Health Benefits of Garlic

by Sharon Erdrich | Oct 20, 2021 | Nutrition, Gut Health, Nutrition Health, Articles

What is so Good About Garlic? Simple question, you’d might think, but garlic is actually quite a complex wee herb (or is it a spice? No, vegetable?) Garlic has been highly valued throughout the ages as both a vegetable and a spice and has possibly been...

Iron Deficiency

by Sharon Erdrich | Oct 11, 2021 | Nutrition, Women, Gut Health, Nutrition Health, Articles

Iron is an essential nutrient for all organisms. It has a number of important functions in the human body related to transport and storage of oxygen, hormone manufacture, DNA replication, oxidation-reduction reactions and antioxidant effects. Iron deficiency is a...

Nine Simple Home Remedies for Reducing Worry

by Sharon Erdrich | Aug 23, 2021 | Articles, Nutrition, Lifestyle, General Health

We live in unsettling times – a global pandemic, lock-downs, being cut off from our usual social networks, and adapting (again) to different ways of doing things. Feeling worried or concerned in this situation is a completely normal response to a stressful situation....

Lactose Intolerance

by Sharon Erdrich | Jul 30, 2021 | Nutrition Health, Articles

What is Lactose? Before exploring lactose intolerance, it’s good to understand lactose. Lactose is the sugar the is naturally found in animal milk (cow, goat, human, etc). It is a disaccharide. That means it’s two (di-) sugar (saccharide) molecules joined...

Asthma, Histamine and the Gut

by Zoe Hunt | Jul 29, 2021 | Articles, Children, Gut Health, General Health

Asthma is a condition in which a person’s airways become inflamed, swollen and narrow with extra mucous production, which makes it difficult to breathe. What are the Symptoms of Asthma? Symptoms of asthma can include wheezing, coughing (which may nor may not be...

The Gut Microbiome

by Sharon Erdrich | Jun 25, 2021 | Articles

The explosion of research in the area of the gut microbiome in recent years has revealed what natural medicine proponists have been saying for over a century: The gut microbiome has a critical role in health. Both good health and poor health. Not only does the gut...