Pear blackberry autumn fruit

As we come to the end of summer, the nights are drawing in, but with the autumn comes a bountiful harvest. The perfect time to make the most of all the seasonal fruit available in shops and in nature. Inspired by a bag of pears I had in the fridge that were starting to look…

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Stress

Stress can impact your digestive health in a number of ways.  Cortisol ‘the stress hormone’ should follow a daily rhythm where it builds overnight and peaks as we wake in the morning. It should then gradually reduce throughout the day.  It’s what gives us our get up and go in the morning and enables us…

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Hippocrates famously said, “All disease begins in the gut”.  More than 2,000 years later there is a growing body of evidence supporting the critical role gut health plays in overall health [1].  Our gut comprises a hollow tube that is open to the outside world at either end.  As such, it acts as a gate keeper,…

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