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Kickstart 2025: A Simple Guide to Better Health

10 Jan 2025 | Intolerances, National Days

Considering your New Year’s resolutions? Let’s be honest: 95% of our resolutions involve kickstarting your health. We promise we’re going to go to the gym, eat healthily, cut down on our drinking, and go to bed early. Despite our best intentions, old habits tend to creep back in, leaving our resolutions unfulfilled. Often, we overlook […]

Tips for Navigating Christmas with Food Intolerances

25 Dec 2024 | Intolerances, National Days

Navigating Christmas with food intolerances can feel like a never-ending worry-fest. Unlike the rest of the year, when the food options are more varied, Christmas comes with some pretty standard dishes. The problem? Most of these dishes contain at least one ingredient that’s unsuitable for people with food intolerances. Think gluten, nuts, dairy, and more. […]

Discovering Foods Rich In Potassium For A Healthy Diet

05 Oct 2024 | Health Tests, Intolerances

Having food rich in potassium in your body ensures you don’t suffer from a deficiency. Potassium is an essential micronutrient and electrolyte your body needs to transport nutrients into your cells, maintain normal blood pressure, and support healthy nerve and muscle function. So, it’s generally an essential micronutrient to have. Your body can’t produce potassium, […]

Navigating Lactase Enzymes – What Are They?

09 Aug 2024 | Intolerances

Lactose intolerance is caused by the body’s inability to fully digest lactose, a sugar found in milk and dairy products. Lactose intolerance is harmless. However, it can cause uncomfortable digestive symptoms. When consuming dairy products, people suffering from lactose intolerance experience symptoms like diarrhoea, flatulence, and stomach pain. Millions of people globally suffer from lactose […]

Healthy Christmas Shopping for Fitness Enthusiasts

19 Dec 2023 | Allergies, Intolerances, National Days

There’s a new trend sure to take over shops and online forums this year: healthy Christmas shopping. This is precisely what it sounds like — holiday shopping with a health-focused approach for everyone on your list. The gift of health is precious yet difficult to seek out when looking at traditional pharmaceutical options. So, why […]

Celebrate Labour Day With Allergies And Intolerances

24 Oct 2023 | Allergies, Intolerances

Getting together with loved ones for Labour Day is the best way to celebrate. From fun activities to delicious meals to fun and laughter, it’s all about bringing together the best elements to celebrate in style. Labour Day in NZ is centered around celebration and time spent with loved ones while enjoying working day labour […]

Food Intolerance Testing in New Zealand

09 Sep 2023 | Intolerances

Allergies and intolerances are rampant globally. In New Zealand, allergies affect around 30-40% of the population. The most common cause of allergies is airborne dust mites, pollen and cockroach droppings. Food allergies are also common among children affecting around 10% of children below the age of 5. Food allergy and intolerance testing are essential for […]

Have IBS? Get a Food Intolerance Test

27 Feb 2020 | Blog, common symptoms, digestive issues, Intolerances

When you hear of a condition like IBS, it brings up bathroom-related images and thoughts of stomach pain and other discomforts. These are all accurate to IBS, but other than trying to minimize symptoms, a lot of people never look beyond the diagnosis in order to manage symptoms effectively. Now you can get the support […]