by admin | Mar 5, 2023 | Digestion, Gut health, Hormones, Menopause, Nutrition, Perimenopause, Women's Health
Yes this is a blog about the benefits of garlic but I am going to focus specifically on why this is beneficial if you are a mid-life woman. Whilst garlic is a food, it has been an important part of a medical herbalists ‘tool kit’ and has been used for centuries for...
by admin | Feb 26, 2023 | Gut health, Hormones, Lifestyle, Menopause, Perimenopause, Women's Health
Summer can be for some the time when allergies show up. I can remember many a camping trip where I was sneezing so hard and my eyes were watering so badly that we had to come home early – there is nothing fun about sharing a tent with a sneezy, snot monster. ...
by admin | Dec 12, 2022 | Digestion, Gut health, Lifestyle, Microbiome, Nutrition, Women's Health
I know you would have heard me banging on about short chain fatty acids in many of my posts and blogs. They are the magic potion in gut health and butyrate is one of them. I know this might not be the most exciting post of the year but this is something you need to...
by admin | Dec 5, 2022 | Digestion, Gut health, Hormones, Lifestyle, Microbiome, Nutrition, Stress, Women's Health
If only eating was a simple process – you get hungry, you eat until you full, you stop eating but I see it time and time again where it is so hard to eat when you don’t have an appetite or you can’t stop eating There is a difference between hunger and appetite....
by admin | Nov 21, 2022 | Digestion, Gut health, Hormones, Lifestyle, Microbiome, Nutrition, Stress, Women's Health
I know it sounds like an alien planet or a character from Star Trek but this amazing protein is a fundamental part of gut health (although it is found elsewhere in the body), so I thought I should introduce you to it. Our gut is one long tube and our intestines are...
by admin | Nov 14, 2022 | Digestion, Gut health, Hormones, Lifestyle, Stress, Women's Health
Back in 2009 I trained as a yoga teacher. I absolutely loved it – yoga had helped ground me and manage my anxiety and at the time of my training my then 18 month old son ended up in Starship and was very sick – it was yoga that helped keep me together in...
