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.

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.

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.

When you have been diagnosed with anything, you are immediately faced with a bit of a conundrum when it comes to treatment options: which is the 'right' one?

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.