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We spoke with Kate Peddie, Marketing Manager at Juno Labs, the company behind Rescue Remedy — the world’s leading brand for natural emotional wellbeing support. With over 80 years of heritage, they continue to help people manage stress and restore balance using the original Bach Flower Remedies. Kate shares more about the brand’s history, best-sellers, and what makes it a trusted choice for families around the world.
Can you share the story behind Rescue Remedy and what sets it apart?
Experts for over 80 years – Rescue Remedy is the pioneer brand for emotional wellbeing. Made with Original Bach Flowers – Rescue products work naturally with your body and can be used both long and short term. An ideal product for those looking for natural wellness support day and night.
Dr Bach pioneered the sleep and stress category in the 1930s. Dr Bach was a physician and homeopath who discovered 38 natural flower remedies to complement each emotional state.
What’s a great entry point product for someone new to your brand?
The iconic Rescue Remedy dropper was the first product and is still available today in the iconic little yellow bottle.
What’s been a standout moment in your brand’s history?
Rescue Remedy is the world’s #1 emotional wellbeing brand, supporting emotional balance for over 80 years.
Where can readers find your products?
Supermarkets, leading pharmacies and health food stores.
What else should our readers know about your product range?
We have a number of different formats including droppers, sprays and pastilles, safe for the whole family.
Website: https://rescueremedy.store
Phone number: 03 9587 8514
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July 8th 2025
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The dawn of multi-modal fitness is changing the game for health enthusiasts everywhere. This innovative approach synthesises various exercise modalities specifically combining strength training, cardiovascular workouts, flexibility exercises and functional movement into a singular, dynamic regimen. By embracing this integrated style of training, individuals can experience a multitude of benefits that cater to diverse fitness goals while promoting overall wellbeing.
At its core, multi-modal hybrid fitness is about intertwining different exercise types, allowing participants to engage in a comprehensive workout experience. Unlike traditional fitness routines that often compartmentalise strength and cardio sessions using weights or gym-style machines, hybrid fitness melds these elements together, engaging multiple systems simultaneously. The philosophy behind hybrid fitness is rooted in functional fitness – an approach that focuses on exercises mimicking everyday activities, enhancing overall physical capability while preventing injuries.
Individuals, whether they are new to exercising, or even elite or ageing athletes, can attain unprecedented results through this hybrid method. Beginners find their stride by building foundational strength and endurance quickly. In contrast, a seasoned enthusiast can push through performance plateaus, continually setting and achieving new benchmarks. The beauty of hybrid fitness lies in its accessibility – everyone can find their own level of challenge at home or in a gym.
As body wellness and knowledge increases, people aspire for a balance of power, agility and endurance that enables them to thrive in daily life. Hybrid fitness encourages functional fitness, enhancing performance in real-world scenarios.
Key muscle groups involved in multi-modal training
1. Lower body
Quadriceps: Essential for movements like lunges and sled pushes, the quadriceps are heavily engaged during explosive activities.
Hamstrings: These muscles work in tandem with the quads during dynamic movements, helping with power output and stabilisation.
Glutes: The gluteal muscles are a significant focus, providing strength and stability during squats, lunges and bear crawls. They also play a role in maintaining posture and preventing lower-back injuries.
Calves: Important for agility and explosiveness, calf muscles stabilise movements, particularly during push-offs and landings.
2. Core
Abdominals: The rectus abdominis and obliques help stabilise the torso during complex movements and improve overall body coordination.
Erector spinae: These muscles run along the spine, supporting posture and protecting against injury during lifting and dynamic exercises.
Transverse abdominis: This deep core muscle is engaged in stabilising the spine and pelvis, critical for maintaining balance in functional movements.
3. Upper body
Shoulders (deltoids): The deltoids are engaged in overhead movements and pushing exercises, enhancing upper-body strength and functionality. ‘
Chest (pectorals): Involved in pushing exercises, the pecs contribute to overall upper-body strength and≈stability.
Back (latissimus dorsi, trapezius): Critical for stabilisation and pulling movements, these muscles promote posture and reduce injury risks during dynamic exercises.
4. Functional muscle groups
Stabilisers: Smaller, often underutilised muscles aid in balance and joint stability, playing a key role in injury≈prevention.
Synergistic muscle function: Multi-joint exercises engage multiple muscle groups working together, essential for real-world activities and functional fitness.
Numerous benefits
Hybrid fitness routines offer significant functional benefits, including enhanced athleticism through strength gains from resistance training, improved agility and coordination essential for sports and daily activities and increased endurance facilitated by HIIT (high-intensity interval training) elements. These routines also support cognitive and mental resilience by engaging both the body and mind, enhancing neuroplasticity and promoting stress relief through endorphin release. Furthermore, they contribute to health and longevity by improving mobility and flexibility, supporting bone density to reduce the risk of osteoporosis and enhancing metabolic health to lower chronic disease risks such as obesity and diabetes.
