Bribie Health Science

28/11/2025

Magnesium is often the go-to mineral for sleep support, stress relief, and easing muscle tension, and for good reason. It plays a vital role in calming the nervous system and supporting muscle relaxation and is the “regulator” mineral that keeps the other electrolytes in check. Too little or too much can throw off that balance.

With modern lifestyles placing greater demands on our bodies, from chronic stress to processed foods and environmental factors, magnesium stores can become easily depleted, making adequate intake even more important.

But here’s the catch, taking magnesium in isolation, or in excessive doses can create imbalances with other electrolytes such as calcium, potassium and sodium over the long term.

Although magnesium deficiencies are common, self-prescribing isn’t always the best approach, particularly at high doses.

Working with a naturopath or nutritionist will help ensure your supplement plan is tailored to your needs, considers interactions with other nutrients, and avoids unintended imbalances.

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27/11/2025

Is estrogen inflammatory or anti-inflammatory? It depends. 

Estradiol (our main ovarian estrogen) can calm inflammation in the brain, blood vessels, and bone. And it reduces central pain sensitisation, which is likely the main way estrogen therapy can relieve joint pain.

At the same time, estradiol typically has an immune-activating effect, resulting in more histamine, prostaglandins, and autoantibodies. That's why high estrogen or estrogen medication can potentially worsen autoimmune conditions like rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and endometriosis.

And not all estrogens are the same. More inflammatory estrogens include:
• 4-hydroxyestradiol (an estrogen metabolite)
• estrone (E1) from visceral fat (common in PCOS & menopause)  
• ethinylestradiol (the synthetic estrogen in most birth control) 

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22/11/2025

19/11/2025

New research has linked choline deficiency to anxiety. It makes sense because choline is so important for the brain!

Links below.

Here are a few quick facts about this key nutrient:

💜 Choline is the precursor to acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter that’s calming, supports memory, and even helps to regulate appetite, gut motility, and metabolism.

💜 Your body can make a little choline, but not much. Most of it needs to come from food.

💜 Choline production depends on estrogen, which has researchers wondering if some of the brain benefits of estrogen therapy come from its support of choline metabolism. (You can also just take choline.)

💜 Scientists are pretty worried about how little choline most people eat.

💜 Choline is one of the five “missing metabolic nutrients” I highlight in my metabolism book.



Article: https://medicaldialogues.in/psychiatry/news/low-choline-levels-in-the-brain-associated-with-anxiety-disorders-suggests-study-158865
My metabolism book: https://www.larabriden.com/metabolism-book/

04/11/2025

Progesterone side effects? Learn how to effectively use body-identical progesterone for sleep, mood, bleeding, and perimenopause symptoms.

31/10/2025

Here's how to pick the best loaf that fits your life. Learn more at the link below.

16/10/2025