Challenging yes, and no one said it would be easy! Changing your food choices and your relationship with food can be quite a journey, especially when you’re changing eating habits and patterns that are decades old. Here’s why your self talk around food, and your belief about what is possible, can be a pivotal point.

Frailty in older age is more than the sum of a person’s diagnoses. A large study following 2,081 older Swedish women found that frailer women tended to have a less diverse gut microbiome, with a shift away from fibre fermentation towards protein breakdown. Here’s what the research shows, what it can’t yet prove, and why I don’t believe in guessing when it comes to your microbiome.

Understanding your unique skin concerns and your most appropriate next steps, including tips to improve barrier function all year round. I explain why you haven’t heard from me lately about the regenerative skin options I support, and what a personalised skin consultation at Gut Skin Clinic actually involves.

Your metabolic health has a circadian rhythm, and it can affect your gut, your skin and your whole body. This education is particularly relevant if you are a shift worker, a night owl, suffer social “jet lag”, eat large meals at night or travel across time zones.

Is this you ? Maybe you have a persistent skin rash that won't settle or unexplained and increasing food reactions, seasonal hay fever or asthma that seems to worsen each year. We are only really starting to understand that your gut and its ecosystem may have a seat at this table.

In comparison to mainstream (traditional Allopathic) Medicine, your Functional practitioner focuses on finding the underlying “root” causes of your health problem, rather than only managing your symptoms.

Microba Labs have advised me of significant price increases for their laboratory testing effective 1st September 2026.

Bifidobacterium offers abundant health benefits if well populated in the infant and adult microbiome. Part 2 today is all about what you can do to increase colonisation to achieve your maximum health benefits

Could one tiny Gut bacteria be quietly weakening your immune system ? Not all bacteria are BAD and Bifidobacteria are far more than "good gut bugs." They help train your immune system, strengthen your gut barrier, support healthy inflammation and contribute to your whole-body resilience. How are your Bifidobacterium today ?

Chronic stress leaves a biological footprint that lifestyle changes may not fully reverse. Functional Medicine can help provide targeted cellular support harnessing scientific studies that demonstrate the significant reductions possible in key inflammatory markers that chronic stress elevates.

The scientific concept around healthy fermented foods is real, but it depends on whether your bread was actually fermented !

“Victoria, I’m eating right, exercising and following all the advice - why won’t the weight budge ?”

My GP tells me my bloods are all “normal”

Via Microbiome sampling we uncover a unique, exquisite and triggering part of their health puzzle. An over zealous, over reactive immune system, doing what it’s been programmed to do reactively, for decades.

Polyphenols - flavonoids, lignans, stilbenes and phenolic acids - are plant compounds that feed your gut microbiome and boost short-chain fatty acid production. This guide lists the highest-polyphenol foods by category (fruits, vegetables, grains, herbs, beverages) and includes three recipes: sweet potato pecan brownies, asparagus salad, and berry porridge.

Your gut is your ‘second brain’ - the microbiome shapes immunity, mood, digestion, skin and sleep. This guide explains the gut-brain axis, signs of an unbalanced microbiome, and shares Kamalaya Wellness Sanctuary’s Papaya Bee Smoothie recipe - plus when to use whole-food strategies vs personalised microbiome testing.

A Sydney functional medicine practitioner’s research dispatch from Seoul and Busan: what K-beauty 2026 actually delivers, the truth about ‘Korean’ products sold in Australia, glass skin explained, and how Korean diet, sun protection and clinic culture drive the world’s most envied complexions. Includes a bio-remodelling primer.

The 2026 ACC/AHA Guidelines are reshaping cholesterol care - moving beyond standard LDL testing toward ApoB (atherogenic particle count) and Lp(a) (genetically inherited risk). This guide explains both markers, why a 'normal' cholesterol test isn't enough, latest Australian heart disease data, and how the gut microbiome affects cardiovascular risk.

I’ve been so excited to share my vision … My beautiful clinic is now custom built, firmly grounded in over 40 years of clinical practice.

Are eggs good for you? A single egg contains 27% of your daily choline need plus complete protein. This evidence-based guide covers choline’s role in brain, liver and pregnancy health, cholesterol myths debunked by 2020 meta-analyses of 3.2 million people, and an easy high-protein recipe.