Understanding Fatty Liver Disease: Causes, Risks & How to Take Control with Nutrition Fatty liver disease is more common than many people realize, and it’s often linked to our modern lifestyle. Once thought to be a mild condition, it’s now understood to be a…
The stomach is the organ where all your food ends up after swallowing it. It’s main functions are Storage of food until it moves into the rest of the bowel Protein digestion by acid secretion Food is mixed in order to be more easily digested…
Gouty arthritis, hyperuricaemia or otherwise known as urate crystal deposition disease has an estimates prevalence of about 3% in the adult population Symptomatic gout is more common in middle aged men and post menopausal women but can occur in younger patients as well Gout can be diagnosed…
Sleep apnoea is one of those vague diseases that most people have heard of but rarely do they know what the disease entails This post is an attempt to demistify Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) In South Africa it is estimated that 23% of the adult…
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is exactly what the name implies – it refers to issues with your digestive system and specifically pain in your abdominal area (Stomach area) that you frequently experience together with a change in your bowel habits. Everyone’s gut is so unique – it…
Obesity has been recognised by the American Association of Endocrinologists as a chronic disease since 2012. The description has also been simplified by renaming it as Adipose Based Chronic Disease. Being Obese is not simply being “fat”. It mainly has to do with abnormal distribution…