When it comes to gut health, there are many recommendations for foods and drinks and a plethora of supplements out in the market that you can find. To make this simpler for you, we’ve chosen to divide our recommendations into three categories that we believe when used in conjunction with Read more…
Part 2 of 2 in our Dangers of Screen Time series. Our families are certainly not immune to the demands of our “plugged in” world and, as you will have read in Part 1 of this Dangers of Screen Time series, we too feel challenged in knowing how to set Read more…
Part 1 of 2 in our Dangers of Screen Time series. Did you know that the average 8 to 10-year-old spends nearly 8 hours a day with a variety of different media, and older children and teenagers spend more than 11 hours per day1? Apparently, our young people now spend Read more…
Are you convinced that 5G must be safe? Have you even thought about it? I mean surely it must be okay, the government or governments around the world wouldn’t allow for national schemes to roll out if they weren’t safe, would they? While it would be fair to assume that Read more…
Erm, what’s that now?! Electromagnetic radiation (EMR) is a form of energy that is all around us. EMR takes many forms such, as radio waves, microwaves, X-rays, gamma rays, ultraviolet, visible light and infrared light. It is a form of non-ionizing radiation which we encounter from electrical and communications equipment Read more…
By Mel Bateson The first time I heard the term Leaky Gut, I had images. They involved watery brown stuff, and a bum. Both gross and funny, I thought I had best educate myself here, if for no other reason than I did not want my juvenile brain to be Read more…
By Mel Bateson If you are anything like me, you may have noticed that there is increasing chatter about Gut Health in the mainstream media, recently. My first thought was of the stereotypical Dad with the rounded belly, the result of a lifetime imbibing food and beverage, and cleaning up Read more…
When most of us ponder the mushroom, we tend to think along the lines of either yummy garlic sautéed mushrooms, trippy psychedelics, or poisonous death fungus. The truth is that mushrooms come in all of these varieties, and so many more! A class of mushroom that has been underutilized in Read more…
Yes, it may feel like all of a sudden, every man and his dog is talking about gut health. Truth be told though we’ve been a bit slow on the uptake though as it was well over 2000 years ago that Hippocrates famously touted, “All disease begins in the gut,” Read more…
If you’ve heard people discussing gut health, then chances are you’ve probably also heard the buzz word “microbiome.” Here’s what you need to know so that you’re just as street smart and savvy as the young hipsters out there…or anyone else who knows about the microbiome, really. Your microbiome refers Read more…