Tiny Steps. Big Health
The People Versus Sugar. The Verdict from Judge...
🔬 To highlight this, a recent Nature publication studied the microbiomes of patients on antibiotics and recovering from a bone marrow transplant. They found that patients who ate more sugar...
The People Versus Sugar. The Verdict from Judge...
🔬 To highlight this, a recent Nature publication studied the microbiomes of patients on antibiotics and recovering from a bone marrow transplant. They found that patients who ate more sugar...
💊 Pharmaceuticals and gut health
💊 Some pharmaceuticals can influence your gut health: proton pump inhibitors (reflux), metformin (type 2 diabetes), some SSRIs (depression), ACE inhibitors (cardiovascular health), laxatives, and even paracetamol. 🤔 So what...
💊 Pharmaceuticals and gut health
💊 Some pharmaceuticals can influence your gut health: proton pump inhibitors (reflux), metformin (type 2 diabetes), some SSRIs (depression), ACE inhibitors (cardiovascular health), laxatives, and even paracetamol. 🤔 So what...
Plantain, Peas 🫛 and a Dunedin Coffee Factory
The challenge, of course, is that New Zealand products are more expensive (partly because of the land-value issues identified above). But the counter to not doing this is loss of...
Plantain, Peas 🫛 and a Dunedin Coffee Factory
The challenge, of course, is that New Zealand products are more expensive (partly because of the land-value issues identified above). But the counter to not doing this is loss of...
🌸 Your Gut Changes at Menopause Too
When oestrogen is made in your body, or enters it, your liver tags it with a glucuronide molecule 🏷️, which marks it for disposal, shipping it into the gut in...
🌸 Your Gut Changes at Menopause Too
When oestrogen is made in your body, or enters it, your liver tags it with a glucuronide molecule 🏷️, which marks it for disposal, shipping it into the gut in...
🌱 Seed and Feed - Why Gut Health Needs Both
🥬 Feed. Aim to eat thirty different plant species a week. It sounds challenging until you remember nuts, seeds, beans, lentils, herbs and spices all count. Build up gradually; a...
🌱 Seed and Feed - Why Gut Health Needs Both
🥬 Feed. Aim to eat thirty different plant species a week. It sounds challenging until you remember nuts, seeds, beans, lentils, herbs and spices all count. Build up gradually; a...
Constipation and diarrhoea: two sides of a coin
That is what is so confusing about gut health. It feels counterintuitive that constipation and diarrhoea share a common cause, but they do. Inside your digestive system are trillions of...
Constipation and diarrhoea: two sides of a coin
That is what is so confusing about gut health. It feels counterintuitive that constipation and diarrhoea share a common cause, but they do. Inside your digestive system are trillions of...