As the days grow shorter and the temperature drops, it’s easy to become complacent about our health. We exercise less, we eat more comfort foods and we trap ourselves indoors, in artificially heated rooms, full of other people’s germs. No…
Tag: probiotics
Just what the doctor ordered?
There is no denying that prescription drugs have had a positive effect on our health down the years, controlling infections, reducing pain and easing the symptoms of long term, or chronic, conditions. However, as anyone who has ever read the…
An introduction to probiotics
Chances are, you think of yourself as an individual; a single human being. But in fact, you are a walking zoo, which is home to thousands of different species that all work together to make your body function. It is…
Destroying our gut instincts
We all know what a sanitised world we live in, with every surface cleaned with antibacterial products, every cough and cold treated with antibiotics and so much of our food processed and pasteurised. But what effect has this had on…
