Ayrshire Insights

After work today, my knees were on fire. I don’t make any excuse, because at 76 years of age my knees are worn out - and yet I keep trying to do what I did as a young man! Over [...]

10 Ways to Avoid Vision Loss & Keep Your Eyesight Sharp The internet is full of disinformation. Stuff written by people who should know better than to write as if what they say is fact. Thankfully, within all of the [...]

The benefits of being Out In Nature The physical and psychological benefits of 20-30 minutes among trees or in a natural environment is good for your health. Why is this?  After a short time of 5-15 minutes, the body starts [...]

“Help me,” cries your body. “I’m dehydrated. Can’t you see it?” Some weeks ago, I was sitting in the departure lounge at London Heathrow Airport before heading back up to Glasgow. The flight was delayed and we had time to [...]

If you live from the heart, it's good for the heart When I was growing up, I had a belief that people with compassion and kindness in their hearts could change the world. I learned it from watching my mom [...]

Juicing A comprehensive plan for healing naturally In order to understand the value of juicing, you need to understand what happens when you eat. When you chew food, you are essentially juicing it in your mouth. You are breaking it [...]

Is it only women who can reduce their anxiety levels to near zero? Hi, its Jim writing again. In the last four years, the journey to beat the living daylights out of my potato (I use potato instead of the [...]

Breast cancer - Is there any Good News? Hi everyone, it’s Jim here. Yes, I am a 76-year-old man (the daddy at Essence of Egypt) writing about breast cancer. Why is this, you make ask? Well, the simple facts are [...]

Think Sick and Be Sick, or Think Well and Live Well. No matter whether you are a patient in the UK, a medical student, a mum, or whatever, focusing your attention on illness has been scientifically proven to make you [...]

Putting your best Foot Forward Often overlooked, how best can we look after them? Feet are the foundation of an active lifestyle, but the odds are that you don’t give them proper attention. “As we age, healthy feet become essential [...]

Unlock the Power of Belly Breathing: Breathe Like a Baby. As a young mother gazes blissfully at her baby fast-asleep in a cot, she might notice that as it sleeps, its belly rises and falls in a gentle rolling motion. [...]

Putting Trust in Your Deodorant When we started to write this newsletter, we wondered if our customers actually care about what’s in the deodorant they use? After all, they would never swallow a spoonful of toxic cosmetic ingredients, would they? [...]

A heating engineer’s bad knees. Can they be fixed?  Our director Jim has always been happy to work on his home. Plumbing, plastering, carpentry, even tiling the bathroom. Recently, he decided to upgrade his heating system and changed to a heat-exchanger, solar panels and [...]

What’s the best olive oil in the world? Which are high polyphenol olive oils? Is Spanish olive oil best? Or is it organic extra-virgin oil? What’s the best olive oil to drink daily? These are questions that we see asked [...]

Once upon a time, in the lush, rolling hills of Provence, France, there lived a renowned herbalist named Marie. Marie was known far and wide for her expertise in creating natural remedies and skincare products from the [...]

The old Essence of Egypt apothecary smelled of dried herbs and forgotten secrets. Maya coughed, waving a hand in front of her face. She'd heard whispers of the apothecary's remedies, especially a certain lotion said to heal [...]