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A quick digest for you this week as I'm moving to a new rental tomorrow... We are battery-powered! Fascinating study where researchers can now observe the battery-like activity of our mitochondria. I do like Holford's health reports. Good one on arthritis being a metabolic disorder, not necessarily a localised joint problem, this week. Some excellent …
Lowering lipids causing more dementia? WDDTY did a recent piece about the importance of high-enough lipids to protect the brain - are statins behind the increase in dementia? I wouldn't be at all surprised. A reader recently sent me this fascinating case study/article about using B1 and B2 for mitochondrial CFS. A good reminder (thank …
Part of the way I approach any chronic illness nowadays is psychological - mind-body-healing and vagus nerve work mainly - as well as the biochemical/nutrition/functional medicine side. When someone experiences a traumatic event, the sympathetic nervous system activates the fight or flight response to respond to danger. For some people, the nervous system gets stuck …
Our ability to weather storms like COVID-19 is crucial to our ongoing mental and physical health. It's called being resilient. This is one I've struggled with over time. Thanks to my ACE disorder, my symptoms come back with a vengeance with any major stress, mostly probably because my amygdala - the old part of the …
Continue reading "Keep Calm & Boost Immunity 18: Resilience – How’s Yours?"
This is one I thought teachers especially might find thought-provoking, but it could equally help parents and anyone with a high ACE score. Those of you who have read my Healing Plan and/or the ACE and Trauma-Triggered Illness Factsheet will know that ACEs stands for Adverse Childhood Events and that they can have a major …
Continue reading "How Do You Tackle High ACEs in Young Children?"
In my recent quest for health, I found it incredibly difficult to know who to see for what, who was any good and what I needed them to do to help me! I swore if I ever get better - thank you Universe, Lordy or whoever! - I would try to make this process easier …