Considering a gut microbiome test to improve your health and wellbeing?
Have you considered exploring your digestive health through a gut microbiome test? At Healthy Herts Nutrition, we take gut health very seriously. If you’re looking to better understand how your diet may be affecting your gut—and in turn, how your gut health influences the rest of your body—we offer tools to help you gain insights and address your health using …
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Your indispensable guide to Breastfeeding Nutrition (Part 1)
What’s so special about breastmilk anyway? Congratulations on your little one! You may already be convinced of the convenience and closeness of breastfeeding. As a nutritional therapist – one of my favourite health benefits of breastfeeding your baby has to be the superior, bespoke composition of nutrients which change with each feed, and correspond to the baby’s life stage, and the …
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Food and Mood: How can Vitamin B12 deficiency affect my mood?
Deficiency of B vitamins has been proven to lead to depression and irritability, with B3, B6, folate (also known as folic acid) and particularly Vitamin B12. The food/mood link is strongest for vitamin B12 deficiency which at its worst may cause anything from depression, poor memory, panic attacks, fatigue, hallucinations, and even mania and psychosis. Amongst its many other roles, …
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Which ‘nutrient’ can reduce fatigue, headache duration, assist constipation and aid mood?
…water…?! Yep. Its underrated isn’t it. I estimate that one in three of my nutritional therapy clients aren’t drinking enough water. I know this because its part of my standard set of questions in the consultation… This just highlights an opportunity to build a new healthy habit into their day, alongside their food changes. Our bodies utilise water in too …
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Too stressed to cook / eat / drink / stop eating…
or drinking or eating the ‘wrong’ foods? You’re not alone… Rate your stress… When clients come to see me I will typically ask how stressed they are on a scale of 1-10… This is either because they’re showing signs of stress or because they tell me that stress is making them ill in some way – and its …
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I bet you know your BMI… but do you know your WHR?
What is WHR? WHR stands for Waist-to-Hip Ratio Health wise – metrics have moved on since the BMI (Body Mass Index) tool was developed. It’s now known that the BMI tool misses those people with regular weight to height ratio but who carry extra weight around their middle – called central adiposity – which carries a higher chance of dying …
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15 ways to eat more oily fish (& what is an oily fish anyway?)
So after discussing how to get more oily fish into our diets with clients and most recently just this morning with my friends, it is apparent that many people really struggle with this. Fish and nutrition have a close relationship… A large body of evidence points to eating oily fish regularly to help lower blood pressure and help to reduce …
Read MoreEating breakfast… and diabetes
If your NY resolution was to eat breakfast… and you are struggling a bit now we’re into double figures of January, this study may provide some food for thought. An 18 year study of 50,000 subjects by the American Diabetes Association showed that those who ate breakfast were less likely to go on to develop type 2 diabetes; or go …
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Are you getting enough Vitamin D? (Updated)
As a nutritional therapist, lots of people ask me about Vitamin D (cholecalciferol). So what’s all the fuss about? Well, people are right to be concerned – especially at this time of year (Sept to March)… In the winter, we cannot synthesise Vitamin D (known as cholecalciferol) from sun exposure. This is because in the UK we don’t receive adequate sun, …
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