Anyone who experiences heavy periods knows how draining this can be. Heavy periods, sometimes known as menorrhagia, is present in at least 15% of women. Amazingly, most women just accept it as part of being a woman, and never do anything about it. Were you put on the Pill for this? The number of [...]
It’s something every mother-to-be dreads: passing on your own problems. And allergy is something that definitely gets passed on: asthma, eczema, hayfever and food allergy. If you've suffered terribly with any of these, you want to protect your baby from allergy! Well, there’s good news: the science of epigenetics is revealing more every day about [...]
Ovulation pain: can you feel when you're ovulating? That niggling pain is back again, low down in the left of your lower abdomen. It’d be nice to just sit down and put your legs up, but you’ve got to keep working. That time of month again – no, you’re not due for your period [...]
If so many people are on reflux medications (PPIs), doesn't it mean they are safe?Reflux, that burning feeling of ‘’something coming back up’’ your oesophagus after eating, is sometimes called heartburn but is technically known as GORD or Gastro-oesophageal Reflux Disease. A group of medications called the PPIs (proton-pump inhibitors) is commonly prescribed for symptoms [...]
Hot off the press… … from the recent International Urogynaecology Association meeting in Brisbane comes some important health information for women: having a vaginal prolapse puts you at increased risk of low bone density or osteoporosis. Two separate studies were reported – one an Australian study by Professor Pauline Chiarelli, and one a Japanese [...]
How targeted nutrition can affect your pain experience Epigenetics: it’s a bit of a buzzword floating around at the moment, but what does it actually mean, and what does it have to do with chronic pain? Why do you need to know about chronic pain and epigenetics? Epigenetics is the study of how environmental factors [...]
You love your coffee. You’ve never wanted to believe that it’s bad for your bladder, bad for your arteries, and a crutch allowing you to work too hard. So it’s been great to hear the good news stories about coffee being good for you after all...but can we trust them? I owe the blog post [...]
Why stress is so bad for your gut It used to be generally held wisdom that stress gives you ulcers. Then a smart Australian found that a bacterium called Helicobacter pylori was able to directly cause ulcers. This was a pivotal discovery – but does it mean we should throw out the baby with [...]
The positive effect of low-carbohydrate eating on infertility Recent research confirms what common sense should tell us. Too much sugar or carbohydrate is not good for our health overall, so it’s no surprise it’s no good for our fertility either. The study from the recent conference of the American Congress of Obsetricians and Gynecologists showed [...]
Coeliac disease in children is more common than you think. Up to one in one hundred people have coeliac disease. The problem is, most of these don’t know it. What signs would alert you to coeliac disease in children? A 2013 study suggests the common symptoms of coeliac disease in children depend on the age [...]
