The Avoca Naturopath and Nutritionist

27/02/2026

Is extended overnight ‘fasting’ affecting your bone density? 🤔 Very interesting 🧐

And while we're talking all things 'peri' you might recall I said during this period our bones adopt the 'brace position' - you know before you crash?!😰...unless...we know how to preserve properly

PTH is an acute responder to any dip in Calcium
Within seconds it surges
Within mins to increase Calcium’s paracellular uptake, the GIT becomes ‘leaky'
Within 1-3hrs the bones have been tapped

PTH peaks first thing in the morning partly in response to an endogenous circadian rhythm but also because, quite simply, we’ve been fasting and no new Calcium has come into the system. So what if we extend our overnight fasting? The PTH gets higher and stays up for longer, resulting in more negative impact on the bones. And SO many women have embraced TRE or at least extended overnight fasting – for good reasons, right? But what about the impact this is having on one of the most modifiable risk factors for osteoporosis? I’ve just had this conversation again with yet another woman. We had sequential PTH measures one at 7.20am (PTH 4.7 pmol/L), one at 8.30am (PTH 5.3 pmol/L) – both are too high for optimal BMD preservation. But the real issue is she doesn’t actually eat her breakfast usually until about 10am. This translates to a very long period of exposure not only to high PTH but peak cortisol concentrations to boot. She was taking Calcium (and doing everything else, including targeted resistance training) but I had to tweak the timing of her first dose… and then we had to try and reconcile this with her TRE.

For a patient like this with this tendency of the PTH to push up too high – the 1st dose of Calcium must be within 2hrs of waking

Compared with other supplements it’s an easy one to take (not a gastric irritant like some) & with just 50-100ml of whatever milk or substitute you prefer is an easy ask before hitting the gym or the pavement or the desk! Alternatively, of course, if someone is not adhering extended overnight fasting, your just bring breakfast forward & ensure it’s a calcium rich choice. This is what I mean when I say science drives the most successful prescribing…not the bad most basic of nutritional science that SCREAMS, ”Deliver Ca to those bones like a concrete-mixer. Just pour it in!”

Nope.

The exceptional science that reveals the real nuance of how nutrients work and how then to employ them to achieve the very best results.

And if now you’re rushing to reach for Calcium but have questions about best form and dose, duration and combinations…and are hungry to experience the same level of confidence prescribing all the other nutrients to boot…well might I suggest 🤓 you look into undertaking our Nutrient Prescribers' Program?

Or if you now feel an urgent need to polish your parathyroid knowledge, assessment, understanding, management...then check out these two Update un Under 30 episodes

🎧Working with Micromanaged Minerals https://rachelarthur.com.au/content/working-with-micromanaged-minerals/

🎧and this one one what gets missed and mistaken for 'just' (peri)menopause including unmasking of hyperparathyroidism which comes with a great clinical tool
https://rachelarthur.com.au/content/menopause-missed-misdiagnoses-part-1/

24/12/2025

11/12/2025

One of my favourite things is to receive arrival photos/messages from couples I’ve worked with pre-conceptionally. Sometimes with our health, it’s the small, consistent changes that can have the biggest impact…….
Yes AI can offer health advice, yet conscious human presence and connection, engaging all our senses when sitting and talking with another creates another frequency of consciousness and healing that cyber bots can’t replicate….
What an exciting adventure ahead for these divine boys and their gorgeous parents. No doubt they are here to sprinkle their Love and Light in our beautiful world 💙🙏🏼💙

26/11/2025

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THANK YOU!!

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15/11/2025

An essential pantry item!! I’m obsessed with this DELICIOUS granola - sprinkled on top of oats, muesli, smoothie/bowls, yoghurt, ice cream -YUM!!
Homemade by Clare at Becker & Co Avoca Beach. Gluten free versions also available 🤍💚🤍

22/10/2025

https://apple.news/ApZF_-vaCR1Ou78aYfrvr9g

Every few years, we are jolted into fears of a pollutant: Asbestos, fine particulate air pollution and synthetic pesticides, to name a few.

