Evidence-based resources around therapeutic diets, gut health supplements, and healthy recipes to support people with digestive health conditions such as IBS, SIBO, ulcers, or IBD trying to navigate the best food choices and lifestyle changes!
If you’re among the many who have been wondering, “does green tea help with digestion?” you’re most definitely in the right place! Speaking as a holistic and functional dietitian, gut health nutritionist, and clinical herbalist, I’m confident your burning questions about the potential benefits of green tea for digestion will be covered in this article. …
Nowadays, with IBS, leaky gut, and other digestive health issues exponentially on-the-rise, holistic and functional nutrition practitioners worldwide are leaning more on “functional” fermented, probiotic-rich foods like sauerkraut to help support people suffering from digestive woes. But unfortunately, choosing the best sauerkraut for probiotics and gut health is no longer as easy and simple as …
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Can you take iron supplements and probiotics together? Can probiotics reduce the awful side effects of iron pills for people with iron-deficiency anemia? Does iron feed bad bacteria? Why does iron make people constipated? Is it possible to take iron pills without getting sick? …If you’ve asked yourself any of the above questions, and/or you’re …
Food sensitivities have become a modern-day epidemic, alongside conditions such as leaky gut and dysbiosis (an unhealthy balance of gut microbes). Regardless of the amount of research that has been done on the immune system at this point in time, the mediator release test (“MRT test”) and food sensitivity testing in general remain controversial among …
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“The bitter, the better!” One of my past clients stated that jokingly during a 1:1 meeting years ago, as I was introducing him to bitter herbs for digestion and educating him on the many benefits of herbal bitters for optimal gut health. While digestive herbal bitters are relatively new to the western world, these hidden …
Leaky gut syndrome is a modern-day health epidemic on-the-rise. If left unchecked, a leaky gut can and will spiral into a cascade of other chronic issues such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and/or small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), allergies, adverse food reactions, nutritional deficiencies, autoimmune disorders, hormonal imbalance, skin breakouts, and more. While nutrition is …
“When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use; when diet is correct, medicine is of no need.” – Ayurvedic Proverb Considering that what we eat has been proven countless times over to profoundly impact our health, wellbeing, and overall quality of life (physically, mentally, and emotionally), it comes as no surprise that functional nutrition …
The first time I heard about the potential benefits of collagen for leaky gut was back in 2015, while attending a holistic and functional nutrition conference for continuing education. Having recently reached the “light at the end of the tunnel” on my personal gut healing journey (after a very long road), I was still basking …
Is it possible for IBS and coffee to coexist? This is a conundrum that comes up quite often in the world of gut health and nutrition, and for good reason! Given the multiple types of adverse food reactions and the delayed, dose-dependent nature of food sensitivities that often co-occur with IBS, it can feel confusing …
Given the growing number of people struggling with IBS, IBD, leaky gut and dysbiosis nowadays, “GI mapping” is now making its way into exponentially more functional nutrition and functional medicine clinics worldwide each year. And for good reason! Research has uncovered that the roles of the gut extend far beyond just digesting our food and …
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