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Our eating patterns and behaviours are complex. While eating traditionally was instinctive and the response to the sensation of hunger, in today’s environment where food is so abundant there are many emotional, social and neurochemical cues involved. Appetite is regulated via brain chemistry changes that also influence emotions and behaviour. Certain neurotransmitters have been extensively…

Gut problems affect millions of people in the UK and they represent one of the most common presentations to Doctors and Nutritional Therapists alike. Functional Gut Disorders (FGDs) represent conditions where there are no visible signs of disease or structural problems, and includes Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). It can be very frustrating to be told…

In our busy lifestyles it is common for people to complain of low energy, fatigue and lack of motivation. Whether we are active physically or mentally our bodies require vasts amounts of ATP (Adenosine Triphosphate). ATP is the chemical energy that all of our cells use to sustain life and basic functions that keep us…

Your brain and spinal cord have immense metabolic activity to continually balance the functions of the central nervous system; and this means a lot of “waste” is also produced within the brain every second of the day and night. Along with this metabolic waste, brain cells are also vulnerable to the build up of other…