Probiotics: when, why and which one?
Our digestive system is host to at least 500 different bacterial species. Around 85% of the bacteria in our gut is beneficial to our health, with the remaining 15% being pathogenic bacterial strains and...
Category: Weight loss
Maintaining Healthy Feet
Our feet are astonishingly complicated and require a lot of work to be cared for, as we age. With 26 bones, 33 joints and over 100 muscles, ligaments and tendons, there is a huge...
Low Carb Breakfast Muffin
This is a quick and easy low carb (not no-carb) muffin, which you make in the time it takes to toast a piece of bread. Honest, it’s that easy. Ingredients: 3 tablespoons of...
Naturopathic support for menopause
In Naturopathic Medicine, the approach to helping menopausal women with hormonal support and weight issues focuses on addressing the underlying imbalances in the body and supporting natural processes. The treatment plan integrates natural therapies,...
Podcast recommendations for Longevity
Ageing: how to live longer and feel better for longer. Nothing like covering the big topics in one post! Something which I discuss with a lot of patients, once we have got on top...
Sleep and Low Carb eating
When people come to see me in clinic, regardless of whether it is for weight loss, stress, or any other issue, if they have trouble with their sleep, I will try to help with...
Fruit and Low Carb eating
One of the common questions that I get asked when discussing how to eat low carb is “what about fruit”? We are told from childhood that fruit is essential to our wellbeing, and most...
The end of 2021.
Who else has found this year difficult? I am hearing more sense of exhaustion and anxiety this year than last. It’s not that last year wasn’t a challenge, more that this year has been...
Lockdown weight gain, or Middle Aged Spread
A problem which I am hearing a lot right now is “post-lockdown weight gain”. All of us, with the best of intentions, moved a little less, and indulged a little more, and now, we...
Thriving, not surviving
How do you choose the diet that works for you? Not the diet that leaves you feeling tired, bloated, and yet hungry for more of that food which got you feeling so flat in...