Group support
• Email support in-between sessions if required
Join us for as many sessions as you feel you need.
Starting Thursday 16th February 10 - 11am
Margaret River Community Centre, 33 Tunbridge Street
Cost $30 per session
Please email [email protected] or call 047 346 0507 to book your place.

It’s Day 4 of ! Today it's all about mental and brain health. Here is a great article on the benefits of a colourful diet for brain health with recipes. I'm excited to be talking more on this topic this Saturday at the Mindful Margaret River Hormone Harmony workshop and lunch - see you there!
https://www.womenshealthweek.com.au/the-week/thursday

Boost your brain health with a rainbow diet Research from Harvard University has uncovered that ‘eating the rainbow’ may be the latest secret weapon in fighting age-related brain changes such as confusion and memory loss. But wait, we’re not talking about unicorns and pots of gold… what does ‘eating the rainbow’ actually mean? Are...

It's Women's Health Week and today the focus is on perimenopause and menopause - a stage of our lives that can feel very confusing. It's so important to educate yourself as much as possible and find a health care provider that has a special interest in women's health and is up to date on current evidence-based management recommendations so that together you can make the most appropriate decisions for your circumstances.

Menopause treatments: What works, what doesn’t Struggling with menopausal symptoms but not quite sure how best to manage them? “There is a lot of misinformation about management strategies available for bothersome menopausal symptoms,” says Jean Hailes endocrinologist Dr Sonia Davison. Add to that “a lot of fear” about menopausal hormone...

I'm excited to announce I have recently joined a truly inspiring team of health practitioners at Arise Health, a new Integrative Health Centre in Margaret River. An absolute privilege to be working with such caring and dedicated individuals!
Please find out more here https://arisehealth.com.au

Do you have kidney disease? Learn from the experts at Kidney Health Australia. There is still time to register for 4 virtual wellbeing sessions looking at the four pillars of lifestyle - nutrition, movement, managing stress and sleeping well - and how important they are for kidney health! Visit the Kidney Health Week hub to register to attend live or receive a recording.

How confident are you about making changes to your lifestyle? Your belief in your ability to overcome your obstacles is the second most important ingredient for success. You may want to exercise more but if you don't believe you can, you won't! So how do you build your confidence? Start with small changes that while still a stretch are within reach. Remember that success breeds success! Small changes if successful will make you feel more motivated and confident and lead to bigger changes down the road 🙌🏼

A new year for most of us is a signal for a fresh start. The year stretches out in front of us ripe with opportunity and potential. So you make your resolutions - I'm going to exercise more, eat healthier, lose weight... but then before you know it, March is around the corner and your motivation has waned. What happened? Thank you Ben and Nicole Robinson from CrossFit Margaret River for the quote! Why do you want to exercise more or lose weight? To be healthy right? But why do you want to be healthy? Why is health important? What will you do with your health? Health for all of us means we get to do the things that really matter to us in our lives, that we truly value. When we connect with those then suddenly we have a reason for doing something differently. In my next post we'll look at the second most important ingredient for success!

Hello! I'm Dr Lydia Altini, founder of Prescription for Health, a health coaching program, supporting you to successfully create healthier habits and reclaim your vitality. Coaching sessions are now offered online. Over the next few weeks I'll be sharing right here evidence-based strategies that will support your physical and psychological health and well-being.

Some helpful cooking tips and recipes in this article on lentils - they truly are a superfood! High in fibre and protein they will help you control your blood sugar, lower cholesterol levels, lower blood pressure and prevent heart disease - such an essential food to include in your diet.

Got to love Lentils Lentils are a most versatile and inexpensive food, and so easy to prepare. Low in calories and fat, cholesterol free and a rich source of iron, protein, vitamins, minerals and soluble fibre, they are also one of the healthiest foods in the world. The lentil plant (Lens culinaris),

Did you know that eating more plants and less dairy and meat can help you
1. Fight erectile dysfunction (and heart disease)
2. Protect you from prostate cancer
3. Improve fertility and
4. Boost your mood and reduce depression and anxiety
Plant foods contain much needed antioxidants and fibre and no, soy won’t reduce testosterone levels! How many more servings of beans, vegetables, fruits and wholegrains can you start adding to your daily diet? You will be amazed at how much better you will feel.

