How to set your 2021 health goal!
Look at your whole life and reflect on what is working and what isn’t. Is there a gap between where you are and where you want to be? Choose an…
Author: Jessica Sherwood
Vitamin D
Vitamin D is something we should be aware of, especially in New Zealand! Did you know that because of where New Zealand is situated in the world that the level…
Essentials For Every Music Festival
Your going to a music festival in 2021, your’ve got the tickets, a way to get there, know what your going to wear but are currently scrolling the internet to…
Fight or Flight! VS Rest and Digest!
Sympathetic vs parasympathetic nervous system There are two parts to your nervous system, and both are needed to keep you alive! The sympathetic nervous system This is the part or…
Acute Inflammation vs Chronic Inflammation
Inflammation is a part of life! Our bodies work to protect us from injury. Injury happens all the time, we stub our toe, get a paper cut, bite our tongue,…
IBD- Ulcerative colitis
What is Ulcerative colitis? Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a life long chronic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that affects the large intestine, specifically the colon. It is an immune-mediated inflammatory condition…
Leaky Gut
What is leaky gut? It is a condition where the tight junctions in your mucosal layer let bigger molecules through than it normally does (this is called increased gastrointestinal permeability),…
Irritable Bowel Syndrome – Diarrhoea Dominant
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is the name they use for the gastrointestinal disorder is which the patient shows symptoms of abdominal pain (relieved by defecation), and either diarrhoea or constipation…
Bowel movements: Constipation
Constipation is a symptom of something else happening in your body, either dietary, hormonal, or functional. Conditions such as hypothyroidism, Parkinson’s Disease, and Diabetes are associated with constipation. Constipation is…
What is the Bristol Stool Chart and what does it mean?
With so many bowel conditions and variations, researchers needed a way to come up with a standardized test to determine what each person’s bowel motions actually looked like and what…