29/09/2025

So grateful to be back in my 4th year at the Zulma Reyo School of Consciousness in Spain, with my colleagues from all over the world, discovering how we can bring more Love, Light, Peace to humanity.
Each one of us contributes to the face of humanity and we can’t expect ‘ out there’ to change without truly realising the Truth and Vastness of who and what we ALL are.
I look forward to sharing more of this work in our community in the near future.
For more information about the school of consciousness and Zulma Reyo, the link is below 🤍

Analogous to the work of ancient alchemists who sought to transmute lead into gold, Zulma Reyo aims to help individuals transmute aspects of their beings back into light, helping us realize that the philosopher’s stone has been within us all along. Reyo believes that the transformation of our....

29/09/2025

Great information regarding cardiovascular disease in Women. 30-60 women per day die from cvd. We only have 1 heart and need to look after it 🤍

Heart disease is one of Australia's biggest killers yet there's a gender gap in how best to treat the disease. Cardiologist Dr Clare Arnott is trying to close that gap, conducting groundbreaking research using AI and mammograms to predict a woman's risk of heart disease. She's also set up Australia'...

08/09/2025

Your poo has the clue 🔽
Help your patients decode what their stool is telling them. The colour can offer insight, signalling everything from dietary intakes to potential health concerns.

Did you know?
💩 Most people poo around the same time daily.
💩 Healthy frequency ranges from once a day to 3 times a day.
💩 Type 3-4 on a Bristol Stool Chart, and brown colour = ideal.
💩 Red or green? Could be beetroot or leafy greens or a sign to investigate further.

📘 Share this graphic with your patients and download The Good Gut Guide for more practical tips on gut health, digestion, and lifestyle strategies 🔗 https://bit.ly/46lWhFf

Please note if you persistently experience one of the non-ideal stool colours be sure to keep a dietary record of the foods eaten and any medications taken and discuss this matter with your health professional.

25/08/2025

An excellent interview with a pioneer doctor of herbal medicine Simon Mills shares excellent budget friendly, effective health tips and great discussionat the end about reflux and omeprazole.

Podcast Episode · The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · 11/08/2025 · 2h 10m

23/08/2025

Look who’s joined the Avoca Naturopath baby family 🤗🤗🫶🫶 Double the heart melts with these two sweet fellas! Brought into this world by two of the most beautiful, loving, courageous souls ✨✨

21/08/2025

In a quiet lab in Vienna, a group of physicists ran an experiment in 2012 that should have been impossible. They fired two entangled photons — particles of light linked across space — into a carefully built quantum setup. One photon was measured immediately. The other was delayed using a long optical fiber. But when they compared the results, something strange happened: the outcome of the first photon’s measurement appeared to be influenced by the second, which hadn’t been measured yet. Somehow, the future was affecting the past.
This baffling phenomenon was later confirmed in several experiments around the world. It’s now known as the Delayed Choice Quantum Eraser — a mind-bending concept where the act of observing a particle can seemingly reach back in time to change what happened before the observation. To be clear: no one is sending messages into the past. But what we are seeing suggests time, at the quantum level, doesn’t behave like the linear arrow we experience in daily life.

In classical physics, cause always precedes effect. But in quantum mechanics, particles don’t seem to care. If a photon is given the “choice” to behave like a particle or a wave, its behavior isn’t fixed until it’s measured — and incredibly, the way we choose to measure it can retroactively determine how it acted before the measurement. This isn’t just theory anymore. It's been observed in peer-reviewed lab setups using ultra-sensitive detectors and state-of-the-art photon sources.

One version of the experiment split a photon into two entangled twins. One traveled to a detector where it was measured directly. The other passed through a system where scientists could either preserve or erase which-path information — after the first photon had already been detected. The eerie result: the earlier measurement lined up with the later choice, as if the particle somehow “knew” what its partner would encounter.

This shakes the foundation of causality. While no information can travel faster than light — meaning no violation of relativity — the implication is deeper: at the quantum level, reality isn’t determined until it’s observed, and sometimes, observation in the present seems to sculpt the past.

Some physicists think this hints at a universe that’s fundamentally interconnected across space and time. Others wonder whether time itself might be an emergent illusion — something that appears orderly only when observed at scale. Either way, the more we look into quantum mechanics, the more reality stops behaving like reality.

And if the past can be changed by the present… what else might be possible?

Credit: The Collective Spiritual