The festive season is synonymous with indulgent feasts, rich treats, and social gatherings centred around food and drink. While this is a time to celebrate and enjoy these delicious spreads, the sudden change in eating habits can slow digestive processes and irritate the gut, leading to symptoms like bloating, gas, indigestion, and changes to bowel motions. The good news? You don’t have to skip the festivities to keep your gut happy. Here’s a comprehensive guide to supporting your digestive health during the holidays.

Constipation is one of the most common concerns parents bring to our clinic, and we’ve seen firsthand how significantly it can impact your child's daily life – as well as your entire family dynamic. When left unaddressed, this can become a chronic issue. But the good news is, by taking a naturopathic approach that considers your child’s overall health, we have many tools available to effectively manage and treat constipation. In this blog, we'll explore the diet and lifestyle factors often related to constipation, other underlying causes, and testing options you might like to consider.

Acne is a complex skin condition with a variety of contributing factors, from hormonal imbalances to diet and lifestyle. In our previous blog, we dove deep into the role that hormones play, and today it’s all about huge impact of the gut! 

Leaky gut is a condition where the lining of the small intestine becomes damaged. This damage causes gaps in the tight junctions between the cells of the gut wall, allowing substances like toxins, partially digested food, and bacteria to "leak" into the bloodstream, and can lead to a host of health problems. In this blog, we’re taking all things leaky gut including how it occurs, it’s impact on health, how we diagnose it, and what we can do about it!

When it comes to whether or not you should take probiotics with antibiotics, the short answer is yes! But perhaps not for the reasons you might think. Many people think we take probiotics so that these beneficial bacteria will then take up permanent residence in our gut and continue to grow. This is now understood NOT to be the case. But we should still take them. Read on to learn why.

We see iron deficiency every week in the clinic, in adults and kids. While we get amazing results (with no adverse side effects) from our iron supplementation protocols, understanding the main culprits that result in depleted iron stores is a crucial step in addressing your iron deficiency at its core.

As naturopaths we love to talk about to poo/poop/stools/bowel movements. It’s a fundamental part of the job! And that’s because they are an excellent report card for our digestive and gastrointestinal health which has important ramifications for our overall health and wellbeing.

Constipation is one of the most common gastrointestinal disorders worldwide, in both adults and children. Prevalence estimated at around 20% of the population. That is a lot of people not pooping enough!

Forget your expensive, fancy superfoods, when it comes to the gut the apple, and in particular the stewed apple, is a POWERHOUSE! It turns out that, like always, grandma knew best when she served up stewed apples on the regular! Whether she knew what she was doing or not, those stewed apples she served supported the health of the gut microbiome, intestinal wall integrity (no leaky gut!) and helped reduce allergy and inflammation.

One of the most satisfying things we do is help connect the dots for clients and show them how seemingly unrelated symptoms have the same underlying cause.

So what do migraines, PMS and bowel movements have to do with each other. The link is critical!