If you are avoiding foods because of autoimmune disease or chronic illness generally, it can sometimes involve knocking some spices out of your diet, which leaves much of your food bland as heck. I love spicy food and used to make a mean curry, but I've not been able to get spices in for a …
Are You At Risk Of A Heart Attack?
If you knew you were at risk of a heart attack within the next five years because of unstable plaque in the arteries, would you do something to stop it? You bet you would! But how do we know if that risk exists? Your doctor will do a risk assessment on you if you fall …
How Am I Doing Now?
Someone asked me this yesterday and I suddenly realised I hadn't updated you since the start of the year (here: What Happened in 2017?). Doesn't time fly! So, here is an update for you so you can see where I'm up to if you are following my healing story. The foods... Food-wise, if you remember, …
Cyrex 3 Gluten Test Expanded And Price Reduced!
The first-line gluten test I recommend is the Cyrex Array 3, which looks for the traditional gluten proteins (gliadin, 33 mer) and the coeliac transglutaminase (Ttg2), plus importantly a lot of other markers the mainstream tests miss - and which I find come up positive a lot! In essence, we are doing a much more …
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Hypnotherapy For Hayfever
As well as homeopathy being good for hayfever (see my latest post on this here), studies have shown that hypnotherapy can reduce the allergic symptoms too. Belleruth from Health Journeys recently wrote about this in one of her Q&A sessions: It has been shown in numerous studies that hypnosis can reduce and sometimes even prevent …
Top 8 Homeopathic Remedies For Hayfever
For those of you suffering the dreaded hayfever this year (I am not so far, for the first time since my teens; not even a tickle ;)), here is a useful run-down of the top eight homeopathic remedies for you. This is written by Karen, the homeopath lady I am seeing myself (more on this …
Metformin and B12
Interesting - be careful of B12 deficiency if you're on this very common diabetes drug. Daily Express 15.5.18 “IS DIABETES DRUG HIDING A DEADLY SECRET?” Every year 20 million prescriptions are written for Metformin, a glucose-lowering drug given to 90% of the 3 million Britons diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. Yet patients are not being …
GDPR: New Sign Up, Privacy Policy and Confidential Email System
Phew, it is a good idea in principle to make sure people's data is safer, but, boy, it takes a lot of time, thought and hard work to, first, understand what it all means, and then to work out what you need to do! Here's a summary of some changes I have made that may …
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Anti-Inflammatory Fish Oil/Krill and Hops
I'm always on the lookout for alternatives to painkillers like aspirin and ibuprofen because of the damage they do to the system. So, I was pleased to see this report today from Nutrigold about using a mix of EPA and DHA, the fatty acids in fish and krill oil, with Hop Alpha Acids for inflammatory …
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Low Vitamin D Linked to Chronic Pain?
OK, correlation is not causation here, but this is an interesting small study suggesting that people with chronic body-wide pain seem to be deficient in Vitamin D a lot. An easy check and correction, so surely worth looking at! Check it out: An excess of widespread pain among South Asians: are low levels of vitamin …