Eating out used to only be done on special occasions. However, restaurants are becoming more and more the preference for a lot in place of their home cooked meals. Although eating out is tempting with the choices available. However, many restaurants offer plenty of lighter options, so eating out can still be healthy.

Here is your round up of the latest health research news from around the world.  Our monthly research round ups are compiled by Lead Instructor and Program Director Leanne Scott, FNTP.

Mental health conversations are becoming increasingly mainstream - but how are mental health conditions defined, diagnosed, and treated in modern healthcare systems?

In this thought-provoking presentation, researcher and author Dr James Davies explores the origins and influence of the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), raising important questions about diagnosis, medication, and the growing mental health landscape.

His work invites deeper reflection on the systems shaping modern mental health care and why a broader, more holistic conversation may be needed.

In this episode NTA Vodcast host Sally-Anne Kearns FNTP sits down again with Maurice Harvey-Hall – mindset architect, meditation teacher, spiritual mentor and mental health nurse – to explore how Internal Family Systems (IFS), polyvagal theory, and a spiritual lens on consciousness can help us make sense of the inner shifts so many are feeling right now.

What makes our NTA AU/NZ Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioners so unique and so sought after?

Without a doubt it’s our Functional Clinical Assessment and Lingual-Neural Testing skillset 

Identifying within yourself that you are a Gray Area Drinker is a powerful yet overwhelming realisation. Jolene Park has walked this path in 2014 when she recognised her unhealthy habits with alcohol and stopped drinking, forever. Despite not being deemed to hit rock bottom, there was a truth within herself that she was drinking too much.

Yoke Mardewi is the founder of Wild Sourdough and her aim is to inspire and help people to make naturally fermented sourdough breads and baked products that are both gut friendly and gluten free, at home that are truly delicious and nourishing. Join Yoke and host Sara Fieschi for a chat about Wholesome Gluten Free Baking.

The world of nutrition professionals has never been so accessible and so diverse. There is a lot to navigate if you are looking for the right person to support your health, or looking for a program that is worthy of your investment, financially and with your most precious resource - your time. To help, we've answered some of the most common questions we have had lately around what it means to be a functional nutritional therapy practitioner and how it differs to other fields of nutrition.

Let’s talk about “Treatment” vs “Restoration”. When we experience pain, discomfort or even an injury our first instinct is it often seek “treatment” correct? But what does the word treatment actually mean? Well according to Websters Dictionary there’s actually at least 10 different meanings for the word treatment but let’s go with what most people assume that it means.