Lately I have been seeing more sensitive patients. These patients are eating only a handful of ‘safe’ foods, they have a long list of supplements that they react to and their symptoms are unusual and hard to pin down to …
Joint Pain & Fatigue Caused by Oxalate Overload
Are you experiencing joint pain and fatigue after you eat certain foods? Maybe it feels more like muscle soreness and an afternoon slump after lunch? Read on to learn how certain foods can be triggering mitochondrial dysfunction leading to fatigue …
Histamine Intolerance & the Gut
There is a strong connection between histamine intolerance and the gut. This inability to deal with high histamine foods in my patients with gut conditions like SIBO, coeliac disease and IBS is something I see in the clinic every week. …
Dietary Fibre and Short Chain Fatty Acids 101
Dietary fibre and the short chain fatty acids that are produced as a by-product have many beneficial impacts on human health. For years now I have been writing on the benefits of different short chain fatty acids (butyrate, acetate and …
Parasite Infection, B12 Deficiency and Gut Symptoms – A Case Study
Blastocystis hominis is a common parasite here in the Byron Bay region and Australia in general. As a protozoan parasite infection it is often transmitted through contaminated water (think unfilter rainwater for anyone living out of towns and cities). This …
Prebiotics: Gut Boosting Review
Unknowingly we have been consuming prebiotic foods for eons. Anyone who was breastfed as an infant has consumed prebiotics that have altered their gut microbiome in a beneficial way. Recently prebiotics have taken the front stage as a gut boosting …
30 Day Elimination Challenge
The elimination diet is one of the gold standards in functional medicine and is one of the most reliable ways to get down to the brass tax. What foods are helping me and what ones are hindering me. In the …