You may have noticed that I LOVE kefir and use it all the time and I get asked a lot of questions about kefir, what is it, why is it good for us, is it better than yoghurt, how do you use it etc - so I wanted to answer all of your questions in one article that you can refer back to whenever you need!

There are foods and supplements that are now in the ‘gut health’ category and you will see these listed as probiotic, cultured or fermented foods/products. So what is the difference and which should we be using?  

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).

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! 

We’ve all said it, thought it and complained about it….I’m huuuunnngrryyy!!! So many of us seem to have this fear of being hungry, but has it just become something that we fear because food is so widely available to us today or because we actually believe hunger is a bag thing?