Lesley Rix - Mackay & Sarina's Naturopath Nutritionist & Herbalist

23/11/2025

Happy Sunday...
Letting go of what no longer is working for us is key to creating the life & the health we desire.
Lesley x

19/11/2025

Making walking part of your life as much as possible is one of the most impactfull things you can do for your physical & mental health.... 🚶‍♀️
Lesley x

16/11/2025

Movement is Medicine
The most common pushback I hear is time. We are all busy, but if we don't make time for wellness we will need to make time for illness....
Happy Sunday.
Lesley x

12/11/2025

How very true!
Lesley x

09/11/2025

Happy Sunday...
Can you please have your orders in by Thursday morning at the latest for delivery this week to SOUL Food Market Mackay & Under The Veil Sarina ...
Lesley x

06/11/2025

A little info on resistant starch and gut microbes...

Lesley x https://www.facebook.com/share/p/17XFLsV1QS/

One question I get asked all of the time:
Can you freeze Sourdough?
And the answer is yes! You sure can and it actually makes it healthier! Here’s how:

When you bake a loaf of sourdough, the starches inside the bread are soft and easy to digest quickly. That’s one reason fresh bread can give you a fast sugar spike. But when you freeze and then reheat sourdough, something fascinating happens at the microscopic level:

• Retrogradation of starch: Cooling (and especially freezing) changes the structure of the starch molecules, turning more of them into “resistant starch.” Resistant starch behaves like fibre in your body, it feeds your gut microbes instead of converting straight into glucose.
• Reheating locks it in: Toasting or warming your frozen loaf doesn’t undo this benefit — the resistant starch largely remains, meaning a steadier blood sugar response.
• Better for gut health: Sourdough already contains prebiotic qualities from its natural fermentation. Freezing boosts this by increasing fibre-like resistant starch, making it even friendlier for your microbiome.
• Less waste, more nutrition: By freezing your sourdough in slices, you extend shelf life, cut down on waste, and keep the nutritional profile strong.

Tip: Slice your loaf before freezing, pop pieces into the toaster straight from frozen, and enjoy bread that’s not only convenient but even better for your health.

04/11/2025

Diets low in fibre are commonly used to address digestive symptoms - think low fodmap for IBS, & often gut issues improve on a carnivore diet as it is low fibre...
BUT & it is a big but!... long term, this may be detrimental to your gut health. Research shows that bacteria, when deprived of fibre as a fuel source, resort to eating your secreted mucous barrier along the gut lining. This mucous barrier is protective to the gut & once it is damaged, this line of defence is gone...leaving a person open to more inflammation and further bacterial infection.
We need to be mindful in dietary planning that short term symptom reduction is not leading to long term damage....
Lesley x

01/11/2025

This was a great show. If you get chance to see Shirley Valentine do it. A great thought provoking one woman show...
Loved it.
Lesley x

30/10/2025

Partially Hydrolyzed Guar Gum (PHGG) comes from the guar bean, which is a legume. PHGG is a soluble fibre, that holds water as it forms a gel in your digestive tract. This may reduce total cholesterol, lower triglycerides, increase HDL cholesterol, stabilize blood sugar response to a meal, reduce digestive inflammation, curb appetite, and assist weight loss.

How PHGG helps -
• By slowing the digestive process there is a reduction in the rise of blood sugar following a meal that contains guar gum
• PHGG can significantly reduce postprandial insulin requirements. A 6g dose can significantly reduce blood glucose levels of up to 50% after eating a meal. This stops the cravings merry go round for carbs.
• PHGG can significantly reduce triglyceride levels lowering LDL (bad) cholesterol and increase HDL (good) cholesterol levels

So this humble fiber, often used to help both constipation & diarrhea can also help with weight loss & cardiovascular health. What is not to love.

Lesley x

29/10/2025

The happiest people I know have goals.
They work towards them, take satisfaction in the progress & celebrate their successes. When people feel lost, depressed, unfulfilled - they almost never have goals. If we have nothing to focus on then our monkey mind with find something for us to focus on - hello anxiety & rehashing the same old thoughts.
What are your goals? What daily actions do you take to make them a reality?
Sometimes the cost involved, keeps us accountable.
What is the alternative?- stay stuck in the same place, same problems, same thoughts on repeat.
I know which one I choose...
Lesley x

28/10/2025

Beautiful Shanghai.
It is lovely to be heading home today. The trip to China has been amazing. The sights, the smells and the contrasts between the old and the new are amazing...
But back to the reality of real life again...
Lesley x

26/10/2025

Quick pic of us at the Great Wall of China.
I have had no service for emails and messanger while away thanks to the Great Firewall of China. So bare with me while I catch up and get back to you...
Thanks for your patience..
Lesley x