Every year on May 29, the World Gastroenterology Organisation marks World Digestive Health Day, a global initiative focused on raising awareness around digestive health and how often symptoms get overlooked or dismissed. This year’s theme is “Chronic Diarrhea: Don’t Flush the Signs Away,” which is really about paying attention to what the body is trying…
Category: Digestive Health
Things About Eating That Nobody Really Talks About
Not rules. Not a plan. Just seven quiet observations for anyone who’s doing everything right, and still wondering why something feels off. There was this one day I ate really well. Everything was pretty balanced, lots of colour, all the stuff you’re supposed to do. Breakfast made sense, lunch was solid, and I even skipped…
Top Reasons to See a Holistic Nutritionist
A lot of people think seeing a nutritionist means sitting across from someone who’s going to hand you a meal plan and being told to eat more vegetables and drink more water like you haven’t heard that a hundred times already. But holistic nutrition is different. It looks at the whole picture: how you’re sleeping,…
The Role of Nutrition in Children’s Mental Health
When we talk about children’s mental health, we usually focus on things like therapy, screen time, sleep, and school pressure. But there’s another part that doesn’t always get as much attention—nutrition. There’s more and more research looking at how what kids eat can influence things like brain function, emotional regulation, stress response, and overall mood….
Slow Down When You Eat
No, seriously. Your body will thank you. Think about the last meal you actually sat down for. Not eating quickly at the counter, not scrolling through your phone, not rushing through lunch between things. Just… sitting and eating. For a lot of us, that doesn’t happen as often as we think. Most of the time,…
Why Some Foods Just Work Better Together
You know when you’re trying to eat better and doing all the “right” things, adding greens, choosing better options, cutting back on the obvious stuff, but it still doesn’t feel that different? One thing that doesn’t get talked about enough is this. It’s not only what you eat, it’s what you eat together. I mentioned…
The Link Between My Gut and My Trigeminal Neuralgia
For years I treated my trigeminal neuralgia as a face problem. It lived in my jaw, my cheek, my sinus, so naturally that is where I focused. I saw dentists, tried medications, managed flares as they came. The idea that my digestive system had anything to do with nerve pain in my face honestly would…
The Organ That Doesn’t Exist (But Runs Everything)
Okay, so here’s one that’s going to make your head spin a little. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, there’s an organ, actually one of the most important ones, that doesn’t physically exist the way we think of organs in Western medicine. No tissue. No exact spot in the body you can point to. You won’t find…
The TCM Organ Clock
Your body has a schedule. Here’s what it’s doing every two hours. Your body at 3pm versus 3am feels different for a reason. It’s not only that you’re tired, your body is actually operating differently in the background. Different systems become more active at different times of day, things like digestion, hormone production, energy regulation,…
Wei Qi: Your Body’s Invisible Shield
Some days I stride through the cold without a second thought. Other days I wince at the slightest breeze on my neck. It wasn’t until I started paying attention to those sensitivities that I truly began to understand Wei Qi. What Is Wei Qi? (衛氣) Before we reach for explanations, let’s begin with experience. I never really…
Adding a Few More Veggies to the Daily Routine
We’ve all been there. It’s 5:30 PM on a Tuesday. The kids are asking what’s for dinner again, and I’m just staring into the fridge like… okay, what is this meal supposed to be? There’s ground beef, some pasta, and a random vegetable I’m not even sure I’ll use. Plus, there’s all this pressure to…
Stuck, Bloated, and Tired? Your Body Might Be Full of Dampness
For a long time, I thought it was just the heat. Every late summer, I’d slow down. Sluggish, foggy, heavy in a way that didn’t match how I was eating or sleeping. Even simple tasks felt like they took more effort than they should. It wasn’t until I learned about Dampness in Traditional Chinese Medicine…
Feeling Bloated After Meals? FODMAPs Might Be Why
You eat a meal and then shortly after your stomach feels tight, puffy, uncomfortable. Maybe there’s gas, cramping, or your digestion is just off in a way you can’t quite explain. You’re not imagining it and it might not even be about eating too much. It could be about what your body is struggling to…
Proof That Salads Don’t Have to Suck
I first had a salad like this at a restaurant a while back, and I couldn’t stop thinking about it. Light, fresh, that sweet and savoury balance, and it actually felt satisfying without that heavy after-feeling. So I went home and tried to recreate it. I used what I had in the fridge, added a…
Matcha & Hojicha: Which Tea Fits Your Day?
Most people reach for coffee when they’re overwhelmed. I usually have a different approach. I call it my Green and Gold routine. As a mom, tea is my anchor. Some mornings I need a boost, and some evenings I just need to slow down. Lately I’ve been rotating between two very different Japanese teas, matcha…