Your Winter Immunity Guide: Simple, Natural Strategies That Actually Work

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Your Winter Immunity Guide: Simple, Natural Strategies That Actually Work

From a naturopath and acupuncturist who has been helping families stay well through winter for over 20 years.

Winter has a way of testing us.

The school bags come home with notes about bugs going around. The office is full of people sniffling. You go to bed feeling fine and wake up at 3am with that unmistakeable scratchiness at the back of your throat.

Sound familiar?

Here is what I have learnt after more than two decades of supporting patients through cold and flu season: the families and individuals who sail through winter with minimal illness are not just lucky. They have usually put a few simple but foundational things in place often without even realising it.

In this post I want to share exactly what those things are. These are the same strategies I use in my own home, and the same ones I come back to with patients every single year. Some are rooted in Traditional Chinese Medicine, some in nutritional science, and all of them are practical enough to start today.

Why You Keep Getting Sick Every Winter (And What’s Actually Going On)

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Why You Keep Getting Sick Every Winter (And What’s Actually Going On)

The three things missing from most people’s winter health plan, and how to fix them.

Every year around this time, I start seeing a familiar pattern in clinic.

Patients come in exhausted, a little run down, often fighting off their second or third cold for the season and start the cycle of getting sick every winter. They have been taking zinc since the first sniffle. They bought the elderberry syrup. They are doing what they think they are supposed to do.

But they keep getting sick.

And when we look a little deeper, the answer is almost always the same: the foundations were not in place before winter arrived.

Supporting Your Child Through Every Stage of Growth and boosting Childrens health

Wellness Corner - acupuncture, anxiety, children's health, chinese medicine, immune support, kids health, naturopathy, wellness - March 25, 2026

Supporting Your Child Through Every Stage of Growth and boosting Childrens Health

A Five Element Perspective on Raising Resilient, Thriving Humans

As parents we want the best for our childrens health. Childhood moves quickly. One moment you are soothing a newborn; the next you are guiding a teen navigating identity, friendships and independence. Each developmental stage brings its own beauty and its own challenges.

When children struggle during these transitions, it’s rarely “just a phase.” Often, it is a sign that their system needs support.

At Shine Health Wellbeing Centre in Black Rock, Marta works with families to strengthen children in their early years so they can move into adolescence and adulthood with resilience, emotional balance and strong health foundations.

Drawing from Traditional Chinese Medicine and the Five Element system, we can better understand where a child may feel “stuck” and how to gently guide them back into flow.

How to get over covid

My brush with Covid and how I got over it

After 2 years plus of dodging the covid bullet, I finally succumbed at the end of April and got those 2 dreaded lines on the RAT. A fabulous birthday gift from my loving partner who also got covid few days before me.

Where did we get it? Maybe on our Easter trip to Tassy, on the plane, at a family gathering, who knows? With over 10,000 daily cases in Victoria at the time of writing, Rona is definitely doing the rounds. It is or maybe is it inevitable that we all get it at some stage?

I wanted to share my experience so those of you who have not yet had it I can be confident that there is definitely support you can have while you are sick and prevent any lingering effects. The good thing is that as a Naturopath I have already treated many people with Covid and the feed back is that what I gave them really helped. Now that I also have personal experience of having covid there is really nothing to be worried about.

Regardless of vaccine status, everyone is susceptible to catching the virus. Some more than others and everyone will have a different experience based on their own immune strength and how much preventative and supportive measures they invested in before they get it.

A Naturopathic approach to immune support.

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A naturopathic approach to immune support.

Prevention is better than cure.

The best naturopathic approach to support your immune system during a pandemic, before and during winter is to focus on taking nutritional and herbal medicines which strengthen the immune system and help with increasing your defences.

There are many evidence based herbs and nutrients which have been well researched and are know to reduce the duration and severity of infections as well as boost your immune capacity.

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Your Winter Immunity Guide: Simple, Natural Strategies That Actually Work

Your Winter Immunity Guide: Simple, Natural Strategies That Actually Work

Why You Keep Getting Sick Every Winter (And What’s Actually Going On)

Why You Keep Getting Sick Every Winter (And What’s Actually Going On)

The three things missing from most people’s winter health plan, and how to fix them.

Supporting Your Child Through Every Stage of Growth and boosting Childrens health

Supporting Your Child Through Every Stage of Growth and boosting Childrens Health

A Five Element Perspective on Raising Resilient, Thriving Humans

How to get over covid

My brush with Covid and how I got over it

A Naturopathic approach to immune support.

A naturopathic approach to immune support.

Prevention is better than cure.

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