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Feeling tired and sluggish often? Do you have a load of food sensitivities, chronic gut issues and joint pains? It could be leaky gut. This is where the gut lining has partly lost it’s integrity leaving contents of the gut to leak out causing a lack of absorption of nutrients from your food and immunoglobulins reacting to gut contents leaking out leading to inflammatory reactions. How to keep a happy gut lining: -Bone broths – bone broths that have been

My plum tree is flowering. These flowers smell utterly divine. In summer these flowers will transform into big juicy deep purple plums. We will delight in picking them, eating them, sharing them, eating the jam our neighbours make from them.   Now as I watch these flowers from my window, I contemplate the wonder of nature. In winter this tree is bare, its resources deep within, conserving the energy it’s not getting from the sun. In spring it changes, flowers.

There are plenty of diets in the world that preach different perspectives on grains and carbohydrates. The two main perspectives is the low-carb no grain view and then the wholegrain no refined carb view. Widely accepted is the view that refined carbohydrates and sugars are generally found in highly processed foods and it’s best to stay away from these. But what do traditional diets say? Traditional diets from cultures around the world before the modern revolution of food processing included

Do you experience reflux or heartburn, take Nexium or Gaviscon? In most cases, reflux is caused by low stomach acid causing the top sphincter of the stomach to remain open which allows stomach contents to shoot back up the oesophagus where there is no protection from the acid causing the feeling of burn or regurgitation of food. Stomach acid should remain at pH level around 2 – meaning very acidic! Antacids can offer symptomatic relief but can further lower stomach

  Feeling a bit prickly? Does your frustration sometimes feel out of balance with the cause? Do you find it hard to smoothly get through challenges that inevitably arise in life?   Our livers are in charge of the free flow of energy in our bodies. When they functioning sub-optimally it can be hard for things to feel easy. We can get ‘stuck’ on things, sometimes everything!   Freeing up the flow of the livers energy in our body enables

  When I am treating patients I am often keeping a quiet but close eye on the state of their digestion, even if their reason for seeing me is seemingly unrelated. Why is this?   In Chinese Medicine we see the digestion, the earth element, at the center of health. Whole schools of thought from medical doctors practicing thousands of years ago, were based in the principle that all disease stems from the digestion. We know more now, but this