Gut Feeling
Our tummies are at the top of mind when it comes to the top trends for the coming year, with digestive health dominating our culinary picks. While we have long sought to get more fibre and probiotics into our days, as research continues to demonstrate strong links between gut health and total mental and […]
Gut Feelings: The Gut Foundation
In the inner sanctum of our colon exists a wonderfully complicated eco system, which is is a large community of living organisms, known as our microbiome. The Gut Foundation’s General Manager Margaret Fitzgerald tells us about the relationship between the gut biome, the vagus nerve and the brain, and why we should make healthier food […]
The gut/brain connection
Did you know that up to 95 percent of serotonin and 50 percent of dopamine – vital brain chemicals which impact our happiness, wellbeing, reward and motivation – is made in the gut? Leading Clinical Nutritionist Ben Warren is touring the country this month, helping Kiwis understand the strong link between what they […]
Environmental Eating
As food moves to the forefront of sustainability, we’re starting to look more critically at not just the nutritional content of our foodie buys, but their overall environmental impact too. With our food – from what we eat to how it is grown – accounting for more carbon emissions than transport, our culinary […]
Getting to the Guts of the matter! The Gut Foundation
Getting to the Guts of the matter! New research is particularly important to Canterbury and better tools for diagnosis are urgently required. The Gut Foundation (previously the Bowel and Liver Trust), is aiming to provide support to Teagan Hoskin, a Post Doctoral Fellow at the University of Otago, Christchurch. Teagan has extensive experience […]
