A Beginner’s Guide to Gut Health: Part 3
By now, you should be able to tell your pre from your probiotics, if you’ve given Part 1 and Part 2 a read. In Part 3, we will bring everything together and provide some practical guidance on how you can support your gut health. Firstly, before improving your gut health, you need to be able […]
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A Beginner’s Guide to Gut Health: Part 2
As we have discussed in A Beginner’s Guide to Gut Health – Part 1, ‘Gut health’ refers to the overall health of your digestive tract. Gut health is a rapidly growing and really interesting field of research. This is largely due to the complex links it has to so many areas of our overall health […]
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A Beginner’s Guide to Gut Health: Part 1
Hippocrates, the ancient Greek physician, who was referred to as the “Father of Medicine”, stated that “All disease begins in the gut“. Although the accuracy of this statement and simplification of human disease has been questioned, he sure was onto something with the sentiment behind this. The importance of good gut health and a diverse […]
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Exercise and Gut Health: Understanding the Potential Advantages
In the pursuit of optimal health, one crucial aspect that often takes centre stage is gut health. The gut, often referred to as the “second brain,” plays a pivotal role in maintaining our physical and mental health. While a balanced diet is of course recognised as a cornerstone of gut health, another potent tool that […]
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The 5 Most Gut Wrenching Foods on the Planet
The other day at Amazonia Bar in Tirana whilst sampling the joys of Albanian cuisine I ate the head of a lamb, complete with brains, eyes, the whole nine yards. Didn’t like it all that
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Gut Health Part 1: How our microbes impact our physical and mental health
"You are what they eat" – Alanna Collen, PhD – biologist Germs are bad…right? David Vetter was 12 years old when he died from a common herpes virus. This
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Gut Health Part 2: Practical tips to improve your gut microbiome
In part one of this series we delve into the microbiome. Discussing how each individual has a unique microbiota which is shaped from our exposure to different
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The Relationship between our Brain and our Gut
There's a reason the gut is called the second brain but why exactly is that? And what effects can a damaged gut have on the rest of the body?
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