RETHINKING FEMALE INTIMATE HEALTH
On the day that a paper published in BMC Public Health reports that almost half of British women report poor sexual health...
Nutrigenomics
Nutrigenomics is the science of understanding our inherited genetics in the context of nutrition and lifestyle choices. It is the study of how food affects our genes and how our genes affect the way our body responds to food. It is relevant…
Vitamin D and Covid-19
For those of us living through these strange times in lockdown there is a bombardment of information ( under constant review), of strategies to address and possibly prevent COVID-19. So let us look at the evidence for Vitamin D and…
Immune Health and COVID-19
For most of us our lives have changed enormously in the last couple of months as governments around the world have compelled behavioural changes in response to COVID-19, with lockdown, social distancing and hygiene practices. More is known about the…
ORAL HEALTH
In previous Gut Matters we have looked at the gut microbiome (the complex mixture of beneficial and pathogenic…
Gut Matters – Female Hormones – the Oestrobolome
In the last two Gut Matters we looked the microbiome generally and also mood and sleep. Now we are going to look at female hormones and the influence of the microbiome. From puberty, to PMS, to pregnancy, to menopause and beyond, women’s…
Gut Matters – Mood and Sleep
In last month’s magazine, in Gut Matters I looked generally at the gut and the friendly bacteria that reside within us. This month I want to focus on the issue that concerns so many of us – our moods and sleep. In…
BANT video
My professional body, the British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine (BANT) has produced a short (2.5 minutes) new video outlining the work of nutritional therapists. You can access the video here : https://youtu.be/qsHMfGgULC8
Gut Matters
Has there ever been a more confusing time to make dietary choices, with new and conflicting advice issued on an almost daily basis. Should we become paleo or vegan? Or perhaps we should do the 5:2, intermittent fasting, or time…