Pease St - Cairns
Store Details
Opening Hours
Monday | 8:00am – 7:30pm |
Tuesday | 8:00am – 7:30pm |
Wednesday | 8:00am – 7:30pm |
Thursday | 8:00am – 7:30pm |
Friday | 8:00am – 7:30pm |
Saturday | 8:30am – 5:30pm |
Sunday | 8:30am – 5:30pm |
Pease St WholeLife Pharmacy & Healthfoods
Shop 27, Piccone’s Shopping Village, 159-161 Pease St, Manoora, QLD 4870



WholeLife Pease St is where the WholeLife concept was born. Founded by Frank and Vince Pappalardo, the store remains proudly owned and operated by the brothers, who have built a trusted reputation in the Cairns community.
As Australia’s first pharmacy retailer to embrace a truly holistic approach to health and wellbeing, WholeLife Pease St combines expert pharmacy services with a leading range of natural and organic products across skincare, beauty, health foods, and nutrition.
Pease St WholeLife is also home to North QLD Compounding, offering specialised services tailored to individual medicinal needs. With a modern, fully equipped USP795-registered laboratory, the team provides advanced compounding solutions, from customised prescriptions to veterinary and paediatric formulations.
Specialist services include:
- Compounding pharmacy, including veterinary and paediatric solutions
- State-of-the-art compounding-only laboratory
- In-house DAA packing
- Pharmacy and health food services
- Vaccinations
- Naturopath and nutritionist consultations
- Sports nutrition
Visit WholeLife Pease St and experience expert care with a personalised approach to health and wellness.
Pease St - Cairns Staff
Pharmacist(s): Frank, Vince, Brett, Nicki, Tilly, Jon, Claire, Michelle (compounding pharmacist)
Naturopath: Donna, Akiko
Health Services Provided by Pease St - Cairns
Featured Services

Compounding

Naturopath

Nutritionist
Vaccination Services

COVID-19

Flu (Influenza)

Whooping Cough (Diptheria Tetanus Pertussis)
Pharmacist Consultation Services

Hormonal Contraception

Urinary Tract Infection (UTI)
Wellness Services

Naturopath

Nutritionist
Pharmacy Services

Compounding

Equipment Hire

Medication Packs (DAA or Blisters)

