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What is the Vagus Nerve?
What is the Vagus Nerve? The vagus nerve provides a direct telephone line between your gut and brain, allowing them to communicate regularly. The vagus nerve receives information from your gut microbes and communicates this from the gut to the CNS (i.e., the brain)–...
What Makes a Healthy Gut
What Makes a Healthy Gut? The gut is a complex system, influenced by many factors that either enhance GI health or impinge on our digestive function. Disruptions to any of these components create imbalances that can compromise gut function and lead to disease...
What are Bach Flowers?
What are Bach Flowers? Bach Flowers are a set of 38 flower essences, developed in the early 1900’s by an English physician, Dr Edward Bach. The most well-known of the Bach Flowers is a combination of 5 remedies, called Rescue Remedy- Cherry Plum / Clematis / Impatiens...
What is Fibre and Where is it in Food?
What is Fibre and Where is it in Food? As dietary fibre is relatively indigestible and keeps our digestive system healthy. There are 2 sorts of fibre – Soluble and Insoluble. Soluble fibre which soaks up water like a sponge and helps to bulk out our stool (poo)...
Should I Go Gluten Free?
Should I Go Gluten Free? A gluten-free diet is not recommended for everyone. There are even some concerns about the nutritional value of gluten free food. Recent studies have found that the nutritional composition of processed gluten–free food items may include high...
Curbing Cravings
Why Do We Eat When We’re NOT Hungry? We certainly eat when we are happy and it can bring great joy! But we often eat when we are stressed, mad, tired, sad or bored. Our bodies perceive these emotions as chronic stress, and our brains release the hormone cortisol,...