Alternative & Complementary Healthcare
My Purehealth blog that has been going now for over 20 years! Anything to do with health and wellbeing, I share news, views, research, comment, recipes and tons of stuff that I think could help you or your loved ones. Use the search to find what you need; I’ve no doubt written about it somewhere!
Hot on the heels of the IgE allergy fingerprick test range from Imutest I added to the site recently, now the York food intolerance fingerprick tests are available for you too. Have I Got An Intolerance? The First Step 'have I or haven't I?' test shows whether an IgG intolerance is involved somewhere before you commit to …
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Thousands of you taking glucosamine for joint pain might be reeling with shock after the media reports of a study showing it doesn't work. You only have to look at your own pain-lessening results to know that it does, so what's going on? I can't help thinking that this study is great news for a pharmaceutical …
Despite following a famously super-healthy diet and lifestyle, Gwynnie has recently been diagnosed with Vitamin D deficiency and consequent low bone density, and this has served to highlight the deficiency epidemic we seem to be seeing at the moment. If she can have it, so can we. Vitamin D is not routinely checked and it …
Just thought I'd let you know that this week I checked with the makers of Tabasco chilli sauce what the vinegar in it was made out of - and they came back and said: "The grains used to form the alcohol are corn, milo, and wheat," so watch it! And, by the way, I didn't …
I have long debated the sense in subjecting millions of healthy women to radiation in the form of mammography when the statistics don't seem to stack up about them preventing deaths from breast cancer. Daily, I go from thinking it's worth it to catch cancer early to the worry that thousands of women get false diagnoses, …
Some of you have asked about Philip's work as an extra after he appeared on Corrie. I thought it would make you laugh to hear some of the requests that come through. We got one last week looking for a couple who thought they were really good looking; the new Posh and Becks. Needless to say, …
If you are having trouble conceiving, I hope you have checked out my 'Boosting Fertility' page on the website. It includes a link to self-described 'infertility survivor and mother of a little boy' Sarah Holland's Fertility Focus Summit which gives you access to expert recordings to listen to at home. Here are the details, but read on …
A quick note to let you know that Avandia (Rosiglitazone) has been withdrawn by regulators and will no longer be prescribed in the UK for type 2 diabetes. UK doctors wrote over a million prescriptions for it just last year despite controversy (now acted upon three years later) that 20-40% of users are more likely to suffer …
Just a quickie to let you know I have now concluded my wrangling and techyness with Worldpay and you can now pay for your tests/ebooks/factsheets and consultations online at http://www.purehealthshop.co.uk with cards or Paypal via Worldpay. Yay! Did you know that over 40% of people buying stuff online prefer to pay by Paypal? I didn't. That's massive, isn't …
A report in the Sunday Times last week alerted me to the fact that the massive stocks of swine flu that the government wasted £200m on thanks to poor advice from WHO are now being added to the winter flu jab. Check out this item from WDDTY: Untested swine flu vaccine offloaded on elderly and sick for more comment. …