NDSS Access Point
Health Checks

Absence From Work Certificate

Blood Pressure Monitoring

Sleep Apnoea
Pease St WholeLife Pharmacy & Healthfoods
Pease St WholeLife Pharmacy & Healthfoods
PEASE ST NATUROPATHS
Helping you find natural solutions to health issues and concerns.
About Akiko
Qualifications
- Adv. Dip Naturopathy
- Dip Beauty therapy
- Certificate IV massage therapy
Is there any health topics / conditions you specialise in or particularly passionate about?
I love to help sick people (physically and mentally) to get better. But how and why did they become sick in the first place? I am always aware of individual uniqueness and individual “HOPE” and the individual potential to natural healing power.
I have a special interest in helping to support clients with gut and skin problems, stress and anxiety, low energy and women’s health.
We have to look into the whole picture as to why it happens and why now, and what causes it?
So my passion is to commit myself and others to self-exploration and self-development.
Through my ongoing training with integrated doctors I love to look at the patients case through a holistic approach.
I can request many different pathology tests, which is my favourite tool to look at individual uniqueness, and is a more balanced proactive approach to people’s health.
For example, most people believe, first lose weight then become healthy. But I put this the other way around: first become healthy, then you will lose weight.
If people have ongoing stress, chronic inflammation, gut dysmotility, insulin resistance, adrenal fatigue etc., we must ensure the underlying causes of these are addressed.
Information on professional background and history? What got you into naturopathy?
I have been in the health and beauty industry for nearly 20 years. I am passionate about helping the local community by encouraging all people to live a happy and healthy lifestyle. I thrive on seeing my clients in optimal health and wellbeing.
I originally studied naturopathy to help myself physically and mentally then I realised that Naturopathic medicine opened my eyes to possibilities in health care that treat the whole person, and ensures that every aspect of that person, body, mind, and spirit are taken in to consideration.
Naturopathy is so much more than wellness. These modalities affect our physiology at its most basic level. The healing power of nature, supplies the body with the natural ability to heal itself when supplied with the right environment and or conditions. I also love that it can be used as a preventative strategy.
We are trained to implement the least invasive, most natural treatment first, whenever possible. I have found it very rewarding discovering the medicinal value of many herbs and supplements that are all around us in safe doses, and being able to share this knowledge with others.
Highlights / selling points for your consults?
As a naturopath, I like to closely work together with pharmacists and GP’s to safely combine evidence based natural medicine with western medicine. This enables us to create treatment plans designed for your specific health needs.
Being an international resident, enables me to help my clients in a variety of ways, specialising in a holistic approach. I have always been very intuitive and most times when I see the people or clients in front of me, I can quickly understand why they are here. I can provide an alternative view of reading blood tests, hair analysis, epigenetic DNA test and so on, including body analysis.
Prevention is always better than cure, and of course we always educate the client about their health and encourage them to get involved with their own health care.
I have completed the online module in epigenetics DNA test. Interpreting genetic profiles isn’t easy, but every time I have done this test for my clients, I realise it is fascinating how our genes interact with our lifestyle choices, such as nutrition, exercise and environmental exposures. I encourage all to aim for the restoration and maintenance of their own health through dietary and life style advice as well as supplements, including vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids, amino acids, flavonoids and herbs.
About Donna
Donna is one of our amazing naturopaths at WholeLife Pharmacy and Health Foods, Pease St.
Naturopathy has always been a core part of her life; it’s who she is, not what she does. She cannot identify a distinct moment that the practice became an aspect of her life and instead, describes it as something that has always been there. She prides herself on her capacity to help people holistically, emphasising that mental and physical health, and spirituality, are fundamental elements of wellbeing that are all thoroughly intertwined. She states that she, “treats people, not diseases.”
Donna’s interests are diverse—no one area is more important or fascinating to her than another. She works with flower essences and also incorporates massage therapy, mineral therapy, iridology, quantum resonance testing, and hair testing into her practice, to address her clients’ unique requirements.
Within the WholeLife team, Donna works hand-in-hand with our pharmacists to combine traditional medical and naturopathic measures, to find integrative solutions tailored to the individual.
Donna is a valued member of our team and has accomplished a lot over the course of her career. We’re proud to work with her and excited to watch as she continues to grow!
It is our goal to provide customised quality solutions for our patients and prescribers to achieve the best possible health outcomes by making medications of the highest possible quality.
We believe that each one of our patients is an individual and so we will endeavour to consistently provide for individual needs and expectations. We will always supply compounded products of the best possible quality and data based on the most up to date information available.
Each patient is entitled to receive compounded products of the best possible quality, supplied within a suitable time frame and at a sensible cost. We value each and every patient and our service will reflect our detailed, honest, caring, innovative and consistent approach to customer care.
WholeLife Pease St has a fully contained State-Of-The-Art compounding only laboratory and facility built to the highest specification from stainless steel benchtops, door seals and specialized laboratory lighting which complies with USP standards. Our state of the art laboratory is a clean, environmentally controlled area containing an array of equipment and tools necessary to produce fine quality medication. The use of sophisticated compounding equipment in a sterile environment ensures the highest standards are maintained resulting in top quality products. The laboratory is constantly monitored and maintained at constant pressure, temperature and humidity in order to maintain the highest stability of all raw ingredients. Staff entering these rooms must be appropriately gowned including face masks, gloves, shoe covers and hair nets. We also have a strict daily cleaning procedure to ensure it is maintained so.
WholeLife Pease St has dedicated staff primarily for compounding making us the compounding specialists in the Far North. Our primary focus and goal is to provide pharmaceutical quality products which then led us to invest in a world-class, state of the art compounding the only facility according to TGA standards in conjunction with tight quality control procedures.
Our laboratory only uses TGA-registered and approved pharmaceutical-grade raw materials (eg. minerals, vitamins, amino acids) complying with usp/bp/ep/jp specifications and manufactured in accordance with the Australian code for gmp (good manufacturing practice). Ingredients used in our laboratory are obtained from the same compounding suppliers and each ingredient obtained is accompanied by a certificate of analysis to establish that its quality was found to comply with pharmaceutical-grade standards. All certificates of analysis and batch record sheets are kept on record for future reference to provide the highest quality care for each patient.
Many medications are not commercially available for animals but pets are a part of your family so they deserve the highest quality customised care. WholeLife Pease St can offer Veterinarians and Pet owners a specialised service tailor-made for veterinary clinics. When trying to medicate their animals, pet owners don’t have many commercially available options to choose from, and then they have to try and dose their pets after that. We can offer you sophisticated, quality, and appropriately priced treatment for your pet, much as what you might receive for yourself.
We know how picky animals can be when it comes to their diet, therefore our job is to make the dosing of these medicines as easy as possible. The flavour of which animals prefer is determined partially by their natural diets and domesticated animals often acquire additional taste preferences as a result of living with their human carers. Flavouring unpleasant medication to increase palatability and compliance is one of the primary ways WholeLife Pease St can improve clinical outcomes and reduce stress for both patients and owners. We offer custom-made and tailored medications in various dosage forms to suit each animal species’ taste such as a flavoured oral dose, or as a transdermal cream that can be applied directly onto your pet’s skin. Fish or chicken-flavoured medications for cats and liver or beef flavoured medications for dogs along with many others are readily available.
Evolt 360 Body Composition Analyzer is a scientifically validated method of body composition used in medicine and science- a simple non-invasive Intelligent Body Scanner with 8 electrode multifrequency that provides detailed data through more than 40 measurements and 5 body compartment measuring methods within 60 seconds. It works by passing a safe electrical current through the feet and hands where the resistance to flow of the current determines the difference between muscle mass, fat mass, water and mineral — a measurement far beyond the one-size-fits-all generic BMI. All readings are specific to the individual, allowing better design of a health and wellness program. Results are instantly downloaded and saved to the user’s app and smart device.
DNA testing – collection of a simple cheek swab DNA sample provides your unique and customized genetic make up paying particular attention to medicines and their metabolism (which varies between individuals), diet, exercise and how best to use these results to enhance and further your health and wellbeing. These results give your doctor/health professional a better understanding as to how medication side effects may be avoided and what combinations may be more or less effective- all unique to each individual’s genetic makeup.