Health Topics
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Solving Stubborn Constipation: Understanding the Causes Behind Chronic Constipation
Chronic constipation is more than simply not opening your bowels every day. It can include hard or difficult stools, straining, bloating, incomplete emptying, reliance on laxatives or enemas, and even episodes of diarrhoea or faecal leakage.
In this Health Topic, I explore Functional Constipation and IBS-C, possible underlying contributors, the gut microbiome and methane/IMO, microbiome testing, overflow diarrhoea, and constipation in children.
If constipation has become your "normal", it may be time to look beyond the symptom and explore the missing pieces of your digestive puzzle.
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It's Not Just Your Hormones: Looking Beyond the Symptoms
It's Not Just Your Hormones: Looking Beyond the Symptoms
Hormonal health is about much more than your menstrual cycle. In this Health Topic, we explore the latest research on PMDD, the transition from PCOS to PMOS, fibroids, thyroid health, gut health, the microbiome, mineral balance and perimenopause. Discover why hormones don't work in isolation and how taking a whole-body approach can help you better understand your health.
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When Everything Feels Like a Trigger: Exploring Histamine, Gut Health, Mast Cells and the Microbiome
Do you feel like your body reacts to everything? This blog explores the fascinating connections between histamine, gut health, mast cells and the microbiome, and how they may influence symptoms such as fatigue, food sensitivities, digestive issues, headaches, skin reactions and inflammation.
Learn why looking beyond individual triggers and supporting the gut, immune system and nervous system may be an important step toward understanding your health more fully.
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ADHD, ASD, Neurodivergence & Mood Disorders: Mineral Balance, Gut Health & Toxic Load
Could underlying imbalances be influencing symptoms such as poor focus, anxiety, sensory sensitivities, or mood changes? In this blog, we explore how mineral imbalances, gut health, oxalates, hormones, and environmental factors may play a role in ADHD, ASD, and neurodivergence — and how functional testing like HTMA and Organic Acids Testing can help uncover a more personalised path to support.