Multi-modal hybrid fitness offers a sustainable approach that not only promotes physical health, but also nurtures a balanced lifestyle. By embracing this innovative training style, you can unlock your true potential and cultivate a deeper connection with your body, leading to a healthier, more vibrant life.
Full-body workout
Here are eight of the best multi-modal hybrid exercises that you can easily perform at home. These exercises combine strength, cardio and functional movement, making them effective for a full-body workout without needing specialised equipment.
To create an effective workout, follow these tips. Always warm up for about five to 10 minutes to prevent injury. Add weights – if you have dumbbells or kettlebells, incorporate them to increase the intensity and effectiveness of your workout. Keep water nearby and stay hydrated throughout your workout.
Create a circuit by performing each exercise for 30 seconds, followed by a 15-second rest and completing three to four rounds. This approach engages multiple muscle groups and effectively elevates your heart rate, making it a great hybrid workout for home. Always ensure you maintain proper form to prevent injury.
1. Burpee with push-up
Start in a standing position. Drop into a squat and place your hands on the ground, jumping your feet back into a plank. Perform a push-up, then jump your feet back toward your hands and explode up into a jump.
Benefits: combines strength from the push-up with a cardio-intensive jump, effectively working your upper body, core and legs.
2. Dumbbell thrusters
Stand with feet shoulder-width apart while holding dumbbells at shoulder height. Squat down and, as you stand up, press the dumbbells overhead in one fluid motion.
Benefits: this combines a squat with an overhead press, targeting your legs, glutes and shoulders for strength while elevating your heart rate.
3. Mountain climbers
Begin in a plank position with your hands under your shoulders. Quickly, bring one knee toward your chest, then switch legs rapidly as if you are running in place.
Benefits: A great cardio exercise that engages your core, shoulders and legs, improving both strength and endurance.
4. Lunge with twist
Step forward into a lunge with your right leg and, as you lunge down, twist your torso to the right. Return to standing and repeat on the left side.
Benefits: strength training through lunges combined with rotational movement engages the core and improves flexibility.
5. Plank jacks
Start in a plank position. Jump your feet out wide and then back together, like a jumping jack but in a plank position.
Benefits: This exercise elevates your heart rate while strengthening your core, shoulders and legs.
6. Single-leg deadlift to row
Hold a dumbbell in one hand. Stand on the opposite leg and lean forward, extending the dumbbell toward the ground while lifting your free leg straight behind you. Return to standing and perform a row movement with the dumbbell.
Benefits: Combines balance, strength and core engagement, targeting your hamstrings, glutes and upper back.
7. High knees
Run in place while lifting your knees as high as possible toward your chest. Use your arms to pump and maintain momentum.
Benefits: A powerful cardio exercise that increases your heart rate while also working your core and hip flexors.
8. Bear crawls
Start on all fours and “crawl” forward by moving your right hand and left foot simultaneously, followed by your left hand and right foot. This full-body movement challenges stability, strength and cardio.
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Support your ageing liver with diet, fasting and key nutrients to prevent fatty liver, hormone issues and decline.
I ’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that a lot of us don’t take our livers very seriously. Aside from the national pastime of regular alcohol consumption glorified by a constant flow of advertising suggesting that it’s a social lubricant, rather than a malignant scourge, a visit to an X-ray clinic for a scan that reveals a fatty liver might be greeted with a shrug from our doctor and consequently indifference and inertia from us. This might be a lamentable gaffe as the liver is our largest organ with a significant influence on every metabolic and biochemical process, which can either engender our wellbeing or, if disregarded, spawn our downfall.
This megalopolis is a manufacturing and detoxification behemoth, its portfolio spanning fat digestion, protein and hormone production, immune system function, vitamin and mineral storage as well as detoxification and elimination of any drugs, chemicals, pollutants, invading pathogens and dysfunctional cellular proteins that prevent our cells from executing effectively. Once we accumulate fat around our liver cells, all these processes are significantly impaired, and our livers and the rest of us will age prematurely.
If we fail to eliminate all the metabolic and cellular detritus that the liver is primed to process, rather than being effectively jettisoned, these will accumulate like garbage strewn around our streets and sidewalks if the refuse collectors were to go on strike. When these metabolic waste products are left to circulate around our bodies, they unhinge the normal activity of our brain cells, leading to emotional dysfunction (anxiety and depression) and early cognitive decline with a blunted memory. Our hormones need to be appropriately metabolised then trafficked out of our bodies. Not done correctly, they can become hormonal poisons increasing our risk of developing breast and prostate cancer.
