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Parasites are living organisms that need a host (you!) to survive. While some of them don’t cause us any harm, many do. If you have

If you’ve been diagnosed with IBS, you’ve probably heard of the FODMAP diet. There’s a lot of evidence to show it works to reduce the

Mould is a potentially dangerous organism that could be harmful to your health, depending on a few different factors. If you’re allergic to mould, or

One in five of us in the UK has IBS. If your bowel habits have changed, or you have pain anywhere in your abdomen, you

If you’ve got SIBO, and you don’t want to take antibiotics, we’ve got some good news: herbal antimicrobials like emulsified oregano oil and extracts of

Do you experience severe and persistent bloating? In this article, we’ll cover why it happens and what to do about it. What is persistent bloating?

We hear a lot about good and bad bacteria these days. Trying every new ‘friendly bacteria’ food and drink product on the market would be

In the UK, a hydrogen breath test costs anything between nothing at all (on the NHS) to around £500 at a private clinic. Most options

Everyone’s taking probiotics these days. At least, it seems that way: they now command an estimated $37 billion market worldwide. Maybe the growing stack of

Antibiotics kill bacteria. That’s their job, after all. It’s how they’ve saved millions of lives over the last hundred years. But killing the bad guys

Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is a type of bacteria that around half the world’s population carries in their stomachs (Source: PUBMED). Not many bacteria can

Doing a ‘detox’ has become quite the thing. Loved by many, loathed by more, and labelled a potentially dangerous fad by an increasing number of

It costs the NHS around £189 million every year to deal with unplanned hospital admissions due to severe constipation. Prescriptions for constipation cost another £101