Hi. If you’ve landed on this site and realised ‘Oh my goodness, she’s gone! What do I do now? I don’t know where to start!’ this page is for you!
TIP: remember to check the My Favourites page where I have put all recommendations and tons of resources for you. Below is info on what approach might help your symptoms or condition.
Essentially, most people who came through clinic over my 30 years fell into two key camps and could generally be helped with two strategies. Obviously, those were tweaked and can be a lot more complex, but I promise that you will improve if you do one of them.
I created this image yonks ago, which gives you an idea of where to start.
Something Specific
So, check the A-Z if you need help on something specific like Candida, Autoimmunity, IBS, Magnesium, B12, Diabetes, Thyroid or Adrenal problems, or whatever – there are over 70 free factsheets there for you. Search the blog – there are over 2000 blog posts and I will have written about it somewhere, trust me! There are also tons of books here on eg. H pylori, adrenal plan, histamine factsheet, special diets etc. I may be adding a few more over time so keep your eye out on the Substack where I’ll announce anything new.
Body MOT/Re-Set
Most people came in with fatigue, stress, gut problems, needed to lose some weight, hormone imbalances, high cholesterol, feeling tired all the time, catching everything going and the like. Those are all pretty common and can all be helped by doing a body MOT type approach.
Follow the Gut Plan and Belly Fat Plan (even if you don’t have belly fat!). Doing this will overhaul your absorption, gut, liver, gallbladder, improve food sensitivity, immune strength, hormone balance, mood issues, blood sugar and insulin, cardio health, help you lose weight if needed and much more. Do not underestimate this approach. 90% of patients could be helped by doing this, I promise.
You can find both factsheets here – low cost – as my pressie to you, or click on each image.
TIP: Add in the Vagus Nerve Factsheet to make this even better – I wrote this much later as I felt some people needed additional support especially if your issue is gut, hormone, immune or mood. OR, even better, do the first stage of the limbic programme here. Honestly, since I did it, I truly think everyone should!
Chronic/Complex Illness
Sometimes, the illness is more complex. It could be chronic fatigue, mast cell disorders, fibromyalgia, multiple food or chemical sensitivity or anything just not resolving with normal interventions, really. In that case, the best approach I ever found was to work on body and mind. Doing one or the other gets you so far, but the power was in the combination. It’s all about returning the body to a less inflammatory healing state, which is the real key, although not as easy to do as you’d think!
Here, follow the Gluten Plan and the Healing Plan OR this nervous system programme. Over the years, I found that most people with chronic unresolving illnesses – no matter if you think its eg. an infection, like Lyme, or a toxin like mould, or your adrenals, or your gut etc – benefitted from removing gluten and cross-reactive foods, needed to go AIP at least for a time to take the pressure off the body to allow it to start healing. Corn turned out to be the most ubiquitous and insidious issue. And I take you through all of this in lots of depth in the Gluten Plan, where you’ll find diet and specific protocol guidelines.
At the same time, we need to re-set the hyper-sensitive and dysregulated nervous system, turn down the amygdala which is in constant stress, re-train the limbic system, undo old memory and trauma patterns in the subconscious that are keeping you sick. In fact, some people have to do this nervous dysregulation stuff first – and then even don’t need to do the gluten/corn approach – yay! Or certainly, it can open you up to be able to tolerate or absorb food, supplements, meds etc so ongoing functional medicine approaches work better. That’s what it did for me.
Now, if you’re thinking I’m talking out of my bottom and pulling away, I guarantee you, you probably need this approach. You can chunter at me later. Just try it. The subconscious mind feels safer with you sick and doesn’t want change. Most people I used this approach later thanked me for opening their minds to it as it proved to be the thing that opened their systems – finally! – to healing. Think about it anyway. I’ve put more reading below for you if you need that.
Use my Healing Plan – where I set out loads of resources and how I helped myself (I have/had chronic pain, MCAS, CFS, severe food and chemical sensitivity etc). Or, go straight to this programme – I truly wish I’d had access to this when I needed it. Use code PUREHEALTH10 to get 10% off too.
Click on the images to go to the books.
TIP: If you don’t want to do a full brain programme, at least add in the Vagus Nerve Factsheet especially if your issue is gut, hormone, immune or mood.
Some extra reading to help:
ACE and Trauma Triggered Illness
OK, hope that helps to set you off. Trust me, just doing the first approach solves most people’s problems and, if something is left, you can see the wood for the trees a lot more and can target that more specifically. But most people just got better from doing that foundational programme, I promise.
Ditto with the complex illness approach. I found that, many times, people (including me!) had got far too complicated, gone down rabbit holes, and it was these foundational steps that were needed. There may indeed be other issues that need more specific treatment, but don’t miss these (to me) obvious jigsaw pieces. It opened up so many people who previously couldn’t get better, I can’t tell you. I felt it was my real contribution to the natural medicine field so I have tried to share it with you now I’m retired (eek!).
OK. Phew. That’s a distillation of 30 years’ experience right there! I truly hope this helps. Come and follow me on Substack for now if you like. I’ll be wittering weekly at least on there – but not about health so much whilst I try to follow my own limbic system advice!
Micki x
PS: remember to check the My Favourites page where I have put all recommendations and tons of resources for you.