Anthea Holder – Chiropractor, Burwood East Collagen: Is It Worth the Hype? What Every Woman Should Know About Collagen, Healthy Ageing and Joint Health Walk through any health food store, pharmacy, or social media feed and you’ll likely see collagen supplements everywhere. From powders and capsules to beauty drinks and protein bars, collagen has become …
The Hidden Posture Habits Causing Your Neck Pain (and What to Do About Them)
Anthea Holder – Chiropractor, Burwood East You wake up feeling okay. You grab your phone to check messages…Sit at the kitchen bench scrolling with your coffee…Drive to work…Spend a few hours at your desk… And then it hits. That dull ache at the base of your neck.The tightness across your shoulders.The headache that creeps in …
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Why You Wake Up Stiff in the Mornings (and what to do about it)
Anthea Holder – Chiropractor, Burwood East Waking up feeling stiff, sore, or “older than you are” is incredibly common—especially in your 40s, 50s and beyond. Many people assume it’s just part of ageing… but that’s not the full story. In reality, morning stiffness is often your body giving you important feedback about how well you’re …
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Why Your Joints Hurt More in Perimenopause (and What Helps)
Anthea Holder – Chiropractor, Burwood East If you’re in your 40s or early 50s and noticing that your joints feel stiffer, achier or slower to recover, you’re not imagining it. Many women are surprised when neck pain, shoulder tension, back pain or sore hips suddenly appear during perimenopause — even if they have always been …
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New Year’s Resolutions That Actually Stick – A Chiropractor’s Guide to Habit-Based Health in Burwood
Anthea Holder – Chiropractor, Burwood East At the start of every new year, many people set New Year’s resolutions with the best of intentions. Lose weight. Get fitter. Sleep better. Have less pain. And yet, by February, many of those goals have already fallen away. As a Burwood chiropractor and wellness practitioner, I see this …
Healthy Christmas Tips + My Favourite Festive Summer Salad
Anthea Holder – Chiropractor, Burwood East As the Christmas season arrives, many of us find ourselves juggling social events, family gatherings, late nights, and plenty of rich food and drinks. It’s a wonderful time of year — but it can also leave your body feeling tired, bloated, or inflamed. Here are a few simple, realistic …
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How to Nourish Your Family and Reduce Inflammation—Naturally
Anthea Holder – Chiropractor, Burwood East As women, we often lead the way when it comes to family health. We want our kids, partners, and ourselves to feel vibrant, strong, and resilient. But hidden inflammation can quietly drain our energy, worsen aches and pains, and set the stage for chronic illness. The good news? Through …
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The Secret to All-Day Energy Without Relying on Coffee
Anthea Holder – Chiropractor, Burwood East Spring is here—a season that naturally feels lighter, brighter, and more energising. But for many women, especially in their 40s and 50s, energy still feels in short supply. The morning coffee helps you power through, but by mid-afternoon, fatigue hits, and the cravings start. If this sounds familiar, you’re …
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Why Women in Their 40s and 50s Need to Prioritise Spine Health
Anthea Holder – Chiropractor, Burwood East For many women, the 40s and 50s bring new challenges. Kids may be growing up, work demands can be high, and on top of it all, hormonal shifts of perimenopause and menopause often begin to show up in the body. It’s a stage of life where energy, mobility, and …
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Why Women Aged 35-65 Benefit from Chiropractic Care
Anthea Holder – Chiropractor, Burwood East Why Women Aged 35-65 Benefit from Chiropractic Care As women, we take on so many roles—career professionals, caregivers, partners, and the keepers of our family’s health. But in looking after everyone else, we often forget to prioritize our own well-being. If you’re a woman experiencing occasional aches and pains …
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5 Everyday Habits That Are Harming Your Spine (And What to Do About It)
Anthea Holder – Chiropractor, Burwood East 5 Everyday Habits That Are Harming Your Spine (And What to Do About It) Our busy lives in Blackburn and Burwood East mean we’re often juggling work, family, and social commitments. Amid this hustle, it’s easy to overlook the small habits that can slowly damage our spinal health. In …
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The 3 Most Common Mistakes People Make When Dealing with Back Pain (And What to Do Instead)
Anthea Holder – Chiropractor, Burwood East The 3 Most Common Mistakes People Make When Dealing with Back Pain (And What to Do Instead) Meet Sarah. She’s a busy professional and a parent, juggling work deadlines and family responsibilities. One morning, she wakes up with a dull ache in her lower back. She ignores it, thinking …
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Healthy Spine Habits for 2025: Setting Intentions That Stick
Anthea Holder – Chiropractor, Burwood East The start of a new year often comes with a renewed sense of purpose. Many of us set goals to create healthier, happier lives, but far too often, these intentions end up feeling overwhelming or unachievable. When our aspirations are too lofty, they can sometimes leave us feeling disheartened …
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5 Tips To Surviving the Lead-Up to Christmas without Compromising on Fun.
