I have today listed the Quicksilver Mercury Tri-test for you. After a thorough research of current mercury testing, I have concluded this is our best bet for finding mercury in the body. It is the only test that will differentiate between the types of mercury so you know whether your mercury is from fish/seafood or from …
How To Get All The Colours Into Your Smoothie
It's important to get foods from every phytonutrient type into our diets every day - and the easiest way to do that is to ensure we eat all the different coloured foods. I liked this post on 'full spectrum smoothies' today - and it has a useful crib sheet on which foods to use for …
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Detox: Crucial in Chronic Illness
I've been thinking a lot about this in recent months. I have been wondering chiefly if my own detox mechanisms have gone awry, both sparking an immune dysregulation and therefore a hypersensitivity to foods/chemicals problem and being the cause of why I'm not healing as fast as I might. Might my detox pathways be overwhelmed …
Baby Wet Wipes Allergy Link
I have always hated wet wipes. Sure, they are convenient, but at what chemical cost, I have always thought? I have written before about the importance of keeping the skin barrier intact, especially in eczema cases, and now we have a study suggesting using baby wet wipes can damage that barrier and lead to food …
Moroccan Orange Salad
I love a good salad but they can be a bit boring. Here's a lovely refreshing one for you - for when the sun does eventually come out! I've popped it on the Gluten and Dairy Free Pinterest recipe board for you, along with a couple of others this week including Harissa and Nut Stew …
Low Dose Naltrexone: An Overview
Low dose Naltrexone (LDN) therapy is becoming quite common in the US and is used in pain cases like fibromyalgia and inflammatory conditions such as Crohn's and Rheumatoid Arthritis. But, I know some of you here in the UK are also trialling it. I mentioned it as an option in the Healing Plan too for …
Chronic Pain: Better For Tai Chi and Alcohol
Two interesting snippets if you are a chronic pain sufferer today. First, a study suggesting a once or twice weekly session of Tai Chi can really be beneficial: Fibromyalgia sufferers go ga-ga for tai chi I have personally found that my FM-type pain is better for doing Qi Gong, so I can vouch for this. …
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Vitamin D Important For Diabetics
We all know by now that Vitamin D is much more than a vitamin; it's more of a hormone and it seems almost every week we learn about another mechanism where it can help in the body. Happily, levels are easy to test for and any anomalies simply corrected in most cases. That is: if …
How Do You Know If You Need Methylation Help?
Great article from Biocare today on the top 10 signs to look for to assess if your methylation might be up the swanny a bit. I've adapted it slightly to add links in for you.. 10 SIGNS YOU NEED METHYLATION SUPPORT Why do you need to care about methylation? What is it anyway? Although it sounds …
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New Free 21 Day Meditation: Shedding The Weight
Sorry, only just got chance to alert you to this one. Another of my fave Chopra/Winfrey 21 day meditation programmes. It's on free at the moment and you can get today's for about 4 days I think before it disappears so get started if this would help you. Revolutionize the way you look and feel …
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