Alex Mercer · March 31, 2026
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…
Alex Mercer · March 30, 2026
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…
Alex Mercer · March 29, 2026
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…
Alex Mercer · March 28, 2026
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…
Alex Mercer · March 26, 2026
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…
Alex Mercer · March 25, 2026
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…
Alex Mercer · March 24, 2026
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…
Alex Mercer · March 23, 2026
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…
Alex Mercer · March 22, 2026
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…
Alex Mercer · March 21, 2026
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,…