Im so pleased that gut health is beginning to take more of a centre stage, thanks to the work of people like Professor Tim Spectre.   For the last 6 months I've really been striving to take more care of my gut health and I can't tell you the improvement I've felt in terms of energy, sleep, weight, hormones, skin.  So I thought I'd write a blog about what you need to know and why its so important!  

Your gut and feeling good.

The gut houses millions of microscopic bugs called your microbiome.  Individually they are tiny but together they weigh as much as our brain!  These bugs are responsible for producing and responding to vital chemicals such as seratonin (our feel good hormone), GABA (like Seratonin is a natural brain relaxant that makes us feel good), noradrenalin (said to play a role in the body's stress response and helps regulate sleep, alertness and blood pressure), Dopamine (plays a key role in movement, affects motiva...

This blog explains all about the different ways you can fragrance a product and the pro's and cons of each.  This is debunking the is it really 'natural' question!  Topics covered are:

1. Essential oils

2.  Synthetic fragrance oils:

- typical fragrance oils (synthetic)

- Nature identical fragrance oils

3.  Natural Fragrance oils.  

Thinking of investing in a new diffuser?  Have a read of Freya's thoughts on whether its worth the initial investment together with how best to use essential oils when diffusing. 

Alot of people have been asking me recently what do I do with my time in the mornings when I'm not looking after the twins. Well most of it isn't glamourous and is the same as any other mum, so washing up, mountains of clothes washing and ironing, cleaning and cooking. However once that's all done,  I make up and fulfil my online orders and sometimes I make bespoke orders for clients who have specific requests. And if I still have left over time I may write a Facebook post or blog post - but as you can tell from the lack of activity, that hasn't been happening!

A client of mine has recently been diagnosed as having an over-active immune system so the body thinks its under attack all the time and is on high alert which has repercussions for the body on an ongoing basis - prolonged stress can cause a number of issues. She is a mum of 2 and also has a high powered full time job and is finding the balancing act of the two very very challenging. Throw in some rampaging hormones...

Unexplained infertility affects thousands of people and it can have a devastating effect on couples. These days we expect to get a medical diagnosis to a problem. And so, when all the tests are done and there isn’t an explanation as to why you aren’t able to get pregnant, it can leave you feeling frustrated and completely at a loss as to what to do next.

This is where natural solutions come to the fore. Logic would suggest that if there is no medical reason that the doctors can find that is affecting your or your partners fertility then there must be another invisible reason that is affecting it.

This could be diet, lifestyle, environment, state of mind e.g. stress, or a combination of all of these factors that could be affecting the natural balance in your body.