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13/06/2026

Day three, and I can feel in my body what the research describes.

There’s a solid line of studies on what time in natural environments does to us. Walking in nature is associated with lower cortisol, our main stress hormone, and a shift in heart rate variability towards the rest-and-recover side of the nervous system. Most of it is short-term and the studies are small, but the direction is consistent enough that I pay attention to it.

What the data describes, I notice as sleep. As shoulders that drop without me deciding to. As a body that’s slower to brace in the morning.

You don’t get the same input on a treadmill. The movement, maybe. Not the sky, the uneven ground, the scale of a place that asks nothing of you. We keep reaching for intensity. The research, and three days out here, keep pointing at something quieter.

12/06/2026

Four hours into the second day on the Three Capes and something in me had gone quiet.

Not tired-quiet. Settled.

We’re sold the idea that to feel better we have to push harder. Train harder, optimise more, do the cold plunge, hit the numbers. But out here it wasn’t the intensity doing the work. It was the rhythm. Step after step, the same pace for hours, nothing to chase.

The nervous system responds to that. To repetition, to being somewhere bigger than your inbox, to a pace your body can actually keep.

Most of the people I work with don’t need more intensity. They’ve had years of it. What’s missing is rhythm.

Save this for the next time you catch yourself reaching for the harder option.

08/06/2026

For years I had three things I never connected to each other. Looking back, they were the warning lights before my body crashed.

Hypermobility I’d always written off as just being flexible. Asthma I developed out of nowhere as a teenager. And a growing list of foods that suddenly didn’t agree with me.

At the time they were three separate annoyances. It was only after my crash with CFS that I understood they were part of one bigger picture: mast cell activation.

It’s MCAS Awareness Month, which is why I’m sharing the part of my story I don’t usually tell. If you’re collecting symptoms that don’t seem to belong together, you’re not imagining the connection.

If your symptoms feel scattered and unexplained, you don’t have to work it out alone. We have an Integrative GP, Dr Tania on our team with a special interest in MCAS. Join the waitlist via the link in bio.

One of the most missed pieces in chronic, “unexplainable” illness. If your symptoms scatter across your whole body, flar...
05/06/2026

One of the most missed pieces in chronic, “unexplainable” illness. If your symptoms scatter across your whole body, flare with random triggers, and every test says you’re fine, it’s worth a proper look.

Save this for the next flare 💜 Book a consult if it’s ringing bells. Link in bio.

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04/06/2026

You’ve blamed your gut. Stress. Motherhood. And still the fog won’t lift.

Here’s what often gets missed: brain fog isn’t always a simple “you’re run down” problem. Often it’s inflammation, and often that inflammation traces back to mould exposure, including a pattern called CIRS.

You can’t find that if you only look in the obvious places. That’s why we run a comprehensive assessment, so an inflammatory driver like mould doesn’t get explained away as just tiredness.

If the fog has gone on too long, book your assessment via the link in bio.

02/06/2026

Yesterday was Global Day of Parents. We missed it. Too busy actually parenting 🙈😂

“I’ve been tired since I had my first.”

We hear it almost every week. You say it like an apology, like it’s just the price of being a mum.

I’m a mum too. A toddler and an 10-year-old. Motherhood can be exhausting sometimes- and I won’t pretend otherwise. But being tired for a hard week is not the same as being depleted for five, eight, ten years.

Somewhere along the way it stopped being a symptom and became your normal. And because you’re the one holding everyone else together, you put yourself last. You book everyone else in and leave your own name off the list.

Exhaustion that’s lasted years isn’t something you have to accept just because you’ve gotten used to it. It’s worth looking at properly.

If you’ve been telling yourself this is just what motherhood feels like, save this for the day you’re ready to stop accepting it.

Book a welcome call with us when you are ready. Link in bio.

Blaming your fatigue on perimenopause?! It’s a common symptom in the peri- phase of life but usually it’s not just your ...
01/06/2026

Blaming your fatigue on perimenopause?! It’s a common symptom in the peri- phase of life but usually it’s not just your hormones. It’s a sign something deeper is going on. If you relate to any of these signs - Book with Merge Health’s Women’s Health Expert Samantha Van Dort to uncover and resolve where your fatigue is really coming from.

31/05/2026

The people who find us are usually tired of being told there’s nothing wrong.

Chronic fatigue. Anxiety that won’t settle. MCAS. Mould. Infections that linger. Perimenopause that nobody prepared them for.

So here’s what May looked like behind the scenes. Kate and Steph travelling to bring back the latest in functional and integrative medicine for our patients. Team dinners & going over cases that ran long. In-person clinic days with Dr Tania and Sarah.

What stood out across the month was connection. Time with experts who sharpen how we practise. Time as a team, in the same room instead of on a call. And time with patients, including so many living with the trifecta of EDS, MCAS and POTS, often after years of being told it was all in their head.

This is the work. Online and in person, doing whatever it takes to give people real answers.

If that’s you, we see you. Link in bio.

Free check-in calls and wellness coaching, booked around your schedule. That's one piece of how we support you. Here's t...
28/05/2026

Free check-in calls and wellness coaching, booked around your schedule. That's one piece of how we support you. Here's the rest:

When you're fatigued or brain fogged, even a good treatment plan can slip through the cracks. Which supplement first. What the practitioner said. When to follow up. It's not a memory problem. It's what happens when you're unwell and trying to hold it all yourself.

So we built the support around you, not just the plan.

Every appointment, your Visit Summary lands in your Charm Patient Portal, your notes and instructions always there to refer back to. The whole treatment plan sits in one place, on your phone or tablet. Questions that pop up between appointments go straight to your health coach through the portal, whenever they come to you. And Sarah, who looks after patient experience and coaching, is on the phone 11:30 to 1:30 every weekday if you'd rather talk it through.

This is what we mean by support. Not more to manage, less.
New to Merge Health and want care that holds you between appointments, not just during them? Book a Welcome Appointment via the link in bio.

Try this family fav low histamine swap, from Merge Health Clinical Nutritionist Leah Hunt. Save this post for when you’r...
26/05/2026

Try this family fav low histamine swap, from Merge Health Clinical Nutritionist Leah Hunt. Save this post for when you’re stuck for a dinner option!

For more help navigating MCAS and Nutrition book with Leah via link in bio.

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