Alternative & Complementary Healthcare
For years, I have encouraged Mums-To-Be (and Dads pre-conception) to look after their gut bacteria because that can have such an effect on baby's health in the womb and out of it. To go with my microbiome (gut bacteria balance) series of blog posts this week (see oral and vaginal), I thought this piece from …
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Hot on the heels of the new Oral Microbiome (Oral Ecologix) test, here is the new vaginal version. The Vaginal Ecologix will be useful for women who have or are at risk of pregnancy and fertility issues, bacterial vaginosis, candida, pelvic inflammatory disorder and other vaginal problems. You can also add on a Sexually Transmitted …
Just to let you know I penned a new Autoimmunity factsheet for the A-Z yesterday. I am being asked more and more about it and realised I didn't have anything to point people towards. So, here it is for you with the intro to start you off: Autoimmunity Factsheet Years ago, we used to think …
We have been very good over the past couple of decades at looking for infections and problems in the gut that can trigger or are linked to inflammatory and autoimmune disorders elsewhere in the body. But I've always felt we were missing a trick by not considering infections and inflammation at the other end of …
As you know, I've been doing a lot of work on neuroinflammation (brain inflammation) recently. I have now completed the new Brain Factsheet for you in the A-Z and copy the new bit below for you. I have tried to give you a good idea of where brain inflammation might be a factor in a …
A good reminder here that if you are on proton pump inhibitors or anything that regularly decreases your stomach acid, it could be only a matter of time before you become more sensitive to foods. Why? Because one of the first issues that causes food sensitivity is lack of stomach acid. The acid is needed …
Here is the third post in my series about multiple-sensitivity and new ways to look at it. You can see about neurons close to threshold here and brain-gating loss here. This time, we are looking at mechanisms for loss of oral tolerance in the immune system. One of the things I see time and time …
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As promised in my last post about 'new' causes of multiple sensitivity to think about, here is another possible one for you: loss of brain-gating. Eh? Well, almost all sensory stimuli goes through the thalamus in the brain and lots of inhibitory mechanisms (too complex to go into here) are needed to stop the thalamus …
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During my recent neuroinflammation training, I came across a couple of 'new' reasons why we may be hyper-sensitive to things. One of them is the concept of neurons being too close to threshold. I recently saw Dr Datis Kharazzian explaining this so I'll share that and you can see what I mean... If you are …
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Bless me, readers, for I have sinned: it has been 6 months since my last update. I can't believe that. Time really does fly. I thought it was about time I brought you up to date with how I'm getting on - I know many of you like to follow my story 🙂 In my …