Your digestive system is incredibly complex and essential for your health. You need a good digestive system in order to absorb nutrients out of your food. There is no point in having a great diet if your gut isn't able to absorb nutrients properly. Nutrient deficiencies can exist even where people seem to be eating all the right foods and this can have endless knock-on effects.

Your beneficial bacteria are fundamental to your health. Your digestive system houses much of your microbiome, the huge population of bacteria that live with you. They produce some vitamins and fatty acids that help feed your cells, they are absolutely essential to your immune system, the play a role in mental health and brain function and they help you to maintain weight amongst many other roles we likely don't even understand yet.

Much of your immune system surrounds your gut. Up to 70% of immune cells are found around the gut. Protecting the gut lining and preventing damage will help to keep your immune system balanced.

If you suffer from digestive problems you will know that bloating, pain, irregular bowel movements or flatulence can really bring you down. It can make you feel sluggish, fatigued and even depressed or anxious over coping with difficult or potentially embarrassing situations. If you digestive is getting in the way of enjoying your daily life, it is time to take a look at what is really going on.

Some symptoms you might experience:

*Acid Reflux

*Heartburn

*Indigestion

*Feeling of food not going down

*Feeling full very quickly

*Feeling hungry straight after eating

*Bloating

*Pain or spasms

*Feeling of a 'blockage'

*Constipation

*Diarrhoea

*Irregular and changing bowel movements

*Foul flatulence 

How Nutrition Can Help

Nutrition can have a big impact on how your digestive system functions. Testing may show that you have a food intolerance, and your diet would need to be adjusted accordingly.

There is also a growing body of research around non-coeliac gluten sensitivity and it is believed that many more people may be affected by this and it would be important to test before you start removing gluten from your diet. 

Nutrients

Certain nutrients can be extremely helpful when you have a digestive problem. You may have deficiencies if you have not been absorbing your food well and these can be corrected accordingly.

Also, with digestive problems, probiotics may be needed to recolonise the beneficial bacteria in your gut. You would be advised as to what to take at your consultation.

Stress and your emotions are also major factors in how well your digestive system functions. You may not be able to control the stress in your life, but you have some control over how it affects you physically and also to make sure you are not making it worse. Certain nutrients are important for reducing the impact stress can have on your health both physically and mentally.

The Glenville Nutrition Clinic

Dr Marilyn Glenville who founded The Glenville Nutrition Clinics has been in clinical practice for over 30 years and knows that you need to be able to trust the nutritional advice you have been given and know that any tests that are being recommended are important to help with your digestive problems and IBS.

At The Glenville Nutrition Clinic we have the experience to support you with dietary advice, supplements and nutritional tests that can help you not only solve your digestive problems but also improve your general health and wellbeing.

Our aim is to provide help, support and information that can make a real difference to your health.

When you come for a consultation, you will be in the hands of one of Dr Marilyn Glenville’s highly qualified nutritionists.

All of our nutritionists are hand-picked and trained to follow Dr Glenville’s high standards.

If you’re ready to improve your digestive symptoms and general health, please do give us a call and we can set up a telephone or Skype consultation for you.

So make the call now, and take your first step towards achieving your goal.

There are many laboratary tests that are extremely helpful with digestive problems and IBS.

These tests can give you invaluable insights into understanding what is going on in your body at the moment and can tell you what vitamin and mineral deficiencies you may have. 

The interpretation of these results lets you know what supplements you need to take and what amounts of specific nutrients are needed in order to help correct your digestive problems also support your general health.

In the clinic we use an exclusive Nutritional Test that checks whether you have any deficiencies or imbalances in 15 different vitamins, mineral and essential fatty acids from one blood sample:

Minerals – calcium, chromium, copper, magnesium, manganese, selenium and zinc
Vitamins – A, C, B12, D, E, folate and beta-carotene
Essential fatty acids – your ratio of omega 6 to 3 fats

We can also test how stressed you are by measuring cortisol with saliva samples which is convenient and accurate, and the sample is collected at home and then posted back to the lab.

We can also look at digestion with a stool sample to check for efficient absorption and digestion of nutrients, levels of beneficial bacteria, candida overgrowth, parasites, inflammation etc. and possible causes of digestive symptoms like bloating, flatulence, IBS etc. We can also test for leaky gut (intestinal permeability) and SIBO (small intestinal bacterial overgrowth).

All the tests we use in the clinic are carried out by accredited scientific laboratories in the UK and the USA.

Your nutritionist will interpret the findings of these tests for you and provide you with tailored recommendations based on your results.

Founded by Dr. Marilyn Glenville PhD, the UK’s leading nutritionist and authority on womens health issues. 

Author of 16 internationally best-selling books and former President of The Food and Health Forum at The Royal Society of Medicine.

For more than 30 years, The Glenville Nutrition Clinics have been supporting patients naturally and is the longest established nutrition clinic in the UK today with a particular expertise for women's health.

Once you’ve booked your consultation my reception will call you in the next few days to book your appointment on a date that’s convenient for you.

The prices above are for a consultation with one of Dr Glenville’s highly qualified nutritionists who have been practicing with me for many years and are all personally trained by me.