Did you know that stress impacts more than just your mood? It can affect your heart, digestion, immune system, and more! Understanding these effects and how to manage stress can...
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...
Insomnia can be described as difficulty initiating and maintaining sleep, premature waking, and non restorative sleep. Disturbed sleep may cause significant distress or impairment in social, occupational or other important areas...
STRESS – WHAT IS IT? HOW DOES IT AFFECT ME? Stress, put simply, is the way our body reacts to change. It is a natural human response, designed to increase our...
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...
Could toxin overload be the cause of your poor health, infertility, brain fog, fatigue and compromised immune function? How do you protect yourself from ongoing exposures? Each day we are exposed to...
Endocrine disrupters: Xenoestrogens Many of us don’t think twice about the makeup we wear each day or the plastic container we use to pack our lunch. We also know organic food...
Coeliac disease and non-coeliac gluten sensitivity (NCGS) are on the rise in my clinic and often patients are unaware that this may be contributing to the multitude of symptoms they...