Cara Wheatley-McGrain

Attention is the most basic form of Love

Where we place our attention matters… How would you feel about 10 days in silence? To not have access to your phone, laptop or any form of media, or even reading materials. Yes no tech, no music or gadgets for 10 whole days? Well I  found out last week… (and no I wasn’t being held …

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Breaking news in the world of gut health and IBD!

The BMJ British Medical Journal has just published an important study which concludes: Across six US and European cohorts, a substantial burden of inflammatory bowel diseases risk may be preventable through lifestyle modification. Headline biggest risk factors for Crohns was a low fibre diet, for UC low fruit and veg intake!  Ok this isn’t an …

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Happy World Digestive Health Day

Calling Gen Xer’s and Millennials – it’s time to listen to your gut! When we talk about gut health it’s easy to see our own gut trouble in isolation – an embarrassing little problem… Did you know that colorectal cancer is the 2nd leading cause of cancer-related death in the world?* The good news is overall colorectal …

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The Essential Guide to IBS

 A whopping one in five of us will suffer some IBS symptoms, and around one in 10 will experience deeply distressing, life-restricting. IBS is frequently described as a functional condition, meaning that there is limited evidence of physiological changes to the gut wall. For many years, the lack of evidence of physical changes meant people …

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What’s up with your Gut?

If your gut is troubled, you’re not alone. Every 30 minutes, someone in the UK is diagnosed with IBD; that’s nearly half a million people. There are over three million inflamed intestines in the USA and Canada, while Australians have one of the highest IBD incidences per capita. Bloated, inflamed, and too often unloved and unheeded, …

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Why Protecting your #Gut Diversity protects Biodiversity!

There’s been a flurry of new announcements this week from COP26. It was reassuring to see the twinkling presence of the 95-year-old Sir David Attenborough who cut through the politicians’ hyperbole and lit a beacon of hope, a challenge to our shared humanity and to our global leaders. There is still time if we act …

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Hot Flushes and Fermented Food

Is our perimenopause a good time to start fermenting our food? Did you know that one of the classic symptoms associated with perimenopause – the hot flush – has significant cultural variations? The majority of American and UK women experience hot flushes as their hormone levels change during perimenopause, However, only a very small proportion …

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The Gut Microbiome and Mental Health

#WorldMentalHealthDay Did you know there are about 40,000,000,000,000 micro-organisms in your gut! YES, I know, yikes!! Our gut microbiome is as unique as our fingerprint. Shaped by age, diet, race, where we live, lifestyle factors, and potentially even gender. So many factors interplay and shape our unique microbiome. But one we can lead on is …

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