Bribie Health Science

14/12/2025

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11/12/2025

When are you “healthy enough”?

If you follow a lot of health accounts, you could feel like health is a never-ending self-improvement project. It doesn’t have to be like that.

Maybe it’s time to take stock and say: "I’m healthy enough to live my life."

If that's true, then you don't have to keep striving or thinking about health all the time. Instead, you can join a singing group, ride a horse, go on a walking holiday, volunteer, study something new, or do whatever gives life meaning.

✨ Health is for living. Not the other way around.

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28/11/2025

Magnesium is often the go-to mineral for sleep support, stress relief, and easing muscle tension, and for good reason. It plays a vital role in calming the nervous system and supporting muscle relaxation and is the “regulator” mineral that keeps the other electrolytes in check. Too little or too much can throw off that balance.

With modern lifestyles placing greater demands on our bodies, from chronic stress to processed foods and environmental factors, magnesium stores can become easily depleted, making adequate intake even more important.

But here’s the catch, taking magnesium in isolation, or in excessive doses can create imbalances with other electrolytes such as calcium, potassium and sodium over the long term.

Although magnesium deficiencies are common, self-prescribing isn’t always the best approach, particularly at high doses.

Working with a naturopath or nutritionist will help ensure your supplement plan is tailored to your needs, considers interactions with other nutrients, and avoids unintended imbalances.

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27/11/2025

Is estrogen inflammatory or anti-inflammatory? It depends. 

Estradiol (our main ovarian estrogen) can calm inflammation in the brain, blood vessels, and bone. And it reduces central pain sensitisation, which is likely the main way estrogen therapy can relieve joint pain.

At the same time, estradiol typically has an immune-activating effect, resulting in more histamine, prostaglandins, and autoantibodies. That's why high estrogen or estrogen medication can potentially worsen autoimmune conditions like rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and endometriosis.

And not all estrogens are the same. More inflammatory estrogens include:
• 4-hydroxyestradiol (an estrogen metabolite)
• estrone (E1) from visceral fat (common in PCOS & menopause)  
• ethinylestradiol (the synthetic estrogen in most birth control) 

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