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Clinical Foundations Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a chronic, functional gastrointestinal disorder largely driven by disordered communication between the gut ...
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Like a warm embrace, Poria cocos is the dispensary essential for our time
If we created a modern-day proverb reflecting the therapeutic capacity of Poria cocos (Fu-Ling) it would be ‘the one that takes care of us’. ...
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Tips to Calm: Switching on your Parasympathetic Nervous System
While stress is part of our day to day, whether triggered from the environment, or within our body’s regular biochemical processes, being kin...
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Probiotics or Prebiotics? That is the question...
Dysbiosis has been the buzzword in the natural medicine world for some time in relation to gut health, but the emerging concept is microbi...
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The Good Gut Guide
The Good Gut Guide is a comprehensive resource designed to support your patients on their journey to better gastrointestinal health. The G...
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New insights on the gut-brain connection: A FOSphorylation of happiness
Each probiotic is unique. The human gut is colonised with a complex community of 100 trillion microbe cells. It is estimated that this is ...
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Empowering the Male Patient
Reproductive health, infetilitiy and mental health are amongst the top concerns for men, according to the latest report on the state of ma...
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Iron Deficiency
For many practitioners solving iron deficiency is straightforward, but there are those patients where the usual supplementation approach f...
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FOS, psyllium and lemon balm a potent combination to calm IBS related anxiety
The psychological burden associated with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is high, with estimates that up to 60 percent of sufferers experie...
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FOS and psyllium improve anxiety in IBS patients
Up to 60 per cent of patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) have co-morbid mental health presentations, such as anxiety. Two studies...
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Environmental exposures and the link to declining life expectancy
For the first time since World War 2 we are faced with a downturn in life expectancy and an increased incidence of chronic diseases in adu...
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Men's Health & Fertility Factors
In the August edition of Lunch Literacy Live, we explored pressures on men, the effects on their health and reproductive capacity, and sup...
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Helping male patients regain their mojo
Patients of both genders grapple with stress, energy and reproductive function. The difference between men and women is that women are mor...
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Mitochondrial dysfunction – understanding its impact on overall health
It’s now believed that almost all common chronic health conditions are underpinned by some level of mitochondrial dysfunction. Discover wh...
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Mitochondria and the brain: new research shows a connection with depression
As the monoamine theory of depression falls out of favour1, there is an emerging link between mitochondrial dysfunction and dep...
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