Maggie Chilton

Holistic Nutritional Practitioner

How sleep can balance your hormones

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How sleep can balance your hormones.

Are you getting enough? Think you can “survive” on 5-6 hours? There is strong evidence to say that anything less than 7 hours will have a dramatic impact on your immune system and affect your amygdala (a section of the brain that is responsible for detecting fear and preparing for emergency events) which in turn will affect your cortisol levels, making you age more rapidly and making you gain weight and throw other hormones out of whack – and these are just some of the examples! [Read more…]

The hormonal dance

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The hormonal dance is a dance I’ve known personally for 11 years but most recently about 2 years now – or should I say, have been more consciously aware of anyway.

Looking back of the last 11 years I see snippets of hormonal imbalances but I never did think too much of it. It was only when my periods became extremely heavy and I started to have a pain around my bladder that I really took notice. [Read more…]

Melatonin supplements and why we shouldn’t use them

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Melatonin supplements and why we shouldn’t use them. Melatonin has been touted as a “natural” product by many but it is really all its cracked up to be? 

Well the short answer is no for the most part. Melatonin is actually a hormone we produce in our bodies, mainly in the pineal gland in the brain. It helps support our circadian rhythms and should be lowest in the mornings and highest at night. [Read more…]

Learn trust

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Learn trust.

Learn to trust yourself again. Its been a while now since I’ve had this thought, this feeling that I need to get back to trusting my feminine intuition, my feminine wisdom, and learn to listen to my body again. 

“Learning to trust is one of life’s most difficult tasks” – Isaac Watts

Its not easy! It takes courage, it takes confidence and it takes commitment, but it is so worth it! [Read more…]

How can I get enough Vitamin D?

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How Can I Get Enough Vitamin D?

This topic comes up a lot in my practice, especially at this time of year.

When we think of “vitamins,” we know they’re super-important for health right?

But vitamin D is special.

This vitamin is actually a pre-hormone not technically a “vitamin” but we use the term vitamin because we need it every day.

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