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🏙️ Australia’s mouldiest capital cities, ranked on Airtasker’s weighted mould index.🥇 Sydney tops the list, with almost ...
12/10/2026

🏙️ Australia’s mouldiest capital cities, ranked on Airtasker’s weighted mould index.

🥇 Sydney tops the list, with almost 120% more mould removal tasks than the national average over five years and the highest volume of mould-related searches per 100,000 people. Its climate combined with a high proportion of older homes with major cracks does the rest.

🌴 Darwin follows, where high temperatures, heavy rainfall and one of the highest rates of dwellings with major cracks create significant climate and structural risk.

📊 One caveat worth reading the index with. It draws on job listings and search volume, so it reflects where mould is reported and searched for as much as where it grows. Dense metro areas rank high partly for that reason.

🩺 Why it matters clinically. Patients rarely connect their symptoms to their postcode. Chronic fatigue, brain fog, sinus congestion and multi-system complaints that ease when they’re away from home all warrant an environmental history.

🧫 Our expanded Mycotoxins Extensive Panel measures 31 mycotoxins, the most comprehensive mould and mycotoxin test available, so you can confirm exposure rather than infer it.

💬 To learn more about mycotoxin testing for practitioners: https://bit.ly/4y8XDhj

📚 Source, table and graphic: https://bit.ly/4B1LjCm

🔬 WHAT THE STUDY WASPesticide Action Australia, an environmental charity, bought 78 samples across 13 fruit and vegetabl...
09/10/2026

🔬 WHAT THE STUDY WAS
Pesticide Action Australia, an environmental charity, bought 78 samples across 13 fruit and vegetable types from Aldi, Coles and Woolworths in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney in June 2026. Everything went to an independent NATA-accredited laboratory the same day it was bought. The results were published this week as Australia’s Residue Report 2026.

🏛️ WHY IT EXISTS
Residue testing by supermarkets and government here is largely industry-driven and not published in a form consumers can use. It also sits against a widening gap. Australia has banned 24 hazardous pesticides. The EU and UK have banned 225 (PAN International, 2024).

⚖️ READ IT AS A SNAPSHOT
78 samples describe those 78 samples, not a national average. And exceeding a residue limit is not the same as a food being unsafe to eat. Fresh produce stays on the plate.

🧪 WHAT THE STUDY FOUND
201 residues from 54 different pesticides. Most sat within Australian limits. Four samples did not, and eight residues turned up with no label or permit on record.

🇪🇺 56% of samples carried at least one pesticide not approved in the EU. 44% carried a PFAS pesticide, 14% a neonicotinoid, and five different organophosphates were detected.

🚩 The four over the limit: bifenthrin on grapes at 5.5 times, bupirimate on strawberries at 9.5 times, and fipronil and permethrin on capsicum, where Australia’s pesticide regulator has set no limit at all.

👉 Swipe for every pesticide named, produce by produce.

📚 Source: Pesticide Action Australia, Australia’s Residue Report 2026. https://bit.ly/4yHej0E

Environmental exposures testing for practitioners: https://bit.ly/4hErFVi

🍓 More than half the fruit and vegetables tested carried a pesticide that Europe will not approve.📄 That is the headline...
08/10/2026

🍓 More than half the fruit and vegetables tested carried a pesticide that Europe will not approve.

📄 That is the headline from Australia’s Residue Report 2026, published this week by Pesticide Action Australia. They bought 78 samples across 13 produce types from Aldi, Coles and Woolworths in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney in June, and delivered them to an independent NATA-accredited laboratory the same day.

🔬 What came back:
🧪 201 pesticide residues across the 78 samples, from 54 different pesticides
🇪🇺 56% of samples carried at least one pesticide not approved in the EU
♾️ 44% carried one or more PFAS pesticides, what the report calls forever pesticides
🐝 14% carried a neonicotinoid
⚗️ 5 different organophosphates were detected
🚩 4 samples breached the regulator’s residue limits, and 8 residues were found with no label or permit on record

🫑 Capsicum carried the most pesticides Europe does not approve, 13 of them. Grapes had 9 and strawberries 7. One Sydney strawberry sample came back at nearly ten times the legal limit for a single fungicide, the largest exceedance in the report. Avocado and bananas carried none.

📰 It has been all over the news this week, all three supermarkets have responded, and plenty of people are now looking sideways at their fruit bowl. So if patients start asking, here is what the report actually says.

⚖️ Two things worth holding onto. This is a snapshot of 78 samples, not a national average. And exceeding a residue limit is not the same as a food being unsafe to eat, so fresh produce still belongs on the plate. Pesticide Action Australia make both points themselves.

🏛️ What the report does put on the table is the regulatory gap. It notes that 60% of Australia’s high use pesticides are banned in the EU and only 16% hold full international approval. The researchers quoted raise the cocktail effect, repeated low level exposure to several chemicals at once rather than any single residue in isolation.

