The Stressed Gut
When we have a stressful event in our lives that elicits a stress response, the downstream consequences on the gut are felt. We actually feel them in a very real...
18 March, 2023
Author: Demi Roe
How Your Mood Is Influenced By Your Gut – Via The Enteric Nervous System
It’s mental health month at NatMed, and we’re all busy helping patients presenting with the now all too common symptoms of anxiety, depression, stress, poor sleep and gut complaints, particularly...
15 July, 2022
Dietary and Lifestyle Tips To Reduce Hormonal Acne
Acne can present differently from person to person, if you have hormonal acne you may notice your breakouts are occurring before or during your menstrual cycle or after starting/stopping birth...
29 June, 2022
Basal Body Temperature (BBT) Charting for Contraception and Conception
I first came across Basal Body Temperature (BBT) charting when looking for a natural alternative to the current contraception methods available and I knew relying on an app to tell...
22 June, 2022
The Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis
The gut and brain are in constant communication with each other. It’s a bidirectional signalling highway composed of neurons, hormones, and immune cells, and is commonly known as the microbiome-gut-brain...
27 April, 2022
Is Your Tap Water Making You Sick?
Like oxygen, water is essential for life. Water helps regulate your body temperature, moistens tissues in the eyes, nose, and mouth, carries nutrients and oxygen to cells, lubricates joints, helps...
14 March, 2022
Protect Yourself With A Healthy Gut Microbiota
The Gut Microbiota & COVID-19 Regular readers will by now appreciate the importance of gut microbiota and the role it plays in shaping the health and function of our bodies. There is...
22 February, 2022
Anxiety, Stressed and Depressed?
Did you know, that one-month post-COVID-19 outbreak and 2/3 of Australians reported being anxious and stressed while 50% reported being depressed. These are incredible stats, and these stats are being reflected...
08 September, 2021
I stopped drinking coffee and here’s what happened
Instead of embarking on dry July this year, I decided to give up my beloved daily caffeinated beverage. Will I start drinking it again? Probably not…. here is why. Just a...
11 August, 2021