In over a decade of nutritional practice, I have had more than one client mention, almost as an afterthought, a symptom that turned out to be something serious. It usually happens at the end of an appointment — almost like…
If there is one area of nutritional science I return to again and again with every single client I work with, it is the relationship between dietary fibre and bowel cancer risk. The evidence supporting a high fibre diet for…
Bowel cancer is largely preventable — and that prevention starts on your plate. As a nutritionist, I focus my energy on the modifiable bowel cancer risk factors nutrition can directly influence, because those are the ones we can actually do…
When a client comes to me frustrated with loose, unpredictable stools, my first question is always about diet — not which over-the-counter medication they should be taking. In my practice, foods that firm up loose stools naturally are almost always…
One of the most common and genuinely worrying things I see in my nutrition practice is clients who are drinking litre after litre of plain water during a bout of diarrhoea — and still becoming dangerously dehydrated. They cannot understand…
If you have been struggling with unpredictable, urgent, or chronic loose stools, you are not alone — and you are not without options. One of the most effective tools I reach for in practice when a client presents with IBS-related…
One of the most common questions I receive from clients is a simple one: which are the best probiotics for diarrhoea? And my honest answer is always the same — it depends. Not every bout of loose stools has the…
When a client presents with chronic loose stools, my first instinct is not to reach for supplements — it is to identify the trigger. In my years of clinical practice, the same six chronic diarrhoea nutritional triggers come up again…
Gluten-free baking has a reputation for producing dry, crumbly results — and honestly, for a long time, that reputation was well earned. I have spent years testing flour blends in my own kitchen and working through options with coeliac clients…
I am often asked whether at-home coeliac tests are worth it. My answer depends entirely on what the client is testing for. Over the years, working with dozens of clients who suspect gluten is at the root of their symptoms,…