Mitochondria: The Spark of Energy Inside Every Cell
At Vital Wellbeing, we often say the nerve system is the master communicating system of the body. Every thought, movement, heartbeat, digestive process, hormone release and healing response relies on messages being sent throughout the body. For those messages to occur...
Tune In To Your Back Talk
At Vital Wellbeing, we always look at the body through the lens of the 3Ts: Thoughts (THINK), Trauma (MOVE), and Toxins (EAT). This triad is the foundation for understanding how the body expresses health. When your body, for example your lower back, starts chatting...
What Allergies Reveal
Allergies are often viewed as inconvenient reactions to seemingly harmless substances like pollen, pet dander, certain foods but they are far more than random responses. They’re not accidents, and they’re certainly not health challenges you “catch.” An allergy is a...
From Injury to Insight
Dr Randall's Story. My first encounter with chiropractic care came at the age of 29. At the time, I was heavily involved in fitness—training for triathlons and competing in 5km fun runs. Cardiovascularly, I was at my peak. I felt fit, strong, and committed. But...
Are We Outsourcing Our Health Awareness to Devices?
In a world increasingly dominated by data and devices, wearable health technology—like FitBit fitness trackers, sleep monitors, apple watches and health apps—has emerged as one of the biggest trends of 2025. These devices promise insight, optimization, and control...
Your Nerve Systems Role In Your Health
The role of the nerve system in health is truly profound. Acting as the central communication network, the nerve system governs every aspect of our health and life. The nerve system is critical in adaptation, healing, regulation, regeneration, repair, control,...
Take the Plunge!
We all love to live in comfort essentially being warm whenever we want by putting on a fire or turning on a heater. Our adaptation to this warm comfort has occurred over generations but it would appear we've lost the art of being in the cold and understanding the...
Kaizen Will Change Your Life
When I started writing The Vital Truth back in 2004, I had no idea where to start. I certainly didn’t know it was to become an international best seller, sold in over 34 countries and collect a literary award for ‘Non-Fiction Writer of the Year’ just after it...
The Benefits of Chiropractic in Rugby
For most kids in NZ the pathway to becoming an All Black, Silver Fern, Black Cap, Tall Blacks or another national sport is fairly straightforward – play school, play club, get noticed by your provincial selector, play consistently and catch the eye of national...
Raising Healthy Kids Outside the System
I get asked this question a lot... how do you raise healthy kids? And it really starts with what you think health is? You cannot raise healthy kids if you don't start with asking yourself that question. If you 'define' health by how you feel than you'll be taking your...
Recharge Your Body’s Batteries
Our body is made up of energy which also means it can get depleted. Just like using your phone all the time there comes a time when you have to recharge the battery. Learning how to recharge our body's batteries for longevity, health and balance would be a wise thing...
Sports Drinks, Electrolytes and Your Health
If only more parents knew how to make their own sports drinks for their kids, packed full with electrolytes, from nature, their kid’s performance would no doubt be better and they’d recover faster! So… we are going to share a secret that we haven’t shared before.....
Kids Health: What I Discovered
I remember almost a decade ago before nodding off to sleep I asked a simple question ‘If a child is in their physical body for the first 7 years of life, what comes next… after the physical body?’ I drifted off with an open and curious mind and woke in what seemed...
Proprioceptive Walking and your Nerve System
To engage fully with your environment, you need to use all your senses… including a sixth one. We know all too well about the five senses – sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch but what about your sixth sense? Do you know what it is, how to stimulate it and how to...
The Invisible Danger: EMF’s and your Nerve System
With Apps, mobile phones and the faster 5G network coming out this generation of kids, and the ones that follow, are going to get bombarded with EMF’s. It’s important for us as parents to stay abreast of the changes and know the impact to their nerve system and our own.
Sick or Health Expression?
Prior to bringing kids into the world my husband and I were living a great life – travelling and eating in great restaurants for close to eleven years. When we decided to have kids, we wanted to make sure we were congruent in our health beliefs and our health...
Are your hormones getting to you?
Here comes the hot flush! Those in the know understand what I am talking about. Perimenopause and menopause are like birthing, you don’t know what it’s like until you actually go through it! And when you are going through it you want your best friends on your side to...
Big Pharma or Self-sufficient?
Life's getting more convenient every year and statistics about increased life expectancy and 'stamping out disease' are proudly quoted. But is it really getting 'better' because of the pharmaceutical industry? Today, as parents, we have incredible choice in the way we...
Mummy Overwhelm
No matter how you look at it, being a mum changes your life. And what an amazing thing it is to care for another human being as they grow from infant to toddler, through childhood and the teenage years, and then to get to know them as an adult. Yet for a growing...
Why Lice Make Their Home In Your Child’s Hair!
"How can I get rid of lice… it is so annoying!" I bet my bottom dollar that as a parent or a health professional you have asked or been asked this question… many times. It's the same question asked by parents in different countries around the world – Australia, NZ,...
5 Ways to Double Your Health and Vitality
Let me ask you a question: "What controls everything in your body?" Hopefully, you answered the brain - that amazing computer in your skull that is made up of hundreds of billions of nerve cells. Every second of every day, your brain is sending and receiving thousands...
The Significance of the “Wibbly” Tooth!
I’ve been guest blogging lately for a couple of sites and I’ve found myself speaking about teeth a lot hence the prompt to write down our Vital Wellbeing thoughts on teeth in a health alert. I have been mostly writing about a child’s transition from their physical...
Birth Dystocia What You Need To Know!
When you're pregnant you get a whole lot of unsolicited information pouring your way, right? When I was towards the end of my pregnancy with my eldest I found myself listening to a lady in the aisle of our local Hy-Vee supermarket in the USA, rambling on to me about...
Swelling And Ice Might Not Be So Swell!
This Vital Wellbeing blog is about physical injuries and bites! You might be saying what do they have in common. The answer… ice! How many times have you been bitten by an insect or a spider and how many times have you sprained something let’s say an ankle for the...
Water and Electricity the Two Don’t Mix or Do They?
There are many myths about water consumption and how much exactly we should drink. There is however one missing piece which I have not seen any one talk about which makes this Vital Wellbeing blog post unique in and of itself. So let's explore water… How much do you...