This article will appear in the Mornington Peninsula Magazine August 2018 Addition. Over the past 15 years the internet-based positive health movement has: Inspired us to review our dietary habits in a fast food-loving culture; Encouraged us to slow down in a pace-obsessed world; and, Emphasised the importance of lifestyle when it comes to our health and well-being. But what about when health becomes an obsession, when all we think about is being optimally healthy, when we feel...

Thanks to the rising media attention, most men are aware prostate cancer is on the rise. But yet most guys do not know what they need to do to screen for the disease and make sure they don't have it. New guidelines have been put out to help guide men in the screening process. A screening program is not a perfect test. It is designed to pick up the majority of abnormalities without being too invasive or causing any risk of harm. This is why we screen often to increase the chances of pick...

Need a kick start for your metabolism? Over 2/3 of Australians are either obese or overweight, this is an increase of over 500 fold in the last 50 years. Our changing lifestyle, our changing food habits and our changing gut biome all play a role in this weight gain epidemic. So is there anything you can do? Managing a healthy weight can be a challenge for many people, most of those have tried many fad diets, some have even gone as far as using medications and surgery to assist t...

Well it has been a long time coming and the new "pap smear" test has arrived. It won't be called a pap smear now, as the technology has changed, so it is now officially called  a "cervical screening test", but that doesn't roll off the tongue, like a pap test does, so colloquially the term pap test will stick around for now. So what does this mean for women.... Over the last few decades medical science has found that most women who go onto develop cervical c...

It is pretty common to get a phone call from the school every few weeks, telling you that your little man or little lady has turned up again, saying something is hurting and as parents we often know when things are minor and to push on, but there are times when all we need is a little reassurance.  We need to make sure the cough is not a pneumonia, the ear drum isn't about to burst or the tonsils are just red and not full of a bacterial infection. At Whole Medicine we know this happ...