📚 Source: Pesticide Action Australia, Australia’s Residue Report 2026. https://bit.ly/4j6tTho

Toxin Testing: https://bit.ly/3TMkalW

🧠 The gut-brain axis runs both ways, and the direction matters clinically. Here's what travels in each direction across ...
08/10/2026

🧠 The gut-brain axis runs both ways, and the direction matters clinically. Here's what travels in each direction across four pathways.

🔌 Vagus nerve (neural). Brain to gut, it sets motility, secretion and sphincter tone, and stress withdraws vagal tone so gastric emptying slows. Gut to brain, it reports distension, nutrients and inflammation upward. Around 80% of fibres run this way.

🌙 HPA axis (endocrine). Brain to gut, cortisol shifts permeability, mucus and transit, and changes which species thrive. Gut to brain, endotoxin and mucosal inflammation raise CRH drive, keeping the axis switched on.

🛡️ Immune signalling (inflammatory). Brain to gut, neural input tunes mast cell reactivity in the gut mucosa. Gut to brain, cytokines reach the brain and drive sickness behaviour: fatigue, low mood and poor concentration.

🦠 Microbial metabolites (microbial). Brain to gut, altered transit and secretion reshape the substrate available to gut bacteria. Gut to brain, short-chain fatty acids and tryptophan metabolites feed serotonin and kynurenine pathways.

☀️ Worth remembering that roughly 95% of the body's serotonin is made in the gut, but it does not cross the blood-brain barrier. What travels is the precursor and the signal, not the neurotransmitter itself.

🎯 This is why gut testing belongs in a mood or cognition workup. When inflammation diverts tryptophan down the kynurenine pathway, or microbial function is compromised, supplementing the end product won't address what's actually limiting.

💬 To learn more about microbiome testing for practitioners: https://bit.ly/4jJNUdQ

💬 To learn more about organic acids testing for practitioners: https://bit.ly/4hykjCN

🍽️ Allergy, sensitivity, intolerance. Patients use these interchangeably, but they're three different mechanisms with th...
07/10/2026

🍽️ Allergy, sensitivity, intolerance. Patients use these interchangeably, but they're three different mechanisms with three different workups.

🔴 Food allergy (IgE-mediated). Minutes to 2 hours, triggered by trace amounts, and can be life-threatening. Hives, swelling, wheeze, vomiting, drop in blood pressure. Worked up with food-specific IgE and skin prick testing, managed with strict avoidance and an action plan.

🟣 Food sensitivity (non-IgE immune). Hours to 3 days, which is exactly what makes the trigger so hard to find. Bloating, brain fog, fatigue, joint ache, skin flares, low mood. Often the foods eaten most often. Worked up with IgG and IgA panels to guide a structured elimination and planned reintroduction.

🔵 Food intolerance (non-immune). An enzyme, transport or chemical problem, not an immune one. Threshold effect, so small serves are usually tolerated. Lactose, fructose, FODMAPs, histamine, salicylates, sulphites, caffeine. Worked up with breath testing, then elimination and rechallenge.

🎯 Getting the mechanism right changes everything. An allergy needs strict avoidance. An intolerance usually just needs to stay below threshold. Treating one like the other means unnecessary restriction or missed risk.

🙏 This resource is courtesy of Dr Onah, our clinical consultant.

Food sensitivity: https://bit.ly/3VVK87j

IgE: https://bit.ly/4rPGwjh

IgA: https://bit.ly/470cu2J

🦠 H. pylori (Helicobacter pylori). A spiral bacterium that colonises the stomach lining and survives gastric acid by pro...
06/10/2026

🦠 H. pylori (Helicobacter pylori). A spiral bacterium that colonises the stomach lining and survives gastric acid by producing urease. One of the most common chronic bacterial infections worldwide, and some carriers have no symptoms at all.

🔥 Chronic gastritis. Persistent inflammation of the stomach lining that can run silently for years before anything is noticed.

🩹 Peptic ulcer disease. The leading cause of both gastric and duodenal ulcers, ahead of anti-inflammatory medication.

⚠️ Gastric cancer. Classified by the IARC as a Group 1 carcinogen. Eradication lowers that risk, and earlier is better.

🩸 Nutrient status. Linked to unexplained iron deficiency and to reduced B12 absorption where acid output has dropped.

🩺 Symptoms to watch for. Burning upper abdominal pain, often worse when hungry. Heartburn, regurgitation and bad breath. Nausea, early fullness, bloating and belching. Unexplained iron deficiency and fatigue.

🔬 Why this happens. Usually acquired in childhood and carried for life unless treated. Spread person to person via saliva, vomit and faecal-oral routes, with households often sharing one strain. Urease splits urea into ammonia to buffer the space around it, while flagella drive it into the mucus layer and adhesins anchor it to the epithelium.

🧪 Testing options. Helicobacter pylori Antigen (2010), GI-Advanced Microbiome Profile (2211), GI-Standard Microbiome Profile (2206), GI-Basic Microbiome Profile (2207).

