by Monique | Apr 6, 2017 | Miscellaneous
Our digestive tract houses roughly 100 trillion microorganisms that play a hugely important role in many aspects of our health. Justin L. Sonnenburg, Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Stanford University and author of “The Good Gut” calls the...
by Monique | Feb 7, 2017 | Healthy Recipes, Salads
In my recent blog post (What’s “Bugging” You?) I wrote about the benefits of eating foods that are high in Resistant Starch (RS). RS is a type of starch that resists digestion and travels down our digestive tract intact until it reaches the colon...
by Monique | Feb 7, 2017 | Miscellaneous
What You Need To Know About Optimising Your Gut Microbiome. It is not exactly a secret anymore that we harbour, in and on our bodies, a veritable ecosystem of microbes. We host about 100 trillion (!) of different micro organisms in our digestive tract that literally...
by Monique | Dec 3, 2015 | Health Issues
About 10 years ago, after spending endless hours with different doctors to try and resolve my health complaints, I found my way to a naturopatic doctor in Singapore who took all of 10 minutes to identify the root cause of my problems: a leaky gut. We ran a test via a...
