“Stress is not a state of mind… it’s measurable and dangerous, and humans can’t seem to find their off-switch” – Neurobiologist Robert Sapolsky in the documentary Stress: Portrait of a Killer. The International Stress Awareness Week (5 – 9 November) highlights the impact that chronic stress has on...
When health advocates encourage us ‘eat a rainbow’ and ‘ditch the beige’, they mean us to eat as wide a variety of colourful foods every day and avoid beige processed and engineered foods like bread, toast, pizza, sandwiches and cereals. Why? Well, apart from the fact that processed foods are...
The saying “You are what you eat” has scarcely been more apt. We live in an age of fast food, ultra-processed food-like substances and fake GMO ‘foods’. You name it – actually scratch that, you likely can’t name it. Much of the ‘food’ available to us is manufactured with unpronounceable...
Hey everyone… happy September! With ‘Self-care September’ firmly in mind, I just wanted to give you all a quick ‘heads up’ on a great new e-book which I have had the pleasure of working on over the summer, along with Jo Romero and a team of 19 health bloggers, experts and...
The more I thought about farming, food and medicine in the present day, the more it struck me how all three systems are struggling with common problems and facing HUGE challenges. I asked myself: why isn’t everyone involved – farmers, doctors, nutritionists and chefs – working together for people and planet?...
Winter foods are hygge to you and your Gut Critters! When we adjust our diet and lifestyle to match the demands of those colder, darker winter months, not only do we feel better, but our health-promoting digestive microbes change dramatically too, manufacturing enzymes that support our winter needs for energy,...
Our cheeky little Gut Critters (aka our gut microbiome) NEED a Summer diet! They’re calling for us to calm the heat in our belly and transition from Spring foods to a Summer diet. These smart cookies want cooler, moister foods which balance immunity, digestion, energy and weight and we need to listen...
Autoimmune disease is a bummer. Autoimmune arthritis is a bummer. And psoriatic arthritis – a form of autoimmune arthritis with psoriasis – is no exception. Left to its own devices, autoimmune diseases take no prisoners in their destructive progression and conventional approaches can only leave the sufferer reliant upon toxic and hideously debilitating medications....
‘Spring’ foods do a body good! The ancient life-sciences and traditional societies knew that it does a body good to eat seasonally and modern science may just be catching up! Our gut microbes are smart and demanding critters and we need to keep up! Ever wondered why we call Nature’s regenerative season...
Sadly, my younger self wasn’t able to piece together the complex medical and research jigsaw on arthritis and psoriasis that convinced me that food-as-medicine was the ONLY way of truly healing myself from a progressive autoimmune disease – psoriatic arthritis. IN THE FIRST POST in this series I shared how good it felt to know I...
