Arising Health

02/11/2025

I'm off this week hiking the 3 capes in Tasmania. A well earned break in nature! If you've sent me an email this week, I will see it around 9th November next week!

15/09/2025

05/01/2025

Starting the 2025 work year with some great feed back from clients having the best Christmas and new year break they've had in a few years. Here is a case review of one my long term very complex cases.

29/12/2024

Another beautiful testimonial from a family seeing a better christmas and new year in 2024. Whether you've started out in the journey, feeling overwhelmed with the magnitude of work to be done or celebrating some small gains. I hope this holiday season is one of the best yet to come.

05/05/2024

Bookings are now open again for new clients for 2024. Go to https://arisinghealth.com.au/appointments/
and you can book your appointment under new client triage.

All clients, new and existing, get a 48 hour reminder of their appointment time. If you think you're not going to make your appointment or need to change it, please use the cancel appointment link in your reminder email to change it. This ensures another family can have the opportunity for an earlier time.

15/02/2024

In no other experience, can I imagine where the maternal instinct is tested to the extreme limit. I am in awe and admiration of the tenacious trust of the mother’s deep maternal instinct. It is that instinct, and the father’s trust in it, that as a species, after all this time throughout history, we are still here. Continue to trust in that power of the maternal instinct that got you to this point so far.

15/10/2023

Spending a bit of time this afternoon building on my knowledge and deepening my understanding as to why one of my most favourite and versatile amino acids, glycine works so well in so many cases… (of course, not suitable in every case). NMDA receptors (NMDAR), which sit on every neuron cell wall in great numbers, drive the action potential (AP) from neuron to neuron. Hence it controls a wide variety of brain functions and consequently, they are implicated in a multitude of pathologies, either due to excess or lack of activity. Glycine plays the dual role of inhibitor and activator of NMDARs. Understanding the “how”, these articles discuss some evidence and ideas how glycine modulates NMDAR activity. It is thought mechano-sensitivity may govern when glycine plays agonist or the antagonist. Wow.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0028390823001041
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK5274/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6906178/

More importantly, today I’m posting another heartfelt testimonial from a family I’ve working with since May 2022. This family came to me with their 10yr ASD/ADHD boy after years of dealing with misdiagnosis and disastrous trialling of anti psychotic medication. His metldowns and flares were extreme and violent. OCD preoccupied him constantly all day. The stakes were high for this family , so my diagrams and knowledge about NMDARs and glycine didn’t really matter to them. What matter was that I invested in getting results for them.

30/09/2023

Books are now closed for new clients for 2023. I've just reached maximum caseload and all appointments are booked out well into Feb 2024. When clients first come to see me, we meet often until the primary carer is feeling confident and grounded in what they are doing and we've managed to achieve a better baseline line of milder symptoms. Once I get a good number of my new cases to this point, I'll be able to open my books again to new clients. I should expect around February 2024, but please like and follow my business page to stay updated.

27/09/2023

I’ve returned from my travels to Japan and now getting back into work. Reflecting on my adventure, I have always loved this country, Japan. For those who didn’t know, I used to live and work there in my younger days. I learnt a lot from the traditions of this country, and upon returning I am reflecting on those things again. Japanese people live a long life and aim to maintain an enjoying and meaningful way of living. After a few decades I see that they continue to preserve and maintain that way of living. The things I see that foster a long and meaningful life were these things. Seeking respectful connection with each other, even in the smallest interactions, people feel connected to each other. Seeking strong connection to nature, through their spiritual practice (shinto), designing landscapes for people to enjoy closeness to nature (outdoor hot bathing, walks through tall forests and architecture that enhances the experience of nature rather than opposes it). Cities are designed for continuous natural movement. Lots of stairs everywhere, lots of walking everywhere. Even 80 somethings were traversing the busy labryrinths of the train metro. I didn't see a big business for the health industry. In Melbourne there are gyms on every corner and a multitude of health experts offering their expertise to get you well again. But I didn't see any of this. Everyone rides a bike or walks to get around. Supplements and medicines weren't a big thing. And this is where I come to, food and their relationship with food.
Japanese food, made using traditional methods, consists of pickling and fermenting of vegetables, high in DHA/EPA (omega 3) animal sources, very little gluten and dairy and small amounts of red meat. lots of chicken and fish. When I asked people to describe their version of healthy food, they often talk about a specific vegetable. Different types of yams in the diet, burdock, lotus root, bitter gourd and my absolute favourite, green tea. Green tea is like a fine wine. You can pay a lot of money for a high grade fermented tea or a cheaper loose leaf low grade. Although if you look carefully through the photos, you'll see that there are some strange things you see in Japan - deep fried gluten on a stick. ... omoshiro desu ne.