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PLASTIC fantastic?

Can you visualise 1.5 million tons of plastic? It’s quite a number isn’t it? I can’t begin to picture what that could possibly look like. Would 1.5 million tons fill…

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The Oral microbiome

your mouth is a window to your overall health. So, what’s the connection between oral health and general, overall health? Many people are unaware that regardless of how well or…

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Chocolate Easter Indulgence

– with anthocyanins? Well, to make a wicked, chocolate indulgence just a little more healthy, it simply HAD to contain beetroot didn’t it?! Please don’t be put off if beetroot…

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‘Mechanotherapy’

Mechanotherapy is the use of mechanical therapeutics that optimise tissue healing, above and beyond what would normally happen if the body was left to its own devices. High quality randomised…

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Let’s talk gut MOTILITY!

It may be embarrassing to talk about poo, but Nutritional Therapists can’t shy away from discussing the bowel and its workings I’m afraid, because it’s fundamental to gut health and…

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Nutritional Therapy in Primary Care?

More than once I have heard a patient say ‘we need one of your kind in every GP practice’, and I smile and I think – so true, but in…

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It’s a Bug’s Life!

Most people are aware that the human body is filled and covered with trillions of bacteria, they outnumber our own cells 10 to 1 and we symbiotically co-exist – with…

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The Future of Medicine

Research is showing our nutrition and certain nutrients in foods can be powerful factors in determining gene expression.  That means if our foods can effect the switching off – and…

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GENES, to know – or not...

Would you rather know your genetic inheritance, or not – that is the question.  And one that many people ponder when they consider purchasing a DNA genomic profile. ‘Do I…

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Micro-plastic particles and bottled water

For many people, it was David Attenborough’s seminal documentary series ‘Blue Planet II ‘, that brought our plastic pollution to the forefront of our consciousness.  Indeed he himself has said…

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