A clinical trial with IBS patients showed that implementing a gluten-free diet for 12 weeks resulted in significant improvement in symptoms. Might YOU be gluten-sensitive and not know it? Find out the latest techniques and tests. Makharia et al. The Overlap between Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity: A Clinical Dilemma. Nutrients. 2015 Dec; […]
Non-coeliac gluten sensitivity is on the rise. This is where your immune system over-reacts to a class of proteins collectively called gluten and causes symptoms anywhere in your body. But is implementing a gluten-free diet really the best thing? Yes and No. If you replace your previously brown bread with a gluten-free sliced pan you […]
Plants contain biological toxins called polyphenols or bioflavonoids. Polyphenols are natural substances in fruit, vegetable herbs, and spices. Polyphenols help the plant deter infections (bacteria, viruses, moulds) and deter predators (insects, animals, and us!). Many plants with high polyphenol content have strong flavours that insects don’t like. Examples of polyphenols include quercetin in apple skins […]
Autoimmune conditions e.g. psoriasis, hypothyroidism, ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s Digestive issues Food sensitivities or allergies If your vitamin D is below 100 nmol/L you don’t have enough. More common signs can include back pain, fatigue, low mood, infections more than once a year, excessive sweating, dry skin, mood issues, high blood pressure, and joint pain. Need […]
Did you know that some common foods damage and inflame your gut, prolonging your struggles with IBS? Refined products. These are “are food artifacts”. That is they’re not really food at all, only calories. Let’s take sugar. It comes from sugar cane which in nature contains nutrients like chromium and B vitamins. These nutrients helped […]
Colitis and Crohn’s and other autoimmune conditions often run in families, right? You might be condemned to suffer these if you have a family history, right? WRONG!! We, humans, have around 23,000 genes. Genes are essentially units of information and are made of DNA. We have 2 copies of each gene, one inherited from each […]
Did you know that at the top of your stomach there’s a valve called the lower oesophageal sphincter? The LOS is there to prevent refluxing of stomach contents back upwards. This valve should be super-strong. If it becomes weak it relaxes and opens at the wrong time. It should only open when you are swallowing. […]