by alessandra | Mar 3, 2016 | Blog
One of the greatest challenges my patients face when I start working on their digestive health is moving away from a no grain, often low carbohydrate diet to a more balanced, microbiota-friendly diet that also includes wholegrains and pulses. The most frequent...
by alessandra | Feb 16, 2016 | Blog
Nitric oxide (NO) is a powerful biochemical gas produced by the body that acts as a cellular signalling molecule. It has an incredibly short half-life of a few seconds and it fulfils a variety of really important roles including the vasodilation and tone of blood...
by alessandra | Feb 14, 2016 | Blog
In recent years we have come to understand that insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome go beyond genetics, exercise and dietary habits alone. A number of studies have emerged looking at the role that the gut microbiota has to play in the...
by alessandra | Feb 3, 2016 | Blog
Let’s face it. There is nothing worse than heading to exotic shores like Bali, Thailand or other South-East Asian paradise and experience traveller’s diarrhoea (TD) or Bali belly as we call it Down Under. You might think that you can easily avoid this...
by alessandra | Sep 30, 2015 | Blog
One of my least favourite medicines of all time are proton-pump inhibitors, aka ‘PPIs’ or ‘acid blockers’. I’m seeing more and more people on them, who clearly shouldn’t be. It seems to me that what were once drugs that...
by alessandra | Aug 22, 2015 | Blog
Low levels of serotonin are associated with major depression, anxiety, panic disorders and insomnia. While this is certainly true, there is another, more common symptom that can be caused by even mild serotonin deficiency: carb craving. I’d like to give you a...
