Usually I am one to spend many hours a week in the kitchen prepping healthy meals and I would also train multiple times per week, however over the last few months time to prep healthy meals and exercise has been very limited.

Gut health has become extremely popular recently and for good reason with research suggesting it is related to many things from immunity, how we store fat, regulating glucose levels, controlling appetite, digestion, mental health, hormone and neurotransmitter production and determining our disease risk. 

You may have heard the word microbiome thrown around a lot recently and basically what it means is the make-up of bacteria in our digestive tract (ie. our gut).

I hear ya...this can be a very confusing topic! I regularly get asked about the best types of milk to drink so it seems many of you are pondering over it while you wait for your almond latte or soy chai latte from the local coffee shop.

Whenever clients know they need to make improvements in their diet they first suggest cutting back on junk food, take-away food, soft drink and and the other usual culprits well known to be not very nutritious. However very few times are they willing to suggest they should cut back on coffee,

Kombucha is all the rage at the moment and I felt compelled to write this article after hearing a lot of people say they have swapped alcohol for kombucha during their Feb fast - which worries me! 

Should we drink? How much should we drink? what should we drink?

Detoxification is a very natural and necessary process that is happening within our body every day. In an ideal world, where all we ate was the perfect balance of wholefoods and we weren’t exposed to any toxins, this process would be very efficient.

It’s fair to say the amount of nutrition advice available to us today is absolutely insane and it’s understandable that many of us – myself included – find it difficult to know whether you are eating the right foods for your body.

It's not news to anyone that organic food is more expensive and I'm sure most of you laugh at the idea of eating a 100% organic diet. You might be wondering if organic food is really that superior to non organic food and how on earth you are meant to afford to buy everything organic!?