Health and integrative medicine

You’ve eaten much the same as you always do, nothing particularly heavy or unusual, yet by the afternoon your stomach feels tight and uncomfortable. Perhaps your trousers feel a little snug, or you’re left with that unpleasant feeling of fullness even though you haven’t eaten much. It’s frustrating, especially when you can’t work out what’s […]

Swelling does not always arrive dramatically. Sometimes it starts with a shoe that feels tighter at the end of the day. A watch leaves a deeper mark than usual. One arm feels heavier. The skin around an ankle looks a little fuller, or movement simply does not feel as easy as it once did. These

Your menstrual cycle is more than the days when you have your period. Across the month, hormones change, the body prepares for ovulation, energy can fluctuate and physical or emotional symptoms may appear. Understanding the menstrual cycle phases can help you recognise these patterns without becoming obsessed with them. At Palasiet, we believe body awareness

Feeling tired but unable to switch off, sleeping badly or noticing changes in your mood or weight can make you wonder whether cortisol is involved. It is a common concern. Cortisol is often described as the “stress hormone”, but that description only tells part of the story. Your body needs cortisol every day. It helps

Women’s health is rarely about one symptom alone. A change in the menstrual cycle can affect sleep. Poor sleep can influence mood and energy. Stress may make physical symptoms harder to manage. During perimenopause and menopause, several of these changes can appear at once. Integrative gynaecology looks at this wider picture. It combines appropriate conventional

There comes a point when stress no longer feels like something happening around you. It begins to settle into the body. You may notice it in the way you sleep, the energy you wake up with or the patience you have left at the end of the day. Your period may arrive later than usual.

There is a stubborn idea that recovery means switching off completely. You train hard, or you get through a punishing week, and then you fold onto the sofa and wait for your body to sort itself out. Rest, in this version of things, is the absence of everything. No movement, no effort, no plan. Just

Most people experiencing oxidative stress have no idea that’s what it is. They’re tired in a way that sleep doesn’t seem to touch. Their skin is ageing faster than they expected. They get ill more often, take longer to recover, and function under a low-level fog they’ve quietly accepted as just how life feels now.

Most recovery strategies address the surface: better sleep, less stress, a new supplement, a stricter diet. These things matter. But underneath all of them, there is something more fundamental — a biological process that determines whether your body is truly healing or simply coping. That process is cellular repair, and it is the foundation on

If you’re searching for how to recover from burnout, chances are your body and mind have been carrying more than they can comfortably hold. Burnout doesn’t usually appear overnight. It settles in slowly — through tired mornings that don’t improve with sleep, through emotional distance, through a sense that even rest no longer feels restorative.

For many women, lipoedema is something they’ve carried for years — often quietly, and often without a clear explanation. The heavy legs, the swelling that seems to defy logic, the bruising that appears almost overnight. And beyond the physical discomfort, the emotional side can weigh just as much: the feeling of not being understood, or