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5 top tips for healthy looking skin in your 40s (and beyond)
Gráinne Harbison Gráinne Harbison

5 top tips for healthy looking skin in your 40s (and beyond)

Each season throws something different at your skin. Spring rolls around, and suddenly, you’re dealing with unexpected breakouts or lingering winter dryness that won’t budge. Autumn hits, and your skin starts feeling tight, flaky, or just….lacklustre. Then there’s winter - the time of year when central heating, cold air, and lack of sunlight can leave your skin looking dull, feeling dehydrated, or breaking out in ways that make no sense.

And in your 40s? These seasonal shifts feel even more pronounced. Your skin doesn’t bounce back like it used to. Collagen production slows, hydration levels dip faster, and hormonal changes can leave you dealing with dryness and breakouts at the same time. What worked for you a decade ago isn’t cutting it anymore.

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Boost Your Immunity Naturally: Part 2
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Boost Your Immunity Naturally: Part 2

Your immune system is your first line of defence, working around the clock to protect you from illness and keep you feeling your best. The good news? There are many ways you can support it! Here are four of the easiest, science-backed ways to support your immune health—starting with something as simple as getting enough sleep!

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Boost Your Immune System with These Simple, Delicious Foods
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Boost Your Immune System with These Simple, Delicious Foods

With the colder months upon us and the inevitable stresses of daily life, our immune systems could use a little extra love and attention. Whether you’re juggling a busy schedule, recovering from seasonal bugs, or simply trying to feel your best, supporting your immunity has never tasted this good.

The first part of this two-part blog is packed with simple, tried-and-tested foods and recipes I personally use to keep my family healthy. From nutrient-packed ingredients to some of my favourite recipes, there are plenty of ways to stay resilient, energised, and well all year round.

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Why Most People Quit Their Goals (and How to Accomplish Yours)
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Why Most People Quit Their Goals (and How to Accomplish Yours)

If you’ve ever struggled with goal setting or given up on your resolutions, you’re not alone. The stats say it all:

• 23% of people quit their goals by the end of the first week of January.

• The second Friday of the month is called “Quitter’s Day.”

• By the end of January, 43% of people have given up entirely.

What makes sticking to goals so hard? Based on my experience (and what I’ve seen with clients), here are five of the biggest obstacles—and how to tackle them head-on.

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Easy Ways To Look After Your Liver - And Why You’ll Want To!
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Easy Ways To Look After Your Liver - And Why You’ll Want To!

Think you’re great at multitasking? I’ve no doubt you are—but even your best efforts can’t compare to the work your liver does every single day as your body’s power plant, multitasker and detox centre.

You see your liver is working 24/7 to keep your energy levels steady, to break down fat, and to process and package everything from hormones and pesticides to chemicals, drugs, bacteria, toxins, and alcohol so they can be safely removed from the body. 

So if you want more energy, hormone balance, better sleep, healthier skin and a slimmer waistline, the key to it all lies in keeping your liver healthy. Let’s unpack that a bit further in this post

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Detox Your Home, Improve Your Hormones: Easy Tips for a Lower-Tox Life
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Detox Your Home, Improve Your Hormones: Easy Tips for a Lower-Tox Life

Regardless of whether you want babies or you’re happily beyond that stage, if you’re struggling with a belly you can’t lose, pimple-prone skin or monthly migraines, it might surprise you that there’s something beyond food, exercise, and positive affirmations you can do right now to tip the balance of your hormone health in your favour……..even if it sounds whack and seems far too doable!

I’m talking about giving your home a detox.! Find out how endocrine disrupting chemicals may be messing with your metabolism and wreaking havoc with your hormones. And what you can start doing about it!

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Why you’re not losing weight with intermittent fasting
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Why you’re not losing weight with intermittent fasting

If your clothes fit more like like the ill-fated glove in the O.J. Simpson trial, and you haven’t experienced the benefits everyone else talks about when it comes to intermittent fasting, read on. I’m going to help you to figure out why, and give you some actionable steps to try and change your experience and restore your confidence in intermittent fasting when it comes to IF.

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Me or my hormones?
Gráinne Harbison Gráinne Harbison

Me or my hormones?

One thing I could always count on was a 28-day cycle - but it was clear that my perfect record was about to be wiped out. First I skipped a cycle (I knew I was neither stressed nor pregnant), the next one came at 26 days, then it went to 34 days, and finally I had the two-for-the-price-of-one period experience!

What the actual bleep ?

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