Nourishing Your Body

A Nutritionist’s Guide to Gut Health

Gut health—it is now everywhere. There is a very good reason for it to be in the spotlight, as research shows the importance of a healthy and diverse gut microbiome. The excitement for this topic h...

How Mindful Eating can Benefit Your Digestion

We have all heard of the more common mindful practices such as meditation and yoga, however how exactly can this be applied to your meals?  This does not include counting how many times one can ch...

Start with Starch: How Increasing Your Starch Can Benefit Gut Health

Resistant starch | What is it, and why to do anything but resist it.

Five Balancing Habits that Everyone Can Practice

If you’ve been feeling slightly unnerved as we re-enter “normality”, keeping on track of your health can be immensely beneficial. Here are a few easy habits that can allow you to prioritise yourse...

The True Connection Between the Gut and Skin | A Discussion Between a Psychodermatologist and Nutritionist

Psychological stress and the skin are closely linked, I often say to my patients ‘stress causes skin disease and skin disease causes stress’. The brain has a stress-activated pathway that causes th...

Keep Your Fats Close, and Your Carbs Closer: A Nutritionist’s View on the Importance of a Balanced Diet

Unfortunately, society has constructed many misconceptions around these foods, leading to the irrational fear around two major food groups, fats and carbohydrates. However, these two groups are not...

Can foods improve our immune system? A Nutritionist’s take on immune-boosting foods

Our nutritionist, Georgine Leung, states that “eating a balanced diet provide essential nutrients which work in different ways”. There is no sufficient evidence which shows supplementation can help...