The Gut-Brain Connection
Stomach pain and constipation in autistic child...
Gut problems are several times more common in autistic children, and they travel with harder days, worry and poorer sleep. What the studies found, why a sore tummy can look...
Stomach pain and constipation in autistic child...
Gut problems are several times more common in autistic children, and they travel with harder days, worry and poorer sleep. What the studies found, why a sore tummy can look...
Tart cherry and sleep: what the research actual...
Tart cherry turns up in almost every evening product on the shelf. The early studies used juice by the glass in small numbers of older adults, and the two most...
Tart cherry and sleep: what the research actual...
Tart cherry turns up in almost every evening product on the shelf. The early studies used juice by the glass in small numbers of older adults, and the two most...
Chamomile: what the trials looked at, and what ...
Chamomile is the most familiar evening plant in the world and one of the few with placebo-controlled trials behind it. What those trials measured, where the results were strong and...
Chamomile: what the trials looked at, and what ...
Chamomile is the most familiar evening plant in the world and one of the few with placebo-controlled trials behind it. What those trials measured, where the results were strong and...
What a certified honey grade actually proves
A number on a jar is only worth what the testing behind it is worth. What MGO grading measures, what UMF adds, and the study that checked whether the labels...
What a certified honey grade actually proves
A number on a jar is only worth what the testing behind it is worth. What MGO grading measures, what UMF adds, and the study that checked whether the labels...
Why one Manuka honey is stronger than another
Two jars of Manuka can differ by a factor of ten, and the reason starts in the flower rather than the hive. Where the number comes from, why species and...
Why one Manuka honey is stronger than another
Two jars of Manuka can differ by a factor of ten, and the reason starts in the flower rather than the hive. Where the number comes from, why species and...
Why honey and not syrup
Anything you take daily needs something to carry it. Honey and glucose syrup look interchangeable on an ingredients list and behave very differently in laboratory studies of gut bacteria.
Why honey and not syrup
Anything you take daily needs something to carry it. Honey and glucose syrup look interchangeable on an ingredients list and behave very differently in laboratory studies of gut bacteria.
Passionflower: an evening plant studied only in...
Passionflower has more placebo-controlled human research behind it than most evening botanicals, including a trial that measured sleep in a laboratory rather than by questionnaire. Every participant in every one...
Passionflower: an evening plant studied only in...
Passionflower has more placebo-controlled human research behind it than most evening botanicals, including a trial that measured sleep in a laboratory rather than by questionnaire. Every participant in every one...
Acerola: the cherry that is mostly vitamin C
Acerola is a small tropical cherry used as a vitamin C source rather than eaten as fruit. What it is, why it is picked green, and what whole-fruit vitamin C...
Acerola: the cherry that is mostly vitamin C
Acerola is a small tropical cherry used as a vitamin C source rather than eaten as fruit. What it is, why it is picked green, and what whole-fruit vitamin C...
What fermenting saffron actually does
Fermentation is one of the oldest techniques in food and one of the least understood. What it means when a botanical is fermented, what is known about saffron's compounds, and...
What fermenting saffron actually does
Fermentation is one of the oldest techniques in food and one of the least understood. What it means when a botanical is fermented, what is known about saffron's compounds, and...
Lemon balm: the calm studies, and what they act...
Lemon balm has a set of small adult studies that measured something unusual: how people rated their own calmness after a single dose, and how they performed under a laboratory...
Lemon balm: the calm studies, and what they act...
Lemon balm has a set of small adult studies that measured something unusual: how people rated their own calmness after a single dose, and how they performed under a laboratory...
Is Australian Manuka real Manuka?
New Zealand tried twice to make Manuka a name only its own producers could use. It lost both times, in the country that raised the argument. Here is what the...
Is Australian Manuka real Manuka?
New Zealand tried twice to make Manuka a name only its own producers could use. It lost both times, in the country that raised the argument. Here is what the...
How to judge a supplement's evidence when your ...
Five questions you can answer from the label and ten minutes of searching: was the ingredient tested on its own, is the extract standardised and to what, was it placebo-controlled...
How to judge a supplement's evidence when your ...
Five questions you can answer from the label and ten minutes of searching: was the ingredient tested on its own, is the extract standardised and to what, was it placebo-controlled...