Comparing and contrasting IBD and IBS: a look at how these two gut conditions are similar, the crucial ways they are different, and why it’s important to know which you are dealing with.

All the information you need for your ileoscopy appointment, including the all-important dietary prep beforehand, complete with recipe recommendations.

While there is no doubt of the importance of food and diet when it comes to gut health, it can sometimes ‘steal the spotlight’ entirely, meaning that other important factors get overlooked.

A food diary is an important and potentially very useful tool to help you become more conscious of what you are eating, get to know your body and its responses, and spot patterns that can be very revealing for your health. Here is all you need to know to get started: what to include, how to track, and how to analyse it all.

Receiving a diagnosis of Crohn’s Disease or Ulcerative Colitis can feel very overwhelming. Written from a patient’s point of view, this is some of what I wish I had been told when I was diagnosed with IBD 20 years ago, and what anyone who has been recently diagnosed should know now.

When you are trying to "eat for health" and avoid unnecessary toxins and overall unwanted 'nasties' in your diet, it's good to know which foods have higher/lower pesticide residues. The EWG’s lists for 2021 have arrived. What do they tell us and how should we interpret them?

Thanks to a new study, we can now add gut health benefits to avocado’s health-promoting powers. Turns out, regularly eating avo helps keep your gut happy in more ways than one.

You can’t have a healthy body without a healthy mind. How you approach “healthy eating” matters enormously, both in terms of enhancing its effectiveness, but also for safeguarding against it turning into obsession.

Tips for eating for IBD, including the 3 key foods to remove from your diet, and the 3 to start eating more of now!

My experience of proctocolectomy surgery - why it was necessary, what happened, post-op complications and finally getting on the road to recovery.

Vitamin D has been in the spotlight recently as a result of a study suggesting that it helps fight Covid-19. But it does a lot more than that! It has many key roles to play in the body and is important for immunity, gut health and more.

Keeping hydrated is important for everyone, but especially so during these hot summer months, and for anyone who is losing fluids, whether due to a stomach bug, or as a result of a health condition like IBD. But there’s more to hydration than just drinking lots of water.