While surfing the internet on a damp, dark night in Scotland, I happened upon this great gut bacteria blog with a fantastic name, the Intest

Every day I read or hear another story about how changes in diet have resulted in dramatic changes to someone's health. I particularly love this video from Dr Terry Wahls, a medical physician from America who controlled and reversed her multiple sclerosis with diet after seven years of deterioration on the best conventional treatments available. She went from being wheelchair bound to cycling, horse riding  and living life to the fullest after changing her diet. Terry is a re

The field of human microbiome research has exploded in the last decade. This has resulted in the microbiome dominating headlines in almost every scientific journal, and now making an appearance in Time Magazine, Forbes, The Economist, The New Yorker, and National Geographics. According to the National Microbiome Initiative, 'Microbiomes are the communities of micro-organisms that live on or in people, plants, soil, oceans, and the atmosphere. Microbiomes maintain healthy func

If eating grubs, drinking black water and having lively debates about the impact of food on your health sounds like your idea of fun, I would definitely recommend heading along to Food Matter Live 2016 from the 22 to 24 November 2016 at the ExCeL in London. I went along last year with my boyfriend and the wonderful Kezia Hall from Super Naturally Healthy and we filmed our way round the event and, sharing all of our interviews and experiences on Periscope. It was a blast! Her