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Bladder Help Consultations

ByLayla | On April 29,18 | 0 Comment

It’s been a very busy past 2 years: besides starting this Blog and working full-time I have also been studying to become a Nutritional Therapist with the goal of opening my own practice at some point.

I’m happy to announce that the hard work has paid off and that I can now call myself a Nutritional Therapist and am able to offer 1-on-1 consultations. I have been busy these past few weeks setting up my practice (so apologies for the lack of new posts!).

My own experience with chronic urinary problems, as well as the research I have done for this blog has inspired me to specialize in bladder health.

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Is Sparkling Water Healthy?

ByLayla | On February 25,18 | 0 Comment

We’re all aware of the benefits of drinking water but I realized I didn’t actually know if sparkling water actually had the same benefits. Therefore I started to look at the research to answer the question: is sparkling water healthy? What about sparkling water and urinary tract symptoms?

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The New World of Urinary Phages: The Viruses Living in the Bladder

ByLayla | On February 18,18 | 2 Comments

Hopefully you know by now that the bladder and urine is NOT sterile but houses a community of microbes, collectively known as the bladder microbiota. Until now, we have mostly spoken about bacteria and fungi in the bladder. But a recent study has shed light on another never-before-seen member of the microbiota: tiny viruses called phages.

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Tried and Tested: Fecal Microbiota Transplant, Part 2

ByLayla | On January 21,18 | 1 Comment

This is the second part of my experience with receiving a Fecal Microbiota Transplant (FMT, a.k.a stool transplant). After having received 5 implants at the Taymount Clinic in England, I took home 5 more (frozen) implants to administer at home by myself.

If you haven’t read part 1 yet you can read it here.

If you’re not sure what I’m talking about you can read all about FMT here.

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Tried and Tested: Fecal Microbiota Transplant (FMT), Part 1

ByLayla | On January 14,18 | 0 Comment

Welcome to ‘Tried and Tested’, my new series where I share my experience playing guinea pig with various ‘alternative’ health treatments. First up: my experience with receiving a Fecal Microbiota Transplant (FMT) for IBS/SIBO/gut dysbiosis at the Taymount Clinic in England.

If you’re not sure what FMT is, please read this article first!

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Poop as Medicine – What is FMT?

ByLayla | On January 08,18 | 3 Comments

FMT stands for Fecal Microbiota Transplant, which is ‘the process of restoring the bacteria commonly found in a healthy human gut’ (according to the Taymount clinic).

Or, to put it in plain English: implanting a healthy person’s stool (+ microbiome) into a sick person’s gut.

The reason I wanted to share this information is that I’ve had FMT myself and will be sharing my experience in the future.

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The Human Microbiome and Our Health

ByLayla | On December 17,17 | 3 Comments

If you haven’t heard about the connection between the human microbiome and our health yet, you’ve probably been living under a rock – there’s been tons of news articles, blog posts, research studies etc. about this topic in recent years.

Type in ‘human microbiome’ into PubMed (the database for scientific research) and you’ll be rewarded with over 30.000 results!

Although the topic has probably been covered enough, I’d like to offer my own little summary here to use as future reference on my blog and for completeness sake.