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The covid-19 virus has raised our awareness and focus as to just how fundamentally important natures immune system really is to maintain and promote healthy body function for both our- selves and our immune system. — Read Article

In the depths of a northern hemisphere winter each year we get a hint of what we may expect in the way of health compromising viruses and pathogens for the approaching winter. — Read Article

Asparagus has a history going back over 2000 years. It originated in the eastern Mediterranean; in its wild form it was much smaller than the asparagus we know today. — Read Article

Congratulations, we have all survived the winter and all of the health compromising pathogens and viruses that afflict us through this period. — Read Article

Kiwifruit despite the name they are not native to New Zealand, Mary Isobel Fraser returned from China in 1904 with seed she had gathered while visiting. They were planted in Wanganui in 1906 by Alexander Allison and the first crop was harvested in 1910, people described the flavour as gooseberry hence the initial name of Chinese gooseberry. — Read Article

Ginger has been prized for over 5000 years as a tonic to treat common ailments, it appears to have originated in SE Asia and widely cultivated in the known world by the first century. — Read Article

Shingles are generally the result of contracting the chickenpox virus as a child and it’s type 3 HHV-3 Varicella-Zoster or Human Herpes Virus-3, the chickenpox virus is one of the herpes group of viruses, there are in fact over 25 viruses that are of the herpes type. The chickenpox virus reoccurs generally in adults 50 plus in the form of the Varicella-Zoster Virus. An interesting characteristic of many of the viruses we may contract through life. — Read Article