Luminary Wellness

21/08/2025

🧠 Scientists have discovered a remarkable way to double the brain’s waste clearance system—not with drugs or surgery, but simply by massaging the skin.

A team from the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) has shown in mice that gently stimulating the lymphatic vessels under the skin of the face and neck can dramatically boost cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) flow. This process helps flush out toxins and waste products from the brain, including harmful proteins linked to Alzheimer’s disease. Using a specially designed mechanical stimulator, researchers restored CSF drainage to youthful levels in aged mice, suggesting a safe, non-invasive strategy to improve brain health.

Even more exciting, the study mapped previously unknown drainage routes from the brain to superficial lymph nodes through facial lymphatics—pathways that remain active even in older animals. This discovery completes the anatomical picture of CSF outflow and hints at future wearable or clinical devices designed to enhance brain cleansing.

While more research is needed before human applications, this gentle mechanical approach may open the door to new therapies aimed at preventing or slowing neurodegenerative conditions like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

📖 Source: Nature, “Increased CSF drainage by non-invasive manipulation of cervical lymphatics” (June 4, 2025).

24/07/2025

https://youtu.be/1iiCkCokunI?si=IcqCUZm5ne7leSbv

Have you ever attempted to walk a different way? Melissa Hogenboom explores the numerous benefits of walking backwards on your mind and body. Subscribe to BB...

22/07/2025

Medicines have their place. We also need to look at various root causes and work with them.

The next frontier in medicine isn’t another drug.

It’s a radical shift in how we view the body, the brain, and disease itself.

Depression is often rooted in systemic inflammation, gut dysbiosis, mitochondrial dysfunction, insulin resistance, trauma, or disrupted circadian rhythms. ADHD may be tied to neuroinflammation, poor blood sugar control, or nutritional gaps like low magnesium, zinc, or omega-3s. And heart disease? It’s largely a food-borne illness, driven by a diet of ultra-processed, inflammatory, nutrient-poor calories.

There is no single root cause. But there are root causes.
And they are almost always connected by lifestyle, environment, and systems-level dysfunction.

Medications have their place… But they were never designed to reverse chronic disease. They manage symptoms, often while the underlying dysfunction worsens.

If we want to reverse the chronic disease epidemic, mental and physical, we need to stop asking what drug treats this and start asking why the body lost balance in the first place.

The answer isn’t in the pharmacy… It’s in how we eat, move, sleep, connect, and live.
It’s in our soil, our food system, our communities, our kitchens.

The next revolution in medicine will come not from the lab but from returning to the root.

15/07/2025

https://www.seek.co.nz/career-advice/article/caution-warning-signs-of-a-bad-boss

Bad boss or a bad fit? Here are five questions you need to ask to work out if your potential boss is a good for you.

20/06/2025

03/06/2025

The Mediterranean Diet is a healthy eating pattern... but so is any diet that is replete with the essential nutrients, and that includes other traditional diets.
The fixation on the Med. Diet as the 'best' diet is not just confusing for people, it marginalises other people by implying their traditional diets are inferior.

24/05/2025

Stand up for your needs. 😊

Interesting

22/03/2025

Here's the thing - almost all our the problems in our health system are caused by chronic disease. That's 90% of the problem. The solution to our health problems is finding out and sorting the cause.

The NZ govt health priorities are to
- Do more elective surgery,
- Have shorter ED wait times
- See a GP within a week.

This is comparable to King Canute ordering the tide to retreat.

Our best public health medicine professionals can see solutions and some of these are obviously food related. This would not only save the country billions but avoid all the other problems which go with having a chronic disease, such as having less fun in your life, earning less, and being sick more.

The Government should be free to hear independent medical advice, especially around chronic disease, and the clear and present knowledge about what can help us do better.

In fact, I have written such a statement myself since this is my field.
And because we are still a functioning social democracy you can read it here.

Please sign the petition statement and sign it!!

Thanks Grant.

Join the conversation.

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10/02/2025

Good news! Due to requests I have added some multi session packages to help you save money while improving your relaxation and health.
Go to the Luminary Wellness booking page and scroll towards the bottom to see the options. 😊

Have a great week!

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