Symptoms, food patterns, evidence, and safety

Digestive health and gut literacy

Understand what gas, bloating, constipation, and diarrhea can mean; evaluate fibre and probiotic claims; and use food experiments without turning them into permanent restriction.

Start with safety: Severe pain, significant bleeding, collapse, confusion, repeated vomiting with inability to hydrate, or signs of obstruction or shock needs urgent care. A food diary should never delay assessment.

How digestion works

Follow food through breakdown, enzymes, absorption, and the colon.

Constipation guide

Use gradual fibre, fluid, movement, routines, and medication context.

Bloating and gas

Test patterns without blaming every carbohydrate or banning food groups.

Low FODMAP in three steps

Short substitution, structured reintroduction, and personalization.

Fermented, prebiotic, or probiotic?

Separate food processing, live cultures, strains, substrates, and claims.

Gut microbiome myths

Fact-check detoxes, diversity scores, consumer stool tests, and “bad bacteria.”

Diarrhea recovery

Replace fluid and electrolytes, resume food, and recognize dehydration.

Digestive red flags

Know when bleeding, pain, vomiting, weight change, or bowel changes need care.

Fibre and the microbiome

Understand fermentation, short-chain fatty acids, variety, and tolerance.

Soluble vs. insoluble fibre

Compare water interaction, viscosity, fermentation, and food sources.

Probiotics and gut health

Match strain-specific evidence to an actual purpose and population.

Fibre benefits

Connect fibre to stool, cholesterol, glucose, fullness, and food patterns.

Observe without self-diagnosing

Digestive pattern worksheet

Record context, food timing, bowel pattern, and symptoms in the current page, then copy a visit summary.

Gut-health myth game

Challenge eight claims about detoxes, probiotics, fibre, stool tests, low FODMAP, and red flags.