All the information you need for your ileoscopy appointment, including the all-important dietary prep beforehand, complete with recipe recommendations.

A food diary is an important and potentially very useful tool to help you become more conscious of what you are eating, get to know your body and its responses, and spot patterns that can be very revealing for your health. Here is all you need to know to get started: what to include, how to track, and how to analyse it all.

You can’t have a healthy body without a healthy mind. How you approach “healthy eating” matters enormously, both in terms of enhancing its effectiveness, but also for safeguarding against it turning into obsession.

Tips for eating for IBD, including the 3 key foods to remove from your diet, and the 3 to start eating more of now!

Vitamin D has been in the spotlight recently as a result of a study suggesting that it helps fight Covid-19. But it does a lot more than that! It has many key roles to play in the body and is important for immunity, gut health and more.

It’s easy to get lost in the weeds of which foods are ‘good’ and which are ‘bad’, but every now and then it’s important to remind ourselves of some simple universal basics about food and eating, and how it’s not that complicated after all.

Navigating the many different dietary protocols and the mountains of contradictory dietary information out there can be exhausting! How do you know which is right? By finding what works best for you as an individual, even if that doesn’t fall neatly in line with a dietary ‘label’.

In a nutshell, this book promotes the conscious eating of "real food", as well as low-impact living and is full of all the essential information you could wish for. It is chock-a-block full of solid information and practical advice for being your healthiest self.

Do you sometimes feel your willpower unravelling? Is Project Health just feeling too difficult? Are you struggling to stick to your chosen health regimen? Do you feel like you are the walnut in the photo but you’re also the one holding the hammer? When we feel ourselves self-destructing, what should we do? Push harder or give ourselves a break?

The starting point for the GAPS diet and its gut-healing properties. This book is full of useful information, as well as laying out the foundations and stages of what is possibly one of the most daunting dietary approaches to healing the gut.

There are articles upon articles talking about the practically endless health benefits of coconut oil, from being the best fat to use for cooking, to oil-pulling for whiter teeth. However, occasionally, the odd article damning the practice of cooking with coconut oil as very unhealthy makes the rounds, thus causing inevitable confusion. 

The underlying premise of "Happy Gut" is basically that, given the right conditions, your body wants to, and will, heal itself. Happy Gut is a guide to creating those conditions.