by Sachiko Giorgilli, Nutritional Medicine As the end of year party and deadline season creeps up check in with your energy levels. Are you feeling unusually tired, tired from all the extra activity or have you been feeling tired for a while and the extra activities seem overwhelming? Below is a list of 6 potential [...]

7 Common Causes of Constipation and 7 Solutions to Eliminate It

by Sachiko Giorgilli, Nutritional Medicine 7 Common Causes of Constipation 1. Dehydration Like a toilet, our internal flushing system requires adequate water to function properly. 2. Lack of Fibre Dietary fibre isn’t digested by your body, but instead travels relatively intact through the stomach and intestines, absorbing water to add bulk to stool, and helping move [...]

Meet the Practitioner – Yuki Murata, Four Seasons Wellness Centre

Four Seasons Wellness Centre Founder and Japanese Shiatsu Therapist Yuki Murata was born in Hokkaido, Japan, and came to Melbourne in her 20′s to study Environment and Society Assessment and Policy at RMIT. “I wanted to work in an area where I could help the environment and ultimately people. I saw how the environment came [...]

Happy Year of the Dog

Chinese New Year, or Lunar New Year, is celebrated by over 1.5 billion people around the world and lands between January 21 and February 20 each year depending on the lunar calendar. It is a time to farewell the characteristics of the previous year and welcome those of the new. These characteristics are based on [...]

Five Reasons Why Sugar Contributes to Weight Gain

By Sachiko Giorgilli Your body burns sugar to provide you with the energy necessary for life. Many foods are broken down into sugar in the body through the conversion of long and complex sugars called polysaccharides into short and simple sugars called monosaccharaides, such as glucose. There are 5 main ways sugar can sabotage your [...]