Alex Mercer 
Barely a week goes by in my practice without a client walking in clutching a printout of the latest alarming headline about meat and cancer. The question is almost always the same: “Do I need to give up meat completely?”…
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…