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The Mighty Adrenals: A Clinical Perspective on Supporting the Stress Response System

As healthcare professionals, we are acutely aware of the critical role the endocrine system plays in systemic regulation. Yet, the adrenal glands—despite their relatively small size—are often underappreciated for their expansive physiological influence. Perched on top of each kidney, these glands are central to the body’s response to stress, metabolic regulation, immune modulation, and neuroendocrine communication. In clinical practice, recognising patterns of adrenal dysregulation and understanding...

Digestive Health Lifestyle Medicine Diets

Lifestyle factors for the prevention and care of people with inflammatory bowel disease

Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) are chronic inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) typically featuring chronic diarrhoea (with or without bleeding), abdominal pain, and weight loss. These affect an estimated 3.1 million adults in the USA and another 1.3 million in Europe[1],[2]. Globally, the incidence of IBD is increasing, particularly in newly industrialised countries[3]. These diseases are characterised by chronic inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract. However, other symptoms...

Metabolism Digestive Health Food Lifestyle Medicine

Gastro Updates

It’s the very nature of the type of clinical care that practitioners who use nutrition as a key mechanism of clinical care that the gastrointestinal tract becomes central to interventional strategy. Whilst the gut is not always front and centre there is an inevitable engagement and understanding that all that is, or may be happening, in these remarkable tissues is an ongoing quest. One area that those involved in the care of people with inflammatory bowel conditions have long recognised is that psychological...

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Sleep-Immunity-Nutrition

Over the last decades, the prevalence of sleep disorders has substantially increased globally, and it is increasingly understood to have many important health and economic-related effects.[1] A wide range of behavioural risk factors have been identified to explain, at least in part, this rise in sleep challenges. One primary driver is the evolution of the modern lifestyle which is characterised by a number of potential contributors, such as higher levels of non-resolving stress, prolonged working...

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Have you been ‘Gish Galloped?’

This is when you are in discussion with someone, or some people, whose debating method or simply their pursuit of verbal dominance is known among philosophers and rhetoricians as the ‘Gish Gallop’. The aim is simple: to defeat their opponent by burying them in a torrent of incorrect, irrelevant, or idiotic arguments. Named after one of the most vocal ‘creationists,’ Duane Gish, who notoriously used a rapid-fire approach during a debate, presenting arguments and changing topics very quickly and in...

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Food As Medicine

An article in Nature Medicine out in October 2022 sets out some of the developing understanding of using food as medicine[1]. Whilst for those practitioners already immersed in this strategic use it seems obvious, it is important to remember that many practitioners are not. In turn, many people and rather depressingly most government ministers are comfortable with the benign approach to food as energy/profit only. The authors of this paper identify two important areas (in their opinion) that need...

Immune Health Brain Health Vitamins

What the Bs can do

B Vitamins make headlines from time to time, some positive and others less so. This is a short review of the key role they play in brain and immune health. Anxiety management A July 22 paper in the Journal of Human Psychopharmacology: Clinical and Experimental[1]. Identified a mechanism with beneficial outcomes in the use of B6 for the reduction in anxiety, after analysing almost 500 young people over 5 years with self-reported anxiety and depression. Such an influence can be explained because, in...

Digestive Health Probiotics Diets

SCFAs and Skin Health

‘It’s easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled’ attributed to Mark Twain The relationship between the gut and skin health has been one of contention for several years. Primarily the mechanism requires there to be an agreement that the outcome of digestion impacts skin quality. This may seem an obvious connection, but for many people, this is either not understood or denied, often supported by well-meaning clinicians who are also unaware of the important connection A paper...

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The Guts of Health

Our digestive tract is a repository for a multitude of information processing cells, some of which are human and others not. Harbouring a diverse population of organisms in the human gut, including bacteria, fungi, viruses and sometimes parasites, means they interact with each other and with the immune system. In the last few years next-generation sequencing (NGS) techniques have revealed that the genes of gut microbes outnumber human genes by ~150- fold and that the gut microbiota displays unique...

The Mighty Adrenals: A Clinical Perspective on Supporting the Stress Response System

Lifestyle factors for the prevention and care of people with inflammatory bowel disease

Gastro Updates

Sleep-Immunity-Nutrition

Have you been ‘Gish Galloped?’

Food As Medicine

What the Bs can do

SCFAs and Skin Health

The Guts of Health

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