Liver dysfunction can compromise the digestive process making it more difficult to absorb and access the vital nutrients our bodies need. Insufficient absorption of vitamins A and D can diminish our immune capacity and damage our bones. Cholesterol can start to climb, which can block our arteries, leading to heart attacks and an increased likelihood of having a stroke.
These catastrophes can be averted if we pay attention to early warning signs, such as scans revealing fatty liver or elevated liver enzyme tests. What are the steps we can take to reverse these early worrying trends and return our livers to their rightful place as our prime metabolic, detoxification and hormonal haven?
Diet
There is no scientific evidence that has examined a diet that might boost liver activity. What we need to do is maintain our optimal weight by reducing, fats, sugars, starchy carbohydrates and salt and adopt an exercise regime that helps to achieve this goal weight. Research on animals does show that brassica vegetables, especially broccoli and broccoli sprouts, can empower the liver’s detoxification capabilities, which, when combined with hummus, a drizzle of olive oil and a seaweed wafer, makes for a tasty, nutritious snack.
Intermittent fasting
One of the most impactful steps we can take to re-establish effective liver cell function is to fast intermittently. Establishing a pattern whereby for two days a week, food is not consumed after breakfast until breakfast the next morning can revitalise our livers by initiating autophagy. This is a process that eliminates toxins and cellular junk, reducing liver fat and elevated cholesterol, protecting against cancer and generally restoring healthy and effective liver cell activity.
Special supplements
NAD+, which stands for nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, is a molecule that has a crucial influence on energy generation and detoxification all around our bodies and specifically on the cells in our liver, which perform these functions. There is mounting evidence that NAD+ precursors, like nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN) and nicotinamide riboside (NR), improve glucose metabolism, which would then make fat burning easier, effectively leading to the reversal of fatty liver disease. There is one small wrinkle when supplementing with NMN as there is a modicum of research connecting this supplement with increased cancer risk. A colleague of mine has suggested that taking extra vitamin C with NMN may mitigate this risk. I hope he’s correct as this is a strategy I’ve adopted.
We transplant livers because they are such essential organs. What we need to do is find a way to respect and treasure the asset we have before it becomes the ailing liability we need to resurrect.
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Big Wellness Backlash, Sinus Parasites, Creatine Crushing & Seed Oil Sins (Ask Me Anything!) Click An Icon Below To Subscribe In this Ask Me Anything episode, I sat down with my telehealth team to explore some of your most surprising – and surprisingly common – questions. From creatine sensitivity to sinus mucus nodules, we dig…
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There is a lot of self-talk that goes on within all of us. You know the kind of thing: “Stupid! Why did I have to mention the echidna?!” or “This shirt is really workin’ for me today! Smokin’!” Or, “Will I look like a pig if I eat that last biscotti? I really want it, though. Maybe if I create a distraction by setting the packets of sugar on fi re, I can grab it while everyone debates whether a latté will put out a sugar fire?”
While you may have not had those exact thoughts, you will have had others according to your own inner voice. Undoubtedly, your inner thoughts contribute to your outer decisions and behaviour, but they are not the entire story. There will also have been times when you have had a gut feeling or instinct about a situation that was beyond rational understanding. In a highly rational age, we tend to dismiss those gut instincts because they don’t fit a scientific model of sequential reasoning and understanding. However, the more we study gut feelings, the more we realise they contain valuable information and can lead to better decision-making.
Unconscious information
Did you know you have sensory organs that gather information? Your eyes, ears and taste buds all register what is happening in the world around you and send data to your brain, which synthesises that data and makes decisions. However, that is not the end of the data-gathering network that your brain has at its disposal.
Sensors in your muscles, organs and bones all send additional streams of data to a part of the brain called the insula. Signals such as breathing rate, heart rate and body temperature are all somatic markers that provide feedback to your brain. This accessing of unconscious information that occupies the fringes of your awareness is known as “interoception” and it forms a vital component of good decision-making. When you encounter a new situation, your brain is unconsciously scrolling through stored past experiences, looking for patterns that match your current experience. When a potentially relevant pattern is detected, it is your somatic markers that let your brain know, through changed breathing, altered heart rate or tensed muscles. This is all an unconscious process, but it translates into nameless feelings, your gut instinct.
On top of external stimulation and interoceptive data, your brain also accesses your current active thoughts. This treasure trove of data is integrated into a single snapshot of your condition at any given moment, and your brain sums it all up, making
decisions as to what a scenario means and what you need to do.
