What is your caffeine ritual really doing to you?
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...
18 March, 2023
Gut
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
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
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
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
The Amazing Health Benefits Of The Elimination Diet
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,...
27 October, 2021
Is Low Stomach Acid (hypochlorhydria) Causing Your Digestive Issues or Food Allergies?
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...
07 July, 2021
Leaky Gut
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...
17 May, 2021
Strategies To Help You Stress Less
Although its sometimes seen as a dirty word, stress does have an important role to play. If you are faced with a threat, your body switches on your acute stress response...
19 June, 2020
Is Your Gut Bacteria Influencing Your Personality?
Are you Dr Jekyll or Mr Hyde? Are you the social butterfly or prefer smaller gatherings? Do you get stressed easier than others? Maybe it is your gut bacteria… I recently came...
05 June, 2020