by alessandra | Apr 8, 2016 | Blog
Ever since BPA-free packaging has hit the shelves, I have been smelling a rat. The overnight switch to BPA-free materials seemed too easy, too global and too fast. While colourful, reassuring labels were lulling parents and health conscious people into a false sense...
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...