While the conscious parts of awareness are easy to value simply because you are aware of them, your unconscious, interoceptive gut feelings are less valued but equally as useful. In fact, a study published in the journal Cognition found that damage to a part of the prefrontal cortex in the brain can decouple the brain from interoceptive input, which does not reduce intellect but does impair the ability to learn from negative feedback. Your gut feelings, the interoceptive information that your body sends to your brain, are a vital part of how you navigate the world.
Your body knows
The stock market is by no means a warm and fuzzy place. Large sums of money are exchanged, and it is all based on rationality. Or is it? Research tells us that stock market traders are highly influenced by their gut feelings. One study from the journal Scientific Reports asked high-frequency male hedge fund traders to count their own heartbeats without touching their chest or pulse points. Compared to a control group of male university students, the stock market traders were much better at detecting and counting their own heartbeat. The traders with the most experience were even better than other traders, and ability to detect heart rate was directly correlated with how long they had been trading. The researchers made the point that gut feelings are important for stock market traders in making decisions and they will often go with what “feels right”, responding to their own internal interoceptive signals, even if they are not aware that they are doing so.
Research by Portuguese neuroscientist Antonio Damasio has repeatedly shown that your body can work out patterns long before your brain does. If you can tap into that knowledge, then you can make better decisions, even when they are major life decisions.
Big decisions
Deciding to get married is a big call. Marriage can be a challenging business and should not be entered into lightly after sharing a couple of glasses of champagne and some tonsil hockey at your friend’s housewarming party. You do need to give some careful conscious thought to your choice of partner, but your gut feelings can play a vital role, too.
A study published in the journal Science asked 135 heterosexual couples who had been married less than six months to answer questions about their relationship. The individuals were asked to report their relationship satisfaction and the nature and degree of their relationship problems. The conscious attitudes of the participants toward their relationship were also assessed by asking them to choose adjectives to describe their relationship from opposing pairs such as “good” or “bad” and “satisfied” or “unsatisfied”.
That was fine as far as establishing the participants’ conscious attitudes, but the researchers wanted to establish their gut feelings, or unconscious attitudes, as well. To do this, they flashed a photo of the participant’s partner on a computer screen for one third of a second followed by a positive word like “awesome” or “terrific” or a negative word such as “awful” or “terrible”. The participants then had to press a key on a keyboard to indicate whether the word was positive or negative.
It has been established in other research that people who have a positive feeling about their spouse are quick to recognise positive words but slower to recognise negative words. Similarly, people with a negative attitude are quick to identify negative words but slower to identify positive words.
So having established the conscious and unconscious attitudes of the individuals, the researchers then charted the course of the couples’ relationships over the following years.
They found that what the individuals consciously said had no relationship to their marital happiness over time. However, people who had the most negative or even lukewarm unconscious attitudes reported the lowest levels of marital satisfaction four years later. It seems that gut feelings may be an accurate indicator of what will happen in a marriage.
Enhancing your interoception
There are natural individual differences in how attuned we are to our gut feelings. However, given how useful gut feelings can be, it is worth thinking about how you can optimise your own interoceptive abilities.
Mindfulness practices such as meditation and breathwork are aimed at stilling the conscious chatter of the mind to enable you to connect to what is happening within you, therefore allowing you to better access your gut feelings.
Activities such as yoga, gym work and any form of physical exercise can help you better access what your body is telling you. If you are fit, then your body mass index (BMI) lowers and your baseline heart rate drops. This physical fitness improves heart rate detection ability and connects you more to what your body is telling you.
The bacteria that exist in your gut, your microbiome, are vitally important to your wellbeing. Research has shown that your thoughts and feelings can be shaped by an interplay between your microbiome and your brain.
For instance, one study from the journal Neurogastroenterology & Motility examined differences in behaviour between adult mice that had normal bacteria in their gut compared to mice that had bacteria-free intestines. They found that the germ-free mice showed significantly more anxious behaviour than the mice with normal bacteria.
The researchers found that the bacteria present in the gut regulate the hormonal link between the hypothalamus, the pituitary gland and the adrenal glands. This is the “hormonal axis” involved in the stress response. They also showed that genes linked to learning and memory are altered in germ-free mice and they are altered in one of the brain’s central areas for memory and learning, the hippocampus. Having a healthy microbiome is essential for the flow of information between your gut and your brain. Eating foods rich in probiotics, such as natural or Greek yoghurt, and prebiotics, such as legumes and leeks, may well enhance your ability to detect your own gut feelings.
There is indeed a lot of talk going on within you, and not all of it is coming from your head. Your body is sending your brain a stream of additional information and those gut feelings can help you make decisions, so you would be wise, or wiser, to listen.
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