Alternative & Complementary Healthcare
Two-thirds of people with a gluten sensitivity experience neurological symptoms instead of gut symptoms. This is because the tissue most affected by a gluten sensitivity is nerve tissue.The majority of Hashimoto’s [autoimmune hypothyroid] patients are gluten-sensitive or have celiac disease, which means gluten can play a role in their depression and anxiety.Gluten cross reacts with dairy, meaning the …
I mentioned this in my DUTCH Test video and the Hormone Test Results Guide. I saw this info on it today and thought it might be useful for you to see why it is so important.. The Cortisol Awakening Response From the moment your eyes open in the morning, your cortisol levels should rise by …
Yep, hot on the heels of the Gut Test Guide and GI360 gut test results video, here is a video on the DUTCH hormone test for you - with a Hormone Test Guide to go with it, of course! https://youtu.be/9xzF5AdG5gQ Here's the blurb from the YouTube channel.... Looking for a good hormone/adrenal test? In this …
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I must have been giving this advice now for about 20+ years. If you can't sleep: balance your blood sugar properly and it will help in the vast majority of cases. I do this myself. I have PCOS which messes about with insulin levels. I have a protein and carb snack before bed - mostly …
A useful little snippet of video here today for you which nicely illustrates two points. First, this person with ME/CFS describes how she became hypersensitive to any form of stimulus, be that noise, light, food etc, and was controlled by anxious, racing thoughts and a sense of 'existential dread' all the time. That was me …
In the Healing Plan (HP) and on a previous post, I have discussed the fact that many of us with multiple sensitivity, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia and chronic pain are probably suffering from some form of Central Sensitivity Syndrome illness. So, of course, I started trying to work out if we could get any clues. What could …
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In the Healing Plan (HP) and on a previous post, I have discussed the fact that many of us are probably suffering from some form of Central Sensitivity Syndrome illness. So, of course, I started trying to work out if we could get any clues. What could we test to see if we were too-turned up? …
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For those of you following one of the Adrenal Plans, you will know about the brilliant anti-anxiety, cortisol-lowering Allergy Research Group Zen product. It's worked for most like a dream. But it has just been delisted in the UK - aargh!! I wish they would stop doing this. The reason is because we now not …
I spent a whole day this week assessing the new DUTCH adrenal and hormone tests for us, so thought it might be useful for you if I put down my thoughts about them. DUTCH stands for Dried Urine Test for Comprehensive Hormones and I've had them on the shop for quite a while for you …