Your microbiome is like your body's brain, influencing everything from digestion to immune function. Bacteria in the gut act as the control centre, programming your body's processes. At NatMed in...
Microbes, those minuscule living organisms invisible to the naked eye, form the foundation of diverse life forms, including bacteria, fungi, yeast, and viruses. Collectively, these entities constitute what we refer...
When was the last time you had a coffee? Go on, think about it for a minute. For most of us the answer is likely to be this morning. Did...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Specific foods or commonly eaten foods could be causing a whole host of health conditions, including digestive problems, headaches, low energy, depression, mood swings, eczema, joint aches, asthma, weight gain,...
Many people understandably believe that the acidic burning sensation symptomatic of heartburn is a result of too much stomach acid, because it seems intuitively true, and because the pharmaceutical industry...
Any conversation on leaky gut has to kick off with a definition of what we mean by ‘the gut’. Basically, the gut is this hollow tube that runs from your...