Blog — Dr Jess Bowkett

5 Ways to Build Your Blood Healthy blood levels have us feeling physically energised and ready to take on the world. (Be sure to check out Part 1 for my blood vitality checklist). But what happens when the balance is off? As a Chinese medicine practitioner, I have many people consulting with me when they are feeling perpetually fatigued, clouded with brain fog and they can’t for the life of them get a good night's sleep no matter how tired they feel. When the blood becomes depleted in Chinese medicine, we term this: blood deficiency. What does having blood deficiency...

How Do Your Blood Levels Stack Up? As a practitioner of Chinese medicine, I am often telling my patients to eat cooked foods, drink bone broths and go to bed early. (You can bet I’m fun at a party!) This is all in the name of “building blood”. But what exactly does this mean? What does having blood vitality feel like? And does having a Chinese medicine ‘blood deficiency’ pattern, actually mean that you have a low Western medicine blood count? These are all questions that I will answer for you as we dive deep on everything ‘blood’ in this...