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: Gut 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…
When Drinking More Water Isn’t the Answer
TCM has a really good explanation for this, and it’s not “drink more water”. Okay so here’s something that honestly confused me for the longest time. You can be drinking water constantly, like, doing everything right, carrying your Stanley cup everywhere, hitting your two litres, whatever it is, and still feel parched, have dry lips,…
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,…
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…
Your Body Is Talking. Are You Listening?
It’s tempting to reach for a quick fix. Headache? Take a pill. Tired? Grab another coffee. Can’t sleep? Try melatonin. I’ve been there, more times than I’d like to admit. To be fair, these tools can be really helpful in the moment. Sometimes that’s exactly what your body needs, a bit of support to get…
What Holistic Nutrition Actually Is (And What It Isn’t)
When people hear “holistic nutritionist,” it can bring up a lot of different assumptions. Some think it means restrictive eating, others picture a long list of supplements, and some aren’t quite sure what it actually involves. In reality, it’s usually much simpler and more grounded than it sounds. For me, it started during a time…
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,…
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…
One Year In: What Holistic Nutrition Has Taught Me So Far
One year into studying Holistic Nutrition. Somehow I’m already a third of the way through, which honestly feels a little surreal. I’ve got two years to go, though depending on how life moves, and how many times I have to read the same paragraph before it actually sinks in, who knows. I may finish sooner….
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…