Anthea Holder – Chiropractor, Burwood East The lead-up to Christmas is often a whirlwind. Between endless to-do lists, late nights, parties, and the pressure to make everything perfect, it’s easy to feel stretched thin. But here’s the good news: it’s possible to enjoy the festive season without losing yourself in the chaos. Here are my …
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Real Food Choices Made Simple
Navigating the Grocery Aisle: Simplifying Real Food Choices for Everyday Life In today’s fast-paced world, making healthy food choices can feel like navigating a maze of conflicting information and marketing ploys. According to recent surveys conducted Australian Bureau of Statistics, only 6.5% of adults in Australia consume the recommended amount of fruits and vegetables each …
Speed Up Your Recovery
Speed up your recovery The first way to decrease your recovery time is to get adjusted. When your spine moves well and your nervous system is free from interference your body can heal and repair more efficiently. If we assume you are already getting adjusted, then what can you do for yourself to speed up …
Chiropractic for Children
Chiropractic for Children Why children need Chiropractic Care Have you watched children as they run, and fall? Jump and fall? Play and fall? On average children will fall 2500 times before the age of 3. Of those falls, three of them will be more serious like falling off the changing table, off the bed or …
How Chiropractic Care Can Help Reduce Inflammation
How Chiropractic Care Can Help Reduce Inflammation. What is Inflammation? Inflammation is the body’s way to fight bugs, germs, and foreign invaders (including cells made that shouldn’t be there, like cancer cells), it also helps heal damaged tissues from injury. This sounds good, doesn’t it? That’s because a healthy inflammatory response IS GOOD. Your inflammatory …
Health Care vs Sick Care
Health Care vs Sick Care Most new patients start chiropractic care looking to get out of pain. They want chiropractic care so they can stop being sick! = Sick Care. Many of my repeat clients have a preventative or wellness check-up to ensure they stay well. = Health Care. What’s the difference? The difference is …
Lacking energy? Tired in the afternoons?
Lacking in energy? Do you feel tired in the afternoons? Are you struggling to drag yourself out of bed in the morning? Are you experiencing tiredness and hunger throughout the day despite eating breakfast lunch and dinner? “You deserve to experience more energy so you can win each and every day. So you can get …
Life at home with COVID – Part 2
Things got worse before they got better! My post last week stated that Hubster’s symptoms were flu-like, but they got a lot worse before they got better. He has had aching legs and back with stabbing pains in his leg muscles. He was feverish with fevers that reached 39.7 degrees. He was hot, sweaty, and …
Life at home with COVID
I truthfully never thought I would be writing to you about my at-home experience with covid. I secretly hoped I would be able to get a natural immunity. But I never actually thought it would happen. But here we are. I yet am not covid positive. But I am caring for my husband who has …
Just Add Water
Your body is designed to be healthy. Your body is made up of cells, lots and lots of cells. If you give them what they need, you will have a healthy body! What are the requirements for healthy cells? Water is at the top of that list; water is an essential element for the health …
4 Nutritional Tips to Improve Depression
The W.H.O organisation defines depression as “Depression is a common mental disorder affecting more than 264 million people worldwide. It is characterized by persistent sadness and a lack of interest or pleasure in previously rewarding or enjoyable activities. It can also disturb sleep and appetite; tiredness and poor concentration are common. Depression is a leading …
Slow Bowels? Estrogen Dominance?
Slow bowels? Only pooping every few days? Are you also noticing? Heavy painful periods Swollen tender breasts Increased body fat on hips and thighs Headaches/migraines Mood swings creating irritability or impatience Did you know your slow bowel movements could be creating these signs of estrogen dominance? When your body is done with the estrogen it …
Balancing Hormones with Vitamin D
As a nutritionist and a chiropractor, I talk with many women in pain and struggling with hormonal issues. Nutritional sufficiencies are key to hormonal health, inflammation control, and whole-body health. If you don’t feed your body with the nutritional building blocks it requires to perform its daily functions it cannot expect it to work optimally! …
Reading Labels: Is that food truly healthy?
I still remember as a child that I was not allowed to eat junk food. No McDonalds, no KFC, no Hungry Jacks, no Mars Bars, no Snickers (gross, who would want them anyway?), no Hot Dogs, no Jellybeans. I also remember we were allowed to pick out a sweet treat now and then. I used …
Do I need to eat meat?
This is a hotly debated topic. I am not discussing the impact on the environment or religious views in this post, but rather I am looking at what our body needs are. Are we as humans’, herbivores (exclusively plant eaters), carnivores (exclusively meat/animal eaters), or are we omnivores (both plant and animal eaters)? I am …
Reduce your Cancer Risk, Improve your Gut Health, Fight Infections, Maintain Immunity.
Sound good? Then you need…. Phytochemicals! Phytochemicals are non-nutritive plant chemicals that have protective or disease preventive properties. They are non-essential nutrients, meaning that they are not required by the human body for sustaining life. But it may be argued that they are vital for good health. It is one thing to be alive and …
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I Don’t Follow the Traditional Food Pyramid
Can you think of a time when you couldn’t find any food to buy or eat? Believe it or not, a little over 100 years ago, there were a lot of people in Australia who didn’t have enough to eat. Food was not widely available. There weren’t multiple grocery stores in every town, and they …
Are you a Coffee or Matcha person?
Do you find you need a morning hit of caffeine before you feel human? Do you find that you can’t hold a decent conversation unless you have had your coffee? Are you yawning and struggling to open your eyes before the flat white hits your bloodstream? Finding your patience with the kids is non-existent unless …
Is sugar really as bad as people are making it out to be?
Some people like David Gillespie Author of Sweet Poison – will say a firm YES. “Sugar is very bad news. It destroys (in this order), our teeth, our gut, our liver, our ligaments, our pancreas, our kidneys our blood vessels, our heart and eventually our brain. The science on all of this is now so uncontroversial, …
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3 snacks to get you through the 3 pm munchies
Sometimes you just need a quick snack. Maybe you didn’t get time to eat breakfast or lunch, or what you did eat it wasn’t enough to tie you through to the next meal. I don’t think there is too much wrong with a snack – IF you keep it healthy and nutritious. So here are three …