Is there anything you can do to reduce your risk of getting breast cancer? Or is it just up to our genes?
Here are a few science backed strategies that we know for sure can help...
1. Food is foundational to health - eating whole, colourful, plant foods helps you control your weight and maintain healthy hormone levels. The added phytonutrients help fight cancer - think mushrooms and broccoli amongst many others.
2. Get active - exercise promotes healthy hormone and blood sugar levels and boosts cancer-fighting immune cells too.
3. Limit alcohol - the less you drink the lower your risk of breast cancer. And you will sleep better and cut empty calories.
4. Aim for a healthy weight. This is especially important after menopause because that's when most cancers occur. Fat makes oestrogen, fuelling the growth and spread of cancer in the majority of cases. Excess weight is also linked to higher insulin and leptin levels which can promote cancer. Following 1, 2, and 3 above will help weight loss to follow naturally.

Here's to you prioritising your health!

How to give yourself the best chance of a good night's sleep and when to see a doctor...

Sweet dreams – sleep and your health Are you one of those people that bound out of bed in the morning, bright-eyed and perfectly refreshed? Lucky you! While some of us are happy with how much sleep we get, many of us drag ourselves out of bed in the morning feeling like we needed a couple more hours of kip. One thing is clear though .....

It's Women's Health Week! Here is a great article from researchers at the Food and Mood Centre and Jean Hailes for Women's Health on today's topic of mental well-being. See the many other women's health resources on their website too.

Good-mood food: joining the dots between what we eat & mental… To answer these questions and more, we sat down with researchers from Deakin University’s aptly named Food & Mood Centre, Dr Hajara Aslam and Ms Samantha Dawson, and Jean Hailes naturopath Sandra Villella. Together they join the dots between diet and mental wellbeing and talk about the best foods....

Hot flashes can be debilitating! Listen to Dr Neal Barnard talk about how diet can be a powerful treatment.
https://www.pcrm.org/clinical-research/fighting-hot-flashes-with-diet?emci=e7ff39ae-38f5-eb11-b563-501ac57b8fa7&emdi=983ae498-7cf5-eb11-b563-501ac57b8fa7&ceid=8491406

Fighting Hot Flashes With Diet New Study Finds 84% Reduction In Hot Flashes With Plant-Based Diet Rich In Soy

Ever been so engrossed in something that you end up sitting for hours without moving? Sedentary behaviour increases your risk for disease despite leisure time exercise! Find a practice below to help make movement a regular habit.

Easy Ways to Make Mindful Movement Part of Your Day - Mindful Movement is a way to care for your body and mind, and it doesn’t need to be difficult or time consuming. Here are some tips to get started.

Finding a way to replenish your reserves regularly will help you manage the stressful times.

It's a bright, crisp winter's day - get out for a walk and enjoy the sunshine!

Restorative sleep is crucial for both our mental and physical health.

Connecting with others is the single most important predictor of happiness and longevity!

It's Lifestyle Medicine Week! Join us in completing a daily challenge..

Starting this Wednesday. A lifestyle program aimed at getting quality life back. Contact Lydia to secure your spot 0473 460 570

Can you afford to risk your health....?
Contact us today to book your spot in this lifestyle program. Contact Lydia 0473 460 570

MORNING TEA
INFORMATION SESSION Wednesday 7th April (TODAY)
11.30am - Church Gallery, Margaret River Community Centre
Prescription For Health
8-week program
Meet Lydia and Lorraine
Pls RSVP for catering purposes
0473 460 507

Is your cholesterol off the chart?
Did you know you can lower your cholesterol naturally without upping your medication?
How? With a Prescription For Health.
For 2-hours once per week for 8weeks, Dr Lydia and psychologist Lorraine will teach you how simple lifestyle changes can lower your cholesterol and help you live life to the full. It’s easy when you know how.
Ask your GP for a referral to Prescription For Health. Medicare rebates may apply.
Cost: $280 (8-week program)
Or call Dr Lydia on 0473 460 570 or email Lorraine at
[email protected]

Information Session this Wednesday 7th April at 11.30. Meet Dr Lydia and psychologist Lorraine. Pls RSVP for catering purposes.