Natural Super Kids Podcast

Today, I'm talking to Tammy Louise, who's a building biologist over at Building Biology Mama. Tammy's work involves identifying and addressing health hazards within indoor environments such as homes. It's a really interesting topic that I am excited to share with you today! In this episode, we delvee into the reasons we should be aware of health hazards within our homes, partic...

In today's episode, I'm excited to be talking to another amazing guest, Belinda Smith, who is the founder of The Root Cause. The Root Cause is all about starting conversations with children, parents, teachers about food and how it impacts our health, learning, waste and the environment. Belinda and her team work with families throughout Australia and they've seen first-hand what chi...

In today's episode, we have a very special guest; my sister, Emma Holdsworth, who is  a family counselor, a parenting and breastfeeding educator, and postpartum guide with 20 years of experience working with families. If you're a Klub member, you might be familiar with Emma's trainings and Facebook lives that she did with us at Natural Super Kids. As a mum of two who is passionate a...

Today is a very exciting episode as we're having our very first guest on the Natural Super Kids Podcast! We're chatting with our very own Susan Thomson, our NSK Naturopath, Nutritionist and Whole Food Chef, who is also passionate in helping families reconnect with the healing power of real food and natural medicines in a practical and sustainable way.  Susan talks about her journey as a...

In today's episode, I want to talk a little bit about parenting and specifically about connection as a parenting tool. I want to share a bit of an insight into this, as well as my experience and challenges in raising my son who just became a teenager and my daughter who just reached puberty. As our kids hit different milestones, different ages and different developmental stages, I think it ca...

Today's episode is something a little different from what I have done so far. I want to give you a bit of a peek into my personal life and my journey as a mum and business owner. People often ask me, "How do you do it all?" Well, the answer is - I am NOT doing it ALL.  I want to share this because I get asked by fellow mums in the Natural Super Kids community or friends in my local...

In today's episode, I'm going to be sharing a bit more about the Natural Super Kids Klub with you - how it came about, what is included in the Natural Super Kids Klub, and what it's all about.  We are also going to be hearing from some of our beautiful Natural Super Kids Klub members about their insight into what it's like being a Klub member, what they love about being a Klub...

Today, we're going to be talking about one of the questions that I commonly get asked as a Naturopath, and that is, probiotics - do my kids need them? And if so, which ones should I be giving them?  As I mentioned in previous episodes, there are three main ways that we can top up that healthy beneficial bacteria in our kids’ gut microbiome: eating fermented foods, environmental exposure to mi...

In today's episode, we will be talking about food intolerances and food sensitivities in kids .  It can be a really tricky area to navigate, to know how to figure out whether your child has food intolerances: What are the signs and symptoms? What's the testing that's available? What can be the effect on your kids' overall well-being and how do we start to manage food intoleranc...

Today's episode is all about the things to consider if you're concerned about or you want to improve your kids' learning and concentration. I know this is something that can come up early in the year as kids adjust back to school.    In this episode, we discuss 3 things that you can do to improve your kids' learning and concentration with nutrition and naturopathic principles....

In today’s episode, we're going to be talking about some research that has come out of Finland being called 'the forest floor study'. It’s a very interesting and fascinating research about how building forest floors in daycare centers can change children’s immune systems. The promising results on this short term study warrant more research and work that needs to be done in this area...

Today, we are focusing on something that I find really interesting and fascinating, which is the hygiene hypothesis and it's likely contribution to the huge increase we are seeing in allergies, and atopic conditions in our kids such as eczema, asthma and hay fever.  The hygiene hypothesis is also thought to be linked with autoimmune conditions. We discuss the increasing rates of allergies and...

Today we're going to do our very first Ask the Naturopath episode! In these episodes, which I'm hoping to do once a month, I am going to answer a question from one of our Natural Super Kids Klub members. I want to pick questions that will allow us to delve a bit deeper into some of the really important concepts when it comes to kids’ health.    In this very first Ask the Naturopath episo...

As I promised in our very first podcast episode, I am going to go into my story, and hopefully it helps you understand a bit more about me as a person, and also my passion for kids’ health and naturopathy in general. In this episode, I talk about my journey. From how I grew up as an Aussie Kid on the typical western diet, to my teenage years when I started having skin and hormonal issues. This eve...

In today's episode, we are focus on our unique approach to kids' health at Natural Super Kids, and also go into some of the naturopathic philosophies that drive our approach to kids' health. I also talk about how running my online business at Natural Super Kids has given me such a big range of experience working with families, hearing about family struggles when it comes to their ki...

In this episode, I’m talking about the four pillars of healthy kids that I’ve created from the years of work that I've done with families, with kids, and realized that everything that we need to do to improve and optimize our kids’ health fall into one of four pillars. These pillars are: diet and nutrition, reducing toxins and chemicals, healthy lifestyle and natural medicines. I discuss how...

Welcome to our very first Natural Super Kids Podcast episode! Today, I talk about what Natural Super Kids is all about: what to expect from this podcast, our vision for kids’ health and nutrition, what we offer here at Natural Super Kids as we aim to inspire mums to boost the health and nutrition of their kids and to seek answers when it comes to their family's health issues. I also share my...