by Dr Chris Pickard | Sep 11, 2024 | Wellness Coaching
In simple terms, there are nerves that go to muscles, organs and skin, and nerves that go from your muscles, organs and skin back aot your brain. The nerves that go to your organs are also divided into your parasympathetic and your sympathetic nerves. Have a look and... by Dr Chris Pickard | Aug 25, 2024 | Wellness Coaching
Your Circulatory System: Supporting Heart Health, Blood Flow and Everyday Energy Your circulatory system includes the heart, blood and a vast network of blood vessels. Together they deliver oxygen and nutrients, carry hormones and immune cells, remove carbon dioxide... by Dr Chris Pickard | Aug 25, 2024 | Wellness Coaching
Why Strength, Movement and Muscle Matter More as You Get Older Your muscles do far more than move your arms and legs. They help you stand upright, balance, breathe, produce heat and carry out everyday tasks. Muscle tissue also helps the body manage blood glucose and... by Dr Chris Pickard | Aug 25, 2024 | Wellness Coaching
The Gut–Brain–Stress Connection: Why Digestion Changes When Life Gets Difficult Digestion is not an isolated process. What we eat matters, but so do appetite, sleep, movement, medication, illness, stress and the speed at which we eat. The gut and brain communicate... by Dr Chris Pickard | Aug 25, 2024 | Wellness Coaching
Why Your Body Can Stay on High Alert After Stress Has Passed The nervous system helps you sense the world, move, think, feel and respond to challenge. When demand is brief, the body can usually activate and then recover. When pain, poor sleep, worry or uncertainty... by Dr Chris Pickard | Aug 25, 2024 | Wellness Coaching
The Elimination Zone: How Your Body Processes and Removes Waste Your body already has sophisticated systems for processing substances, maintaining fluid and chemical balance, and removing waste. The liver, kidneys, bowel and lungs do most of this work continuously.... by Dr Chris Pickard | Aug 25, 2024 | Wellness Coaching
The Glandular Zone: Hormones, Stress and Everyday Health Hormones are chemical messengers that help coordinate many of the body’s essential processes, including growth, metabolism, reproduction, sleep, blood-sugar regulation and the response to stress. Because these... by Dr Chris Pickard | Aug 25, 2024 | Wellness Coaching
Understanding Zone Therapy: A Six-System Approach to Health and Recovery Health rarely depends on one joint, one muscle or one isolated symptom. Pain, energy, sleep, digestion, stress, movement and daily habits can all influence how well we feel and how effectively we... 
by Dr Chris Pickard | Aug 19, 2024 | Wellness Coaching
Over the past 30 years I have found many cases of back pain only improve once diet and nutritional causes are worked on. Recently I had the pleasure of meeting Fiona, a local Hertfordshire GP, who found her own chronic back pain was food related. Watch the video to... 
by Dr Chris Pickard | Apr 17, 2024 | Wellness Coaching
This is the first time I’ve posted for a while, as I’ve been in hospital for 7 weeks. For those of you who wish to know – it was an infected spinal disc. A rare form of excruciating back pain that needs huge amounts of antibiotics to treat. I had various complications... 
