Injury, trauma and surgery leave their mark. Scars. It’s inevitable – scars are a normal part of the healing process. Healing needs nutrients. Nutrients for scars. This goes for all scars, including Caesarean scars or the abdominal scar after a hysterectomy. These are easy to see (which doesn’t always make us happy! Scars that [...]
It’s sad but true. While we’d like to think we can get all our essential nutrients from food, it’s not easy. Last post I talked about how are diets are never as good as we’d like to think. Most of us know this intuitively, and research confirms we’re not meeting our nutrient requirements. For example, [...]
What you might be doing to rob yourself of essential nutrients might surprise you! We all know that getting enough nutrients is important for general health and normal functioning of the body. But it’s not just about eating a healthy diet (as nutrients in food may be lower than you think). Even if you are [...]
Gluten-free, Paleo, grain-free, low-FODMAPs, Specific Carbohydrate Diet, GAPs, raw, liver detox, low-salicylate/amine/glutamates, high-fibre, high-protein, low-carbohydrate, anti-Candida, low-oxalate, alkalising, Weston A Price, vegetarian…how do you sift your way through? Some of these diets can be questionable, especially the way they are described or interpreted on some websites or by less experienced practitioners. But most of these [...]
Ever felt that everything you eat makes you bloat? Have your symptoms been dismissed as irritable bowel syndrome? You could have SIBO. SIBO - that is, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. Research is slowly growing on this common cause of abdominal bloating and pain. However, as with all early research, it won’t necessarily have found [...]
You’ve heard about carbohydrates and diabetes and obesity, but carbs and colon cancer? It’s not a link that usually comes to mind.Even so, a study just out shows that high-carbohydrate diets can worsen prognosis after a diagnosis of bowel cancer. People with colon cancer who ate a high-carb diet after their diagnosis were more likely [...]
We’ve all heard of ‘’anaemia’’, or more specifically, ‘’iron-deficiency anaemia’’. ‘’Anaemic’’ brings to mind an image of a pale, wan, drawn person, so fatigued a gust of wind could them blow over. Then there’s the description ‘’a little bit anaemic’’, as in: ‘’I always get a little bit anaemic during my period…’’. It may not [...]
It’s something every mother-to-be dreads: passing on your own problems. And allergy is something that definitely gets passed on: asthma, eczema, hayfever and food allergy. If you've suffered terribly with any of these, you want to protect your baby from allergy! Well, there’s good news: the science of epigenetics is revealing more every day about [...]
If so many people are on reflux medications (PPIs), doesn't it mean they are safe?Reflux, that burning feeling of ‘’something coming back up’’ your oesophagus after eating, is sometimes called heartburn but is technically known as GORD or Gastro-oesophageal Reflux Disease. A group of medications called the PPIs (proton-pump inhibitors) is commonly prescribed for symptoms [...]
You love your coffee. You’ve never wanted to believe that it’s bad for your bladder, bad for your arteries, and a crutch allowing you to work too hard. So it’s been great to hear the good news stories about coffee being good for you after all...but can we trust them? I owe the blog post [...]
