While most people understand that the gastrointestinal (GI) system is the body’s tool for taking in and absorbing nutrients and water, this system of critical organs also functions as one of our body’s frontlines in the fight against disease. The GI system includes the mouth, esophagus, stomach, pancreas, liver, gallbladder, small intestine, colon and rectum. […]
Did you know, that beyond determining characteristics such as blood type and eye colour, your genes are responsible for how your body processes medications? Pharmacogenomics, also know as pharmacogenetics, is drug-gene testing that studies how your body’s genes respond to medications. We each inherit thousands of genes from our parents. These genes carry information that […]
When in balance hormones help the body thrive, they carry messages between cells and organs making sure our bodies function as they should; from growth and sexual development, through to how well we sleep and deal with stress, even impacting how our body breaks down food. Sometimes our hormone levels become too high or too […]
While the idea of food allergy is becoming more clearly understood there is still some confusion surrounding the definition of food allergy compared to food sensitivity and food intolerance. The incidence of food allergy continues to increase in Australia with allergy occurring in around 1 in 10 infants, 1 in 20 children and in about […]
