Under healthy conditions, the intestinal mucosa permits the absorption of vital nutrients from the gut lumen while presenting a barrier against the passage of pathogenic substances into the body.

Do you really know how much sugar your child is ingesting? You may be avoiding the obvious sugars but it’s the not-so-obvious sugars in your kitchen that add up and also affect your kids’ health at the end of the day.

The GAPS diet was derived from the Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD) to naturally treat chronic inflammatory conditions in the digestive tract as a result of a damaged gut lining (or ‘leaky gut’).

I often see clients that are concerned about their calcium intake if they are following a dairy-free diet. The good news is that calcium doesn’t only come in dairy products and calcium pills, it is contained in many different foods with a variety of different colours.

“Essentially, we humans live well enough and long enough, and are smart enough, to generate all sorts of stressful events purely in our heads