Category Archives: Health

Colon Hydrotherapy – who doesn’t need to lighten the load?

Clearing a Path (click to download) Well if you haven't already heard of colonic irrigation you must be the last one to know – made famous by it's celebrity devotees of the last decade, colonics have been somewhat villified due to the somewhat taboo nature of the, ahem, stuff that they deal with. Download the […]

Do you need a new toothbrush? Let me explain….

Well you see if you do you could have picked one up from The Hopsack FOR FREE. Free, that is, to all our dedicated readers who diligently signed up to receive our newsletter with website updates in their inbox. Makes browsing hassle-free, doesn’t oblige you to buy stuff from us (but we won’t stop you […]

Love is in the air…

…or is it just your lover's scent? Love sweet love has inspired singers, artists and poets, blacksmiths and cowgirls since the dawn of time. Everyone, that is, except scientists, who – with heartbreaking froideur – have boiled the alchemy of love down to chemistry. Or pheromones, to be exact. Pheromones are molecules secreted by animals […]

Deforestation – a good news story?

Well after listening to somebody on Radio 1 a couple of weeks ago from the FSC (Forestry Stewardship Council) talking about Ireland’s disproportionately huge appetite for tropical hardwood trees I was getting extremely depressed hearing statistics such as the 50 hectares of Amazonian rainforest being felled daily when our Tiger was prowling the Irish countryside […]

Asian Anti-Ageing and Women’s Health: Keith Ashton’s Vitality Workshops

Why do our Asian cousins age more slowly? And what can Eastern health traditions offer women who yearn for optimum wellbeing? If you are free over the May Bank Holiday weekend, come to Keith Ashton’s Traditional Chinese Medicine workshops and find out. Keith is a long-standing practitioner and tutor of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). From […]