COMT Gene: How It Shapes Your Stress Response and Oestrogen Clearance The gene that decides how you handle stress, and your own oestrogen COMT is an enzyme that clears dopamine and adrenaline from your system after stress, and also helps clear used oestrogen. A slower version can mean stress lingers [...]
Why Is My Body Inflamed? If you only have a minute, here is what I want you to take from this: Inflammation is not a fault. It is a protective response that is meant to switch on, do its job, then switch off again. When it does not switch [...]
Why Am I So Tired? What Your Pattern of Fatigue Can Tell You “I’m tired all the time” sounds like a symptom, but it doesn’t tell us very much about why you feel that way. Do you feel sleepy, physically exhausted or mentally drained? Does a nap restore your energy, or [...]
Why Am I Bloated? What the Timing of Your Symptoms Can Tell You "Why am I bloated?" is one of the most common questions in gut health, and one of the hardest to answer in a single sentence, because bloating isn't one thing. It's a symptom with dozens of possible causes, [...]
Why the "Wrong" Supplement Can Be the Right Clue If you've ever taken a supplement that was supposed to help but instead made you feel worse, it's easy to assume the supplement was the problem. Sometimes it is. But sometimes your reaction is one of the most useful clues your body [...]
More Than MTHFR: Why Your DNA Results Deserve a Bigger Conversation MTHFR is probably the best-known genetic variant in natural health, but it's only one small piece of a much bigger picture. Your genes influence everything from gut health and inflammation to histamine tolerance, stress resilience, detoxification and how you respond [...]
The First Question I Ask Isn't "What Are Your Symptoms?" It's "What changed?" Whether someone comes to see me with bloating, reflux, constipation, diarrhoea or food intolerances, I almost always start in the same place. "Did anything happen or change around the time this started?" It's a simple question, but over [...]
You're Going Every Day, So Why Does Digestion Still Feel Sluggish? A daily bowel movement doesn't necessarily mean your gut motility is healthy. Emerging research suggests that transit time may be one of the strongest influences on the gut microbiome, affecting microbial diversity, methane production and digestive function. In other words, [...]
Why Am I Suddenly Sensitive to FODMAPs? FODMAP Sensitivity Explains What’s Happening. It Doesn’t Explain Why The low FODMAP diet can be a useful short-term tool for reducing symptoms in IBS such as bloating, abdominal discomfort and changes in bowel habits. However, it was never intended to be a permanent way [...]
When It Looks Like Histamine... But Isn't: Could Hydrogen Sulphide Be the Missing Piece? Not every reaction to food is caused by histamine. Many people who believe they have histamine intolerance actually react more strongly to foods that increase hydrogen sulphide (H₂S) production in the gut. While the symptoms can look surprisingly [...]
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