Nutrition plays a powerful preventive role when it comes to bowel cancer, and it is an area I feel strongly about as a practitioner. A fibre-rich, anti-inflammatory diet, healthy gut flora, and regular screening are among the most evidence-supported tools we have. This category covers dietary risk factors, early warning signs, and how lifestyle choices can meaningfully reduce your risk.
Alex Mercer · April 2, 2026
Let me be straightforward with you from the start: supplements are never a substitute for a well-rounded, fibre-rich, plant-forward diet. But when it comes to supplements for bowel cancer prevention, the research has reached a point where I genuinely cannot…
Alex Mercer · April 1, 2026
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?”…
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…