Gut

Recently I’ve been asked about the sugar, alcohol and caffeine content of kombucha, so here are my answers.  Firstly, there is no such thing as completely sugar-free kombucha.  While kombucha can [...]

Up to one in four Australian women live with chronic pelvic pain due to endometriosis or irritable bowel syndrome.  This shouldn’t be the case. Part of the problem is the difficulty in receiving [...]

Do you suffer from frequent abdominal cramping, bloating, gas, diarrhoea, constipation or a combination of these symptoms? Have you been tested for a variety of abdominal disorders only to be [...]

Today’s Gold Coast ABC radio Drive show with Julie Clift has been cancelled. This means my interview about endometriosis has been postponed until Thursday 27th August.  However, you don’t have to [...]

Twenty five percent of Australian women suffer from severe, chronic pelvic pain without knowing why. In many cases the pain is so debilitating they are unable to work for several days every [...]

We know that WHAT we eat matters. But does WHEN we eat make a difference?  Fasting is fast overtaking dieting as a health trend. But is fasting really a new idea or is it just calorie restriction [...]

Many readers have asked for a user’s guide to improving gut health. Putting together all the research I’ve reviewed to date, here is my checklist for building a healthy gut. Obviously you can’t [...]

Our microbes need us to move. Researchers at the University of Illinois have discovered that the composition of our gut microbes can be improved by exercise alone. How? The first experiment [...]

When we talk about ‘gut health’ we’re talking about a complex system with three inseparable components. the gut cells themselves that make up the gastrointestinal tract from our mouth to our anus [...]

In response to last month’s Health-e-Byte about Caesarean births increasing the risk of obesity, diabetes, asthma, autoimmune diseases and gut disorders, I’ve received a deluge of questions about [...]