Ashley Sauvé Health
Common Fermented Foods & Their Benefits
Fermented foods are a great way to get fiber into your diet (definitely check out this post if you’d like to learn more about fiber, and...
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Ashley Sauvé Health
- Jul 20
- 3 min
Common Nutrient Deficiencies Associated with Poor Digestion
Nutrient deficiencies are not uncommon. They can contribute to a wide variety of imbalances and dysfunctions in the body — including...
Ashley Sauvé Health
- Jul 6
- 2 min
Ileocecal Valve and your Gut Health
The ileocecal valve is located at the bottom right quadrant of your abdomen (think somewhere between your right hip bone, and belly...
Ashley Sauvé Health
- Jun 30
- 3 min
3 Easy Ways to Support Your Vagus Nerve
The vagus nerve is a cranial nerve (the 10th cranial nerve), that runs from the base of the skull (the brainstem), down to many organs in...
Ashley Sauvé Health
- Jun 22
- 4 min
Root Causes of SIBO
SIBO is an acronym that stands for “small intestine bacterial overgrowth.” As the name suggests, this is where bacteria overgrows in the...
Ashley Sauvé Health
- Jun 15
- 4 min
10 Gut Health & Herbalism Books I Recommend for Beginners
Books are an amazing way to expand our knowledge — you’ll find that there’s no shortage of books on the topics of herbalism and gut...
Ashley Sauvé Health
- Jun 8
- 4 min
How to Stick to a Supplement Routine
Supplements are generally a part of the work that I do with my clients. They’re tools that can help us fill in gaps in nutrition,...
Ashley Sauvé Health
- Jun 1
- 4 min
Why Probiotics Don't Colonize the Gut & How to Rebuild Your Gut Microbiome
We still have so much to learn about the world of probiotics, and superficially, how probiotics can be used therapeutically (like how we...
Ashley Sauvé Health
- May 25
- 5 min
Everything You Need to Know About Making Bone Broth for Gut Health
Bone broths have been a part of many traditions for hundreds — even thousands — of years, before it started gaining it’s more recent...
Ashley Sauvé Health
- May 12
- 4 min
Why IgG Food Sensitivity Testing May Not Be Helpful
If you’ve narrowed yourself down to 10 safe foods that don’t create any bloating or gas after eating them... you’re likely familiar with...
Ashley Sauvé Health
- May 4
- 3 min
What the Colour of Your Stool Means About Your Health
Healthy stools should be a medium brown colour thanks to bilirubin, a byproduct of red blood cells produced by the liver. The liver sends...
Ashley Sauvé Health
- Apr 27
- 4 min
Gut Health and Histamine Intolerance
If you struggle with allergies (seasonal or otherwise), hay fever, rashy skin, and watery, itchy eyes, you’ll be no stranger to this...
Ashley Sauvé Health
- Apr 20
- 3 min
Soluble vs. Insoluble Fiber for Gut Health
Fiber is the part of plant foods that is non-digestible by our bodies; the part of our plant food that’s unable to be broken down during...
Ashley Sauvé Health
- Feb 23
- 4 min
How to Do a Gut Transit Test (and Why You Should)
Our gut motility is a great barometer of our gut health. Gut motility is how quickly (or slowly) food moves through our system, is...
Ashley Sauvé Health
- Feb 16
- 3 min
Digestive Enzymes vs. Digestive Bitters
As a nutritionist who specializes in gut health, strategic supplementation of nutrients and herbs for gut healing is often part of my...
Ashley Sauvé Health
- Feb 9
- 4 min
5 Spices to Add to Your Cooking for Better Digestion
There are so many foods that are known to provide us, and our guts, with a variety of benefits. Foods that fight inflammation, are...
Ashley Sauvé Health
- Feb 2
- 3 min
Nutrient-Dense Foods that are Easy to Digest
While we’re lucky there are so many whole foods (like vegetables, fruit, whole grains, nuts, seeds, tubers, and animal proteins), that...
Ashley Sauvé Health
- Jan 26
- 5 min
What is GI-MAP Testing + Why I Use it With All My Clients
The GI-MAP at-home stool test, is a functional testing option that gives us a comprehensive picture of what the inner workings of our...
Ashley Sauvé Health
- Jan 19
- 3 min
How Gut Health Impacts Sleep
If you’ve been around here for a while, you’ll know how our gut health, and our microbiome, influences many systems and functions in our...
Ashley Sauvé Health
- Jan 6
- 3 min
How to Support your Skin Microbiome
As a clinician who specializes in gut health, I talk a lot about our gut microbiome, and how to support it through nutrition, lifestyle,...