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My favourite treatments for IBS
Many medical treatments for IBS only help with symptom management and unfortunately don't treat the root or underlying cause. This is where natural remedies step in. I see a lot of clients with IBS symptoms, it is one of the most prevalent conditions in the Western...
Asking myself a more beautiful question
** Trigger Warning: Talk of Miscarriage ** Yesterday I posted that had they made it Earth side my Little Mate’s would have been two! The messages of love, kindness and support I received were amazing. I really felt called to write this post. To give you a little...
Mood, Gut Health + Stress – The Link.
The way we feel each day has a lot to do with what we eat. This provides us with nutrients to create the energy to run our bodies. What we choose to eat either supports this energy production or depletes it. This is very much the same your mood. The food we eat quite...
Happy Guts Call for Stewed Apples
We in the gut health space love talking about the benefits of bone broth for gut health. But another lesser talked about and most certainly just as beneficial food is the humble stewed apple. And my favourite part about both of these foods - how basic they are....
Nutrition + Wound Healing
Wound healing is quite a complex process. The body literally replaces injured tissue with new tissue that the body produces. This increases the body needs for energy and particular nutrients to be able to undergo this process. The body goes into a catabolic phase when...
Is IBS the condition or the symptom?
April is World IBS Month. As a Nutritionist who loves all things gut and hormones I had to take this opportunity to bring some awareness to this condition. Personally I was diagnosed with IBS in my early 20’s and was told that it was just something I was going to have...
Nutritional Treatments for Period Pain
Period pain is experienced by between 70 and 90% of women, which is a statistic that is crazy to me. Crazy because period pain is not normal, yet oh so common. This article is the third in a series I have been writing on period pain. You can jump back and read the...
Lifestyle Treatments for Period Pain
Did you know that our periods are meant to be relatively pain free? I know crazy right! Yet period pain/menstrual cramps is one of the most commonly experienced period symptom. Whilst I am all about addressing the root cause of your period pain so you actually don’t...
Understanding Period Pain
Let me start by saying whilst period pain is common it is not something that you should have to endure. I would also like to differentiate between two types of period pain. Now I want to say normal period pain but that just doesn’t seem to fit after what I just said...
Why we need fats in our diets. Reversing the trend of the low-fat era.
Unfortunately many people today are scared to consume fats for the fear that eating fat will make you fat - thanks to the many years of being told this is true. I am here today to tell you this is not ture. As a child of the 80’s and 90’s with a mother who wanted to...