Alternative & Complementary Healthcare
As the pollen season gets into full swing, it can help to reduce your overall dietary intake of histamine. Try these top high histamine to low histamine food swaps during the Summer: Tomatoes → Roasted red peppers.Spinach → Watercress or rocket.Avocado/Guacamole → Roasted squash/pumpkin.Chilli/hot paprika → Sweet paprika, turmeric, caraway.Creme fraiche/sour cream → Oat cream, …
Continue reading "Top 5 Histamine Food Swaps, Summer Protocol & Why It’s Worse If Oestrogen Is High"
A recent article from Biotics reminds us that high fructose corn syrup - endemic in the US, but in foodstuffs here too - is one of the key reasons for weight gain. HFCS is a mix actually between fructose and glucose and is also called isoglucose and glucose-fructose syrup. It's quite a technical piece, but …
Continue reading "Struggling To Lose Weight? How Much Fruit Are You Having?"
I don't often come across much about kidney health and I always felt we didn't do enough on this important organ during training. So, I was pleased to see a special edition of the Townsend Newsletter recently on kidney and liver health. One of the articles that stood out for me was encouraging people to …
Today, here's a quick test you can do to check how your memory is performing. Look at these words for about 10 seconds: Then, go and do something else for 2 minutes - read this blog post, for example, which is relevant. After 2 minutes, write down all the words you can recall from the …
One of you (thanks P) let me know that there is a new grass-fed beef box available from Green Pasture Farms. It looks like they have done their best to make contents as low histamine as they can. Excellent idea. Christine looked at it carefully for us. She says: "It's very good in that they …
Yay, we have been begging suppliers for a DAO enzyme supplement that doesn't contain the usual rice flour filler and Vitamin C derived from corn. SO frustrating they put corn into a supplement needed so much by sensitive people! Anyway, now we have found a vegan source. Made from legumes, so no good if you're …
Continue reading "New TGF Safe Vegan Corn-Free Histamine-Degrading DAO Supplement At Last!"
Useful article here today, suggesting that high levels of certain antioxidants in the blood of trial participants may be protective against dementia onset. Best Antioxidants to Prevent Age-Related Dementia Identified? Higher levels of specific carotenoid antioxidants in blood may help guard against age-related dementia, new research suggests.Investigators found that individuals with the highest serum levels …
Continue reading "Best Anti-Dementia Antioxidants Identified?"
Just to say I have added the new Sensate wearable device to the Vagus Nerve Factsheet as an easy way to improve your vagal tone. Why a picture of a cat? Keep reading... For those of you who have the factsheet already, here's the added bit. For those of you who don't - you are …
Did you know you can make a super-nutritious slushy or sorbet out of just fruit and some fruit powder? I know: great, huh! Here's an idea to start you off. I got this idea from Artic Flavors, but you can get the same kind of products on Natural Dispensary here too. I always have mixed …
I keep seeing reports that Long Covid sufferers are having cognitive issues like brain fog and neurological/brain/nervous system issues like anxiety, depression and PTSD. Here's one for a start: More Evidence COVID 'Brain Fog' IsBiologically Based (which basically says it is neuroinflammation in many cases) Treating Long Covid Trauma & PTSD The PTSD is totally …
Continue reading "Brain Fog, Anxiety, Depression, Trauma After Covid? Do This.."