Testing for practitioners (age specific refrence ranges available): https://bit.ly/4y4Sjvt

04/10/2026

🌱 "Pesticides are toxic." Okay, but why? Here's what they actually do.

🐛 Pesticides are designed to affect pests. How much that matters for humans comes down to three things: the chemical, the dose, and the exposure.

🧠 Your nervous system. Several classes work by interfering with how nerves communicate. That's the mechanism they were built around.

⚖️ Your hormones. Some have been studied for potential interference with endocrine signalling.

📈 The thing worth understanding is that this is about cumulative load, not one meal. No single apple is the problem. Long-term, repeated exposure is what's actually being studied.

✅ What you can actually do:
💧 Wash your produce
🥕 Eat a variety
🌿 Choose organic strategically, for what you eat most or for higher-residue items

🧪 And if you want to know what's actually in your system rather than guessing, pesticide and environmental toxin testing measures real exposure.

💬 Testing options on environmental toxins for practitioners: https://bit.ly/4rN6jZo

🧲 Mycotoxin binders and sequestering agents. What the evidence actually shows, benefits alongside concerns.⚫ Activated c...
01/10/2026

🧲 Mycotoxin binders and sequestering agents. What the evidence actually shows, benefits alongside concerns.

⚫ Activated carbon, cholestyramine, clays, algae, chlorophyll, fibre, flavonoids, humic and fulvic acids, probiotics and red grape pomace.

⚠️ Each carries trade-offs. Cholestyramine impairs fat-soluble vitamin absorption. Bentonite works for aflatoxin B1 but doesn't generalise to other mycotoxins. Probiotic efficacy is strain-dependent, and S. boulardii keeps zearalenone in its more harmful state. Some fibre sources carry their own Fusarium contamination risk.

🔬 Much of this evidence sits in animal and in vitro work. Knowing which mycotoxins your patient is actually carrying is what lets you choose an agent with evidence behind it for that specific toxin, rather than binding blind.

🧫 Our newly expanded Mycotoxins Extensive Panel measures 31 mycotoxins, the most comprehensive mould and mycotoxin test available.

💬 Mycotoxin testing for practitioners: https://bit.ly/46MrzVl

🧊 The coeliac iceberg.⬆️ Above the waterline sit the presentations most people associate with coeliac disease. Dermatiti...
01/10/2026

🧊 The coeliac iceberg.

⬆️ Above the waterline sit the presentations most people associate with coeliac disease. Dermatitis herpetiformis, frequent bloating, recurrent mouth ulcers, dental enamel defects and discolouration, and unintended weight loss.

⬇️ Below the waterline is everything that rarely gets connected back to gluten. Anxiety, brain fog, depression, seizures, gluten ataxia and peripheral neuropathy. Infertility, recurrent miscarriage, reduced s***m quality, irregular or absent periods and early menopause. Joint pain, osteoporosis in young adults, delayed puberty and restless legs syndrome. Constipation, night blindness, elevated liver enzymes, hyposplenism, autoimmune thyroid disease, type 1 diabetes and increased lymphoma risk.

🔍 This is why coeliac disease is so frequently missed. The classic GI picture is only part of it, and many patients present with something that looks entirely unrelated to the gut.

🧬 Coeliac serology alongside HLA-DQ2 and DQ8 genetic testing lets you confirm or exclude susceptibility, which is particularly useful in patients already avoiding gluten or with a family history.

IgE Testing for Practitoners: https://bit.ly/4jxlJyG

IgG: https://bit.ly/3TxZHkI

🦠 SIBO: small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. An excessive number of bacteria in the small intestine, where numbers sho...
30/09/2026

🦠 SIBO: small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. An excessive number of bacteria in the small intestine, where numbers should normally stay low. Fermentation of carbohydrate there produces gas, driving bloating, pain and altered bowel habit.

💨 Hydrogen (H₂). Carbohydrate fermented by bacteria that have moved up into the small intestine. The classic picture, and more often seen with loose stools and diarrhoea.

🪨 Methane (IMO). Produced by archaea rather than bacteria, so it is now termed intestinal methanogen overgrowth rather than SIBO. Slows transit, and is strongly associated with constipation.

🥚 Hydrogen sulphide (H₂S). Associated with diarrhoea, urgency and sulphur-smelling gas. Not captured by standard two-gas breath testing, so it is the one most often missed.

🩺 Symptoms to watch for. Diarrhoea, constipation or both. Bloating and distension that builds through the day. Cramping and discomfort after meals. Fatigue, brain fog and low tolerance to fibre. B12, iron and fat-soluble vitamin deficiency.

🧪 Useful tests. Lactulose GIT Breath Test. Fructose GIT Breath Test, which measures carbohydrate (fructose) malabsorption. Glucose GIT Breath Test. Or the All 3 Sugars GIT Breath Test.

🎯 Identifying the subtype matters, because hydrogen, methane and hydrogen sulphide respond to very different treatment approaches.

💬 Comment "SIBO" to learn more about breath testing for practitioners.

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