Donna Kerridge (Ngāti Tahinga, Ngāti Mahuta) is a registered medical herbalist and practitioner of rongoā Māori (traditional Māori healing), with a small clinic in Ōakura, Northland.
Led by Dr Sarah Mitchell Weston, belle époque nutrition introduces a fresh, scientifically considered approach to optimal nutrition.
We’ve previously written about how a healthy vagina is not bacteria-free but hosts trillions of bacteria, dominated by Lactobacillus species. Below is the first of a two-part feature discussing probiotics’ roles in relation to the first 1,000 days of life: fertility, pregnancy, and infancy.
In many regions around the world, mental health appears to be worsening, yet we’ve never been more open about discussing it. Have we become too self-preoccupied? Or just kidding ourselves about our progress?
Verve asked some leading lights of the wellness and beauty industries to share their daily routines, and let us in on a few of their secrets for healthy skin, body and mind.









