Feeling awake, alert and productive is the holy grail for many of us, but could supplements really help us get there? The topic of mental clarity is very popular these days, with diets, supplements and non-supplemental interventions all being discussed as ways to achieve this state – but what exactly is ‘mental clarity’? The term read more »

Do you walk for less than nine minutes a day? Most Brits do, contributing to a rise in inactivity-related deaths and making it the world’s fourth biggest killer. One quarter of adults in the UK now walk for less than nine minutes a day, a figure which includes walking to and from the car, around read more »

If you want to give your immune system a boost and avoid the need for synthetic antibiotics, try these five natural alternatives. Doctors are trying to prescribe less and less antibiotics these days due to modern reliance and over-use of such drugs causing new strains of bacteria to develop that are resistant to many commonly read more »

Doing a daily face yoga routine could provide a natural facelift according to face yoga specialist Danielle Collins. We all know we need to exercise our muscles to keep our body toned and healthy – but what about our face? To keep that youthful, surely all we can do is have surgery or use botox, read more »

A recent survey carried out on the Therapy Directory website suggests that people in the UK are placing a higher importance on complementary therapies to maintain their general health. Since the late twentieth century, alternative and complementary therapies have been becoming more popular, gaining more coverage and carrying more weight within conventional healthcare. Whether used read more »

Health officials recommend we each get at least six hours of sleep a night for good mental and physical health. Unfortunately, according to figures published earlier this week by The Sleep Council, two out of five of us don’t get the recommended amount of sleep a night. More worrying still, nearly half of the 5,000 read more »

Online network Therapy Directory recently asked the public if complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) should be made free on the NHS. The overall response was that yes – free CAM should be made widespread to prevent illness, speed up NHS waiting times and step in when orthodox medicine comes up short. The proper mix of read more »

My name is Ross and in many ways I’m not your average twenty something male. Having a mother who is a complementary therapist, yoga teacher and all-round holistic enthusiast has left me with a breadth of knowledge on the subject. I am also part of the team here at Therapy Directory and will be writing read more »

It started with a small poetry competition and ended with a moving and inspirational book that’s set to be released later this week. ‘Poetry From The Bed’ is a compilation of poems written by people with chronic fatigue syndrome (otherwise known as ME) about what it is like to live with the condition. The poetry read more »

Comments from newspapers and social media sites suggest that female Olympians are being judged for how they look rather than how well they compete. Only last week an Australian paper published an article suggesting Olympic athlete Leisel Jones might be too overweight to compete. Days after the comments the 26-year-old swimmer went on to win read more »