“The road to health is paved with good intestines.”
— Sherry A Rogers
IBD vs IBS: A Letter & A World Apart
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.
10 Ways To Support Gut Health (That Have Nothing To Do With Your Diet)
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.
Avocado and Gut Health: Study finds positive effects on microbiome
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.
Vitamin D: Its Role in Immunity and Gut Health
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.
Review of "GAPS: Gut and Psychology Syndrome", by Dr Natasha Campbell-McBride
The starting point for the GAPS diet and its gut-healing properties. This book is full of useful information, as well as laying out the foundations and stages of what is possibly one of the most daunting dietary approaches to healing the gut.
Review of "Happy Gut", by Vincent Pedre MD
The underlying premise of "Happy Gut" is basically that, given the right conditions, your body wants to, and will, heal itself. Happy Gut is a guide to creating those conditions.
Tackling the Poo Taboo!
An informative guide for how to talk to your doctor about your symptoms - ALL of them!
Blood Tests and Tears
Crying over your blood test results doesn’t seem like normal behaviour, and yet that is what I did earlier today. My black and white paper profile just drove home the message that my body has been giving me for the last few weeks: I am entering a flare.
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